People on the Move: Josh Flowers and Ajaykumar Gopal, CARD.com
CARD.com, a mobile-focused financial product provider, has hired Josh Flowers as chief financial officer. He will be responsible for overseeing financial controls, reporting, planning, financing and cash management, among other duties. He has spent 14 years advising on corporate transactions at Rothschild and Goldman Sachs, including M&A, restructurings and debt and equity financings.
The company also has promoted Dr. Ajaykumar Gopal to vice president of growth and data science from director of data science and analytics. Gopal joined CARD.com in early 2013, and he will now lead the data science team to bring quantitative rigor to the information-based strategy that drives the company’s decisions. He has more than 16 years of experimental and computational expertise in the areas of thin films, surfactants and biopolymers.