PayRange Taps Former Yahoo YouTube Exec As Its COO

Anna Nguyen

"Securing Anna as COO is an amazing inflection point for the company," said Paresh Patel PayRange, founder and chief executive of PayRange, which markets a Bluetooth payment app for the vending industry. "She is a proven leader in execution and building teams designed to handle rapid growth."

Patel added that Nguyen has a devoted following that has already brought a new wave of PayRange users. She is also helping PayRange recruit talent to fill key positions at the company.

Nguyen was among the original of employees at Align technology, the developer of Invisalign. After taking it through an IPO, she joined the sales operations team at Yahoo. She later joined YouTube as a founding member of its operations team. After leading YouTube through its acquisition by Google, she rolled out YouTube monetization operations to North America and Europe.