Leaders In Payments

As we continue Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by Paysafe, our next guest on Episode 28 is Sue Kelsey, the EVP of Global Prepaid and Financial Inclusion at Mastercard.   Sue grew up in a traditional family in the UK and remembers her first job standing on the sidewalk and asking strangers about detergent, beer bottle labels and more – her first discovery of market research and marketing....

Our special guest this week is Joan Herbig, the President of Wnet and Board Member of ControlScan. This is episode 27 as we continue to celebrate Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by Paysafe.  In this episode, I talk with Joan about her journey including her degree in French, quickly learning in her first job what she didn’t want to do professionally and then become interested in computers...

This week's special guest is Laura Miller, President of JPMorgan Merchant Services. This is episode 26 and the third episode as we celebrate Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by Paysafe.  I’m your host Greg Myers and in this episode, I talk with Laura about her journey to JP Morgan Chase, her passion and empathy for small businesses and some of her eye-opening moments including 9/11 a...

Our special guest this week is Paulette Rowe the CEO of Integrated and Ecommerce Solutions for Paysafe. She is the next guest in our month-long series celebrating Women Leaders in Payments - sponsored by Paysafe. In this episode Paulette and I talk about her unique background from studying engineering to forming a start-up, to Facebook and a few stops in between. She also shares her insights and p...

This is our first episode celebrating Women Leaders in Payments month and our first special guest is Melissa Townsley-Solis the CEO of GIACT.  We are really blessed this month to have some of the great women leaders in our industry on the show. A special thank you to Paysafe for being our sponsor. In this episode, I talk with Melissa about her childhood and upbringing in the projects, her faith, h...

My special guest this week is Daniel Doderlein, the CEO of Auka.    The Auka payments platform is the technological foundation of Settle. It’s a secure and compliant transaction platform that offers all the necessary third-party connections for partners to join the scheme. The platform handles all types of use cases and funding sources, ranging from cards and prepaid to direct-to-account access. T...

My special guest this week is Brad Paterson, the CEO of Splitit.    Splitit is an installment payment solution. They enable consumers to pay on their existing credit cards and split those transactions and pay over time.  Their corporate headquarters are in New York and their tech center is in Israel. They are small but growing rapidly at over 300% year over year and about 40% month over month. Spl...

My special guest this week is Daniela Mielke, the North American CEO for RS2.   RS2 offers a global cloud-based API-enabled omni-channel payment platform. In the U.S. they target ISOs, ISVs and payment facilitators and are now expanding into acquiring.   RS2 has a very comprehensive and flexible platform that is replacing or rewiring the traditional spaghetti platforms that exist today and putting...

My special guest this week is Tom Wimsett, the Chairman of ControlScan.  ControlScan provides technologies and services that defend their customers again cyber security threats and at the same time they help their customers streamline and simplify the process of complying with PCIDSS.   ControlScan’s depth of knowledge, experience and expertise for the SMB market in both compliance and managed ser...

My special guest this week is Charles Hogan, the president of Signature Card Services.  Signature Card is a payment processing platform and gateway technology company that serves all types of verticals and can speak the language of technology innovators and respond accordingly.   Charles is a born and bred Los Angeles, California native. He’s been in payments for over 20 years and was a reconnaiss...

My special guest this week is Mark Standfield, the President of Midigator.  Midigator is a technology provider that helps merchants, ISOs and acquirers understand their disputes – including chargebacks and how and why they happen and how to avoid them – all in one place. Mark was born and raised in North Carolina and the south and ultimately ended up at school in Idaho and currently lives with his...

My special guest this week is Amin Shayan, the CEO of littlepay. Littlepay is a payment processing platform for the public transportation industry – it allows travelers to use a debit or credit card – which could be physical, virtual, on the phone, or a wearable to get on a bus or train to pay for their ticket. Amin was born in Iran and moved to the United States at an early age. After the overthr...

My special guest this week is Maeve Mckenna Duska, the Chief Marketing Officer of USA Technologies.  USA Technologies specializes in enterprise software and business optimization in the unattended retail space –They provide the hardware, payment processing and software to help their customizers optimize their business. The COVID19 crises is certainly accelerating many of the trends toward unattend...

This week's special guest is Jamie Barlett, the Founder/President and CEO of PolyPay. Jamie grew up Michigan and Missouri and went to school in Massachusetts and then took her first job in California. After taking a position with a leading management consulting firm she moved on to a client and subsequently started her own merchant services business – PolyPay.  PolyPay provides merchant servi...

This is episode 14 of the Leaders In Payments Podcast featuring my special guest this week, Monica Eaton-Cardone, the COO and Co-Founder of Chargebacks911.  Monica grew up mostly in Idaho in a small town of 22 people. She developed a great work ethic at a very early age and learned many life lessons through playing sports – more specifically basketball. Chargebacks911 was truly born out of necessi...

This is episode 13 of the Leaders in Payments Podcast. My special guest this week is OB Rawls, the CEO of Global Payment Processing at Paysafe.  OB grew up in a small rural town of under 2,000 people in North Carolina on a tobacco farm. He was in the Army and Army national guard for 21 years and had many different jobs after the military.  He was a parole officer, he was a "repo guy" col...

My special guest this week is Brad Wiskirchen, the CEO of Kount. Kount is a leading providing of fraud prevention solutions. Brad talks in detail about the Identity Trust Global Network that Kount recently launched. He also provides great information about what Kount is doing to help his employees and customers during the global pandemic. And Brad also talks about his love for this team and passio...

This is episode 11 of the Leaders in Payments podcast hosted by Greg Myers. In this episode I talk with Martin Sweeney, CEO of Ravelin about their fraud solution and global customer set. He uses a great Ferrari analogy too that you don't want to miss. Martin also provides some great background information and insights about PSD2 and 3D secure. He also talks about why the U.S. is a great marke...

In this episode, I talk with Brandon Spear, the President of MSTS. Brandon and I talk about his journey from a South Africa to Dallas and to his current role at MSTS in Overland Park, Kansas.  Brandon explains in detail the unique products and services that MSTS provides in the b2b payments space - what they have coined as "Credit as a Service." He also talks about how MSTS is making sur...

This episode is a little different than what I’ve been doing. Given what is going on in the US and around the world related to the coronavirus I thought it would be advantageous to have someone on the show that could talk about the impact – both short-term and long-term of the coronavirus on the payments industry.   My special guest to help us understand how the coronavirus is impacting payments i...

In this episode, Kevin and I talk about his journey from a Christmas tree farm in North Carolina to becoming a banker to receiving the best phone call he’s ever had from a recruiter at Paymentech – which launched his career in payments.  Kevin’s journey has taken him through several payments companies and finally to his current role as CEO at Celero Commerce. Celero Commerce focuses on creating ve...

Episode 7 of the Leaders in Payments podcast features Cory Capoccia the Co-Founder & President of Womply.    In this episode, Cory and I talk about Womply’s mission to help small businesses grow especially through the use of data. Cory talks about his journey from starting and selling Verifi to Visa to starting Womply with a few people in an apartment.      Cory and I also talk about the time...

In this episode of the Leaders In Payment podcast, your host Greg Myers speaks with Garima Shah, President of Biller Genie.  Garima talks about her journey to becoming the President of Biller Genie and her passion for helping people and motivating people in the payments space as well as her passion for dance.     Garima also talks about Biller Genie and how they have automated the sending of invoi...

In this episode of the Leaders In Payment podcast, your host Greg Myers speaks with Vijay Sondhi, the CEO of NMI.  Vijay talks about his journey to becoming the CEO of NMI and his passion for all things payments even to the point where payments becomes the topic of conversation at the dinner table with his family.    Vijay also talks about some of the trends in payments and provides a great way to...

In this episode of the Leaders In Payments podcast, host Greg Myers talks with Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap about his upbringing in Boston and his journey to the position of CEO. Ralph also talks about trends in the payments industry including cross-border payments and removing the friction in payment transcations. And Ralph provides some great advice for those just starting out their career...