Scottish tech firm ePOS Hybrid has appointed its first Chief Operating Officer (COO) to drive the international expansion and boost sales.

Andrew Gibbon has been promoted to the newly created COO role at point-of-sale company ePOS Hybrid following more than three successful years as the firm’s Head of Growth.

Gibbon has experience scaling numerous start-up businesses across multiple sectors including retail, ecommerce, technology, and SaaS.

With more than 11 years of growth, sales and commercial leadership experience, Gibbon has helped the ePOS Hybrid to successfully expand – with the company now powering millions of pounds of transactions for UK businesses every single month.

As COO, Gibbon will continue to head up the commercial side of the business, focusing on generating rapid user and revenue growth by delivering strategic direction, leadership and strategy execution across the Sales, Marketing, Operations, Customer Success, and Partnership teams.

Gibbon will will also work closely with CEO, Bhas Kalangi, to coordinate and manage the upcoming series A funding round in 2023, and it’s expansion into the European, Australian, and American markets.

Commenting on his role, Gibbon said: “Over the last three years, ePOS Hybrid has become one of the most powerful hospitality and point-of-sale platforms available in the UK. We’ve scaled from pre-revenue to a point where over 12 million consumers have used our products just a few years later. To have played a central role in that growth has been incredible.

“To be stepping up to COO at the firm at the age of 30 is a massive personal achievement for me among plenty of great moments we’ve had so far as a business. The start-up journey is hard but the prospect of continuing ePOS Hybrid on its trajectory of exponential growth is obviously an exciting one as we begin targeting new international territories and taking new products to market.

“I’ve been lucky to be involved in the firm from the outset. We’ve grown from just a couple of people in the office with zero customers to a team of 25 serving thousands of businesses throughout the UK and abroad. With another major funding push just around the corner, we are vying for further major expansion across the UK and overseas.”

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The appointment comes during the business’ most successful months since its founding, making a string of new hires to help support demand and fuel further expansion as they achieve sustained month-on-month growth.

Bhas Kalangi, Founder and CEO at ePOS Hybrid said: “To welcome Andrew to the leadership team is an important moment for the development of the business. Andrew has been with us through thick and thin and has been absolutely crucial in establishing and scaling up the company.

“We’re building a world class team and I think it’s important that it starts with our management. Now, with Andrew as part of the leadership team, we’ll continue to aggressively grow our position in the UK while diversifying and elevating our market leading product range to offer our platform across the world.”

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