2025 Annual Forum

Scott Adams
CEO/Founder, FraudDeflect

Matthew Baum
Senior Manager, Checkout.com

Megan Berent
Sr. Manager, Payments, iHerb

Michael Brown
Economic Analyst, Visa

Kristy Cook
VP Payments Consulting, Amex

Mina Deegan
Solutions Engineering, Pagos

Sayil Gada
Director of Product, Mastercard

Alexander Hall
Trust and Safety Architect

John Hierholzer
VP Operations & Infrastructure, Mastercard

Detective Mark Hwang
Tourist Oriented Policing Team, Anaheim Police Department

Vaibhav Kaul
Head of Engineering, TapTap Send

Arpit Kumar
People & Risk Products Leader, PayPal

Raymond Lee
Payments Performance, Stripe

Joshua Lockhart
CTO at Aeropay

Stephanie Lew Meyers
System Manager, Payment Card Operations, CommonSpirit Health™

Mike Miller
VP of Network Policy & Standards, Amex

Kiel Cook
Principal Product Manager, IXOPAY

Sofia Posada
Head of Growth APMs, dLocal

Marc Roth
Partner, Cobalt LLP

Martha Southall
Chief of Staff, CMSPI

Mike Thomas
Sr VP, Head of Instant Payments, U.S. Bank

Lam Van Lund
Merchant Support, Mastercard

Kaleb Winn
Payments Success Manager, Boulevard

Vivek Yadav
Engineering Manager, Stripe

Ray Watson
SVP Channel Partnerships, FlexPay

Trey Jackson
Director, Retention Marketing, Fox Network

Max Admoni
Senior Director, Partnerships, Riskified

Arthur Bedel
Global Director of Revenue, VGS

Alx Block
Head of Payment and Risk Operations, Automattic

Charlotte Crandall
Sr. Director of Revenue Support Operations, GoTo

Katie Craven
Senior Director, Visa

Drew Edmond
Associate Partner, Glenbrook Partners

Alex Godoy
Strategic Partner Manager, Google

Kristian Hansen
Director of Product, Asurion

Bonnie Holland
Mngr Business Development, Mastercard

Christian Johnson
Director of Payments Public Policy and Affairs

Akash Kedia
Head of Payments Costs Optimization, Uber

Aleksandra Lach
Business Manager, Capital One.

Matt Leman
Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Chase

Colin Luce
CEO & Founder of Basis Theory

Jay Matthews
Director, Global Payments and Retention, Yahoo

Steve Mott
Principal, BetterBuyDesign, LLC

Jason Harding
Sr. Director, Product Mngmnt, Worldpay

Josh Pynn
Sr. Mngr, Merchant Advisory Group

Animikh Sen
Sr. Director, Product – North America, Visa

Suhil Srinivas
Sr. Director of Product, LinkedIn

Fred Tyler
VP, Digital Auth. PM, NA, Mastercard

Laura Varela
Sr Manager, B2B & SaaS Marketing, Paypal

Detective James Woo
Tourist Oriented Policing Team, Anaheim Police Department

Veronika Young
Payments Senior Manager– US & C, Netflix

Greg Witten
VP of Sales, Visa

Paul Rabil
Professional Lacrosse Player and Co-Founder of the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL)

Vikram Anand
Executive Director, Beachbody

Jeremy Bellino
Sr Product Manager, Worldpay

Sarah Boehmer
Senior Director, Super.com

Spencer Case
Staff Product Manager, Warner Bros. Discovery

Brian Cullen
Sr Payments Strategist, Sony PlayStation

ERICH FRANKEN
Vice President, Bill Pay Industry, Visa

Dan Gonzalez
Vice President and National Acct. Director, Federal Reserve Financial Services

Sana Haque
Head of Payment Opt. Strategy, PayPal

Tyler Huen
VP, Digital Payments, Adyen

Joshua Karoly
Director, Payments, Netflix

Pete Kovacs
Sr. Product Manager, Warner Bros. Discovery

Jonathan Lee
Senior Manager, Payment Reliability & Partnership Strategy, Netfilx

Ryan Leven
Founder, Aspen Jewelry

Anthony Macchia
Senior Payments Data Analyst, McAfee

Ross McFerrin
VP of Enterprise Growth, Trustly

David Newell
Lead Growth Mktg. & e-Com, LastPass

Ami Patel
VP, Ecosystem Engagement and Advocacy, Visa

Julie Ransom
Sr. Payment Operations Manager, Ancestry

Melissa Shields
Head of Payments Strategy and Solution Design, Starbucks & Chairman of the Board, PaymentsEd

Ashley Arce
Hd of Retail, Merch Services, J.P. Morgan

John Albin
Dir. of Recurring Payments, Optimized Payments

Luke Wickman
Sr. Commercial Strategy Manager, Adyen

Hanjie Xiao
VP – Global Treasury & Payments, Semrush

David Beck
Payments Partnerships Lead, Instacart

Bobby Wright
Director – eCommerce, Zillow