Leaders In Payments

Talbott Roche the CEO and President of Blackhawk Network , is our special guest on this the 103rd episode of the Leaders in Payments Podcast as we continue to celebrate Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by American Express.  Talbott grew up in Richmond, Virginia and attended an all-girls school from kindergarten through high school. She majored in economics at Stanford and was the first pe...

Sam Ettus, the Founder and CEO of Park Place Payments is our special guest on this the 102nd episode of the Leaders in Payments Podcast. She is our third guest in the Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by American Express .  Sam grew up in New York City and played competitive tennis from childhood through college. She went to Harvard College and then on to Harvard Business School.  Sam has...

Suneera Madhani, the Founder and CEO of Stax (formerly Fattmerchant) is our special guest on this the 101st episode of the Leaders in Payments Podcast. She is the second guest in the Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by American Express .  Suneera was raised by immigrant parents who were also entrepreneurs. Much of her personal and professional inspiration comes from her parents. She atten...

Kathleen Fiorello, the Head of US Partner Acquisition and Global Capabilities at American Express is our special guest on this the 100th episode of the Leaders in Payments Podcast. I’m honored to have her on this show as we kick off Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by American Express .  Kathleen grew up in Wayne New Jersey, where she had a paper route as a kid, after high school she atte...

Brady Harris, the CEO of Dwolla is our special guest this week on episode 99 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Brady grew up in Salt Lake City Utah.  After high school he went into payments in Portland and Seattle. He also spent some time in Atlanta and now is at the Dwolla headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa.    Dwolla was originally a P2P product but about 5 years ago started to focus on B2B pay...

Vijay Oddiraju, the Co-founder and CEO of Volante Technologies is our special guest this week on episode 98 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Vijay was born and raised in India. After getting his bachelor’s degree he came to the U.S. where he got his master’s degree in computer science and went to work for Oracle. After about 6 years, he got the entrepreneurial bug and started his first company...

Don Frieden, the President, CEO & Chairman of P97 Networks is our special guest this week on episode 97 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.   Don grew up in Fort Forth Texas, attended North Texas University and has been in Houston Texas for about 30 years.  P97 is making payments at the convenience retail and fuel industries simple, fast, and secure. They are a global company with 175 team mem...

Derek Webster, the Founder and CEO of CardFlight is our special guest this week on episode 96 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Derek was born and raised in California, moved to Washington D.C. and attended Georgetown University. He was an intern and then a product manager at eTrade before going to business school at Stanford. He currently lives in New York City where he founded CardFlight in 2...

Will Graylin, the CEO of OV Loop and Indigo Technologies is our special guest this week on episode 95 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Will immigrated to the U.S. from China when he was a teenager. He got his undergrad degree from the University of Washington, became a nuclear submarine officer for 5 and half years and then went to Boston for grad school at MIT.   OV Loop is a connected commer...

Ron Hynes, the CEO of Vesta is our special guest this week on episode 94 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Ron lives in Connecticut and was born and raised in Maine. He’s married and has three kids, two in college and one that just graduated from high school and one little dog to round out the family.  Vesta uses advanced machine learning to access the validity of card-not-present transactions....

Matt Marcus, the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Modern Treasury is our special guest this week on episode 93 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Matt was born in south Florida, moved to New Hampshire and attended Dartmouth College and now lives in San Francisco.  Modern Treasury was formed when the three founders were responsible for the payment operations system at LendingHome realized...

Larry Talley, Founder & CEO of Everyware is our special guest on episode 92 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Larry grew up in New York and has been on his own since the early age of 14. He left New York and joined the Navy where he saw 30 countries before the age of 21.  He now resides in Austin, Texas with his wife and 3 sons.   Everyware was formed to solve problems around payments by le...

James Oberman, CEO of Payroc is our special guest this week on episode 91 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Jim grew up in the south-side of Chicago, attended the University of Arizona, married his high school sweetheart and moved back to the Chicago area after college. His first job was in public accounting where he had clients in the equipment financing industry which ultimately led him into...

Sean Feeney, the CEO of Cantaloupe is our special guest this week on episode 90 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Sean grew up in a small town in New York called Attica – which of course is famous for its maximum-security prison. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the Army for 6 years mostly in Europe. He currently lives in Roswell, Georgia.   Canta...

Anil D. Aggarwal, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Fintech Meetup is our special guest this week on episode 89 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Anil was born in England came to the US when he was 16 and has been an entrepreneur basically his entire career. He started two businesses in payments early in his career and sold one of them to Google.  At Google he started working on Money 20/20.   In 20...

That was Quincy McKnight, CEO and Founder of Covenant Pay Partners and he is our special guest this week on episode 88 of the Leaders in Payments podcast. Quincy grew up in Murfreesboro Tennessee, went to Middle Tennessee State and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.  In 2018 Quincy rebranded QPay into Covenant Pay Partners and refocused the company. Their current top verticals are transportation,...

Lawrence Lee, a partner from Baker McKenzie is our special guest this week on the Pulse of Payments series - part of the Leaders in Payments Podcast.  Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Lawrence was former in-house counsel for the digital currency exchange Coinbase, where he led all corporate and strategic transactions and investments. He’s been repeatedly acknowledged in the legal industry as an au...

Rodney Robinson, CEO and Co-founder of TabaPay is our special guest this week on episode 86 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Rodney grew up in Omaha Nebraska and has been in California for the last 40 years.  TabaPay was named after a Lord of the Rings book called There and Back Again or TABA and TabaPay is all about there and back again payments- they can both disburse money instantly as well...

This is the first episode of the Q2 2021 “The Pulse of Payments” series. My special guest this week is Brent Rose, Chief Revenue Officer at Beyond ( getbeyond.com ) Get Beyond started in 2017 and focuses on advocacy – business, sales and service advocacy specifically. During this episode we discuss how small business in their portfolio are bouncing back from the Covid pandemic. We also go deeper i...

Brandon Spear, the CEO of TreviPay is our special guest on episode 84 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Brandon grew up in South Africa and completed college in electrical engineering. He moved to the United States about 15 years ago and is currently based in Overland Park Kansas. TreviPay has had some significant changes in the past year and Brandon and I discuss those – which include the rebr...

Andrew Jamison, the CEO & Co-Founder of Extend is our special guest this week on episode 83 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Andrew spent the first 10 years of his career at SAP and then moved over to American Express for 12 years where he managed all B2B payments solutions, including virtual card platforms and products. Andrew currently lives in New York City with his wife and two small c...

Chris Chestnut, the CEO & Co-Founder of Payix is our special guest this week on episode 82 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.   Chris moved to North Texas from Arizona when he was 12 and has been in North Texas since including attending college at University of Texas in Arlington. Chris assumed his career would be in sales but he actually hated sales, so he went into the IT department at Amer...

Ari Horowitz, the CEO of Yardline Capital is our special guest this week on episode 81 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Ari grew up just outside of New York City and went to college at the University of Pennsylvania. He’s been an entrepreneur his entire life starting by tarring driveways and tutoring SATs in high school. He’s started over 10 business to date.    Yardline Capital provides non d...

That was Patricia Montesi, the CEO of Qolo and she is our special guest this week on episode 80 of the Leaders in Payments podcast.  Patricia grew up in Charleston, West Virginia, and went to the University of Miami and has never left south Florida. She started in the car rental space and was there for 9 years before moving into the payments industry.    Qolo is an omnichannel, unified payments pl...

That was Dimitri Akhrin, the founder and President of IRIS CRM and he is our special guest on episode 79 of the Leaders in Payments podcast. Dimitri was born in the Ukraine and his family moved to New York when he was 8 years old. He went to high school and college in New York. He started his first business when he was 12 years old and started in payments in high school and has worked in every rol...