ClearCourse appoints Christina Hamilton as Chief Executive Officer
London 17 January 2023: ClearCourse, a leading provider of integrated software solutions, today announces the appointment of Christina Hamilton as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Christina succeeds founding CEO Gerry Gualtieri, who assumes a new position as a non-executive board member of ClearCourse.
Christina is an accomplished leader of global financial technology businesses. She joins ClearCourse from the major payments platform, Stripe, and her career includes an impressive tenure at software company, Xplor, where she led the global Fitness & Wellbeing division. Christina previously held executive roles at Western Union, overseeing the company’s B2B payments business in the UK and leading the international expansion of the WU.com digital payments business. She started her career in banking at Citigroup and UBS.
Gerry hands over the position of CEO to Christina after overseeing pivotal growth for ClearCourse, which has assembled a strong cohort of software businesses – serving approximately 25,000 corporate customers in total – in just four years. As ClearCourse advances, it aims to drive further growth by increasing the organic revenue of industry-specific software solutions that empower SMEs and enterprise customers. Christina’s software and FinTech acumen will propel the company in this next phase, building on the culture and foundation established since its founding in 2018 with the backing of Aquiline Capital Partners.
Andrew Blazye, ClearCourse’s Board Chair, said:
“ClearCourse has undergone significant growth since launch – now employing over 900 people through nearly 40 acquisitions in the UK. Tapping into her valuable experience across software and financial services, Christina is an outstanding leader to take the business through the next stage of its evolution. On behalf of the ClearCourse board, I’d very much like to thank Gerry for his role in leading the development of the business since its inception in 2018.
I am delighted he has agreed to stay on our board in a non-executive capacity.”
Christina Hamilton, ClearCourse’s CEO, said:
“Over the last four years, Gerry has led ClearCourse on a highly impressive growth trajectory and helped build a wonderfully diverse team across the UK and beyond. I am honoured to build on this legacy and excited to lead ClearCourse in providing market-leading business management tools to companies of all sizes across a number of different verticals. It will be a pleasure to work alongside the wider team as we look ahead to a vast future of possibilities for ClearCourse’s customers, our people, product development, and growth.”
