Zellis (formerly NGA HR UK&I), the payroll and HR expert, has announced Marko Perisic as its new Chief Products and Technology Officer.

Perisic is tasked with evolving Zellis’ products and technology to enable its customers to deliver on the modern employee experience in the digital age. This will include advancements in data, AI and robotics to revolutionise the way businesses experience payroll and HR software.

“I am delighted to join Zellis as the next opportunity in my career. There are always two factors that influence my career moves: where can I have the biggest impact, and where I can I learn the most,” commented Perisic. “Zellis has an unmatched history and reach, with its huge customer base. This is simply the perfect foundation to have a complete and lasting impact on the sector.”

“HR software has fallen behind other data-centric industries, but I know that we can make a transformational difference by providing the most advanced data centric products available,” concluded Perisic.

Perisic has had a distinguished career, working as a General Manager at Microsoft. During his time at Microsoft he developed a rich set of products for customers across Enterprise, Mid-market and SMB segments, in the area of business applications in Dynamics 365 and Office 365. He and his teams transformed what were on-premise, desktop-based applications into world class SaaS services for the age of digital transformation. These services are now hyper-scaling globally, serving a large global customer base and rapidly growing.