Q2 Holdings, Inc. announced that IBM veteran, Rekha Garapati, has joined the company as senior vice president of client operations and services. Garapati’s tenure with IBM spanned more than 18 years and included innovation and operations leadership, data science, and global software development and delivery experience heading teams in China, India, Europe and the U.S. In her new role, Garapati will focus on optimizing Q2’s deployment technologies, processes and services to deliver elevated customer experiences. Garapati is preceded by John Breeden, who was recently appointed executive vice president of operations for emerging businesses. The move will allow Breeden to focus on new partnerships and accelerating the integration and scaling of Second Quarter Open, a business unit within the company focused on delivering next-generation financial services offerings leveraging open API technology. His operational expertise and critical understanding of the Second Quarter Platform will enable Second Quarter to deliver valuable new products and services while maintaining its unique differentiation in the market.
Q2 Holdings, Inc. is a provider of digital banking and lending solutions to financial institutions, financial technology companies, and alternative finance companies, and other companies or brands. The Companyâs portfolio of digital solutions includes Digital Banking Platform, Q2 Innovation Studio, Lending and Relationship Pricing, and Helix. Its end-to-end digital banking platform supports its financial institution customers in their delivery of retail, small to medium business and commercial functionalities across digital channels through a single technology platform. Q2 Innovation Studio is an application program interface based and software development kit based open technology platform. Its end-to-end digital lending portfolio allows its FinTech and Alt-FI customers to simplify the end-user experiences of borrowers, accelerate loan decisioning, and reduce operational inefficiencies. Helix is a cloud-native, real-time core processing platform.