Another major specialist who has worked on a competing project moved to Square from Amazon.

The Square company has a new employee. Mary Kay Bowman has moved to a leading position in Square. This information is easy to get by viewing her LinkedIn account . It is known that from March 2004 to April 2015 she worked for Amazon . She was in charge of the Amazon Local Register project, on which high hopes were pinned. He had to compete with the payment system Square, which occupies a leading position in its niche.



Re / code reporters found out that Bowman had really joined the Square team. There she will use all her experience gained over 20 years. Her competence will include the further development of the payment service, as well as the global expansion of Square to the world market.



Amazon Local Register is a software and hardware system consisting of a card reader and specialized software. The service allows you to accept payments from credit and debit cards, or even prepaid cards, using a smartphone or tablet.



It is worth noting that in February, Amazon left another major specialist working on the Local Register. Former Head Bowman Matt Swann went to work at Citigroup . The chief project engineer went to YapStone . The situation makes one wonder why Amazon is not trying to retain employees of the Local Register project.