Peter is located in the San Francisco office. He combines experience as a strategy consultant for Edgar, Dunn & Company in Europe with extensive hands-on experience as a senior executive in the payment industry. He has managed the turnaround/restructuring and sale of financial businesses as well as the design and implementation of country, product and regional strategies.

At EDC Peter has worked with banks, payment schemes and start-ups in the US and Europe around Faster Payments and Payments Innovation Strategy. He has advised on the creation of a cross border JV in commercial cards, assisted start-ups in finding potential investors and advised on business models and go-to-market strategy.

Before re-joining EDC in San Francisco Peter worked for MasterCard International, London, as Head of Strategy Europe where he was responsible for building out European and country strategy to inform investment decisions, building competitor intelligence and for creating/managing the European M&A target identification process. Before relocating to London, he was Managing Director for MasterCard’s German market operations

Prior to this, Peter managed the credit card business of Royal Bank of Scotland in Germany and acquired deep retail banking experience as CEO of Santander Direkt Bank. Before entering the consumer space Peter worked as an international commercial and wholesale banker in London, Singapore, Zurich and Paris in diverse management roles in sales, product management, wholesale payments, treasury and trade finance.

Peter holds a BA + MA from Durham University in Political Science and a Diploma in Finance from the Institute of Bankers, London

Mark Majeske is Vice President of Product Development and Strategy for The Clearing House. In his role, Mr. Majeske works with payment leaders on strategic issues facing banks and leads initiatives to address them. His current focus is real-time payments.

Mr. Majeske’s background encompasses Retail, Small Business and Commerical banking sectors. He has worked for leading banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, SunTrust, and TD Bank for more than 20 years. His work has focused on developing new products in the Digital payments space advising on business strategy, product design/ development, IT, risk/fraud systems and the deployment of new payment systems.

Prior to joining The Clearing House, Mr. Majeske was responsible for Digital International Payments NA for TD Bank. Mr. Majeske also has a background in Business Intelligence with leading banking organizations.

Mr. Majeske is a graduate of Philadelphia University with a BS in Marketing.

Sean Rodriguez is Faster Payments Strategy Leader for the Federal Reserve System. As Faster Payments Strategy Leader, Rodriguez is leading activities to identify effective approaches for implementing a safe, ubiquitous, faster payments capability in the United States. In addition, Rodriguez chairs the Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Task Force, comprised of more than 300 payment system stakeholders interested in improving the speed of authorization, clearing, settlement and notification of various types of personal and business payments.

Rodriguez brings more than 32 years of experience with Federal Reserve Financial Services in operations, product development, sales and marketing. He helped establish the Federal Reserve’s Customer Relations and Support Office in 2001 including its national account program and served on the Federal Reserve’s leadership team for implementing the Check 21 initiative. More recently, Rodriguez was instrumental in the design and launch of the Federal Reserve’s Payments Industry Relations Program. Rodriguez holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado, a Graduate School of Banking Certificate from the University of Wisconsin and is an Association for Financial Professionals - Certified Cash Manager.