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Please join us on Oct 14, 2014 (from 6 to 9pm) at Wells Fargo Learning Center, 333 Market St, Annex Building, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA for our next event titled :

"Mobile Payments: What can NFC, HCE, TEE and SE do for your business?".

With the advent of Apple Pay, we will finally see broad consumer adoption of NFC services such as mobile payment at the point of sale. NFC, HCE, TEE and SE are now the talk of the town. What are they truly? How do they enable mobile payment? How disruptive are they?

In this event co-organized with Proxama, we will review the technology underneath each of these acronyms and, more importantly, what business opportunities they generate and how Apple’s entry will energize the space.



We have assembled a panel of experts in the industry :

- Peter Donat, Head of First Data Ventures

- Menekse Gencer, mPay Connect
- Hitesh Anand, VP of Commerce Enablement & Mobile at Verifone

- Neil Garner, CEO at Proxama

- Pascal Caillon, GM North America at Proxama

- Ben Cade, CEO at Trustonic

- Damien Balsan, EVP at LOOP

- Christian Flurscheim, Business Leader at VISA Global Mobile Product

- Lauren Chessey, Senior Solutions Consultant, PayFac & Integrated Partners at Vantiv

- Ashish Kurani, VP, Innovation & Payments Strategy at Wells Fargo

- Ashish Kapur, Director, FS Advisory at PwC

Agenda

6:00pm Reception/Networking

6:30pm Introduction- Daniel Chatelain, The BayPay Forum

6:40pm Keynote Speech- Ashish Kurani,  VP of Innovation & Payments Strategy, at Wells Fargo

6:55pm Presentations- Neil Garner, CEO at Proxama and Ben Cade, CEO at Trustonic

7:15pm Panel 1: "Understanding the business implications and considerations of NFC options for issuers" discussion moderated by Menekse Gencer, mPay Connect with:
- Pascal Caillon, GM North America at Proxama
- Ben Cade, CEO at Trustonic
- Damien Balsan, EVP at LOOP
- Christian Flurscheim, Business Leader at VISA Global Mobile Product
- Ashish Kapur, Director, FS Advisory, PwC

8:05pm Panel 2: "Understanding the business implications and considerations of NFC options for retailers and acquirers" discussion moderated by Menekse Gencer, mPay Connect with:
- Peter Donat, Head of First Data Ventures
- Hitesh Anand, VP of Commerce Enablement & Mobile at Verifone
- Lauren Chessey, Senior Solutions Consultant, PayFac & Integrated Partners at Vantiv
- Ashish Kurani,  VP of Innovation & Payments Strategy, at Wells Fargo

8:55pm  Closing Statement

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Speakers Bios:

Peter Donat, Head of First Data Ventures

Pete Donat is currently Head of First Data Ventures, a group responsible for leading First Data’s efforts to harness innovation by partnering with small innovative companies who can leverage First Data’s processing assets and unmatched distribution to drive solutions that delight our customers and materially grow long-term revenue. He is also responsible for network business development, responses to major regulatory events (e.g. Durbin I & II), managing several of the company's non-traditional partnerships. Previously, held senior management roles in Business Development, Innovation and eCommerce. He led the 2013 opening of FDC’s Palo Alto office. From 2004-09 he was VP of Enterprise Planning & Corporate Strategy at Visa - with responsibilities for long-term planning, competitive intelligence and Visa International's restructuring and IPO. From 1997-2004 he held a variety of senior management roles at MasterCard. He was VP of Product/Change Management with responsibilities for product strategy across credit, debit, prepaid, P2P programs - and regulatory risk management. He headed e-Business Development, where he implemented EMV, Mondex, internet security, PayPass, m-commerce, and prepaid solutions. Earlier, he led MasterCard’s Corporate Planning team. Prior to MasterCard he was a management consultant at Marakon Associates and a political hack on two Al Gore campaigns. He has an MBA from Wharton, a Masters in International Economics and American Foreign Policy from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a BA from Dartmouth. He serves as Board advisor to several payment and security startups and was previously a Trustee of the World Affairs Councils in Northern California and Connecticut. He is an avid 49er season ticket holder, a slow moving backpacker, a proud father, and an aspiring wine snob.

Neil Garner, CEO and Founder at Proxama PLC

Neil founded Proxama in 2005 (then called Glue4 Technologies). The business focused on creating services that link people and brands using consumer technologies. In 2008, the company was rebranded as Proxama with a focus on the applications of mobile, smartcard and NFC technologies. Neil passionately believes in using emerging technologies to create valuable services for people.
Prior to founding Proxama, Neil ran a division of a niche consultancy, Consult Hyperion, where he led the systems implementation teams for a number of ground breaking products including Vodafone’s m-Pesa, MasterCard’s PayPass, Sky and Barclaycard’s SkyCard and American Express Blue card.
Neil has a MEng and DPhil from York University and is a Chartered Engineer. Any precious time at home is split between renovating an old property and enjoying life with his wife and three young children.
See more at: http://www.proxama.com/about-us/neil-garner/#sthash.F3fSIt8R.dpuf

Christian Flurscheim, Director, Digital Solutions at Visa

Christian Flurscheim is a Director in Visa’s Digital Solutions product team. This team is responsible for product management for Visa’s cloud based payment platforms, and also Visa payWave for mobile.
Christian was one of the nine contributors to Visa’s HCE and Cloud Based Payments product standard. Christian has been with Visa for 3 years and prior to that worked in the Transit Smartcard industry in an engineering capacity, working on such projects as the Clipper Card program in San Francisco and Octopus Card in Hong Kong. Christian holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Technology from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Curtin University in Western Australia

Pascal Caillon, General Manager- North America at Proxama

Pascal is responsible for building up and managing Proxama operations for the North American region.
Prior to Proxama, he accumulated experience in mobile commerce at Visa, MasterCard, SanDisk, a couple of start-ups, and CorFire with always a focus on services that bring real value to end-users. The Dunkin’ m-commerce app, Visa prepay co-brand programs, mobile top-ups by Visa cards, international airtime remittances for foreign workers are examples of initiatives where he was deeply involved and helped build great consumer adoption. For almost the last twenty years, he has been holding product management and strategy, business development, and general management positions with exposure to European, North-American, and Asian markets.
Pascal has a MSCS from ENSEEIHT (France). He is married and a dad. When not in an airplane, Pascal pretends he is still in his twenties and goes kite-surfing and rock-climbing.

Hitesh Anand, VP of Commerce Enablement & Mobile at Verifone

As the Vice President of Commerce Enablement and Mobile at VeriFone, Hitesh Anand is responsible for driving new products to enrich the face-to-face commerce experience.
A veteran of the mobile, financial, telecommunications and semiconductor industry, Mr. Anand possesses a broad expertise-set across opportunity scoping, product/solution management, business development, project management and commercialization gained while working with customers and partners across Europe, Asia and the U.S. Mr. Anand has a unique experience with launching mobile products in developed and emerging markets.
Prior to joining VeriFone in 2014, Mr. Anand served as the Global Director of Product Management for Digital and Mobile Payments at Citi Enterprise Payments group where as Chief Product Officer he drove product strategy, road-map, business development, and product development and user experience of Citi’s Mobile Wallet for mobile payments (NFC and remote payments), location-based contextual mobile offers, loyalty cards, mobile coupons and mobile ticketing to deliver game-changing innovation to market by listening to customers, learning from competitors, and cultivating an inspired and motivated team.
Prior to Citi, Mr. Anand served as the Director of Mobile Financial Services at Nokia and ran the company’s Technology Strategy and Partnerships to develop and deliver mobile payments, mobile banking and other mobile financial services such as remittances, bill payments, mobile stored value accounts and mobile pre-paid to the under-banked in the emerging markets.
Mr. Anand holds an MBA from Duke University, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, and a bachelor of science in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev University in India.

Lauren Chessey, Senior Solutions Consultant at Vantiv

Lauren Chessey is the Senior Solutions Consultant for the PayFac line of business at Vantiv. She is responsible for ensuring new and existing PayFac partners are set-up with the most ideal payment ecosystem for their processing needs. She acts as a technical liaison between the Business Development Executive team, Channel Development team, and Product team, to ensure PayFacs partners are utilizing all value added services to help support and expand their business.  Lauren was previously a Program Manager for Capital One's mobile payments processing product, Spark Pay, and managed several strategic partnerships including select Boy Scouts of America and Girl Scouts Councils. She also used to manage an open Developer API platform under VeriFone’s SAIL product, working with 60+ developers.  Lauren attended the University of Cincinnati holding a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and enjoys skiing the slopes of Tahoe in the winter.

Ben Cade, CEO at Trustonic

Ben Cade is Chief Executive Officer of Trustonic, the world’s leading provider of trusted environments for mobile devices.  Prior to Trustonic, Ben held a variety of senior positions at ARM. As General Manager for the Secure Services Division he led the strategic development of the business, leading to the formation of Trustonic. Other highlights during his time at ARM include the creation and interim leadership of Linaro, the multi-party joint venture spun out of ARM with IBM, Samsung and leading chipmakers. Previous roles include corporate strategy, venture investment and software business development at ARM, European software distributors and Sony.

Damien Balsan, EVP at LOOP

Damien Balsan is part of the LOOPPAY Founding Team and heads Business Development and Strategy. Before starting LOOPPAY in 2013 he has led PayPal POS Ecosystem Development activities and headed Nokia NFC Business Development activities from 2007 until 2011. He was part of the founding team of WAY Systems one of the first mobile phone POS company that was sold to VeriFone and of Roam Data sold to Ingenico in 2012. He spent 8 years at Gemplus (now Gemalto) as GM for South America and head of sales in Eastern Europe as well as 2 years in France telecom in Mexico where he started his career. Damien is a graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management. When he does not stun the cashiers by always paying with his phone anywhere, Damien is an avid hiker and runner and proud father of three.

Ashish Kapur, Director, FS Advisory at PwC

Ashish is a Director in PwC’s Financial Services Advisory  team based in San Francisco.  Over the course of  his 20 year career,  he has led technology enabled transformational efforts at leading domestic  and global banks,  retailers and utilities.  This experience includes designing and  building content, commerce and community solutions.  He is recognized for his expertise in helping clients gain agility, support digital transformation and innovation in financial services.  Significant client engagements include an end-to-end review of payments strategy and architecture for a large global bank and a large multi-year effort to help an issuer manage impact of Durbin amendment while growing revenue for card portfolio through integration with a 3rd party processor.

Ashish holds a MBA in MIS from SUNY Buffalo and Bachelors in Technology from NIIT India.

Ashish Kurani, VP, Innovation & Payments Strategy at Wells Fargo

Ashish has consistently been on the cutting edge of innovation in the Internet and mobile industry for over 17 years.  Through his experience in management consulting, Internet startups and as a mobile product executive for Wells Fargo, Ashish has developed the unique ability to formulate a strategic vision and then lead a team to a successful rollout. Ashish is currently focused on mobile and emerging payments for Wells Fargo.  Ashish received his BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Davis and his MBA from the University of Southern California.

Moderator: Menekse Gencer, mPay Connect

Menekse Gencer assists financial institutions, mobile network operators, third party platforms, development agencies, merchants, and governments seeking to launch mobile financial services.  She was a key driver of go-to-market strategy and business development that helped PayPal Mobile and bKash launch their services, becoming two of the three largest mobile payments systems in the world.  Her market expertise extends from developed, banked markets such as the U.S. and Kuwait to emerging, unbanked markets in South Asia, Africa, and The Carribbean. Prior to founding mPay Connect, Menekse led PayPal Mobile’s Business Development efforts in North America for two years during which time she closed PayPal’s first mobile network operator deal to launch PayPal Send Money on Sprint’s mobile wallet in 2007-2008.  Since then, her clients have included three of the top four US Banks, international banks, a global payments network provider, mobile network operators, bKash, The Inter-American Development Bank, two central banks, The World Economic Forum, and a Consumer Package Goods company.
 
Menekse has an MBA from Wharton and a BA in Economics from Harvard University.  She is a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Technology Partner.  Menekse has over 21 years of experience as a consultant and industry leader in emerging technology and innovation in the financial services, mobile, and technology sectors.

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