At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based COO’ operating in the Payments space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
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.
Michael Seckler
Chief Operating Officer of Justworks
Michael Seckler, also known as Mike, co-founded Euclidean Technologies, LLC and served as its Partner. Michael Seckler served as a Vice President of Marketing & Business Development of ADP Employease, Inc. He Co-Founded ADP Employease. Michael Seckler was responsible for positioning ADP Employease, Inc., in the marketplace, generating customer demand, and structuring high-impact partnerships. Michael Seckler often serves as the spokesperson for it, and has presented at industry conferences and seminars including HR Technology Conference & Expo, Internet World, Red Herring’s Top 100 Company Conference, and many other HR & investor conferences. Michael Seckler is Co-founder of Euclidean Technologies. Michael Seckler has also been published in HR Focus and Electronic Commerce World. Before co-founding ADP Employease, Inc. In 1996, Michael Seckler worked with Mercer Management Consulting in Boston. Most of his clients were in the telecommunications industry or involved with then-emerging markets involving the Internet and online services industries. He served as Division Vice President at ADP Employease. He has been a Director of Apprenda Inc. since 2008. He served as Director of FTRANS Corp. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geology and History from Williams College.
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About Euclidean Technologies, Justworks: Justworks provides small and medium-sized businesses with simple software and expert support for payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance.
Hadas Sparfeld
COO & CFO of Group 11
Hadas is Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Group 11. She is responsible for all of the firm’s day-to-day operations and also oversees Group 11’s financial activities, including financial reporting, accounting, forecasting and budgeting, as well as tracking financial performance of portfolio companies.
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About Group 11: Group 11 is a venture capital firm focused on financial technology companies.
Monica Eaton-Cardone
COO & Founder of Chargebacks911
Monica Eaton-Cardone is the COO & Founder of Chargebacks911.
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About Chargebacks911, eConsumer Services, Fi911, Global Risk Technologies, Grit Daily News: A risk mitigation and chargeback remediation firm that specializes in friendly fraud management with prevention and dispute services.
Allison Barr Allen
Co-Founder & COO of Fast
Allison Barr Allen is the co-founder and COO of Fast, the world’s fastest online login and checkout platform. Previously, Allison was the head of global product operations for the Money Team at Uber, where she helped scale Uber from 2,000 employees to more than 26,000 worldwide. Allison’s team launched and scaled Uber’s payments, risk, and compliance products globally, including on-demand payments, cash products, debit cards and credit cards. Prior to Uber, Allison served as a healthcare strategy consultant at PwC. In addition to her role at Fast, Allison is a limited partner at Operator Collective, a venture capital firm that brings together leaders from diverse backgrounds to invest in the next generation of enterprise technology. Allison is also deeply committed to supporting entrepreneurs through Trail Run Capital, her angel investment fund. Allison graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
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About Fast: Fast provides an online login and checkout solutions designed to provide users with a secure shopping experience.
Jake Edsell
Chief Operating Officer of ParkHub
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About ParkHub: ParkHub is a technology company that provides software and hardware for the destination industry.
Corey Rudzinski
SVP – Chief Operating Officer for the Enterprise Framework Office 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.
Simar Mangat
COO of Stream Token
Simar Mangat is the Founder at Stealth Startup.
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About Banner, BitClout, Celo, Filecoin Foundation, kea, Next Alpha, Stealth Startup, Stream Token: Stream is a blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to accept payments with low transaction fees and no platform lock-in.
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.
Michael Orlando
Chief Operating Officer of YapStone
Michael Orlando is the Chief Operating Officer at Yapstone.
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About YapStone: YapStone is a global provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces and large vertical markets.
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.
Isaac Hines
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sila
Isaac is a former finance director and general manager in the energy sector, where he oversaw upwards of $200m in projects.
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About Sila: Sila is an API platform that provides banking and payment infrastructure-as-a-service for software teams.
Ed Garcia
Chief Operating Officer of Nuvei
Ed Garcia leads Pivotal’s Operations and Customer Service functions. He has more than 25 years of experience managing operations and technologies in the payments industry and is recognized for his great leadership skills, coupled with the ability to consolidate and optimize processes and systems. Before joining Pivotal, Ed Garcia led similar functions at Vantiv and Total System Services Inc. (TSYS). Prior to that, he held senior positions at Citigroup, American Express and Visa International.
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About Nuvei: Nuvei is a financial service company that provides its clients with payment technology solutions.
Chris Smith
COO of Verituity
Chris Smith is the COO at Verituity, Inc.
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About Verituity: Verituity is a verified digital payments platform that connects banks, businesses, and payees to first-time and on-time digital payouts.
Kathy Nelson
Chief Operating Officer of Cross River Bank
Kathleen Nelson has assumed various roles at Cross River since its inception in 2008.Kathleen possesses over 35 years of experience in the banking industry, in areas of operations, internal audit, risk, loan review, compliance, and BSA/AML compliance, and holds several certifications. Prior to Cross River, Kathleen held various management roles at Bank of New York Mellon, Wells Fargo, and other banking and savings institutions. Nelson graduated from Montclair State University with a MS in Psychology.
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About Cross River Bank: Cross River is a financial institution that offers technology and banking services to consumers and businesses.
Tobias Mezger
Co-Founder – COO/CFO of PayZen
I am passionate about solving big problems by making financial services more straightforward and more accessible. I am excited about building a great company.
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About PayZen: PayZen is a health care fintech startup that aims to tackle the growing patient payment responsibility problem.
Roger C. Hochschild
President and Chief Operating Officer of Discover Financial Services
Roger C. Hochschild has served as president and chief operating officer since 2004, and was executive vice president, chief marketing officer from 1998 to 2001. From 2001 to 2004, Roger was executive vice president, chief administrative and chief strategic officer of Morgan Stanley. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College.
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About Discover Financial Services: Discover Financial Services is a direct banking and payment services company.
Erich Litch
President & Chief Operating Officer of 2Checkout
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About 2Checkout: 2Checkout is the leading all-in-one monetization platform for global businesses.
Ijaz Anwar
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Payactiv
Ijaz Anwar brings extensive experience with previous tenure at GreenDot / GoBank, Unidos Financial Services, FIS, Certegy, Chex Services, and Hyatt Hotels. From running business units generating over $200 million in annual revenue to working as a bookkeeper at Dixi Cola in Dubai, Ijaz has done it. Payactiv is not just another job; it is a new frontier for Ijaz to create and manage innovative solutions that will empower millions financially worldwide. Ijaz holds a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management. He also has a minor in accounting, and though he passed the CPA exam, his entrepreneurial spirit led him away from the accounting field.
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About Payactiv: Payactiv helps put financial wellness within reach.
David Mangum
President and Chief Operating Officer of Heartland Payment Systems
David E. Mangum is President and Chief Operating Officer of Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN). In this role, he is responsible for accelerating the company’s global growth. Mr. Mangum oversees the company’s businesses in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Spain as well as the company’s global integrated payments and multinational digital commerce businesses. Mr. Mangum is also responsible for global product strategy and innovation, key strategic bank relationships, worldwide customer operations and enterprise risk management. Mr. Mangum served as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer from 2011 to 2014. In that role, he was responsible for the company’s worldwide financial operations, information technology strategy, global product strategy, product development and its technology platforms and operations. Prior to joining Global Payments, Mr. Mangum served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CheckFree Corporation, a leading global provider of financial electronic commerce services and products, from 1999 to 2007. CheckFree was acquired by Fiserv Inc. in December 2007 in a transaction valued at approximately $4.4 billion, and Mr. Mangum subsequently served as Executive Vice President of Fiserv. Mr. Mangum was named one of the best CFOs in America by Institutional Investor magazine. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta and as the 2015-2016 Campaign Chair for the United Way of Greater Atlanta.
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About Global Payments, Heartland Payment Systems: Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. – the fifth largest payments processor in the United States – provides payment processing services.
Roger Pavane
Managing Director COO, Head Of Sales & Marketing of Fractionality.com
A strategic, highly driven executive with over 18 years of proven experience in facilitating and developing sales and marketing in SaaS platform technology and growing revenue by understanding client needs and identifying matching solutions. Experienced leader working with hypergrowth, dynamic digital media companies. Expertise in delivering leadership in multiple facets such as relationship management, P&L, technical, industry relationships, and negotiating contracts. A builder and leader of sales managers, account managers and partners who communicates priorities and relevant reports and KPIs to the executive team. Long-standing passion for executing sales and marketing, nurturing customer relationships, and managing P&L. Leads hundreds of simultaneous high-stakes projects by creating clear strategies for their successful conclusion. Capable of combing detailed and complex data finding strengths and weaknesses that favor or hurt, respectively, clients, ensuring all queries get answered, and ultimately providing the best possible opportunities for success. Thrives by making difficult but necessary decisions that promote the sale of technological solutions, consultative engagements, and top-quality technology software products, for increased revenue and overall profitability. Expertise in overseeing technology improvement initiatives and aligning information services with business goals in B2B, B2C, mobile, AI, SaaS PaaS software cloud-based technologies. A leader who can build, assess and develop top tier sales and marketing teams, has vision for the future, but can also execute a roadmap with clear measurable results. Accomplishments across the Tenure ~ Efficiently trained teams and nurtured organizations in software application monetization, Video & Media, Fintech, Subscription Services, Pay-Walls, Gaming, Blockchain, Affiliate, Search, Mobile, Display marketing, AdTech, Marketing-tech, mobile apps, Internet, social media, commerce, LBS location-based services, The Internet of Things (IoT), e-commerce, mobile marketing, consumer/enterprise platforms-services SaaS and other emerging enterprise trends and technologies. ~ Expertly converted business deals by utilizing strong negotiating skills that enhanced +$100MM in revenue, strategic partnerships, including development and execution of go-to-market strategies that revitalize new ventures. ~ Successfully coordinated with IT colleagues to define client needs and maintain business ownership of the “revenue technology stack” including marketing automation, salesforce automation/ CRM, digital channels (e.g. the web and social), business intelligence, and data management. ~ Proficiently increased revenue by 60% from $2M to $3.2M in 90 days for early stage OTT SaaS Company focused in social, mobile, local, and the Cloud that disrupts direct to consumer mobile video communication and messaging. ~ Planned, designed and executed sales and marketing speeding up strategies, adds positive revenue results from all targeted revenue streams combined from $70M to $192M in 24 months. SKILL AREAS: SaaS Subscription Management Paywall E-commerce Micro-Payments Digital Advertising & Marketing OTT Video & OTT Messaging CRM Online Conversion Identity Management Online Marketing Emerging Technology Video Platforms Social Media Telecom Online Advertising Mobile Advertising Publishers Ad Networks Video Platforms Brand Engagement Product Management Sales Channel Development Revenue Growth Strategic Planning Team Leadership/Training Relationship Building Revenue Forecasting Account Management Contract Negotiation Deal Structure, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Start-Ups
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About Fractionality.com, Fractionality.com: Business Development, Positioning, Venture Accelerator
Michael F. Jackson
Chief Operating Officer of REPAY
Mike Jackson serves as REPAY’s Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Mike provides leadership for strategic areas including service quality, customer service, customer implementations, PCI compliance and achievement of the company’s operational effectiveness objectives. Prior to joining REPAY, Mike served in numerous executive roles for enterprise software and payment service providers including D+H, Fundtech, ACI, and S1 Corp. Prior to joining the FinTech segment in 2008, Mike worked for the U.S. based Regions Financial Corporation, a $130 billion dollar institution. Mike served as EVP of Alternative Delivery, and President of the Internet Bank. While serving at Regions, Mike had responsibility for debit, credit, merchant services, ATM’s, payment strategy, consumer and small business internet banking, domestic and international network partnerships, and products & services delivered via the Bank’s website.
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About REPAY: Realtime Electronic Payments (REPAY) is a full service provider of electronic transaction processing services for retail merchants.
Bryan Lewis
Chief Operating Officer of eNett
As Chief Operating Officer, Bryan is responsible for driving operational and strategic excellence across eNett. This includes overseeing the Finance, People, IT, Marketing & Customer Experience, Product, and Customer Service functions. Bryan has extensive experience in the travel industry, having been both the Chief Commercial Officer and CFO at Agoda, and later the CFO at Priceline.com. He brings with him broad finance, marketing and operational experience in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US. Prior to joining eNett full time, he served as an advisor to eNett, the Priceline Group, and several midstage startups. Bryan is infamous in many meeting circles for doing his best thinking while simultaneously playing a game on his phone.
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About eNett: ENett is a fintech company that’s redefining virtual payments for the travel industry.
Samuel Jonas
CEO & COO of IDT Corporation
Mr. Samuel Jonas has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer of IDT Corp., effective December 31, 2013. Shmuel Jonas has served as Chief Operating Officer of the Company since June 2010. Shmuel Jonas joined the Company in June 2008 and served as a Vice President until June 2009, when he was elected to serve as the Company’s Vice President of Operations. Since 2004, Shmuel Jonas has also been the managing member of Arlington Suites, LLC, manager of a thirty million dollar mixed-use ground up development project in the Bronx, New York.
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About IDT Corporation: IDT Corporation enriches lives, providing communication, entertainment and financial services.
Gregoire Delpit
Co-founder & COO of ProcessOut
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About Checkout.com, ProcessOut: ProcessOut offers a smart router that facilitates international payment solutions and services.
Patrick Gannon
Co-founder and COO of BlueTape
I start, run, advise, and invest in technology companies. My experience has been in financial services (real estate, trading, credit, payments, wealth management) and technology (internet, software) companies. My passions outside of business are in math, technology, music, real estate and education. Specialties: Fintech, Investing, Acceleration, Starting Companies & Building Products MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT.
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About BlueTape: BlueTape is a payment and financing platform for the construction industry.
Yuriy Smirnov
COO and Co-Founder of Fundraise Up
Yuriy Smirnov COO and Co-Founder of Fundraise Up.
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About Fundraise Up: The new standard in online giving.
Michael Plunkett
Co-Founder & COO/CFO of PayIt
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About PayIt: PayIt simplifies doing business with state, local, and federal government through its mobile transaction and payment platform.
Philip Peters
Executive Creative Director & Chief Operating Officer of Radius Bank
Mr. Peters is responsible for managing deposit and loan operations, commercial cash management, internal technology, project management, and product management/development. Phil has over 33 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Radius in April 2016, he most recently served as Senior Vice President, Product Management & Development at People’s United Bank. Phil has also held roles at Danversbank, Citizens Bank, and Bank of America. Mr. Peters holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Salem State University and a Graduate Certificate of Specialized Studies in Business Administration & Management from Harvard University Extension.
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About Radius Bank: Radius Bank is a forward-thinking community bank offering a full complement of convenient, leading-edge personal and business products.
Casey Callinsky
Chief Operating Officer of Protecht
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About Protecht, Protecht: Protecht is an insurtech company that utilizes embedded technologies to distribute insurance products to consumers globally.
Trever Hansen
Chief Operating Officer & VP Underwriting of Complete Merchant Solutions
Trever Hansen is a Co-Founder of Complete Merchant Solutions LLC and serves as its Chief Operating Officer. Trever Hansen has more than 10 years of industry leadership experience and is responsible for maximizing performance and efficiencies between CMS’ business units as well as overseeing the company’s efforts to streamline processes for the entire merchant lifecycle; from new account boarding, through ongoing merchant support, to customer retention. Prior to co-founding CMS, Trever Hansen served as the Vice President of Operations for a large ISO office of Chase Bank and Wells Fargo Bank. In this role, Trever Hansen oversaw multiple operational functions including underwriting, client boarding, risk management and ongoing loss prevention, deployment, activations, as well as customer and technical support. Trever Hansen pursued his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah.
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About Complete Merchant Solutions: Complete Merchant Solutions is a full-service electronic payments solutions provider.
Colm Bergin
Chief Operating Officer of Modo
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About Modo: Modo is the payments orchestration platform for enterprises.
Debe K.
Founder & COO of ManageCasa
Debe has a diverse entrepreneurial background that includes operational startup experience in various industries for almost 20 years. She is a long-time homeowner and was a commercial real estate tenant for almost 20 years.
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About ManageCasa: The leading intuitive, interactive and automated software for property managers, associations and landlords.
Amitaabh Malhotra
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Omnyway
Amitaabh Malhotra is an entrepreneurial executive who has been leading innovative FinTech, Mobile and Payments companies globally for over 20 years. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder at Omnyway Inc, a contextual digital platform for retailers that focuses on providing online to offline experiences as well as acceptance of alternate payment types to Retailers in the US. Omnyway pioneered the concept of no integration QR based payment acceptance at physical retail in the US and is currently the driving force behind successful programs such as Kohl’s Pay and WeChat Pay acceptance in the US. He is leading the move into Livestream Commerce as the Third Rail of Retail with the new Omnyway offering VISX. Prior to Omnyway, Amitaabh was the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of DeviceFidelity, Inc., a pioneer in mobile payments and NFC enablement, where he was responsible for creating the first plug and pay NFC devices in the world – establishing the groundwork for architectures now being deployed in iOS, Android and MPOS devices. He also launched the award winning “moneto”, that pioneered a single app backed by a cloud based platform that combined mobile banking, mobile payments, peer-to-peer transfers, card-linked offers, international remittance, and pluggable NFC. DeviceFidelity was acquired by Square in 2015, and Cachet Financial acquired moneto in 2014. Amitaabh started his career at Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies) where he headed up New Product Introductions for mobile networks. He was a pioneer in the emerging CDMA technology that now forms the basis of high speed wireless communications worldwide. Amitaabh also held executive roles at Superconductor Technologies, where he was responsible for commercializing the adoption of High Temperature Superconductors worldwide. He then moved his focus to emerging smart devices and the optimization of app performance over high latency wireless links as an executive at Venturi Wireless. Amitaabh focuses on the cross section of design and function, and strongly believes that experiential commerce will be the key to the evolution and adoption of hyper utility apps Commerce.
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About Centaur Partners, Omnyway: Livestream commerce with integrated global payments
jean-claude gouesse
Co-founder, COO of ecash express
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About ecash express, Moja Ride: eCash Express is a mobile financial services startup that offers easy-to-use payment solutions.
Parag Patel
Co-founder & COO of Invoiced
Founder at Invoiced.
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About Invoiced: Invoiced is an app that provides accounts receivable automation.
Wei Jiang
President & Chief Operating Officer of Citcon
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About Citcon: Citcon is a mobile payment network that enables global merchants to accept payments from consumers.
Ted Nadeau
COO of Shoppable
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About Shoppable: Shoppable specializes in ecommerce enablement technology and distributed commerce solutions for advertisers, publishers, and merchants.
Guillaume Bouvard
Co-founder, COO & CMO of Extend
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About Extend: Extend is the only digital card platform compatible with every commercial card, designed to modernize the way payments are made and managed.
Pamela A. Joseph
President & COO of Total System Services
Pam Joseph joined TSYS as president and chief operating officer in May of 2016. Prior to joining TSYS, she served as vice chairman of U.S. Bancorp’s payment services division and chairman of Elavon from December 2004 to June 2015. At U.S. Bancorp, Joseph had executive responsibility for all electronic payment product lines including consumer credit, debit, small business, prepaid, corporate, purchasing and fleet card programs and global acquiring. She has been recognized by Payments Source as one of the Most Influential Women in Payments and by the American Banker as one of the Most Powerful Women in Banking. Before joining Elavon in 1994, she served with Visa International as director of new market development. Prior to Visa, Joseph worked in the banking industry for more than eight years with Wells Fargo Bank. Joseph also became a member of the TSYS Board of Directors in March of 2016, and currently serves on the board of directors of TransUnion and Paychex. She is Chairman of Women Leaders in Action, a nonprofit organization that helps educate young women in Africa, and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Spelman College. Joseph earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois.
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About Total System Services: Total System Services provides electronic payment processing and related services to financial and nonfinancial institutions.
M. Troy Woods
President & COO of Total System Services
Troy Woods, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of TSYS, has guided the company’s diversification strategy into faster-growing areas of payments as TSYS moved beyond its roots as a third-party processor for a few hundred bank issuers and merchant acquirers. This included the company’s entry into the direct merchant acquiring business serving hundreds of thousands of businesses and into a leading prepaid services provider, supporting millions of underserved consumers who do not have access to traditional financial services. Woods has been the catalyst in TSYS’ vision to be the leading global payments solutions provider by driving innovation to improve lives and businesses across the world by putting people at the center of payments. Under Woods leadership, the company introduced its brand promise, People-Centered Payments, which is based on the belief that payments should revolve around people, not the other way around. Woods started his career at Columbus Bank and Trust Company (Columbus, Ga.) in 1970, working part-time in the bankcard department and eventually becoming a vice president. He left the company in 1977 to become a senior vice president for card services with United American Bank, Knoxville, TN. In 1979 he joined AmSouth Bank in Birmingham, AL, as senior vice president of Card Services, and in 1982 became senior vice president of Consumer Lending. He rejoined TSYS in 1987 and was involved in directing the company’s international expansion, strategic planning activities, negotiations with major clients, and the continual improvement of TS2, the company’s core issuing payments engine. Woods is chairman of the TSYS Board of Directors, and also serves on the Board of Directors for several civic organizations as well, including the YMCA of Metropolitan Columbus (Ga.), West Georgia Honor Flight and the Greater Columbus Georgia Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Columbus State University and the River Center for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Georgia. Woods earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbus State University (Columbus, Ga.), and also graduated from the University of Virginia’s Graduate School of Retail Bank Management and Louisiana State University’s School of Banking of the South.
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About Total System Services: Total System Services provides electronic payment processing and related services to financial and nonfinancial institutions.
Scott Orlinsky
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer of Everyware
Scott recognized from the initial conversations that Everyware was a vision larger than ourselves.Scott is high-energy and has a deep passion to inspire people with Everyware vision. Determined to hold ourselves to higher standards Scott remains all purpose driven and always focused on the outcome.
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About Everyware, Everyware, Walmart: Everyware provides a secure, user-friendly payment collection and two-way messaging platform.
Matt Draper
Co-Founder and COO of Noble
Matt Draper is the co-founder and COO of Noble.
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About Noble: The first consumer-centric mobile ordering solution to make on-premise experiences better.
Greg Anders
COO of Processing Partners
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About Processing Partners: Processing Partners provides global payment solutions for nearly every industry with requirements regarding payment.
Roy Barak
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Vindicia
Roy Barak currently works as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Vindicia. He previously worked at Amdocs as Finance Business Partner – SI&O Sales, Marketing, Services R&D, O2A, and RevenueGuard.
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About Vindicia: Vindicia offers comprehensive subscription management solutions that help businesses acquire and retain more customers.
Kevin MacDonald
President/COO of Allvue Systems
Kevin MacDonald is the former CTO and co-founder of FCS, the developer of the Wall Street Office platform. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego and has 23 years of experience in the syndicated loan market. Under his leadership, Wall Street Office evolved to become the industry standard for loan portfolio management and accounting. Kevin oversaw the technology effort from the founding of FCS until the JP Morgan acquisition of FCS at the end of 2003.
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About Allvue Systems: Allvue Systems is a technology provider for private capital and credit market investment managers.
Kevin Dunn
COO of Allvue Systems
Kevin Dunn is the COO – Black Mountain at Allvue Systems.
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About Allvue Systems: Allvue Systems is a technology provider for private capital and credit market investment managers.
Nicolas Bayerque
Co-Founder & COO of Settle Network
Nico Bayerque is a Co-Founder and COO at Settle Network.
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About Settle Network: Settle Network is the largest digital assets settlement network across LATAM for exchange and cross-border payments.
Michael Avon
Chief Operating Officer of Clutch
Michael Avon is the COO at Clutch,a customer marketing platform for business-to-consumer brands.
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About Clutch: Clutch serves as a customer marketing platform for business-to-consumer brands.
Paul Franko
Co-founder & COO of Payrailz
As Chief Technology Officer of Payrailz, Paul oversees all technology related to strategy, security and product development for Payrailz. He is an experienced payments technologist with success in constructing, deploying, operating, and managing financial services platforms in SaaS/cloud, service bureau, and on-premises environments. His passion is adapting relevant, modern technology and creating a payment experience that provides the mobility, convenience, speed and affordability customers demand.
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About Payrailz: Payrailz is a digital payments company that offers advanced bill payment and money transfer solutions to banks and credit unions.
Brad Labrum
Principal Owner and Chief Operating Officer of Rapid Financial Solutions
Bradly began his career in manufacturing and has worked progressively in the private sector. He has held several positions from entry levels to senior management. His experience includes managing multi-million dollar manufacturing plants and projects, strategic development, significant cost savings initiatives, entrepreneurial start ups, and real estate investing. Bradly has a BS in Biology and a MBA from Southern Utah University.
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About Rapid Financial Solutions: Rapid Financial Solutions is a prepaid card program manager and card processor for the sport officiating industry.
Paige Cattano
Co-Founder/COO of Wonder Technologies
COO at jaris, inc.
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About jaris, MPC Consulting, Wonder Technologies: The Future of Gifting and Incentives
David Ogden
CPO, COO & Co-Founder of Bquate
CDO & Co-Founder at Bquate
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About Bquate: Bquate is a full-stack SaaS music platform and an API-based solution for independent music companies.
Scott Griest
COO of PrimaHealth Credit
Fintech entrepreneur & sales-focused executive that thrives in a leadership role. Proven ability for recruiting high-performing team members to scale organizations resulting in multiple exits. Experience in raising over $100M in debt & equity. Currently, Chief Operating Officer of PrimaHealth Credit, a fintech disruptor in patient-finance that came out of stealth in August 2019. Previously, drove American Finance Solutions’ growth to achieve the Inc5000 List in both 2013 and 2014 followed with its acquisition by North American Bancard, one of Nation’s largest payment processors. Prior to starting American Finance Solutions, founded a successful retail financial service company in Southern California. In addition, hold equity stakes in several businesses contributing both capital and entrepreneurial expertise. Investor & advisor in projects ranging from real estate, restaurants, film production & technology-focused start ups in a diverse range of industries.
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About PrimaHealth Credit: PrimaHealth Credit is a FinTech platform empowering healthcare providers to offer payment solutions to the credit-challenged and underbanked
Juan Dieppa
COO of PayCargo
Juan Carlos Dieppa is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of PayCargo.
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About PayCargo: PayCargo is an online payment settlement system for the Global Freight Maritime industry.
Nirav Shah
Chief Operating Officer & Head – Digital Innovation of Aurionpro
As the Chief Operating Officer, Nirav Shah spearheads all the key functions like Business units, Delivery Operations, Human Resources and Aurionpro’s geographically dispersed engineering strategic business units to ensure optimization of processes and delivery excellence. Nirav is also in charge of leading and directing the digital innovation business line at Aurionpro, including designing and development of products driving digital innovation in the area of customer experience and digital payments. Prior to taking on this critical corporate role, Nirav led Aurionpro’s Payments business. He has previously held leadership roles at global organizations like Bankserv, Accenture, and Citicorp. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nirav has received a bachelor’s degree in electronics from TSEC, Mumbai University and an MBA in finance from SIMSR, Mumbai University.
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About Aurionpro: Aurionpro is a global technology solutions leader that helps enterprises accelerate their digital innovation, securely and efficiently.
Gus Cunningham
COO of Prolexic Technologies
Gus was formerly the COO of Prolexic, where he grew annual revenue from $2M to $50M before its sale to Akamai. He also previously led ScrapeSentry, a spin-off of managed security services firm Sentor, as CEO through its sale to Distil Networks.
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About Netography, Prolexic Technologies: Prolexic Technologies is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation service provider.
Ben Peters
Chief Operating Officer of Vpay
Ben Peters is the COO at VPay
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About Vpay: VPay is focused on delivering best-in-class claims payment solutions designed specifically to streamline the payment process.
Pacifique Mahoro
Co-Founder & COO of PesaChoice
Pacifique focuses on product development. With over five years in experience, Pacifique combines his strong programming skills and the remittance market knowledge to build products tailored for the African diaspora, which has historically faced high fees and bad customer care. Pacifique is an avid software developer with an eye for great user experience. He has experience building web and mobile applications. He holds a BS in computer science degree from Oklahoma Christian University. He is currently pursuing a masters degree at the University of Oklahoma.
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About PesaChoice: PesaChoice is a mobile bill payment company that offers international bill payment services.
Pratyush Agarwal
Co-Founder and COO of New Incentives
Cofounder & COO at New Incentives.
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About New Incentives: New Incentives is a non-profit that changes the lives of the world’s poorest mothers and newborns.
Ross Lugos
COO of Curacubby
Joining his former U.C. Berkeley classmate Steven Khuong, Ross played a key role in creating Curacubby and bringing its solution to market, having experienced the headaches of writing checks to pay school tuition each month as a parent. With deep experience in solving complex issues in “Big Data” and financial risk management industries, Ross bring his tenancity to ensure success for every customer. Prior to helping in the creation Curacubby, where he now leads the company’s operations, he was a Strategic Account Director at GoodData, and was also Director of Professional Services for Moody’s Analytics. Ross has a BS degree in engineering from U.C. Berkeley.
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About Curacubby: Curacubby is a SaaS company facilitating financial transactions between small and medium businesses (SMBs) and their millennial customers.
Darin Petty
President & COO of Cardplatforms
Darin Petty has over 20 years of financial service industry experience in cards, payments, transaction processing, risk and fraud, call center management and process and project leadership. He is also a Six Sigma Blackbelt. Darin has held strategic senior positions for companies including Discover Card, GE Capital Financial, CitiGroup, Dell Financial Services, Galileo Processing and most recently Origins Financial Services. As president and COO, Darin is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company and ensuring the flawless execution of card programs and delivery of impactful results to Cardplatforms’ clients.
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About Cardplatforms: Digital Payment Solutions
Jesse Adams
Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Operating Officer of TranZfinity
Jesse Adams has most recently held a variety of positions at VeriFone as its EVP/Vice Chairman through a successful IPO. He has held a variety of senior executive level management positions at Sungard Data Systems, Geac Computer Systems, and VeriFone over the past 19 years. Jesse Adams has worked and partnered with many top fortune 100 company executives primarily in the Financial, Information Technology, Services and Retail markets. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy – West Point with a B.S. in Applied Science and Engineering.
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About TranZfinity: Accelerates Adoption of Contactless/NFC
Jason Luna
COO of Rapid RMS
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About 38 Degree Draft, Rapid RMS: The first point-of-sale and inventory management system that runs on Apple iPads and integrates with gasoline pumps.
David Garavelli
Chief Operating Officer of First Touch Payment Solutions
David Garavelli’s career in the banking industry began after his graduation from Southwest Community College in Memphis, Tenn. He began working at First Tennessee Bank in 1980, where he ran operations for First Express, a national check clearing business. In 1988, Garavelli began working for First American Bank heading their West Tennessee operations . He worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis from 1991-1996 before returning to First Tennessee Bank to run their document processing and returns.
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About First Touch Payment Solutions, First Touch Payment Solutions: First Touch Payment Solutions is a leading, processor-agnostic, provider of technology services.
Tom Sears
Co-founder & COO of Sightline Payments
Tom Sears is the Executive Vice President, Co-founder, and Chief Operating Officer at Sightline Payments. Prior to that, he was the Senior Vice President for Business Development at the NRT President Centre Payments of NRT Technologies.
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About Sightline Payments: Sightline Payments designs and develops payment solutions for mobile gaming companies and the casino industry.
Todd Keener
COO of PayReel
A self-proclaimed geek with a proven business acumen, Todd began his career by launching one of Colorado’s first internet service providers in 1993, growing it to one of the largest in the country, and ultimately selling it to publicly traded RMI. A CTO, COO or CEO for 14 years, Todd has continued to combine technology, especially software development, with leadership and his love for business strategy to help grow several companies, including Arrival Telecommunications, 3C, and American DataBank. Todd received his MBA from UCLA, but was born and raised in his beloved Colorado. Todd’s version of heaven is watching baseball under a summer sunset with his wife and three children—each of whom root hard for the Rockies, the Broncos, and UCLA (of course!).
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About PayReel: PayReel provides freelance contractor services for corporate video and media, television and film customers.
Marc Roberts
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Zift
Before launching Zift Marc oversaw merchant services and operations at Platinum Payment Systems. Marc has a degree in Civil Engineering from BYU and currently serves as a member of the House of Representatives for the state of Utah.
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About Zift: Zift is a provider of merchant processing solutions and payment facilitation.
Peter Murray
COO of SkyMode, Inc.
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About LifeCounts (HowellCorp), SkyMode, Inc.: SkyMode enables fast, safe and modern 1-click purchasing – across any sales channel and across any merchant.
Daniel Sampson
Founder & COO of Marketecture
Daniel Sampson is the COO at Marketecture Inc. Dan, 34, is the creative force behind Marketecture Inc. With talents in both software design and coding, Dan has been able to create a highly usable and functional solution to the struggles small business owners face with managing their online presence. Dan is the brains behind the Total Online Business System, the web’s only all-in-one online business platform. While building various platforms for real-estate agents, brokers, and eCommerce companies, Dan recognized the need for an all-in-one solution that anyone could utilize to help grow their business. In 2010 Marketecture was born and the Total Online Business System was launched. In the following years Dan has applied his unique problem solving skills to grow and build an intuitive system that provides all the tools businesses need for online business. Dan’s skills extend beyond that of software engineering, and he has been able to help close major partnerships with his sales skills, taking techno jargon and translating it into understandable marketable language. As a result of Dan’s wide array of skills, Marketecture has grown into a profitable company, employing over 95 and servicing over 72,000 active customers. Previous to working with Marketecture, Dan built a name for himself as a problem solver and a builder for all the various companies he worked with. Cutting his teeth at Myfamily.com, the original social media site, he was responsible for optimizing and maintaining a homepage which received 3 million unique visits a day. He then continued on to build valuable solutions with companies like Vermotion Inc, and the Prosper Team. Everywhere Dan has gone he has been a problem solver. Dan studied at Provo College and earned his AAS with an emphasis in computer hardware in 2000. He is married and currently has three daughters and a son. Dan is a family man and has been coaching his children’s soccer teams for over five years; he also enjoys family barbecues and watching movies outside.
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About Marketecture: Marketecture offers a SaaS-based platform that enables businesses to deploy online marketing strategies.
Ben Griefer
COO of Maverick Payments
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About Maverick Payments: Technology-focused full-service payment processor.
David Drobik
Co-founder & COO of Authentic Digital Collectibles
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About Authentic Digital Collectibles, Startup Fund: Collect Digital Experiences on the Blockchain Collect Digital Experiences on the Blockchain
Perry Sweet
COO of Recondo
Perry Sweet is Recondo’s Chief Client Officer and oversees global customer operations including professional services and education. Perry brings to Recondo decades of proven experience leading professional services units that break records in revenue and customer satisfaction. He joined Recondo from Allscripts, where he was Vice President of Services, Support, and Account Management for the company’s Population Health and Community Solutions. Previous to that role and Allscripts’ acquisition of Eclipsys, Perry was responsible for the growth of Professional Services at Eclipsys, including the Electronic Health Record, Revenue Cycle, and Decision Support businesses. As Vice President of First Consulting Group’s Midwest division, Perry grew services revenue by 300 percent over a four-year period. He began his career at IBM, where he held a series of progressively more senior leadership roles over 16 years including Healthcare Channel Business Unit Executive. Perry holds a BS and MS in engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
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About Recondo: Recondo connects providers, payers and patients via cloud computing solutions throughout the healthcare revenue cycle.
Ashby Foltz
COO of Charityvest
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About Charityvest: Charityvest is a personal charitable giving fund that allows individuals to donate to US nonprofits from one tax-deductible account.
Isaiah Baca
Chief Operating Officer of Snowball
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About Snowball: @Pay is a mobile payments technology company that specializes in fundraising and bill payment solutions.
Kevin Moshir
Co-Founder, COO & President of CellTrust Corp
Mr. Moshir oversees the high-level management of operational activities and strategic product development at CellTrust®. Moshir began his career engineering large-scale infrastructure management systems in the governmental and regulatory compliance sectors. In 1995, Moshir co-founded ISmart Technologies Inc., a leading provider of integrated business management solutions for small- and medium-sized companies in the Mid-Atlantic region. An Internet Security veteran, Mr. Moshir went on to become president of PatchLink Corporation (now Lumension Security,) a global market leader in security patching, vulnerability management, and remediation software. In just a few years, Moshir led PatchLink’s global expansion and hyper growth resulting in a 25-fold increase in sales revenue. In 2003, PatchLink was awarded the Arizona Innovators award for excellence from the governor of Arizona, and in 2004, they won the prestigious INC 500 Award. CellTrust brought home three prestigious awards in 2008, namely the CTIA Emerging Technology Finalist Award, the Fierce 15 Top Emerging Wireless Companies 2008 Award, and the Best of WiMAX World EMEA 2008 Industry Choice Award nomination within the innovation category for its patent pending Global SecureSMS® Gateway.
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About CellTrust Corp: CellTrust Corp – Prime Message mobile marketing business
Devin Cohen
Founder & COO of Timetab
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About Timetab: Timetab is a mobile app where users can find a bar, order beverages, and pay their tabs.
Orazio Pater
COO of GTreasury
Orazio Pater has been a recognized leader in the treasury management industry for over 40 years. As head of GTreasury, he manages one of the leading providers of treasury management systems in the world. Mr. Pater founded Gateway Systems in 1986, initially offering a MS-DOS product that evolved through the MS-Windows® Client-Server architecture to the current cloud-based solution. Prior to founding the Gateway and GTreasury companies, Pater led the National Data Corporation – Cash Management Division from 1974 to 1984. He was instrumental in developing the automated cash and treasury management industry. Under his leadership, the NDC Cash Management Division served over 12,000 corporations and 200 major banks that used NDC to monitor balances and concentrate cash globally. During that period, the NDC Cash Management Division became the leading provider of treasury and funds transfer systems worldwide, with over $40 million in annual revenues and very substantial profits. Prior to NDC, Orazio was a cash manager at Honeywell, Inc., where he designed and implemented one of the first automated treasury management systems in the world.
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About GTreasury: Fully integrated cash and risk management solution to streamline processes and take your treasury functions from operational to strategic
Robert Vogel
Chief Operating Officer of ActiveWorx
As Miria’s Chief Operating Officer, Bob is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Miria’s software development, project delivery, consulting and customer support services. Bob also oversees corporate operations and internal information technology that supports Miria’s employees located throughout the US and abroad. Along with board members, Bob serves on the leadership team that sets the overall strategy and direction for Miria. Bob brings over 20 years of operations, customer service and sales experience to the team. His operational and customer service knowledge and experience span several industries which include; business solutions, data capture & enterprise mobile applications, security technology solutions, and controls automation & manufacturing IT. Most recently, as Vice President Technical Services at Avanceon, Bob was responsible for Avanceon’s engineering group, offshore development, recruiting & hiring initiatives, and the company’s IT infrastructure, where he implemented a virtual and cloud based IT strategy, improving the global companies ability to access, communicate, and share information with customers, vendors and their employees within their corporate headquarters and satellite offices located throughout the US and overseas. As Vice President of Data Solutions and Support at LScan Technologies, Bob established, staffed and managed a technical and customer support network which included both web based and live phone support. As Director of Technical Operations for Konica, Bob directed a staff of 130+ field technicians, network consultants, and technical managers that provided pre and post-sales support to a multi-state customer account base. Bob is a graduate ofDeVryUniversityand holds a degree in Electronics.
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About ActiveWorx: ActiveWorx is a software solutions provider for Data Capture & OCR, AP Automation, and Payment Automation and optimization.
Robert Johnson
Managing Partner & Chief Operating Officer of Vendorin
Prior to joining Vendorin, Robert was the Director of Global Payments at peerTransfer and Implementation Manager for Western Union Global Business Payments. While at peerTransfer Mr. Johnson was responsible for expanding peerTransfer’s global collection network by establishing and managing ongoing relationships with card brands, financial institutions, payment service providers, and alternative payment networks. Prior to joining peerTransfer Mr. Johnson held numerous management roles with Trancentrix, Ruesch International, Travelex Global Business Payments and Western Union Global Business Payments.
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About Vendorin: Vendorin is an integrated payment network and supplier engagement platform.
Douglas Solomon
COO of ID Global Solutions
Douglas Solomon has over 30 years of hands-on experience in the management of corporations and international subsidiaries. His experience includes over 13 years in international sales and marketing within the high-tech industry. Prior to founding ID Solutions, Douglas held various positions as President and/or CEO of various US-based and international companies. His experience and responsibilities include every aspect of running a business, people management, financial controls, resource planning and expansion/growth strategy of the company and its stakeholders. As a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, he started his career with Hewlett Packard in South Africa in 1979 and in 1985 left HP to start one of the largest HP OEM’s in Africa, under the banner of the then publicly traded Square One Solutions Group. In partnership with various local and international companies, Douglas has been instrumental in establishing a beach-head for numerous new ventures in a variety of high-tech focused opportunities.
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About ID Global Solutions: ID Global Solutions desarrolla y simunistra soluciones de indetificación automática a los procesos de producción.
Don Jacques
Chief Operating Officer of Jopari Solutions
Don is responsible for the day to day activities of Jopari Solutions – implementation, operations, and delivery of the Jopari suite of products, supporting both provider and payer clients, including the Emdeon relationship. He joined Jopari in April, 2007, after a number of years in establishing Workers Compensation eBilling. He has over 30 years of wide ranging experience in Claims, Risk Management and Loss Control, including designing/implementing claims systems, as well as claims management and medical cost containment programs. Don has also been one of the industry champions of Property and Casualty eBilling, beginning in 2000 while working with The Hartford. He is daily immersed with the provider community, various state regulators, as well as providing input to national organizations like IAIABC to foster expanded and expedited adoption of eBilling. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, with a degree in Fire Protection and Safety Engineering Technology.
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About Jopari Solutions: Jopari is a leading customer-focused health information technology company.
Myles Gage
Chief Operating Officer of Rapunzl – Invest. Share. Win.
I am the co-founder of Rapunzl and an advocate for financial education especially for individuals in underserved communities. Attending Ariel Community Academy on Chicago’s south side exposed me to the stock market at a very young age, as financial literacy was the crux of its curriculum. That’s why, subsequent to graduating from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, I developed Rapunzl with my highschool friend, Brian Curcio. Together we designed and developed an app that addresses the three roadblocks that prohibit many from understanding the stock market: fear, exposure, and accessibility. We decided to provide users with a risk-free, $10,000 simulated portfolio in order to eliminate the fear we all first feel when we look at the stock market. We then increased exposure by working with high schools and colleges and providing weekly, monthly, and (soon) annual competitions for cash prizes! Finally we made the stock market accessible by integrating social media into our simulator. Users can connect with their friends, share how they trade, and discuss their investment strategies. People need game-based learning tools which simulate the real world and contexualize their learning if they are ever to learn how to properly invest. Rapunzl provides an incentive to learn, a place to share findings, and a risk-free community to make mistakes along the way. By partnering with UrbanX Learning, I oversee the Financial Pathways initiative in which Rapunzl lends its technology to make an impact in some of the nations most underserved communities. Financial Pathways offers scholarships, mentoring, and financial fluency tools to combat our financial illiteracy crisis and make success obtainable for all students, regardless of their background.
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About Rapunzl – Invest. Share. Win.: Rapunzl is an award-winning app that allows you to earn cash & scholarship prizes while you learn how to invest.
Tom Shields
COO of Cramberry
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About Cramberry: Study Guide Marketplace
Terri Harwood
COO of BillingTree
Terri Harwood is the chief operating officer of North American Bancard Holdings, LLC (NAB), a multi-faceted payment solutions provider dedicated to delivering the latest payments technology with the highest level of customer service. A highly qualified member of the mobile payment industry, Harwood brings over twenty years of experience and knowledge to North American Bancard. With a historical focus on creating optimal service experiences for customers, Harwood leads the successful development and execution of NAB’s operations and logistics expansion strategies, business development, as well as customer communications and service to create an optimum customer experience. Harwood’s efforts have also cultivated a work environment that inspires creativity and personal growth for each and every employee at NAB. A member of the Electronic Transaction Association, Harwood joins NAB from Global Payments where she served as senior vice president of service operations, strategic relationships and business development. Prior to Global Payments, Harwood served eleven years at First Data Merchant Services, where she was instrumental in executing on the alliance bank strategy that helped shape many highly successful and long-standing relationships. She is an award-winning member of the payments industry, having received multiple awards for her work. Harwood attended the Hagerstown Business College in Hagerstown, Md.
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About BillingTree: BillingTree is a payment technology company that helps organizations get paid using a variety of payment channels.
Sarah Engel
COO of Moe Assist
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About campsix, Moe Assist: Moe Assist is a project management and payment tool for influencers.
Chan Walker
COO of BrokenBox
Chan Walker partner at Venn Ventures.
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About BrokenBox: BrokenBox offers instant group filtering, invite your friends to eat and you are just one click from an amazing dining experience.
Lars Bo Thomsen
COO of Paylike
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About Paylike: Paylike is the modern full-stack payment platform
Anne Maxwell
Founding Partner and Chief Operating Officer of InvoiceASAP
CTO of InvoiceASAP.
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About InvoiceASAP: InvoiceASAP is a mobile and desktop app that helps field service businesses manage invoices and get paid faster.
Derek Bogard
COO & VP Sales of Virtual Payment Systems, Inc
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About Virtual Payment Systems, Inc: Virtual Payment Systems provides electronic payment solutions that are fast to set up, easy to use and secure from hackers.
Stephen Seaman
COO of SwipeSum
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About SwipeSum: SwipeSum is a technology aimed at reducing credit card and debit card processing fees for companies.
Jane Miller
COO of Gold Group Enterprises
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About Gold Group Enterprises: Gold Group Enterprises operates in the business solutions arena.