Members Opinions
Jeppe Dorff, Vice President of Transaction Services at Rogers Communications
Jeppe's Bio:
Jeppe Dorff, a native of Denmark, brings with him a wealth of global perspective with a career spanning most continents and more than a handful of individual mobile payments and mobile banking deployments. Jeppe joined Rogers Communications where in his role as Vice President of Transaction Services he is responsible for development and execution on the transactional technology, product and business strategy. Most recently he was responsible for the negotiations, which led to the first commercial agreement between a wireless operator and a bank in Canada, and operates product portfolios in the area of mobile wallets, mobile identity, mobile point of sale and authentication infrastructure.
Prior to joining Rogers Communications, Jeppe has served in multiple executive roles including Vice President, Product, Strategy & Innovation with Mobile Money Ventures (A CitiGroup & SK Telecom Joint Venture), Sr. Vice President, Mobile Transaction Services - Clickatell, where he was responsible for the company's mobile payments division, Head of Product Development EnStream (a Rogers, Bell and TELUS Joint Venture), he was also the Founder & CTO of Secure Wireless Transfers where he developed the award winning KushCash platform, one of the first mobile payment deployments in North America. He is very active in mobile payments and financial inclusion initiatives globally and advises several companies in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Olivier Manahan, Vice President of Emerging Payments at MasterCard
Olivier's Bio:
Oliver Manahan is the Vice President of Emerging Payments with MasterCard. In his role, Mr. Manahan is responsible for managing various aspects of MasterCard’s EMV chip, contactless and transit programs within the United States and Canada. Mr. Manahan has been with MasterCard since May 2006 and works closely with customers in defining and executing new payment strategies. Prior to joining MasterCard, Mr. Manahan was with Visa Canada for nearly a decade in the emerging products area. Mr. Manahan started his career in the Information Technology field, with companies such as Mercedes-Benz and Pepsi. Mr. Manahan is MasterCard’s Board Member on the Smart Card Alliance, co-chair of its Payments Council, and co-chair of the Debit committee at the EMV Migration Forum.
Bart Venlet, Senior Product Manager, In-Branch Solutions & Consumer Payments at Central 1 Credit Union
Bart's Bio:
Bart Venlet moved to Central 1 in 2010 after a long career in mobile. Central 1 is an organization owned by credit unions in British Columbia and Ontario and provides online / mobile banking services and payment processing services to credit unions across Canada. Recently, Forrester ranked Central 1’s mobile banking app as number 1 in North America in terms of functionality and usability. Within Central 1, Bart is responsible for managing the portfolio of in-branch solutions and consumer payment products.
Prior to joining Central 1, Bart worked for Vodafone in the Netherlands and Japan. He launched the first mobile micropayment product in the Netherlands in 2003, which enabled third party providers to receive payments for content and apps, and served as a catalyst for the development of the mobile internet. He also launched a highly successful portfolio of services for MVNOs, allowing third party brands to leverage Vodafone’s excellent network.
Jeremy Bornstein, Head of Payments Innovation, Royal Bank of Canada
Jeremy's Bio:
Jeremy Bornstein leads the Payments Innovation group at RBC, one of the world’s leading financial institutions, where he is responsible for developing and executing products and strategies to defend and grow the bank’s retail payments business. Prior to his current role, Jeremy was the Managing Director of Corporate Strategy for RBC responsible for outlining the bank’s strategic direction for the board of directors. Before joining RBC, Jeremy was a Senior Manager at Accenture where he led the Canadian Financial Services Strategy practice. He holds a MBA and an Honors Business Administration (HBA) degrees from The Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario. Jeremy is also a director of a not-for-profit organizations focused on youth and community engagement.
Moderator: Daniel Chatelain, Managing Director, The BayPay Forum
Daniel's Bio:
Daniel Chatelain is a payment industry executive focused on innovation in commerce and sitting on the board of directors or advisors of emerging companies. He started The BayPay Forum to help foster innovation in payment and commerce. The organization gathers today over 8,000 executives from over 2,800 different companies and organizes events for senior executives to understand new trends and network with peers. Prior to that, Daniel was CEO, President & COO of companies he started as an entrepreneur or within the Lagardere (Elle, Woman’s Day, Car & Driver, Hachette, Canal Satellite) and EADS group (Airbus, Ariane, Eurocopter) and Vice President of a VC backed companies giving him a wide experience of growing companies domestically and internationally in the banking, telecom and interactive media industries as an entrepreneur, corporate or VC backed senior executive.