Chris Pollitt, Product Director at Clover/First Data


Chris's Bio:

Mr. Chris Pollitt is currently serving as a Product Director for the Clover family of POS devices at First Data.  In this capacity he works closely with both the Clover product development team based in California and Bank of America Merchant Services to deploy the devices. His focus, along with the teamwork of Clover, BAMS, and First Data colleagues, is providing an amazing merchant experience showcasing how Clover and its app marketplace can empower SMB merchants with business management tools and insightful data to help them grow their business.

Before joining First Data, Mr. Pollitt performed business development and product management roles at Acculynk, a SaaS payments company noted for enabling patented PIN based authentication in CNP environments, and Ingenico where he was responsible for unattended payment terminals and subsequently launched a family of mobile wireless payment terminals that set new performance standards in the industry.

Prior to the payments industry, Mr. Pollitt held numerous product marketing positions with some the world’s most prestigious and innovative consumer electronics and IT companies such as Philips, Sony, Toshiba and Compaq.  He is co-named on a patent for an innovative wireless slate that was launched while working at PolyVision (Division of Steelcase) that complemented the company’s highly differentiated interactive whiteboards for progressive K-12 classroom instruction.

Mr. Pollitt earned BA in Business Administration from California State University in Fullerton, where he concentrated in Marketing Management.