Wise plc announced the appointment of Emmanuel Thomassin as Director of Wise. He will replace Matthew Briers, who announced his intention to step down from the role last year and will now do so with immediate effect. Emmanuel will join Wise on 1 October 2024.

Until then, Kingsley Kemish, currently Senior Group Financial Director, will serve as interim CFO. Emmanuel has decades of experience leading the financial growth strategy of rapidly expanding private and publicly traded companies. He joins Wise from multinational tech company, Delivery Hero, where he has served as CFO for the past 10 years and been a member of the Management Board for the last seven years.

A world-leading local delivery platform, the company started as a food delivery service in 2011 and has since expanded to over 70 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. He has also served on the board of Delivery Hero's technology incubator, Team Global Management GmbH, and on the supervisory boards of multiple other companies, including MetaDesign, where he served as CFO for five years from 2007 to 2012.