Leaders In Payments

I’m honored to be joined on this fifth episode of our special series about diversity and inclusion by Joe Carella. In fact, this is actually part two of my interview with Joe. If you missed the first part just visit leadersinpayments.com or any of your favorite podcast apps and search for episode 50.  Joe Carella is a Professor of Global Strategy and the Assistant Dean for Executive Education at t...

This episode is part of our special series on The Digital Payments Tipping Point . In this three part series I will talking with executives from WEX who in the summer of 2020, partnered with the research team at The Economist to look into the state of business-to-business payments in financial services, financial technology companies or fintechs and technology companies. The study found that compa...

This is episode 51 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and our special guest this week is Tom Lineen, CEO of West Town Payments .  Tom was born in Brooklyn NY, grew up in New Jersey  and attended North Carolina State University in Raleigh He has lived in multiple cities including LA, Charlotte, Tampa, New York City, and now to Park Cities Utah.  Tom is the CEO West Town Payments which is a joint ve...

This is episode 50 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and this is the fourth episode in our special series focused on Diversity and Inclusion.  In this series I will be talking with leaders in the payments industry (and maybe some experts from outside of the industry) about diversity and inclusion. It has been proven that a diverse workforce and diverse management team leads to increased creativit...

This is episode 49 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Ron Israch, the Chief Marketing Officer for Tipalti , is our special guest this week.  Rob has been at Tipalti for over 6 years ad runs marketing and all alliances for the company. He grew up in south Florida and moved up and down the east coast and then finally to the west coast where he’s been for the last 20 years. His family is original...

This is episode 48 of the Leaders in Payment podcast and this is also our third episode in our special series focused on Diversity and Inclusion. In this series I will be talking with leaders in the payments industry (and maybe some experts from outside of the industry) about diversity and inclusion. It has been proven that a diverse workforce and diverse management team leads to increased creativ...

This is episode 47 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Brian Dammeir, the president of North America for Adyen is our special guest this week.  Brian is from Wisconsin and went to University of Wisconsin at Madison – he originally studied education. Eventually he got into fraud prevention which lead him into payments.  Adyen is a payments technology company that empower some of the world larges...

This is episode 46 of the Leaders in Payment podcast and this is also our second episode in our special series focused on Diversity and Inclusion. In this series I will be talking with leaders in the payments industry (and maybe some experts from outside of the industry) about diversity and inclusion. It has been proven that a diverse workforce and diverse management team leads to increased creati...

This is episode 45 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Atif Siddiqi, the CEO of Branch is our special guest this week.   Atif grew up in Southern California and got his undergrad and MBA from USC and currently is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.    Branch is a challenger bank that partners with employers to help Americans grow financially. They offer financial wellness tools to employees, fee...

This is episode 44 of the Leaders in Payments Podcast – this is also our very first episode in our special series focused on Diversity and Inclusion. In this series I will be talking with leaders in the payments industry (and maybe some experts from outside of the industry) about diversity and inclusion. It has been proven that a diverse workforce and diverse management team leads to increased cre...

This is episode 43 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Nick Fredrick, the President of Rebar Technology is our special guest this week.   Nick grew up in north central Ohio and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He also had a few stints in LA and in New York.  REBAR is an acronym for Recurring Billing and Revenue.  They have built a platform that manages the subscription lifecycle for recurring...

This is episode 42 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Denelle Dixon, the CEO and Executive Director of The Stellar Development Foundation is our special guest this week.   Before joining Stellar, Denelle served as COO of Mozilla. During her tenure at Mozilla, she led the organization’s business, revenue and policy teams including the ongoing fight for Net Neutrality. A lawyer by trade, Denelle...

This is episode 41 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Chad Anselmo, the President of F1 Payments is our special guest this week.   Chad grew up in southern California went to school in Utah and today lives in Austin, Texas.  F1 Payments is a leading merchant processing company that targets those verticals that are tougher to board such as nutraceuticals or the health and beauty vertical. They...

This is episode 40 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Chris Brunner, the CEO of Authvia is our special guest this week.   Chris grew up on southern California went to University of Arizona and today lives in Las Angeles. He has a professional passion for the creating a great customer experience and typically enjoys golf, sailing and travelling but being the father of two teenage daughters he s...

This is episode 39 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Lenny Crotty, the President of Metrics Global is our special guest this week.  Lenny was born in a small town in Ireland called Ennis where the local airport has the claim to fame of having established the world’s first airport duty free store. Lenny was named President at Metrics Global at the end of August after spending the last 20 plus...

This is episode 38 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and our special guest this week is Danny Shader the CEO of PayNearMe.   Danny was born and currently lives in Palo Alto, California but in between he lived in New York and LA.  PayNearMe is a payments CRM company that manages the customer financial interactions between a biller and their customer. They process all the payments, run the payments...

This is episode 37 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Stephen Pair, the Co-Founder and CEO of BitPay is our special guest this week.   Stephen is a Georgia native and went to Georgia Tech where he got his Computer Science degree and currently he lives just outside of Atlanta.   BitPay was founded in 2011 with the idea of enabling companies to accept BitCoin payments similar to accepting credit...

This is episdoe 36 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Jeremy Almond, the Co-Founder and CEO of Paystand is our special guest this week.   Jeremy grew up in Stockton, California. He was one of the first people in his family to attend college and grad school and currently lives on the beach in Santa Cruz.  Paystand is a b2b payment network. So, what Venmo does for consumers, Paystand does for co...

This is episode 35 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and David Josephs, the CEO of DaVinci Payments is our special guest this week.   David lives just outside of Chicago, grew up in Queens and went to Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He worked on Capitol Hill for 6 years and has been in payments for 20 years.  DaVinci Payments tries to do justice to their name by blending art and science and a...

This is episode 34 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Richie Serna, the CEO and Co-Founder of Finix is our special guest this week.   I’m honored to have Richie on the show this week. Richie was born and raised in California and was the first in his family to go to college. He received his bachelors degree in political science at Harvard and started his career in management consulting.  Finix...

This is episode 33 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and Keith Smith, the Co-Founder and CEO of Payability is our special guest this week.   Payability offers ecommerce sellers with friction-free cash flow and working capital solutions. These ecommerce sellers are typically on a large platform like Amazon or Shopify. Payability has a unique model and one I think you’ll find very interesting.  Kei...

This is episode 32 of the Leaders in Payments podcast featuring my special guest Craig McDonald the Chief Business Officer for Trustly.  Trustly offers payments that cost less than debit and have a higher approval rate than cards and there are no chargebacks.  Trustly was founded in 2008 and is the global leader in Online Banking Payments. They facilitate payments to merchants directly from consum...

This is episode 31 of the Leaders in Payments podcast featuring Jonathon Arst the CEO of Pastri.   Pastri started by partnering with banks but more recently has been working with software companies to help them monetize the payments portion of their software. They compete in the unattended payments vertical such as laundry mats and the tow truck fleet management segment and more.  Jonathon has bee...

This is episode 30 of the Leaders in Payments podcast and this week we have a very special episode. As you know we spent the entire month of July talking about Women Leaders in Payments and we had some incredible women leaders on the show.  In this episode we’re going to listen to a few key points that were brought out by each of our guests. Melissa Townsley-Solis - Founder and CEO of GIACT Paulet...

This is the final week and final episode of the Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by Paysafe. This episode, episode 29 is a roundtable discussion featuring three women leaders in the payments industry.  They are: Denise Tahali, SVP of Sales at Paysafe Debbie Guerra, EVP of On-Demand Merchant Solutions at ACI Worldwide And Lou Ann Alexander, Chief Product Officer at Early Warning.   They ea...