Maeson Maherry
Maeson is the Chief Operating Officer of Ascertia Ltd, a subsidiary of the InfoCert Group which is the largest Trust Services Provider in Europe. From an initial career in electronics engineering, moving into the field of crypto and identity based cyber security, which led to significant projects in citizen identification, fraud prevention, health and safety […]
Tobias Looker
A globally recognized identity standards expert, Tobias Looker has over a decade in software engineering, contributing to ISO, W3C, OIDF, and IETF. With a Master’s in Mechatronic Engineering, he drives MATTR’s technical innovation, ensuring secure, interoperable digital trust solutions.
Jennifer Vides Hirsch
As Metro’s first Chief Customer Experience Officer, Jennifer Vides advocates for customers, builds brand and reputation and coaches teams to excellence. She taps her expertise in change management to advance a customer-first culture, and experience in customer-focused branding to ideate and launch new customer initiatives. In her first year in the role, Jennifer oversaw the […]
Fred Tyler
Fred Tyler is VP of Authentication Products at Mastercard leading the North America digital authentication product strategy for Identity Check (3DS) and Token Authentication. His passion is partnering with industry stakeholders to evolve the payments ecosystem by enhancing digital identity and authentication, focusing on adoption, trust, and network scalability. Prior to his current role, he […]
Keri Crane
Keri Crane is part of the leadership team of JHA Card Processing Solutions™ (CPS) and has been with Jack Henry since 2006. She works to develop innovative products and services and is passionate about providing issuer education and awareness of emerging payment trends and topics influencing both consumers and financial institutions. She is a steering […]
Joe Vasterling
Joe Vasterling is Director- Payment Acceptance, Gift Cards, and BNPL solutions for Best Buy Co., Inc. He is responsible for 3rd party payments, cost of acceptance and payment/gift card/BNLP related development efforts, driving key payment acceptance and gift card initiatives, managing industry relationships and contracts, and advocacy efforts for payments at Best Buy. Prior to […]
Sara Walsh
Sara Walsh manages the Network Performance Management and Controls team within the Bank of America Enterprise Payments organization. Her team is responsible for managing economics, compliance, controls, merchant engagement, network routing and enterprise operations initiatives. Sara works from the Wilmington, Delaware office. Sara worked at MBNA America, in multiple card operational areas and Learning and […]
Berke Baydu
Berke Baydu is a Vice President at Mastercard, responsible for a variety of cyber intelligence products in the North American region. His remit includes chip, contactless, billing updater, ID theft protection, stand-in, safety net to name a few. He works closely with the industry stakeholders and Mastercard leadership team for optimal performance of his products. […]
Allen Ganz
Allen Ganz has been on the front lines of bringing emerging technologies such as facial recognition and digital identity to the market for the last 25 years. If you have traveled overseas on airlines such as Delta, visited Universal Studios, or an MLB game, you have likely used solutions that Allen helped to implement and […]
François Mezzina
Payment Specialist at TotalEnergies Chairman of the nexo Standards General Assembly Board Director and Representative of the Acceptors category at nexo Standards President of the Board of the International Forecourt Standards Forum (IFSF) Seat on the Board of Advisors of EMVCo as ‘Industry Groups’ Associate Standards and payment acceptance standardization are daily priorities for François […]