Green Dot Promotes Chief Technology Officer Kuan Archer To COO - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Green Dot Corp. (GDOT) said it has promoted Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development, Kuan Archer, to Chief Operating Officer or COO, effective January 1.

Commenting on his role as COO, the company said Kuan will continue to lead all of product development and Information Technology and will assume oversight of vendor management and procurement, business continuity, human resources, supply chain and retail execution. He will report directly to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Steve Streit.

Since 2012, Kuan has led Green Dot's entire technology organization including Worldwide Product/Software Development, Information Technology, Network Operations and Information Security, the company said.

Prior to Green Dot, Kuan served as Senior Vice President of the Cloud Services Platform division at Rovi Corporation and before joining Rovi, Kuan served in various leadership roles at Symantec Corporation where among other things, he was responsible for designing the company's first web- and mobile- based consumer identity protection and transaction security offering for Financial Institutions and eCommerce providers, Green Dot noted.