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Kyriba Appoints New Advisory Board Member to Help Foster Growth in APAC

Corporate Finance and Investment Banking Expert Paul Lai Joins Kyriba to Help the Company Drive Liquidity Performance and Support Growth in APAC

SAN DIEGO, CA – Kyriba, a global leader in liquidity performance, announced that its board of directors appointed corporate finance and investment banking expert Paul Lai to its advisory board. Based in Hong Kong, Lai will contribute to the company’s growth initiatives with a focus on the APAC region. 

“We’re thrilled to welcome Paul Lai to Kyriba’s advisory board,” said Melissa Di Donato, Chair & Chief Executive Officer, Kyriba. “Paul brings significant experience and deep understanding of the market and will be an invaluable asset to help us drive our strategic initiatives and foster significant growth. This appointment underscores our commitment to expanding our global footprint and harnessing new opportunities to drive liquidity performance in the dynamic APAC market.”

With nearly three decades in corporate finance and investment banking, Lai brings extensive expertise to companies and governments across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and the US. He has managed a wide range of mergers and acquisitions, local and international debt and equity capital markets and advisory transactions, in various industry sectors, for governments and corporations. Currently, Lai serves as the partner and sector lead for the Financial Institutions Group practice in Asia Pacific at Brunswick Group. Throughout this career, he held senior positions at various international financial institutions including Westpac Banking Corporation, BBVA, CLSA, Societe Generale, HSBC, UBS Investment Bank and ABN AMRO Corporate Finance.

“In today's complex and highly regulated environment, it's crucial for organizations to have the right solutions in place to manage liquidity and that is exactly what Kyriba brings,” said Paul Lai, Partner & Sector Lead for Financial Institutions Group Practice in Asia Pacific at Brunswick Group. “Kyriba is a clear market leader and I’m looking forward to joining the Advisory Board and helping make an impact.”

To learn more about how Kyriba is helping empower the office of the CFO to connect, protect, forecast and optimize liquidity, visit our Liquidity Performance web page.

 

About Kyriba Corp.
Kyriba is a global leader in liquidity performance that empowers CFOs, Treasurers and IT leaders to connect, protect, forecast and optimize their liquidity. As a secure and scalable SaaS solution, Kyriba brings intelligence and financial automation that enables companies and banks of all sizes to improve their financial performance and increase operational efficiency. Kyriba’s real-time data and AI-empowered tools empower its close to 3,000 customers worldwide to quantify exposures, project cash and liquidity, and take action to protect balance sheets, income statements and cash flows. Kyriba manages more than 3 billion bank transactions and $15 trillion in payments annually and gives customers complete visibility and actionability, so they can optimize and fully harness liquidity across the enterprise and outperform their business strategy.

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