Leaders In Payments

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!
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.

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