Leaders In Payments

My special guest this week is Charles Hogan, the president of Signature Card Services. Signature Card is a payment processing platform and gateway technology company that serves all types of verticals and can speak the language of technology innovators and respond accordingly.  Charles is a born and bred Los Angeles, California native. He’s been in payments for over 20 years and was a reconnaissance marine for a number of years. Signature Card is well positioned and has retained all of their employees and has actually been hiring through the covid-19 pandemic.  The company has been focused on three pillars: First - continued growth of their distribution channels, second is focusing on their technology and gateway including new branding in the near future, and the third is M&A. Charles has a passion for creating value through innovation that shows up in real metrics and he also provides some great advice for those just starting their careers in payments. www.signaturecard.com www.leadersinpayments.com www.podcast609.com

My special guest this week is Mark Standfield, the President of Midigator. Midigator is a technology provider that helps merchants, ISOs and acquirers understand their disputes – including chargebacks and how and why they happen and how to avoid them – all in one place.Mark was born and raised in North Carolina and the south and ultimately ended up at school in Idaho and currently lives with his wife and four kids in Utah.  Midigator was started by a direct marketing merchant that needed to understand and handle their disputes in order to scale their business.   Fast forward and now Midigator helps businesses of all types across most every industry. What differentiates them is their focus on technology, consistently improving their product based on industry trends and taking a complete view of their client’s business.   Mark has a passion for learning and provides some sage advice for those just starting their careers in payments.  www.midigator.comwww.leadersinpayments.comwww.podcast609.com

My special guest this week is Amin Shayan, the CEO of littlepay.Littlepay is a payment processing platform for the public transportation industry – it allows travelers to use a debit or credit card – which could be physical, virtual, on the phone, or a wearable to get on a bus or train to pay for their ticket.Amin was born in Iran and moved to the United States at an early age. After the overthrow of the dictatorship in Iran, his family went back to Iran, but as history would have it things didn’t work out and they moved to Melbourne, Australia. It is a truly fascinating story.Amin became an investment banker in New York which took him to London. And then back Melbourne where he became a part of the founding team at littlepay in 2016.Littlepay manages 70% of the bus payments in the UK outside of London and more recently, they are developing the payment system for the City of Helsinki transit, and the City of Porto in Portugal and should be running some pilots in California later this year. Amin loves history, international affairs and keeping up with politics and is also a hang-gliding pilot. www.littlepay.com www.leadersinpayments.comThis and all episode are produced by: www.podcast609.com

My special guest this week is Maeve Mckenna Duska, the Chief Marketing Officer of USA Technologies. USA Technologies specializes in enterprise software and business optimization in the unattended retail space –They provide the hardware, payment processing and software to help their customizers optimize their business.The COVID19 crises is certainly accelerating many of the trends toward unattended retail including things like contactless payments, digital payments or really the reduced use of cash in our society. Maeve grew up in a tiny seashore town in central New Jersey and loves getting to spend time at the beach. She has a passion for her team and all of the employees at USA Technologies and also provides some great advice to those just starting out in the industry. To learn more about USA Technologies visit:www.usatech.com www.leadersinpayments.comAll of the Leaders In Payments podcasts are produced by:www.podcast609.com 

This week's special guest is Jamie Barlett, the Founder/President and CEO of PolyPay.Jamie grew up Michigan and Missouri and went to school in Massachusetts and then took her first job in California. After taking a position with a leading management consulting firm she moved on to a client and subsequently started her own merchant services business – PolyPay. PolyPay provides merchant services in a transparent and cost-effective way with high touch customer support and differentiates itself by truly taking care of their customers and always doing the right thing. No matter when the service issue happens or questions arise, PolyPay jumps on the opportunity to help their merchants succeed.   Jamie has a passion for researching and learning and especially has an unhealthy obsession with Scotland. Surround yourself with people smarter than you, network extensively, listen and learn is just some of the advice Jamie gives.www.polypay.comwww.leadersinpayments.comwww.podcast609.com 

This is episode 14 of the Leaders In Payments Podcast featuring my special guest this week, Monica Eaton-Cardone, the COO and Co-Founder of Chargebacks911. Monica grew up mostly in Idaho in a small town of 22 people. She developed a great work ethic at a very early age and learned many life lessons through playing sports – more specifically basketball.Chargebacks911 was truly born out of necessity. Monica owned an online business and started getting chargebacks so she decided to dig in and learn what they were and how to mitigate them. And then quickly learned there were others out there that needed help with the same thing – and thus Chargebacks911 was born.  Monica discusses in detail all of the services that Chargebacks911 provides its merchants and customers and provides some great insights into starting a career in payments. www.chargebacks911.comwww.leadersinpayments.com All episodes are produced by: www.podcast609.com

This is episode 13 of the Leaders in Payments Podcast. My special guest this week is OB Rawls, the CEO of Global Payment Processing at Paysafe. OB grew up in a small rural town of under 2,000 people in North Carolina on a tobacco farm. He was in the Army and Army national guard for 21 years and had many different jobs after the military.  He was a parole officer, he was a "repo guy" collecting cars, and worked at Bank of America for 18 years where he first got into the credit card business. OB was at First Data and iPayment before becoming the CEO of Global Payment Processing at Paysafe. In April of last year the Electronic Transaction Association honored OB with the    Distinguished Payments Professional star award – recognizing his 30 plus years in the payments industry. OB provides a great overview of Paysafe and all of the different products and services that Paysafe provides its merchants and partners.  OB has a passion for collecting wine and he provides some great advice: keep an open mind, adopt change, explore, and be bold. OB is really one of the great guys in the payments space. 

My special guest this week is Brad Wiskirchen, the CEO of Kount. Kount is a leading providing of fraud prevention solutions. Brad talks in detail about the Identity Trust Global Network that Kount recently launched. He also provides great information about what Kount is doing to help his employees and customers during the global pandemic. And Brad also talks about his love for this team and passion for his family as well as provides some very insightful advice for those just getting started in payments. www.kount.com www.leadersinpayments.com www.podcast609.com  

This is episode 11 of the Leaders in Payments podcast hosted by Greg Myers. In this episode I talk with Martin Sweeney, CEO of Ravelin about their fraud solution and global customer set. He uses a great Ferrari analogy too that you don't want to miss. Martin also provides some great background information and insights about PSD2 and 3D secure. He also talks about why the U.S. is a great market for Ravelin. www.ravelin.comwww.leadersinpayments.com www.podcast609.com 

In this episode, I talk with Brandon Spear, the President of MSTS. Brandon and I talk about his journey from a South Africa to Dallas and to his current role at MSTS in Overland Park, Kansas. Brandon explains in detail the unique products and services that MSTS provides in the b2b payments space - what they have coined as "Credit as a Service." He also talks about how MSTS is making sure schools, hospitals and first responders have the credit they need to buy the products they need and that are required during this difficult time. MSTS is really doing what they can to help especially in these trying times. It really is both admirable and inspiring. Brandon has a passion for creating and building teams and personally is a huge sport fan.  For more information about MSTS visit: www.msts.com To view more episode of the Leaders In Payments podcast visit: www.leadersinpayments.com This episode was produced by Podcast609. www.podcast609.com