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Organizer: Daniel Chatelain, Managing Director, The BayPay Forum
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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.
Panelist: Seth Perlman, Vice President, Strategy at First Data Corporation
Seth joined First Data as Vice President of Strategy in October 2014. He is based in Palo Alto, California, which is the ideal location for his current work: accelerating First Data's eCommerce business and positioning the company to lead the next wave of payments and commerce innovation. Prior to First Data, Seth worked in product and corporate strategy at PayPal, where his focused on bringing PayPal to the physical point of sale, developing strategies for new value-added services, accelerating the company’s European growth, and revamping its online merchant product portfolio. From 2004-2011, Seth held various corporate and product strategy roles at Visa USA and Visa Inc. During his time at Visa, he helped manage the business impacts of major antitrust cases; adapted the company's strategy to keep up with shifting U.S. and international payments regulation; supported the $19B Visa IPO; helped integrate the $2B acquisition of CyberSource; and developed the initial strategy for the precursor to the product now known as Visa Checkout.
Nicole Douglas, Senior Vice President and International Treasury Management Sales Manager, Wells Fargo & Company
Nicole Douglas is a senior vice president and international treasury management sales manager, based in San Francisco. She has been with Wells Fargo since 2006 and leads the team that develops global cash management solutions for companies throughout California. Nicole specializes in innovative banking strategies for technology sector companies especially in the global payments space. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, she worked as a management consultant focusing on developing business and technology strategies for multi-national companies. She has a BS in Finance and Management Information Systems from Villanova University, Pennsylvania and graduated top of her class from Gothenburg University in Sweden with a Masters in International Business. A native Californian, Nicole has also lived in Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Colorado and Sweden. She now lives in Marin County, Calif. with her family.
Panelist:Paul Stoddart, Managing Director of Strategy and Business Development at Vocalink
Paul joined VocaLink as Managing Director of Strategy & Business Development in June 2012. He is responsible for corporate strategy, product and marketing covering both the UK portfolio incl. Faster Payments and Mobile, and VocaLink's international capabilities centred around the Immediate Payments Service. Paul's previous role was at Barclays Bank, where he was Co-Head of Corporate Finance at Barclaycard, responsible for M&A and Asset Disposals globally. Prior to this Paul spent over 10 years at NatWest and then RBS, starting in Group Corporate Development and moving to the Internet banking and E-commerce team that launched online banking and e-procurement solutions across the bank's core brands. Paul then moved to the Global Transaction Services Division in RBS where he became Head of Product and Marketing for WorldPay and then took responsibility for M&A and developing major commercial relationships with Fortune 500 companies globally. Outside of VocaLink, Paul is a Non-Executive Director of Invitation Digital whose Vouchercloud business is one of the market leaders in UK m-commerce and is now majority owned by Vodafone.
Panelist: Nicole Douglas, Senior Vice President and International Treasury Management Sales Manager, Wells Fargo & Company
Nicole's bio:
Nicole Douglas is a senior vice president and international treasury management sales manager, based in San Francisco. She has been with Wells Fargo since 2006 and leads the team that develops global cash management solutions for companies throughout California. Nicole specializes in innovative banking strategies for technology sector companies especially in the global payments space. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, she worked as a management consultant focusing on developing business and technology strategies for multi-national companies. She has a BS in Finance and Management Information Systems from Villanova University, Pennsylvania and graduated top of her class from Gothenburg University in Sweden with a Masters in International Business. A native Californian, Nicole has also lived in Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Colorado and Sweden. She now lives in Marin County, Calif. with her family.