Leaders In Payments

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 

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.