Lightspeed Commerce is adding the president of Google’s Android ecosystem, Sameer Samat, and seasoned FinTech CEO Odilon Almeida to its board of directors.

“Their insights will be invaluable as we innovate and scale globally.”

The Montréal-based payments processor said Samat’s deep product and technology expertise and Almeida’s extensive industry experience “fortifies two strategically important areas” for the board as the company executes on its strategic transformation plan .

As president of the Android ecosystem at Google, Samat leads global teams responsible for Android across all form factors, as well as the Google Play Store and developer tools. Samat was also a founding member of Google’s commerce team, where he started Google Shopping.

Almeida was the CEO of global payments sof

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