Rêv Worldwide appointed former GE Capital executive, Mauricio Benavides, as the company’s chief executive officer of Latin America; former Visa executive Daryn Griggs as the chief executive officer of the company’s Asia Pacific region; and former Dell executive director David Clifton, as the company’s senior vice president of global merchant services.
Benavides’s background and key leadership roles throughout the world have positioned him to directly impact Rêv Worldwide’s presence in Latin America, with a focus on strategic partnerships, operational efficiencies, and management. He comes to Rêv as former CEO of a Distribution Hotel Company based in Europe. He previously served as a vice president at General Electric, where, for eight years, he held a series of leadership roles including areas of responsibility in sales, risk, finance, and M&A.
Griggs joins Rêv with a background in prepaid, processing, payment networks, and payment product innovation management and sales. His entrepreneurship-driven experience will ensure Rêv Worldwide’s continued growth throughout the Asia Pacific region. He was instrumental in building VISA Processing services as it emerged from Yalamanchilli of India. He spent close to four years at VISA as head of global sales, responsible for processing services, before moving onto head prepaid for Visa Australia and prepaid innovation for VISA’s APCEMEA region. He has worked around card technology and POS systems as the founder of Smart Card Innovations in Singapore.
Clifton’s experience as an executive director leading Dell’s North American consumer and small office marketing will enable him to have an immediate impact on the products and services Rêv is developing for small businesses and consumers worldwide.
