Damien Balsan, COO at LOOPPAY
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.