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“It’s a fascinating industry for me because it affects all aspects of your life all the time. You pay [for goods and services] and you have insurance and you may have investments. Everything that you do has financial services involved. And all of those technologies are part of what makes it better or more efficient, cheaper or relevant to you, more customized to your needs.”
Though there are huge global players in this space in countries like China and the United States, Alicia says the region has the companies, many of whom are leveraging the experience gained in learning the back-end operations of companies in the contact centre industry here, to build a sector much like the one that’s emerged in Israel over the last 30 years.
“Tel Aviv is the [centre] of the technology industry in Israel. Now what’s interesting for our region is that the city is the size, in terms of population, of Halifax,” says Alicia. “It’s not a city with 10,000,000 people. When I see Tel Aviv as an epicentre of technology…Atlantic Canada has no less potential in terms of becoming a power centre in technology. I’ve met founders here that have fantastic technologies that have solved real issues. They have clients not only in Canada but also globally.”
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Why Frank McKenna And Alicia Ismach Say Contact Centre Industry Laid Groundwork For Region's Fintech Sector - Huddle.Today
"Building an evolving financial services industry and digital economy in the region was what McKenna and others who helped build the contact centre industry here envisioned.
McKenna spoke to Huddle recently about the new client advice centre TD Insurance is opening in Dieppe, with 100 people set to be hired by January next year and “hundreds” more to be hired remotely over time.
He was premier when TD opened its first contact centre in New Brunswick in 1994."
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Alicia Roisman Ismach - United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick | LinkedIn
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"Alicia Roisman Ismach
Alicia Roisman Ismach: With over 15 years in electronic transactions globally and fintech entrepreneurship in Israel and US, Alicia immigrated to Canada in May 2018 and joined
Venn Innovation as Entrepreneur in Residence to support the local innovation ecosystem.
In Israel Alicia founded
The Founders Café, a network for founders to share ideas and get support from peers with over 1,800 members, that is now active in New Brunswick, Canada.
In 2015 Alicia joined
Amaryllis to lead the Product & Marketing efforts of the most advanced End to End Payments Platform for Complex Payments Models serving Acquirers, Marketplaces and Payment Facilitators.
Previously in 2007, Alicia founded
Seergate that developed the first real-time banking payments system, currently running in 7 countries in Africa for UBA, United Bank for Africa, one of the largest banks in the continent. Seergate revolutionary omni-channel payments solution, emailmoni, was nominated in the Large Bank Customer Service Category by Infosys Finacle.
Previously, Alicia led the
Founder Institute in Israel, a leading global early stage accelerator headquartered in Silicon Valley.
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