Chiro Aikat is executive vice president of U.S. market development for Mastercard and a member of the company’s management committee. In this role, he leads a team focused on advancing commercial and strategic efforts with key acceptance partners across the country, including merchants, acquirers and processors. He also has oversight of the commercial center of [...]
Kirk Stuart, Head of NA Merchant, for Visa Inc., is responsible for Visa’s North American Merchants and Acquiring business. Kirk manages a world-class team focused on driving enterprise value for Visa’s merchant/seller ecosystem. He brings a diverse and unique background that encompasses both depth in digital payment and in the co-brand / loyalty space. Throughout [...]
David Schneider is President of PULSE, a Discover Financial Services company headquartered in Houston, Texas. PULSE is one of the nation’s leading debit/ATM networks. Financial institutions, merchants, processors and ATM deployers across the United States and around the world depend on PULSE’s comprehensive suite of products and services and its commitment to providing exceptional client [...]
Patrick Williams has been leading sales and marketing teams for more than 25 years. He started with Visa in 1999 and currently leads Visa’s North America Digital Partnerships organization driving business development and account management activities across Fintech clients and ecosystem partnerships in the areas of issuance and disbursements along with responsibility for NA based [...]
As the President of U.S. Merchant Services at American Express, Colleen Taylor leads the organization that acquires and manages the relationships with the millions of merchants that accept American Express across the U.S. With 30 years of experience in banking, merchant and B2B payments, Colleen is a seasoned, strategic leader who leverages her in-depth knowledge [...]
Mohammed Mortajine is ACI’s Chief Compliance and Risk officer. He joined ACI in July 2021 and in his role, Mohammed drives the Company’s Compliance and Risk vision and strategy focusing on continuously developing a best in class Risk program in the industry. Mohammed has more than 20 years of experience leading regional and global Risk [...]
Matt Downs leads and builds incredible teams that scale, transform and innovate technology businesses. He is known for bringing vision, strategy, and an innate ability to see and set growth trends. Matt has led from the front his entire career. He spent 8 years at First Data (Fiserv) leading expansive national sales organizations. Matt co-founded [...]
His career spans 35 years in the financial services, digital banking and payments industries. Most recently, Mr. D’Angelo served as Executive Vice President and President, Banking, at NCR Corporation. He currently serves as Chairman of the board of directors of Evertec, Inc., a transaction and payments processing company in Latin America and the Caribbean. At [...]
Sandra Blair is an accomplished fintech executive with a broad range of payments industry experience serving in leadership roles including CIO, COO, CPO and EVP. Additionally, she has served as Senior Director at Alvarez & Marsal, a leading Management Consulting firm specializing in business performance improvement and turnaround management services. Her success is rooted in her record of [...]
Ms. Krayem created one of the first-ever cybersecurity practices at a major international AmLaw 100 law firm in 2005 at a time when most practices only focused on data security or privacy. Since that time she has held leadership roles running cybersecurity and privacy teams across a number of firms. She focuses on the intersection [...]
