Breakthrough Payment Orchestrator BR-DGE Appoints Chun Ong as Chief Operating Officer

Edinburgh, 7 November 2024: Breakthrough payment orchestration provider BR-DGE has appointed Chun Ong as its new Chief Operating Officer, as the company scales rapidly to meet unprecedented demand for its pioneering and modular services.

With BR-DGE now processing millions of transactions monthly on behalf of high-volume customers spanning travel, ecommerce, gaming and other sectors, Chun’s appointment comes at a critical time for the business.

In his new role, Chun will help to meet the unprecedented demand faced by BR-DGE by taking on a critical leadership role that focuses on helping the company scale its operations and enhancing cross-functional collaboration. His ultimate focus being on delivering maximum value for BR-DGE’s customers, Chun’s remit will cover the customer success, customer support, implementation and data functions of the business.

Commenting on Chun’s appointment, Thomas Gillan, CEO of BR-DGE, says: “Building a top-tier team has been a priority from the outset, and I'm delighted to welcome Chun to our exceptional and dedicated leadership team. Chun immediately stood out to us as an exceptional leader across several diverse and strategically important functions, with a passion for solving payment problems. He comes to BR-DGE with invaluable experience helping fintechs to scale rapidly while ensuring consistent product and service delivery, and most importantly, the ability to keep customers happy.

“BR-DGE is entering an exciting hyper-growth journey, and we are making huge strides. Our solutions are proven to give enterprise merchants and payment providers the edge they need to meet their growth objectives, the flexibility to fit around emerging customer demands, and the insights they need to optimise. As we scale, we want to ensure our values, culture and commitment to our customers remain unchanged. Chun’s ability to build and oversee operational enhancements, inspire high-performing teams across a range of functions, and his relentless focus on creating the ultimate end-to-
end customer experience are exactly what we want at BR-DGE.”

Before joining BR-DGE, Chun served in a range of senior positions, where he was instrumental in helping several leading fintechs scale and adapt to changing market and customer demands. Chun began his career in banking law and strategy consulting before moving into the tech world, including stints at leading digital remittance company WorldRemit, digital mortgage company Molo Finance, and MENA-focused open banking company Tarabut.

Speaking about his appointment, Chun says: “Payments touch so many aspects of our daily lives. Merchants of all sizes, especially global ones, are becoming increasingly aware of the need to constantly innovate and push the boundaries of their payment capabilities. BR-DGE has a massive opportunity to help them on this journey and become the transformational payments platform for them . This core mission of BR-DGE's immediately resonated with me.

“I jumped at the opportunity to join BR-DGE, not only for how it’s blazing a trail in payment orchestration, but also the fantastic people. My core belief is that people are what makes a company successful. At BR-DGE, I’m inspired by the thriving, collaborative and community culture that’s infused throughout the whole company, from the ground up to the leadership level. I can’t wait to join the whole BR-DGE team along this fantastic journey in helping customers solve their payment problems.”

Bringing together over 400 payment technology solutions in one place, BR-DGE works as an independent, trusted and vendor-agnostic partner for the whole ecosystem, creating value and driving better outcomes for payment providers, their merchants and consumers. With an emerging large order book already in the pipeline, BR-DGE is positioned to become the go-to source and distribution outlet for payments connectivity, routing, and data services.

After breaking its revenue record in 2023 with an incredible 600% growth, the launch of BR-DGE’s white-label payment orchestration solution adds to the impressive momentum BR-DGE has built so far in 2024, including its expansion into the Asia-Pacific region.

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About BR-DGE:

Founded in Edinburgh in 2018, BR-DGE is a global payment orchestration platform. As an entirely independent technology provider, BR-DGE is redefining the ecosystem, to deliver value through the entire payments chain. 
 
By serving as a technology anchor-point, BR-DGE enables enterprise merchants, financial institutions, platforms and payment providers to access best-in-class payment tools and products via a single integration. BR-DGE’s modular platform connects with over 400 payment methods and partner solutions, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Discover, Thunes, Trustly, Kount and more, to help clients overcome payment challenges and drive better customer and commercial outcomes for their business. 
 
In 2023, BR-DGE was the first platform to go live with Visa Instalments with a UK merchant and launched BR-DGE Vault, its proprietary, standalone Network Tokenisation solution. 
 
For more information and the latest company news, please visit: https://br-dge.to/