Digital employee benefits platform provider Cloud8 has made two senior appointments to its team, Mark Carman, former Aon business development director, and Julie Rouffiac, a chartered accountant.
Carman, who previously held roles at Motivano and Edenred, joins as head of sales, while Rouffiac joins as head of finance.
Cloud8 also promoted James Crossland to director of client delivery. Like Carman, Crossland also worked at Edenred following positions at Barnett Waddingham, Northgate Arinso and YouAtWork
Carman says: “There is a clear appetite from SME employers to improve their employees’ benefits experience. Right now, inflationary pressure and a limited ability to increase wages by employers will lead them to finding cost-effective ways of helping employees improve their financial, mental and physical health and wellbeing through innovative methods, to reduce their cost of living, and tax and NI payments.”
Rouffiac says: “Having spent the last few years working with growing SaaS companies I’m really looking forward to bringing my skills expertise to Cloud8 at this important stage in its development.”
Crossland says: “With over 43,000 employees already using the BEAM at Work™ platform, demand by SME businesses to embrace digital platforms continues to grow. Our accelerated tech development plan is well underway and I’m excited to step up to the role of director.”
Dipa Mistry-Kandola, CEO at Cloud8 says: “Mark and Julie’s appointments, and James’s promotion to director, come at an incredibly exciting time; as we strengthen our leadership team, to gear up and accelerate growth via our partnerships and clients with a core continued focus on the digitising of employee benefits for SMEs.
“At Cloud8 we collectively believe employee engagement is at the top of every HR professional’s agenda and that it is inextricably linked to employee benefits. We’re exceptionally proud that Cloud8 is giving smaller employers, via our corporate adviser clients, the first real capability to offer online benefits to their employees, at a cost an SME can afford.”
