PHOENIX -

BillingTree recently expanded its leadership team with a trio of appointments.

First, Nils Krumins now is senior director of professional services. The company also promoted Chad Probst to vice president of sales and business development. BillingTree indicated both of those appointments are focused on expanding the company's leading payment technology and services offerings following the appointment of Edz Sturans as chief executive officer in August of last year.

Alongside those board level appointments, BillingTree announced Jason Hiland, who oversees the Mid-Atlantic sales region, will be taking on the additional role of assistant sales manager at the company.

Krumins joins BillingTree to lead the company’s professional services, including oversight of client services, underwriting and boarding. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in senior service management roles for leading U.S. organizations including Bloomberg, FICO and CR Software.

Probst in his role as vice president of sales has incorporated business development into his existing remit, and is charged with expanding the company’s partnerships and integrations within current and future verticals. Probst began working with BillingTree in 2003 will now be responsible for partner and channel management growth, as well as sales and top-line revenue.

Hiland joined BillingTree in 2010 as a territory manager following several years in enterprise sales at Ontario Systems, a leading software solution provider to the ARM and healthcare industries. His expanded responsibilities will include assisting the management of Sales, allowing Probst to focus on his newly added business development duties.

“The growth and expansion of our leadership team enables BillingTree to further provide innovative payment technology and services for companies across the ARM industry and multiple markets including healthcare, auto financing and credit unions,” Sturans said.

“Nils' expertise in services leadership and process management will ensure our current and future customers and partners receive the greatest benefits from BillingTree’s services and product offerings,” Sturans continued. “Chad has led a very successful Sales organization for BillingTree over the last years. It is a natural progression for him to continue his success through expanding his reach into the business development cycle. 

As part of the BillingTree sales team, Jason has been integral to our successes and his relationships with the team and our customers will help him to continue facilitating future growth at BillingTree,” Sturans went on to say.