Eleonora Christofidou Joins payabl. as Group CFO

payabl., a European payments solution provider, has onboarded Eleonora Christofidou as the company's new Group Chief Financial Officer. She took on the new role earlier this month.

payabl. was founded in 2011 and is licensed by the Central Bank of Cyprus. The company is a paytech expert empowering merchants to take, make and manage payments globally, with a full solution stack including card acquiring, alternative payment methods, payment accounts and prepaid cards.

payabl. CEO Ugne Buraciene says of the appointment, “As our Group continues its rapid growth across Europe, with new regional offices, innovative products and an FCA license in the pipeline, it was time to fill the role of Group CFO to guide us through our next stage of development. We are confident that Eleonora will use her extensive experience to support our regional expansion and complement our growing team of industry professionals.”

Background in Finance

Eleonora is a finance expert with almost 15 years of industry experience. She is also a Fellow Charted Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Before joining payabl., she was with Unlimint (formerly Cardpay), another payments company in the B2B market. There, she spent more than five years in senior roles, and parted as the Group Chief Financial Officer.

Eleonora started her career in 2007 in audit at the Cypriot division of PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the big four audit firms. Later, she moved to the RCB Bank, spending over seven years there in several key roles. She left the bank in December 2016 as the Head of Monitoring and Research Unit.