Exclusive: Benjamin Hoskins to be Billie's new chief technology officer

Hoskins most recently held a leading position at Wayfair. With him, Billie is now preparing for the upcoming internationalization.

Billie has expanded its management team and appointed Benjamin Hoskins as head of technology. In this position, he is expected to drive the fintech's international growth. Hoskins already brings a wealth of experience from the technology industry. Most recently, Hoskins was responsible for the technology of the supplier offering of online home goods retailer Wayfair. Prior to that, he spent four years as chief technology officer and CPO at dating app provider Spark Networks. From 2012 to 2015, he built Ebay's European development team as European Head of Development.

"His years of experience scaling engineering and product teams internationally during periods of extreme growth and developing complex digital offerings in a customer-centric way is exactly what we need at Billie in our next phase," Billie co-founder and co-managing director Matthias Knecht says of Hoskins. At the end of 2021, the fintech raised $100 million and announced a partnership with Klarna. With the help of the partnership and funding, it now aims to succeed in internationalization.

Christian Grobe, Matthias Knecht and Aiga Senftleben founded Billie in 2016, offering the "buy now, pay later" payment method for business customers and other digital payment services.