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 […]
David Winterstein
David Sutton
During his 33 years at Metro, David’s accomplishments include welcoming 27 LA transit agencies to TAP, transitioning the Regional TAP Center to an in-house operation, developing special group passes for 13 colleges and 440 businesses, creating an electronic transfer on second boarding, winning numerous ACE, Adwheel and Telly awards, producing Transit 2000, a TV series […]
Amir Sedadi, P.E.
Amir Sedadi is the Chief Innovation Officer at IPS Group, Inc., where he spearheads the development and deployment of cutting-edge intelligent parking solutions, driving innovation in Smart Cities across domestic and international markets. With over 35 years of experience in transportation management, parking systems, engineering, and policy, Amir is a recognized leader in advancing urban […]
Jason Weinstein
Jason Weinstein P.E. is Clipper Program Director at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). Clipper is the San Francisco Bay Area’s regional fare collection system for transit. Mr. Weinstein manages Clipper operations for the system that processes nearly 13 million transactions and settles close to $30 million in revenue for 24 transit services each month. Clipper […]
Michael Hyzer
Michael has been with American Express for 10 years, starting in the Merchant Services business and has over 28 years of payment experience. Today, he is in the Network Acquiring Solutions organization as the Product Owner of Global Transit solutions.