Here are the links to the bios we received from the speakers. They are listed in the same order as the agenda for the event.
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Thought leader with a proven track record of identifying and developing new opportunities and technologies in payments and financial services. Experience includes partner/managing director roles at strategy consulting firms, CEO for a database marketing organization and a POS loyalty startup, head of strategy for a loyalty company serving financial services, and CMO for a cross border remittance company and two retail banks. Accomplishments include development of successful long term strategies and successful launch of profitable new products and services in retail banking, payment card issuing and processing, mobile and online commerce, and loyalty. Acknowledged expert in mobile commerce and payments, the retailer’s perspective on commerce and the evolution of the user experience in payments and commerce.
Andy Payment has dedicated his career to helping organizations and leaders tell compelling stories, influence brand perception, and shape change to drive business results. His passion lies at the intersection of technology and money, and he's had the opportunity to work with some amazing global organizations such as Verifone, First Data and Edelman.
Verifone is a global, publicly-held Fortune 1000 company that delivers payment and commerce solutions to B2B clients in more than 150 countries. We're at the center of conversation around the world's rapidly evolving retail and commerce models. Andy leads the company's Global Communications and Events team, which is responsible for ensuring that Verifone is leading this conversation through PR, social media, employee engagement, client communications and event marketing.
Charles has been generating exceptional results for his clients for over thirty years, whether in Publishing/Online media, Channel Loyalty and Direct Sales Incentives, or Employee Engagement. In his early career, Charles was Associate Publisher of Computer Shopper magazine, which you may remember as the pre-internet, phonebook-sized magazine that weighed as much as five pounds at the newsstand.
In 2003, Charles joined Maritz, and most recently served as the Solution Director for Sales Effectiveness. Under his leadership, Maritz Motivation secured relationships with a record number of new clients, including two clients in the Commercial Loyalty space.
Charles is a Certified Master Designer, steeped in the neuroscience of behavioral change and performance improvement, and recently founded Persuasion/Design, a Sales, Loyalty, and Strategy consulting business. His wife, Candy, works at the Federal Reserve, and they have two daughters, Emily and Hannah. Also, two cats, Lily and, um, what’s-her-name.
David Rodnitzky is founder and CEO of 3Q Digital, a position he has held since the Company’s inception in 2008. Prior to 3Q Digital, he held senior marketing roles at several Internet companies, including Rentals.com (2000-2001), FindLaw (2001-2004), Adteractive (2004-2006), and Mercantila (2007-2008). David currently serves on advisory boards for several companies, including Marin Software, MediaBoost, Mediacause, and a stealth travel start-up.
James Ray is the Managing Director of Global Enterprise Solutions at Chase Merchant Services (CMS), an operating unit within JPMorgan Chase. In that role James leads a diverse team of highly accomplished sales professionals to pursue, capture and grow business relationships with industry leaders.
The Global Enterprise Solutions team strategically manages relationships with senior client decision makers to ensure CMS anticipates the needs of our clients – coordinating the resources of the entire organization to enable commerce on a global scale.
Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, James served as Senior Vice President of Global Strategic Accounts and Professional Services for Elavon, the payment processor and subsidiary of US Bank. In this role, James led an experienced team of Global Account Executives to serve selected multinational enterprise accounts.
Previously, James was a strategic advisor serving diverse clients including AT&T, AutoTrader.com, Coca-Cola, Cox Enterprises, NCR, Sabre Holdings and Underwriters Laboratories. In each of these roles, James advised senior executives regarding organizational changes introduced by rapid growth, economic decline, and/or the implementation of enabling technologies.
In addition to his many professional accomplishments, James is involved in the local community through organizations like the United Way, Gift for a Child, Habitat for Humanity and Hope for Guatemala.
James holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Texas A&M University and has completed graduate studies in Organization Development at The George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University.
Georgina began her career as a leveraged finance lawyer at Clifford Chance. Georgina then joined Europe’s largest consumers association, Which? where she was responsible for advising the EU and the UK government on their technology strategy, as well as advising internal teams on their online propositions. It was in this role where she identified a market need for mass, representative, reliable consumer ratings. She saw how this need could not only serve to improve the world of business but also be valuable to consumers alike. With this vision, she set about realizing the huge potential of TruRating by bringing together a wonderful team, exciting customers and partners in the payments industry with the ultimate objective to bring the truth back to ratings.
As PayActiv’s founding CEO he is inspired every day by the transformative impact that PayActiv can bring to the lives of millions of people living paycheck to paycheck. An engineer by training, payments expert by experience and entrepreneur by accident, Safwan’s last job was at TSYS after the acquisition of Infonox, a payments company he founded and bootstrapped. His previous stints include being a rocket scientist at a NASA Center where a number of his experiments were part of the space program. Besides science and entrepreneurship, Safwan has also taught at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Safwan is a graduate of the distinguished Stanford Executive Program (SEP’09) and has an MS/PhD from UC Boulder.
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