Financial expert brings experience to Respondez
A banking expert with over 38 years of experience in the financial services industry has joined north east contact centre, Respondez, as Non-Executive Director.
Les Stillwell will be joining the Board of Directors at the Hartlepool-based site and will act as an independent voice on the company’s important business decisions, focusing his time on further developing the business strategy for Respondez and heading up specific projects in the financial services sector.
With a career in retail banking and financial services spanning almost 40 years in well known institutions such as Visa, Citibank and Lloyds TSB, Les brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the company. Previous roles include Managing Director of two UK banks, both of which Les built up from a start-up business to a staff in the first bank of over 750. During his senior level career, Les has been responsible for driving forward a number of schemes, including obtaining bank authorisations, secured and unsecured card programmes and he also held the position of Non-Executive Director for Visa UK and Provident Financial UK.
Although Les won’t be involved in the day-to-day running of the business, his experience of managing a company means he ideally positioned to offer objective advice and guidance for the outsourcing firm.
On his appointment, Les said; “I am delighted to be appointed to this role and will be taking an active part in driving the business as part of the team. Respondez is a forward-thinking company and there are a number of interesting developments and projects on the horizon which I am keen to get involved in.”
Sales and Marketing Director, Sue Marshall, said: “Having Les on board is really exciting. We all value his experience not just in terms of the financial sector but also in helping to take businesses to the next level. We are looking forward to leveraging his expertise and increasing our reach into banking and retail finance.”
Respondez is a global business, with multinational companies using the centre in Hartlepool as a base for their European operations. The company provides a full outsourcing service including technical support, back office support including fulfilment and scanning, customer care and acquisition.
Respondez is part of the Indian-owned corporate group Spanco Ltd, with clients across a range of sectors including financial services, automotive, toys, home fitness, beauty products, computer games, DRTV and the public sector.
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For more information, please contact Kathryn Clapham on (01429) 241722, email at kathryn.clapham@respondez.co.uk or visit the website at www.respondez.co.uk
About Respondez
Respondez is International BPO business servicing clients from UK and USA out of our centers in Hartlepool and Mumbai, in India.
Respondez is part of Spanco BPO which is wholly owned by Spanco Limited a publicly traded company listed on the Mumbai and National Stock exchange in India with revenues of over USD 340 Million in the last year. Spanco group has diverse business interests in Power, E-governance, Systems Integration and BPO space and is consistently ranked in the ET 500 amongst the top companies in India.
Spanco’s BPO business has over 14000 employee’s today, spans across 4 continents and 14 countries including India, US, UK, Middle East and Africa.
Our ability to cater to our clients across the globe, both on-shore in those countries and offshore in india has empowered our emergence as a true global outsourcing solutions provider.
Respondez has an enviable track record of attracting and retaining the best talent at various levels of our business.
For further information on Respondez, please visit the website at www.respondez.co.uk &and www.spancobpo.com or telephone on (01429) 241200. For regular updates and industry news, follow the company on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/RespondezCC and Twitter at http://twitter.com/RespondezCC