Team8, a company-building venture group, today announced that Fleur Sohtz joins the company as the new Chief Marketing Officer. Based in New York, she brings 20 years of international marketing experience and a strong track record to the role, primarily at the intersection of financial services, data and technology.

Sohtz was Chief Marketing Officer at Collibra, where she led the marketing and corporate communications strategy for a $345 million venture-backed enterprise software company. Prior to that, she was Chief Marketing Officer at Cordium, a leading provider of GRC consulting and technology, where she played a key role in the sale of the company by redefining and delivering their marketing strategy.

She also held senior marketing roles at Markit, Thomson Reuters, and BT Radianz, helping to guide these companies through milestones, including IPO, double-digit revenue growth and brand leadership.

Managing Partner of Team8, Nadav Zafrir, commented,

“This is the perfect time to welcome Fleur Sohtz into our ranks as our new CMO. We are in an exciting growth period following our recent expansion into fintech, our venture arm’s launch, and new initiatives in the pipeline. Fleur has a proven record of driving business strategy, brand visibility, revenue, and market expansion for tech start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, and we look forward to working with her.”

As FX News Group reported in September, Team8 announced the launch of Team8 Fintech, a practice focused on founding and scaling transformative fintech companies.

Team8 Fintech is led by the former President & CEO of Israel’s largest bank, Leumi Group, Rakefet Russak-Aminoach. Other founding partners include Yuval Tal who founded and ran digital payments unicorn Payoneer; eToro co-founder Ronen Assia; and Galia Beer-Gabel, former Head of Business Development for PayPal across Eastern Europe, Israel and Africa.