{"id":366,"date":"2022-04-06T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retailingafrica.com\/companies\/company_news\/group-president-of-flooid-joins-omnisient-advisory-board\/"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:32:08","slug":"group-president-of-flooid-joins-omnisient-advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"company_news","link":"https:\/\/retailingafrica.com\/companies\/company_news\/group-president-of-flooid-joins-omnisient-advisory-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Group President of Flooid joins Omnisient Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technology industry veteran and Group President of Flooid \u2013 a leading unified commerce platform for the retail and hospitality sectors \u2013 joins Omnisient\u2019s Advisory Board to support and accelerate international expansion plans.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Omnisient, Africa\u2019s privacy compliant data collaboration platform, welcomes Tony Houldsworth as member of its Advisory Board.\u00a0 Tony has consistently been at the forefront of retail commerce technology and as Group<\/span>\u00a0President of Flooid<\/span>\u00a0leads the vision and strategy for one of the world\u2019s most advanced unified commerce platforms.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Omnisient is a privacy preserving data collaboration platform that allows businesses from retail, healthcare, finance, and other major verticals to safely share and monetise their consumer insights without compromising security, losing control of IP or breaching consumer privacy.\u00a0\u00a0 In retail for example, Omniscient is helping major retailers collaborate with financial institutions to provide more accurate financial profile data \u2013 creating significant new revenue streams for the retailer and lower risk engagements for the financial institution.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cData driven decisions are critical to today\u2019s engagements in all verticals, and collaboration is key.\u00a0 The trouble is that when you overlay the massive importance of consumer privacy and the natural business need to protect their hard-won customer information, collaboration is too complex.\u00a0 Instead, everyone works off small snapshot views of the consumer. This leads to the poor decisions which are costly for the businesses and results in financial exclusion for large parts of society.\u00a0 The\u00a0<\/span>Omnisient<\/span>\u00a0platform overcomes the collaboration barriers, and I am excited to be involved with a business that delivers serious business benefit whilst helping to overcome some of the social challenges.\u201d\u00a0says Houldsworth.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tony has spent over 30 years building and running technology businesses in the UK, Europe, and South Africa, most recently focusing on the retail sector in the UK, US, and South Africa where he built relationships with some of the world\u2019s largest and most respected retail, leisure, and hospitability brands. He has significant experience in creating and delivering the technology solutions that underpin today\u2019s consumer buying journeys across all channels from the store to mobile to ecommerce and social.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe asked Tony to join our advisory board because of his entrepreneurial spirit and impressive track record building and growing technology startups.\u00a0 We believe his in-depth knowledge of the retail sector combined with his experience in developing powerful market positioning and appropriate commercial models for businesses operating in the US, UK and Europe will help us achieve a successful entry into these markets,\u201d\u00a0says Jon Jacobson, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Omnisient.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMore than ever, this is a time for entrepreneurial businesses to lead the way.\u00a0 I\u2019ve watched Omnisient from its earliest days as they\u2019ve become a core solution in South Africa with over 60 major clients.\u00a0 I\u2019m really looking forward to helping them in this next phase of growth into international markets such as the UK and North America,\u201d\u00a0concludes Houldsworth.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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About Omnisient<\/strong><\/p>\n

Omnisient is Africa\u2019s first Cloud-based privacy-preserving Data Collaboration platform. Using its Crypto-Identity cryptography, the platform creates a trust-by-design environment for businesses to collaborate on their first-party data securely, quickly, and easily while remaining compliant with consumer data privacy regulations. Over 148 million consumer records have been protected and anonymously linked for data collaboration using Omnisient\u2019s Crypto-Identity cryptography.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Use cases for privacy-preserving Data Collaboration include leveraging new alternative data sources for financial inclusion, improving the customer experience, and identifying new business opportunities for growth.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Founded in Cape Town, South Africa, Omnisient is used by over 60 of Africa\u2019s largest banks, insurers, retailers, and healthcare organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Media Contact:\u00a0<\/strong>Julian Diaz, CMO\u00a0julian@omnisient.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tech industry veteran and Group President of Flooid \u2013 leading unified commerce platform for the retail and hospitality sectors \u2013 joins Omnisient\u2019s Advisory Board to accelerate international expansion for their privacy-preserving data collaboration platform business.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":367,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"company":[16],"class_list":["post-366","company_news","type-company_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","company-omnisient"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retailingafrica.com\/companies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company_news\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retailingafrica.com\/companies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retailingafrica.com\/companies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/company_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retailingafrica.com\/companies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retailingafrica.com\/companies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retailingafrica.com\/companies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}