Temenos appoints former Salesforce exec as Business Line Director for Temenos Infinity

By Megha Bhattacharya

Temenos today announced the appointment of Joaquin De Valenzuela Muley as Senior Vice President and Business Line Director for Temenos Infinity. The new hire will be responsible for leading the global sales and business development of the company’s digital banking SaaS product, Infinity. He will be reporting directly to the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Jean-Michel Hilsenkopf.

Joaquin De Valenzuela Muley, Business Line Director, Temenos Infinity, said, “It’s not often in your career that you have the opportunity to join a company that is having such a transformative impact on a specific industry. Digital banking and SaaS are the future and I’m looking forward to being part of that alongside everyone at Temenos. I am excited about joining the Temenos family, that is a trusted advisor to banks and helping make them successful, transform their businesses, and put their customers at the center of everything they do.”

Previously, Joaquin worked at Salesforce where he led the business in EMEA and Latin America. He also led the 2017 launch of Salesforce’s Financial Services Cloud in those regions. Prior to Salesforce, Joaquin held leadership positions at Oracle for 16 years within the Industry Financial Services Unit. He has also worked with retail, corporate banks and wealth management including financial institutions like BBVA, Bradesco, CaixaBank, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Standard Bank and UniCredit.

Max Chuard, Chief Executive Officer, Temenos, said, “I am delighted to welcome Joaquin to Temenos. We’re committed to expanding our sales leadership and support teams around the world to meet the needs of our growing customer base. We are seeing great customer demand for digital banking and SaaS and we expect this trend to continue. Joaquin is an inspirational and experienced business leader who will ensure we continue to build strong relationships with our customers and help us accelerate our growth in digital banking.”