Leaders In Payments

This is the final week and final episode of the Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by Paysafe. This episode, episode 29 is a roundtable discussion featuring three women leaders in the payments industry.  They are:Denise Tahali, SVP of Sales at PaysafeDebbie Guerra, EVP of On-Demand Merchant Solutions at ACI WorldwideAnd Lou Ann Alexander, Chief Product Officer at Early Warning.  They each bring their own unique perspective of women leadership in our industry as well as provide some great insights, views and advice on leadership.  www.paysafe.comwww.aciworldwide.com www.earlywarning.com www.leadersinpayments.com www.podcast609.com   

As we continue Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by Paysafe, our next guest on Episode 28 is Sue Kelsey, the EVP of Global Prepaid and Financial Inclusion at Mastercard.  Sue grew up in a traditional family in the UK and remembers her first job standing on the sidewalk and asking strangers about detergent, beer bottle labels and more – her first discovery of market research and marketing.  She has several interesting stories about taking on leadership roles and moving from individual contributor to leader.  She also has some great advice for young women joining the payments industry and is a strong supporter of many programs and the culture that Mastercard has in support of gender and racial equality. We’ve got a great show this week with a great leader.www.mastercard.com www.leadersinpayments.com www.podcast609.com   

Our special guest this week is Joan Herbig, the President of Wnet and Board Member of ControlScan. This is episode 27 as we continue to celebrate Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by Paysafe. In this episode, I talk with Joan about her journey including her degree in French, quickly learning in her first job what she didn’t want to do professionally and then become interested in computers and technology. Saying yes, raising your hand, taking risks, helping other women be successful, networking with passion are just a few of the topics we cover. We end the episode discussing the Wnet and it’s mission to empower women. www.wnetonline.orgwww.leadersinpayments.comwww.podcast609.com 

This week's special guest is Laura Miller, President of JPMorgan Merchant Services. This is episode 26 and the third episode as we celebrate Women Leaders in Payments month sponsored by Paysafe. I’m your host Greg Myers and in this episode, I talk with Laura about her journey to JP Morgan Chase, her passion and empathy for small businesses and some of her eye-opening moments including 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy. She provides some great insights around being humble, the idea that you never really arrive, living your personal brand and being the person that people want to work for, with and around. www.jpmorgan.com/merchant-services/homewww.leadersinpayments.comProduced by: www.podcast609.com 

Our special guest this week is Paulette Rowe the CEO of Integrated and Ecommerce Solutions for Paysafe. She is the next guest in our month-long series celebrating Women Leaders in Payments - sponsored by Paysafe. In this episode Paulette and I talk about her unique background from studying engineering to forming a start-up, to Facebook and a few stops in between. She also shares her insights and perspectives on racial and gender equality and provides some great advice for women just starting their careers in payments. Paulette’s experience and wisdom are certainly things we can all learn from.www.paysafe.com www.leadesinpayments.comwww.podcast609.com 

This is our first episode celebrating Women Leaders in Payments month and our first special guest is Melissa Townsley-Solis the CEO of GIACT.  We are really blessed this month to have some of the great women leaders in our industry on the show. A special thank you to Paysafe for being our sponsor. In this episode, I talk with Melissa about her childhood and upbringing in the projects, her faith, her guiding principles and how she’s become a successful woman leader in the fintech space. This is truly an amazing and inspiring story.www.leadersinpayments.com www.giact.com Our sponsor: www.paysafe.com Produced by: www.podcast609.com  

My special guest this week is Daniel Doderlein, the CEO of Auka.   The Auka payments platform is the technological foundation of Settle. It’s a secure and compliant transaction platform that offers all the necessary third-party connections for partners to join the scheme. The platform handles all types of use cases and funding sources, ranging from cards and prepaid to direct-to-account access. The creation of the Auka mobile payments platform started in 2010, which makes Auka the first company to build mobile payments infrastructure in the Nordics. Daniel grew up right outside of Oslo, Norway. He was extremely interested in tech from an early age. His grandfather was a nuclear scientist and when Daniel was very young, his grandfather bought a Macintosh computer and Daniel immediately fell in love with tech. Daniel has started many companies over the years and is truly a fintech and mobile payments pioneer with an amazing and interesting journey.  His latest product Settle is a European mobile payments scheme that connects people and businesses.  www.auka.iowww.leadersinpayments.comwww.podcast609.com

My special guest this week is Brad Paterson, the CEO of Splitit.   Splitit is an installment payment solution. They enable consumers to pay on their existing credit cards and split those transactions and pay over time. Their corporate headquarters are in New York and their tech center is in Israel. They are small but growing rapidly at over 300% year over year and about 40% month over month. Splitit has a unique business and recently launched partnerships with Visa and BlueSnap. Brad grew up in a small town just north of Sydney. Spend 12 years in Singapore and is now based in San Francisco. He has a passion for small business and helping them thrive and survive. Outside of work he’s a sports fanatic. www.splitit.comwww.leadersinpayments.comwww.podcast609.com

My special guest this week is Daniela Mielke, the North American CEO for RS2.  RS2 offers a global cloud-based API-enabled omni-channel payment platform. In the U.S. they target ISOs, ISVs and payment facilitators and are now expanding into acquiring.  RS2 has a very comprehensive and flexible platform that is replacing or rewiring the traditional spaghetti platforms that exist today and putting in one global omni-channel platform. Daniela grew up in a very small town in Germany. The day after her high school graduation she left Germany for Switzerland where she went to college and business school. After 15 years in Switzerland she moved to the Bay Area in California where she currently resides. Daniela is passionate about creating technology to improve people’s lives. On a personal level she trains horses for endurance horseback competitions – a fascinating passion indeed.  www.rs2.comwww.leadersinpayments.com www.podcast609.com

My special guest this week is Tom Wimsett, the Chairman of ControlScan. ControlScan provides technologies and services that defend their customers again cyber security threats and at the same time they help their customers streamline and simplify the process of complying with PCIDSS.  ControlScan’s depth of knowledge, experience and expertise for the SMB market in both compliance and managed services solutions provides them true differentiation in the marketplace today.  Tom is a Kentucky native and has been married for 35 years to his wife that he met in high school. They moved around the country 5 times in a 10-year period and finally settled back in Kentucky specifically Bardstown – better known as the Bourbon capital of the world.  Tom has a passion for education and giving back to the community. Over the course of his career he has served on school boards, educational foundation boards and advisory councils for public and private institutions. Tom provides some great advice for those just starting their careers in payments including “love to learn”, work hard and build healthy relationships.  We’ve got a great show this week! www.controlscan.com www.leadersinpayments.com www.podcast609.com