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This list showcases the top United States based President operating in the Payments space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Derek Joyce
Vice President and General Manager, Global Accounts of Klarna
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About Klarna: Klarna is an e-commerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.
Libor Michalek
President, Technology of Affirm
Libor Michalek is the Chief Technology Officer at Affirm.
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About Affirm: Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Mark Heynen
Vice President, Business Development of Stellar Development Foundation
Mark has led go to market in emerging markets for large and small companies, from Google’s initial push into maps in the mid 2000s to Facebook’s early mobile efforts and ultimately launching PayJoy, a Silicon Valley-based fintech, in 20 countries. He currently serves as VP of Business Development at the Stellar Development Foundation. His focus has been on analyzing markets, structuring transformational partnerships, hiring highly functional teams in market, and then producing revenue quickly with great unit economics. He has also raised ~$100M in early stage VC, venture debt, and SPV debt financing across four companies he built, and advised companies on fundraising. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley in 2006, Mark split his time between India and London, founding and running his first startup, Electrobug Technologies. As this company had clients in 18 countries and 250+ staff in India through a wholly owned subsidiary, Mark learned firsthand of the challenges and opportunities of working in emerging markets, and is currently an advisor for a number of startups. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in Economics and History.
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About Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Ajay Banga
President & CEO of Mastercard
Ajay Banga is president and chief executive officer of MasterCard and a member of its board of directors. Banga is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He is chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council and a member of the U.S.-India CEO Forum. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and was awarded the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2012. Banga serves on the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable, and is vice chair of the Financial Services Roundtable as well as the Business Council. He is a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of New York. He serves on the board of overseers of the Weill Cornell Medical College and on the board of governors of the American Red Cross, the New York City Ballet, and the Partnership for New York City. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo). Banga is a past director of Kraft Foods and has also served on the board of trustees of the Asia Society, the New York Hall of Science, and the National Urban League. Prior to MasterCard, Banga was chief executive officer of Citigroup Asia Pacific. During his career at Citigroup, he held a variety of senior management roles in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also oversaw the company’s efforts in microfinance. Banga began his career at Nestlé, India, where for 13 years he worked on assignments spanning sales, marketing and general management. He also spent two years with PepsiCo, where he was instrumental in launching its fast food franchises in India as the economy liberalized. He is a graduate of Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
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About Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Charles Walton
Senior Vice President, Digital Identity Products of Mastercard
Charlie has been involved in the information security industry for more than 30 years, currently responsible for digital identity services within Morpho’s Government Identity Solutions division. Prior he was CEO of Toronto-based SecureKey and responsible for the launch and growth of the SecureKey Concierge Network. As COO and General Manager for Aix-en-Provence based INSIDE Secure, he was responsible for defining business strategy, driving product strategy and development, and leading the launch of new semi-conductor products. His early career included the founding of Caradas which was a security services company in the bankcard industry, COO at Certco which was the founding ground for Identrus, the founder of GTE Cybertrust, and multiple roles in large-scale secure system development at GTE for the defense industry.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Rohit Chauhan
Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence of Mastercard
Rohit Chauhan is the EVP of artificial intelligence at MasterCard Worldwide.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Andreas Spengel
Vice President International Markets of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Russ Barenboym
Vice President of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Zahir Khoja
Executive Vice President, Global Merchant Solutions and Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Lars Albright
Executive Vice President data and services, Global merchant loyalty ( CEO Session M) of Mastercard
Lars is a proven entrepreneur with extensive experience in the mobile and digital media industries and currently working as Executive Vice president in mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Gary Flood
President of Global Products & Solutions of Mastercard
Gary Flood is President of Global Products and Solutions for MasterCard. In this role, he leads the development of innovative products and services that benefit consumers, merchants, business partners and governments around the world. Flood has responsibility for Global Network Products, MasterCard Labs, Emerging Payments, Core Products, MasterCard Advisors, and Worldwide Marketing and Communications. He is also a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Prior to his current position, Flood was Executive Vice President of Global Account Management for MasterCard. In this capacity, Flood oversaw all of the company’s efforts to support its largest global customers. This included managing the customer relations staff, whose representatives work directly with customers on a variety of bankcard initiatives, such as account acquisition, portfolio acquisition, account retention, portfolio profitability and competitive positioning, as well as co-branding and affinity opportunities. His efforts, as well as those of his team, greatly contributed to the company’s significant increases in customer satisfaction and volume growth. Previously, Flood was Senior Vice President of Consumer Card Product Management and Development, where he spent four years directing all MasterCard consumer credit programs in the United States. During this time, he developed the MasterCard premium card platform; initiated programs in secured, college, and Hispanic segments; and developed and managed enhancement support and services for credit products. Since joining MasterCard in 1986 as Regional Marketing Director, Flood has consistently earned positions of increasing responsibility both in the customer management and the product management and development areas. Before joining MasterCard, he was National Sales Manager for Citicorp’s Merchant Business. Flood holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from St. John’s University.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Linda Kirkpatrick
President, US Issuers of Mastercard
Linda Kirkpatrick works as a President, US Issuers from Jan 2016 at Mastercard.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Daniel Ruggeri
Vice President Of Software Engineering – Middleware of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Washington University in St. Louis: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Ranjita Iyer
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Sherri Haymond
Executive Vice President, Digital Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Cathy Baker
Executive Vice President of Mastercard
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About Applied Predictive Technologies, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Lance Gruner
Executive Vice President, Global Customer Care of Mastercard
Lance Gruner is an executive vice president at MasterCard focused on global customer care.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Len Sanker
Senior Vice President (SVP) Software Engineering, Cyber & Intelligence of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
James Anderson
Executive Vice President – Commercial and B2B Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Sadiq Mohammed
Vice President, Mobile Payments of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Shubhra Srivastava
Vice President, Global Product Management of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Francis Hondal
President, Loyalty, Marketing and Digital Services of Mastercard
Francis Hondal is President of Loyalty & Engagement at Mastercard and a member of the company’s Management Committee. Francis oversees Mastercard’s robust loyalty platforms and products as well as its agile implementation team focused on high-impact marketing programs and rapid product design services. With over 25 years of experience in consumer marketing, finance and management, Francis has spent her career in the payments and financial services industries. Francis is a first generation Cuban-American and has been named amongst Fortune’s Top 50 Most Powerful Latina Women in corporate America the past two years. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and International Business and an MBA from Florida International University (FIU). A Board Member of FIU’s Chapman School of Business, she was inducted to the College of Business Administration Hall of Fame and received its Global Leadership Award.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Trisha Asgeirsson
Senior Vice President, Global Retail and Commerce Loyalty Lead of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Chris Merz
Vice President, Security and Decision Products of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, MasterCard Labs: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Matt Miller
Vice President – Digital Partnerships of Mastercard
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About Mastercard, Mastercard, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Shari Krikorian
Senior Vice President of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Michelle Hafner
Senior Vice President, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Stuart Vaeth
Vice President, Digital Identity of Mastercard
“Stuart Vaeth joined Diversinet in 2004 and is responsible for product strategy, strategic partnerships, and directing Diversinet’s industry standards activities. Mr. Vaeth has 20 years experience in the information security industry, specializing in encryption and authentication technologies. Prior to Diversinet, he was director of product marketing with nCipher, a leading cryptographic hardware provider. Mr. Vaeth spent the first 12 years of his career with GTE, where he was chief architect for the CyberTrust PKI product line. Mr. Vaeth received a BSEE degree from Bucknell University and earned his MBA at the Boston University School of Management. He is a frequent speaker at wireless and security industry conferences and is co-chair of the OATH (Initiative for Open Authentication) Technology Group.” (Source: [Diversinet](http://www.diversinet.com/html/organization/managementteam.html))
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Craig Vosburg
President, North America of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Shamina Singh
President and Center for Inclusive Growth of Mastercard
Shamina Singh has been on the frontlines of developing and implementing solutions to make the global economy work for everyone, everywhere Shamina is the Founder and President of the Center for Inclusive Growth, the philanthropic hub of Mastercard. She also serves as Executive Vice President of Corporate Sustainability. Since 2014, Shamina has led the Center with a remit to leverage Mastercard’s data, technology, capital and expertise for social impact. In her role as EVP for Sustainability, she is responsible for the development and implementation of the environmental, social and governance strategy across the company as well as integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into Mastercard’s core objectives. In 2018, Mastercard pledged $500 million to advance inclusive growth around the world. Shamina is charged with activating those philanthropic dollars through the newly-created, non-profit Mastercard Impact Fund. Deeply committed to public service, Shamina has held senior positions in the White House and the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2015, Shamina was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to a six-year term on the Board of the Corporation for National and Community Service. She is a graduate of the Presidential Leadership Fellows program, an alum of the Young Global Leaders program of the World Economic Forum, and a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Ronald Green
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer of Mastercard
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About Financial Services Council, Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Erika Brown Lee
Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Mastercard
Manage team responsible for working with business units to enable product development while ensuring compliance with privacy and data protection laws across the company’s products and services, including payment processing, data analytics, marketing, digital payments, and fraud-related activities for North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Conduct regulatory engagement and monitor and analyze pending legislation. Partner with Information Security to revise, update, and execute incident response program.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Amyn Dhala
Vice President Global Head of Product of Mastercard
Amyn Dhala is currently Vice President, AI Express in the Cyber and Intelligence Solutions team at Mastercard. He launched and manages the Mastercard AI Express program in which Mastercard enables Financial Institutions, Merchants and other verticals, adopt AI swiftly and smartly. In his current role, Amyn leads AI Express Product Strategy and AI Express engagements where he collaborates with the AI Express team of product managers and data scientists – right from problem identification for customers to developing production-ready AI models for them which can be deployed. Prior to this, Amyn has over fifteen years in leading Product and Sales Teams globally across Financial Services, E-Commerce and Consumer Goods. Before joining Mastercard, Amyn launched products such as Amazon Pay and Amazon Prime on Your Site at Amazon. Amyn has an MBA in Strategy & Marketing from Yale and his bachelors from BITS, Pilani, India.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Michael Froman
Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth of Mastercard
1985, Bachelor’s in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Doctorate in International Relations, University of Oxford; law degree, Harvard Law School. Formerly: 1993-95, Director, International Economic Affairs, National Economic Council and National Security Council; with US Department of the Treasury, including Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary and, 1997-99, Chief of Staff; President and Chief Executive Officer, CitiInsurance; Managing Director and Head, Infrastructure and Sustainable Development, Citi Alternative Investments Institutional Clients Group, Citigroup; also Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs, held jointly at National Security Council and National Economic Council, responsibilities included serving as White House liaison to G7, G8 and G20 summits. Former Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations.
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Stefany Bello
Vice President- Digital Partnerships, Latin America and the Caribbean of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Chris McWilton
President of North America of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Khary Scott
Vice President, Head of Partnerships of Fundbox
Khary Scott is the Vice President and Head of Partnerships at Fundbox. He is an executive with an entrepreneurial mindset that strives to put an organization at the center of the commerce revolution. Prior to joining Fundbox, he was the Vice President for Business Development – Small Business Card at Capital One.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Douglas Feagin
Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships and Investments at Ant Group of Ant Group
Mr. Douglas Feagin is Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships and Investments at Ant Group Prior to joining Ant in June 2016, from August 1994 to May 2016, Mr. Feagin worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he last served as a managing director from 2004 to 2016, with a broad set of client relationships in the US, Latin America and Asia across sectors including banking, technology and insurance. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1988, and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1994.
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About Ant Group: Ant Group strives to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services through technology.
Prahalad Thota
Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Analytics & Data Science of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Avid Modjtabai
Senior Executive Vice President & Head of Consumer Lending of Wells Fargo
Avid Modjtabai is a senior executive vice president and head of consumer lending for Wells Fargo & Company. In this role she is responsible for home lending, auto lending and consumer credit. Avid Modjtabai is a 21-year veteran of Wells Fargo where she has served in a number of diverse leadership roles. Prior to her current role she was the chief information officer and head of the technology and operations group with responsibility for the core technology functions of the company including data centers, enterprise architecture, application development, information security and technology governance. Avid Modjtabai has served as Wells Fargo’s director of human resources, led the Internet Services Group and held management positions in consumer deposits and the investment group. Before joining Wells Fargo, she was a consultant with McKinsey & Company where she focused on strategy initiatives in financial services. Avid Modjtabai was named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Banking” and the “Top 25 Women to Watch” by U.S. Banker and the American Banker. She received the “Ellis Island Medal of Honor,” for her outstanding personal and professional achievements and her commitment to preserving the richness of heritage. She serves on the board of trustees for The Branson School and is an advisory member of the Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Program and Stanford Center on Longevity. Avid Modjtabai holds a master’s degree from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. As a member of Avnet’s board of directors, Avid Modjtabai serves on the Audit Committee and Corporate Governance Committee.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Hope A. Hardison
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, and Human Resources Director of Wells Fargo
Hope A. Hardison, Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), and Human Resources Director assumed her CAO role in September 2015. She has been HR Director since September 2010. As CAO, Hardison manages Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Government & Community Relations, the Innovation Group, and Enterprise Data & Analytics, overseeing the company’s brand, communications, reputation management, and stakeholder engagement efforts. In her role as Human Resource Director, Hardison leads a team that develops and implements people strategies to support Wells Fargo’s business objectives, as well as the management of compensation and benefits, human resource service centers, systems and payroll, finance, team member relations and assistance, talent management, learning and development and diversity for more than 266,000 Wells Fargo team members. Hardison is a 22-year veteran of Wells Fargo. From 2008 to 2010, she served as the head of Compensation and Benefits and was responsible for managing benefits, executive and team member compensation and mergers and acquisitions. She also managed international team member compensation and benefit programs. She has held numerous finance, strategic planning and compensation roles since joining Wells Fargo in 1993. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Swarthmore College and has done graduate work in applied economics and statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Steven Macko
Executive Vice President and Head of Technology, Media & Telecom of Wells Fargo
Steven Macko leads the Industries Group at Wells Fargo Capital Finance, which includes Technology Finance, Specialty Finance, Lender Finance, and Flatiron Capital. Macko joined Wells Fargo Capital Finance in 1998 and established its San Francisco office in 1999. Prior to joining Capital Finance, Macko spent several years at Ernst & Young, PWC, and Strome Investment Management, an alternative investment strategy hedge fund. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Laura Fontana
Vice President, Product Strategy, Distributed Ledger Technology Program of Wells Fargo
Laura Fontana is currently a vice president and product strategist for Wells Fargo’s Innovation Technology team. She is responsible for supporting the distributed ledger technology program, exploring promising commercial opportunities across Wells Fargo’s diversified businesses and with a variety of business partners and consortia in the larger financial services industry.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Agus Sudjianto
Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Model Risk of Wells Fargo
Agus Sudjianto is an executive vice president and head of Corporate Model Risk for Wells Fargo, where he is responsible for enterprise model risk management. His technical expertise and interests include quantitative risk, particularly credit risk modeling, machine learning and computational statistics.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Nathan Susanj
Vice President, Head of NLP & Speech Capabilities Development of Wells Fargo
Nathan Susanj is the VP, Head of NLP & Speech Capabilities Development at Wells Fargo.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Helen Beckschi
Vice-President and US Privacy Officer of Wells Fargo
Helen Beckschi, Vice-President and US Privacy Officer, is responsible for the overall governance and oversight of Wells Fargo’s US privacy program.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Brian Pearce
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Artificial Intelligence of Wells Fargo
Brian Pearce is senior vice president of enterprise artificial intelligence at Wells Fargo. During his time at Wells Fargo, he and his teams have led large, multichannel efforts such as mobile remote deposit, Apple Pay, P2P payments, transfers, bill pay, and the launch of an online brokerage platform, and he previously served as the head of the mobile banking function.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Geanie Asante
Vice President, Value Stream Delivery Manager of Wells Fargo
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About OAACC, University of the Cumberlands, Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Charles Scharf
President and CEO of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Michael J. Loughlin
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Wells Fargo
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer Michael J. Loughlin oversees all risk-taking activities at Wells Fargo, including credit, market, operational, compliance, information security (including cyber risk), and financial crimes risk management. He is also involved in issues such as liquidity, capital, profit planning, and compensation. As the leader of the Corporate Risk group, which includes 5,000 team members, he serves on the Wells Fargo Operating and Management Committees and is based in San Francisco. Mike assumed his role as chief risk officer in 2006. Previously, he was responsible for credit approval, policy, and reporting for Wholesale Banking. A banking professional with 36 years of experience, he joined the company in 1986 after Wells Fargo acquired Crocker Bank. Before serving as head of credit for Wells Fargo Wholesale Banking, he was responsible for the private banking business of Private Client Services, headed systems and operations for the Wholesale Banking unit, and held other positions within Commercial and Corporate Banking including head of U.S. Corporate Banking and Regional Vice President in the Santa Clara Valley Regional Commercial Banking Office. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Mike serves on the board of directors for Students Rising Above, an organization dedicated to helping low-income, first-generation college students realize their potential by guiding and supporting them through college graduation and into the workforce.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Kimarie Matthews
Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Virtual Channels Social Care & Capabilities of Wells Fargo
As the senior vice president, social for Wells Fargo’s digital channels group, Kimarie Matthews is responsible for leveraging social technologies to extend Wells Fargo’s ability to support customers, including servicing customers in social channels, building customer community and testing concepts to bring bankers and customers together in social environments. Her programs deliver business benefits that include increased customer satisfaction and brand sentiment and increased website traffic through organic search results.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Daniel Ayala
Global Remittance Services Group Head, Executive Vice President of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Albert Hwu
Vice President, International Treasury Consultant of Wells Fargo
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Soleil Dolce
Vice-President of Information Security Management of Wells Fargo
Soleil Dolce has been serving as Vice-President of Information Security Management at Wells Fargo since June 2018.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Bonnie Saunders
Vice President,National Client Service Manager of Wells Fargo
Bonnie Saunders serves as vice president of national client service manager at Wells Fargo.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Jason G. Pollack
Vice President; Public Power Relationship Manager of Wells Fargo
Jason Pollack is a Vice President on the Public Power team within Wells Fargo’s Government and Institutional Banking group. As the west coast Relationship Manager, he is responsible for new business development and client management for western region municipal utilities.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
John Shrewsberry
Senior Executive Vice President of Wells Fargo
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Cristal Brawley
Vice President ,Senior Content Strategist, User Experience Design Lead of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Sunil Pandya
Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo
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Sunil Pandya
Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
M. Erik Mueller
President and chief executive officer of Grasp Technologies
Erik founded Grasp Technologies in 1996. Since then, he has become a leading expert in the field of travel technology. Along with the team at Grasp, Erik has created countless solutions for travel agencies and corporate travel departments worldwide. He is responsible for creating the first automated Graphic Reporting System for the travel industry and is considered the foremost industry expert on data consolidation and visualization. In addition to his role as Grasp’s President and CEO, Erik also manages Creative Computer Resources, a top-notch information technology firm. He serves on San Diego Business Travel Association board, and frequently contributes to articles for industry publications and blogs.
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About Grasp Technologies: Grasp Technologies provides data management, visualization, and payment solutions in the travel and entertainment industry.
Martin Hood
Vice President, Channel Partnerships of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Terry Sutton
Vice President, Client Success of CashStar
Terry Sutton is a seasoned senior executive with over 25 years of experience in Operations, Technology and Customer Experience. She most recently was at L.L.Bean where she oversaw the E-commerce and Marketing departments as Senior Vice-President of the Direct Channel. Prior to that she was the VP of Customer Satisfaction for L.L.Bean, responsible for four call centers and over 1,000 employees. She is unique in her ability to bring together people, process and technology to solve complex business problems and is known for her ability to translate strategy into action. Her passion for the customer experience and business process design and optimization positions her well to scale DAVO Technologies for the future. Terry has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Dan Farrell
Vice President, Worldwide Sales of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Dan Farrell
Vice President, Worldwide Sales of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Katherine Edenbach
Vice President, Finance of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Christian V. Bergmann
Vice President of Partnerships of Migo
Christian V. Bergmann is the VP of partnerships at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Julian King
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development of Xoom
Julian King joined Xoom in 2005 and is the company’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. He runs marketing, advertising, public relations, business development and strategy. Julian came to Xoom from EarthLink, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Products for the PeoplePC Online business, and was instrumental in growing it to more than a million paying subscribers. From 1992 to 2000, Julian worked at Procter & Gamble, most recently as Marketing Director. Julian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Xoom: Xoom is a digital money transfer company that allows users to securely transfer money online.
Gunther Bright
Executive Vice President and General Manager, U.S. Large Market and Global Client Group of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Denise Pickett
President, Global Services Group of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Kerla Wolf
Vice President & GM, Global Coverage, Reporting & Merchant Experience of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Jaromir Divilek
Executive Vice President – Head of American Express Network and Global Network Businesses of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Phil Norman
Vice President, Membership Products and Partnerships of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Suraj Madnani
Vice President, Chief Product Owner – Risk Management and Product Development of American Express
Suraj Madnani is the Vice President of Product Development in the Global Risk group at American Express. In this role, he is responsible for leading strategy and development of innovative products to support risk management across all risk domains. Prior to this, Suraj was responsible for product development and launch of new-to-market lending and payment products such as American Express Business Financing and Working Capital Terms. Prior to American Express, Suraj held various product and technology roles at IBM and GE. Suraj holds a B. Eng, from the University of Pune, India and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Kavita Gupta
Vice President, Global Information Management of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Colleen Taylor
President, Merchant Services – US of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Sara Milsten
Senior Vice President, New Member Acquisition, US Consumer Services of American Express
Sara Milsten is SVP, New Member Acquisition, responsible for new customer acquisition for the U.S. Consumer Business. In this role, Sara is responsible for marketing strategies and investments for all owned and paid channels including Search, Media, Affiliate, Phone, Direct Mail and Site. Prior to this, Sara served as the Chief Commerce Officer for Plenti and was focused on driving commerce and engagement on the Plenti platform. She also served as VP, Partnership Marketing and led marketing for our co-brand portfolios including Delta, Hilton and Starwood. Previously, Sara spent 8 years working in a variety of roles in our International Consumer business and delivered digital marketing strategies and solutions across our portfolio of proprietary markets. Prior to American Express, Sara worked in advertising at a variety of agencies, including Young & Rubicam and Leo Burnett. Sara holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University.
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Patrick Watson
Vice President of Kabbage Security of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Patrick Watson
Vice President of Kabbage Security of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Rajat Taneja
President, Technology of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Ryan McInerney
President of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Arvind Ronta
Vice President, Head of Products – India & South Asia of Visa
Arvind Ronta is a leader in the Global Products organization and manages an innovation pipeline of Commerce, Security and Data platforms at Discover Network. His team is focused on creating the next-generation of loyalty, data and consumer authentication products for Discover Card and Network Partners. Payments executive with a breadth of consulting and industry experience in digital payments, focused on driving innovation and product-led revenue growth.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Andrew Cohen
Vice President – Global Digital Product Marketing of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Chackan Lai
Vice President, Risk Advisory & Innovation of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Tom Purves
Vice President, Product Architecture of Visa
Tom Purves is a Senior Director for Visa Inc. & V.me by Visa checkout product, where he is responsible for developing future of mobile and online form factors for credit and debit cards in the digital world. Previously, Tom was co-creator of Interac Email Money Transfers, used daily by millions of Canadians. Tom is also recognized as an international speaker, conference organizer and community leader in the tech/startup scene.
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About Interac, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Stephanie Ericksen
Senior Vice President, Operational Resilience of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Mike West
Vice President – Business and Government Disbursements of Visa
Mike West serves as vice president of business and government disbursements at Visa.
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Simon Hurry
Vice President of Visa
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About Visa, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Darcy Wedd
President of Outspoken
Darcy Wedd is an accomplished technology executive with over 17 years of experience in the telecommunications, payments, and consumer goods industries. Formerly the CEO and Co-Founder of Mobile Messenger (Acquired by Silverlake Sumeru), and the President and Co-Founder of payvia (backed by leading investors; Montgomery & Co. and Trinity Ventures). During his time in the telecommunications industry, Darcy completed multiple acquisitions including m-Qube (from VeriSign), and Mogreet, Inc. Darcy is a frequently requested speaker at influential industry events and a recognized thought leader. Since the beginning of 2014, Darcy has focused his attention on real estate development, investing and advising tech start-ups https://angel.co/darcy-wedd and film production, producing three feature films including The Lookalike, Mother’s Day and Sugar Mountain.
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About Outspoken: Outspoken is the most experienced SMS and MMS messaging platform in the US.
Maijid Moujaled
Co-Founder & President of Chipper Cash
Maijid Moujaled is a co-founder and president at Chipper Cash.
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About Chipper Cash: Chipper Cash is a fintech platform that offers mobile, cross-border money transfer services.
John Durrant
Executive Vice President, Retail and Direct Bank, Capital One of clearXchange
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About : clearXchange is a digital payments network that allows its users to send money to anyone with a U.S. bank account.
Brett Pitts
Executive Vice President, Digital Channels Group, Wells Fargo of clearXchange
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About : clearXchange is a digital payments network that allows its users to send money to anyone with a U.S. bank account.
Nandan Sheth
President & Chief Operating Officer of Acculynk
Nandan Sheth serves as President and COO of Acculynk. Mr. Sheth’s responsibilities cover corporate development, business development, alliances, product strategy and operations. Before joining Acculynk, Mr. Sheth co-founded Harbor Payments where he served as the Chief Operating Officer. Harbor Payments was sold to American Express in December 2006 where Mr. Sheth served as a Vice President & General Manager within the Global Commercial Card group. Prior to Harbor Payments, Mr. Sheth started a payment technology company which served the credit and receivables industry. Mr. Sheth has also worked at major banks, professional service firms and Fortune 1000 corporations across North America and Europe. Mr. Sheth has held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, Deloitte & Touche, AT&T, IBM and has worked with clients such as JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, HSBC, LloydsTSB and National Westminster Bank. Mr. Sheth holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors in Computing Science from City University (London, UK) as well as an MBA from Cass Business School (London, UK).
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About Acculynk, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), First Data, Splitit: Acculynk provides software-only services that secure online payment transactions for issuers, merchants and payment processors.
Michele Rivera
Founder & Vice President, Global Partnerships of HUMBL
Michele Rivera is the Founder and Vice President, Global Partnerships at HUMBL.
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About HUMBL: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Sameer Gulati
President & Chief Operating Officer; Advisor (Current) of Plastiq
As Chief Operations Officer, Sameer has responsibility for Lending Club’s operations and corporate strategy, including managing customer support and our customer-facing operations. Before joining Lending Club,Sameer was a partner and leader of the Digital Banking & Consumer Credit practice at McKinsey & Company in London, UK. During his 11 years with McKinsey, he advised global and emerging financial services institutions on key initiatives in retail banking, consumer credit, digital payments, and risk management. He is a well-respected thought leader, regularly speaking at banking and fintech conferences and authoring documents on financial services and credit card issues, trends, and seminal financial service sector topics. Prior experience includes several years in technology roles at Cambridge Technology Partners and Integral, where he implemented solutions for financial services players. Sameer holds an MBA in strategy and entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BTech in chemical engineering and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi.
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About Plastiq: Plastiq offers a bill pay service for businesses to better manage their cash flow.
Robert Lisy
President & CEO of Intermex
Robert Lisy joined Intermex in 2009 with over 18 years of experience in retail financial services and electronic payment processing. Before joining Intermex as President and CEO, Lisy was the Chief Marketing and Sales Officer of Vigo Remittance Corp. from 2002 to 2006 where he developed the company’s strategic growth plan culminating in the sale of the company to First Data Corporation. Lisy was a founding partner of Direct Express/Paystation America, an electronic walk-in bill payment processor. For more than four years, he served as COO and Board Member, and later contributed to the successful transfer of the company in 2000 to American Payment Systems, the largest processor of walk-in payments in the country at the time. From 1991 to 1998, Lisy was instrumental in the development of Western Union’s international funds transfer business and held various executive positions in the areas of marketing and operations. He also served as Vice President of Biller Solutions for Princeton e-commerce, a top Internet bill payment processor. Lisy holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and Economics from Cleveland State University.
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About Intermex: Intermex is a processor of money transfer services in the U.S. to Latin America corridor.
Linda Grimm
Senior Vice-President, Risk Management of Nuvei
Linda Grimm leads a team of risk, underwriting and loss prevention professionals at Pivotal Payments. As a seasoned payments executive who has worked for national and international merchant acquirers, she has extensive knowledge and expertise in the area of Merchant Acquiring Operations specializing in risk mitigation and regulatory compliance. Linda Grimm’s successes are in building policies, processes and procedures resulting in improved customer service levels and operational efficiencies.
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About Nuvei: Nuvei is a financial service company that provides its clients with payment technology solutions.
Eric Allen
CEO & President of LISNR
Eric Allen President former CTO (Japanese conglomerate), CEO (2 Exits);former Gracenote GM running $250M business unit in audio fingerprinting.
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About LISNR, LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
Dan Blumenfeld
Co-founder President and CMO of Spiral
Dan Blumenfeld is a Co-Founder and serves as the President and CMO at Spiral
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About Spiral: Spiral is a provider of a banking solution for the charitable sector.
Mike DiGiacomo
Vice President of Operations and Market Development of Best Card
Mike DiGiacomo is a business owner and broadcaster living in Omaha, Nebraska. he like helping people grow their businesses, whether that’s through affordable payment solutions or by promoting their business on local television.
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About Best Card: Best Card is proud to be Nebraska-owned and family-operated.
Dominic DiGiacomo
Vice President of Sales of Best Card
Dominic DiGiacomo has been in the payments industry since 2001. Payment products are his niche but helping businesses achieve their goals is his passion!
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About Best Card: Best Card is proud to be Nebraska-owned and family-operated.
