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Global digital commerce expert Astound Commerce, with engineering centers and a team of 850-plus IT specialists in five Ukrainian cities has announced that it has appointed three new members to its global senior leadership team. Thomas Spellios has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, Matthew Barker has been hired as Chief People Officer and Maria (Maru) Velandia has been named Global Employer Brand Manager.
Astound Commerce has a 20-year history of delivering exceptional digital commerce experiences for global brands such as PUMA, L’Oréal, Under Armour, Boohoo, Halfords, and Crocs. This significant investment in Astound’s leadership team across the dimensions of finance, talent, and employer branding dramatically accelerates the company’s progress toward its North Star goals of building out its capabilities and network, expanding into new commercial markets, and ultimately becoming the global market leader in digital commerce and transformation.
As CFO, Thomas Spellios will define and drive the financial and operational management of the company globally. He will be tasked with the challenge of raising Astound’s prowess and performance while advancing the company. Thomas, who will be based in the US, has an expansive 25-plus-year history working at consultancies (Booz Allen & Hamilton, Deloitte, and Accenture) and technology companies (TTec, Logica, Ericsson, and Teradata), as well as a number of private equity firms. He is a University of Massachusetts and University of Maryland graduate, with an MBA in international finance.
Based in London and responsible for leading Astound’s global people operations efforts for the ongoing evolution of the business, Matthew Barker will spearhead strategies to attract, retain, develop, and inspire top talent around the globe and create a world-class employee culture and environment. Matthew is a seasoned people operations executive with deep international, technology, and organizational transformation experience for companies including Asurion, Bwin.party Entertainment, British Telecom, Cisco Systems, and EDS, as well as the digital advertising platforms of Rakuten. Barker attended London South Bank University.
Maria (Maru) Velandia brings more than 10 years of digital marketing, recruitment marketing, and employer branding experience to Astound, with a proven track record of helping companies like Philips define their differentiating employer value proposition and communicate and market it to become a talent destination of choice. Based in Panama, Maru holds a masters in communications and advertising from Andrés Bello Catholic University.
Thomas and Matthew will report directly to Astound Global CEO Michael Kahn (MK), and Maru will report to Matthew.
About Astound Commerce
Astound Commerce is a global digital commerce expert that provides end-to-end services—from creating a data-driven strategy and delivering UX services to building an ecommerce solution for a variety of clients. With 20 years’ experience, 1,400 ecommerce specialists, more than 3,000 projects completed, and dozens of industry accolades, we excel at maximizing the brand and business value of every digital commerce touchpoint. Our strategic solutions work in the service of visionary brands such as L’Oréal, Boohoo, Halfords, FLOR, TOMS, and Crocs.
Astound Commerce was founded in 2000 in San Francisco and currently has ten engineering centers in six countries. In Ukraine, the company is represented by five development offices in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Uzhhorod, Vinnytsia, and Lutsk.
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