Payments Forum 2023 | American Banker | 1 May 2023 | Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, 1 Market Pl, San Diego, CA 92101, USA

Hundreds of industry leaders gathered for 3 days' worth of networking, insights, and fun. In 2023, This Forum returns to bring you even MORE! Save the date and plan to join us in a new location to explore the latest insights and tech transforming the industry.

2023 Speakers

Bunita Sawhney
Executive Vice President, U.S. Financial Institutions, Mastercard

R.J Ancona
Vice President & General Manager, B2B Product, Partner & Client Management, American Express

Juliana Berger
Director, Product Management, Intuit QuickBooks Payments

Venesulia Carr
CEO, Vicar Group LLC

Dustin Eide
Chief Executive Officer, CanPay Debit

Kim Fitzsimmons
Chief Executive Officer, Talus Pay

Sahil Goswami
Head of Crypto & Web3, MVB Bank

Cheryl Gurz
Director, RTP product management, The Clearing House

Bess Healy
Chief Information Officer, Synchrony

Helen Herring
Senior Vice President, Fintech and Strategic Partnerships, First Century Bank

Katrina Holt
SVP, Operations, Affirm

Cassandra Ingram
General Counsel, CanPay Debit

Rob Nardelli
Director of Commercial Banking and Business Development, DailyPay

Ginger Schmeltzer
Principal, Data and Services Group, Mastercard Advisors

Gaurav Sethi
Chief Strategy and Product Officer, Citizens Pay

Mike Storiale
VP, Innovation Development, Synchrony

Doug Sturm-Smith
SVP - Immediate Payments, PNC

Ryan Zagone
Head of Americas at Wise for Banks, Wise

Melissa Tuozzolo
GTS Head of International Payments, Bank of America

Mary Rosendahl
Managing Director, Global Transaction Services - CashPro, Bank of America

Paulin Byusa
Founder, Avenir

James Huber
Attorney, Global Legal Law Firm

Marcia Tal
CEO, Tal Solutions, LLC

Archie Ravishankar
CEO & Founder, Cogni

Stu Richards
CEO, Bredin

Mia Huntington
EVP, Head of Buy Now Pay Later / POS Lending, U.S. Bank / Elavon

Tyler Beuerlein
Chief Strategic Business Development Officer, Safe Harbor Financial

Uma Wilson
Executive Vice President/Chief Information & Product Officer, UMB Bank

Amy Pugh
General Counsel, Green Dot

Maria Roscoe
FVP | Senior Digital Product Manager, Payments, Valley National Bank

Josh Williams
Executive Vice President, Chief Banking Officer and Head of Partnerships, Seattle Bank

Donna Do
Deputy General Counsel, Intuit Inc.

Juan Azel
Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP

Betsy Vavrin
President and Founder, SMC Marketing, a division of SMC Partners, Inc.

Rasha Katabi
Founder & CEO, Brim Financial

Dustin White
Head of US Risk, Visa

Ram Palaniappan
CEO and Founder, EarnIn

Anthony Peculic
Head of Card Services, Cross River

Mike Timoney
Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Rohan Shah
Partner, Simon-Kucher & Partners

Patrick Haggerty
Senior Director, Klaros Group

Jagdeep Sahota
Banc of California, Banc of California

Cathryn Peirce
Founder & CEO, Carbon Zero Financial

Derrick Bretz
Vice President - Payment Strategy, CSI

Brendan Berry
Head of Payments Products, Ripple

Michael Hershfield
Founder and CEO, Accrue Savings

Mike Voinovich
Chairman, Anchor State Bank

Tara Schultz
SVP Strategy, CSI

Jeffrey Lewis
SVP - Payments, Echo Health Inc

Adwait Joshi
Chief Seer, DataSeers

Keagan Russo
President, Fuelman, FLEETCOR

John Adams
Executive Editor, American Banker

Daniel Wolfe
Content Director, American Banker

Kate Fitzgerald
Senior Editor, American Banker

Chana Schoenberger
Editor-in-Chief, American Banker

Tim Chambers
Head of Omega Ops, Mission Omega

Jackie Toole
Vice President, Card & Payments Consulting Practice, NTT DATA

Bunita Sawhney
Executive Vice President, U.S. Financial Institutions, Mastercard

Peter Gasparro
Chief Development Officer, Barclays US Consumer Bank

Christine Roberts
EVP & President of Citizens Pay, Citizens

Ben Munos
Vice President of Banking Operations and Risk, Cogni

Rebecca Kelly
SVP, Head of Americas Product Strategy and Business Development, Western Union

Lia Cao
Global Co-Head of Corporate and E-commerce Sales & Solutions, J.P.Morgan

Whitney Stewart Russell
President, Digital Solutions, Fiserv

Dondi Black
EVP, Chief Product Officer, TSYS, a Global Payments Co.

Carol Wang
Senior Vice President, Commercial Payments, KeyBank

Mary Ann Francis
Associate Partner, IBM Consulting

Brittany Marten
Managing Director, head of GIG Large Corporates, Global Transaction Services, Bank of America

Anusha Ramanujam
Global Head of Payment Partnerships & Product Enablement, Square

Michael Moeser
Senior Analyst, Banking and Payments, American Banker

Simone Joyce
CEO Co-Founder, Paypa Plane

Jonathan Grant
CCO Co-Founder, Paypa Plane

Tanvi Patel
Director - Payments Transformation, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Bob Rohr
SVP, Enterprise Payments Group, Truist

Mike Knoop
CEO, AmpliFI Loyalty Solutions

Allison Shonerd
Head of Global Digital Disbursements, Bank of America

Brooke Major-Reid
Chief Capital Officer, Affirm

Geeta Chandan
VP, Head of Product & Rewards, Discover Financial

Jeff Nowicki
VP of Banking, Treasury Prime

Saema Somalya
EVP, Legal and Risk, Remitly

Jesse Honigberg
EVP, Product and Platforms, Customers Bank

Jake Downey
Director, North America, 9spokes

Tom Baran
Head of Partnerships, 9spokes

Brandon Baines
VP Tech Enabled Banking, Customers Bank

Ben Johnston
Chief Operating Officer, Kapitus

Eric Gieseke
Founder and CEO, Pago Capital

Kevin Cieslak
Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Execution, Wells Fargo & Company

Rajan Annadurai
Chief Technology Officer, Deserve Inc

Shiv Bhatt
Head of Product, Deserve Inc.

Kevin Weber
SVP, Venture Investing, Citi Ventures

Swati Dublish
Head - Domain Consulting & Solution, Hexaware Banking Services, Hexaware

Barbara Negron
Senior Director of Product Management, FIS

Pete Mellor
Segment Director - Airlines, Barclays US Consumer Bank

Abbey Naspinski
Research Analyst, Arizent

Tyri Squyres
Vice President of Marketing, Frontier Airlines

Pratham Mahajan
Senior Manager – Industry Cloud Solutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Paul Stockton
Consulting Manager, Fraud - Risk & Compliance, NTT DATA

Abhijit Patil
Director, Analytics & BI, Pentagon Federal Credit Union

Abhijit Chaudhary
Chief Product Officer, Green Dot

Nitya Timalsina
Creative Director, Pago Capital

2023 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• NTT DATA

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Hexaware Technologies | IT Services and Solutions
• Treasury Prime

SILVER SPONSORS:
• 9Spokes
• CSI
• Deserve
• Paypa Plane
• PwC

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Aon
• Bankifi
• Competiscan
• Episode Six
• Fiserv
• Innovation Refunds
• MCT
• NMI
• Recorded Future
• Silent Eight
• SKEPS
• Socure
• Verifi, a Visa Solution
• Zeta