Payactiv CEO and leadership

Payments, transaction and Internet technology professional with a proven track record of successful entrepreneurship and leadership.CEO & Founder of PayActiv (an employer-sponsored financial wellness platform and leader in Timely Earned Wage Access (EWA)). PayActiv serves millions of employees world-wide, settles over $1B in timely EWA funds annually, increases employee retention by an average of 30%, and accelerates engagement: eNPS 84.7.Founded Infonox (pioneer in payment aggregation and automated merchant acquiring, sold to TSYS in 2008). Annualized, Infonox systems served over 100M consumers, facilitated over $20 Billion in transactions, managed over 200,000 merchant accounts through acquirers. Educator and lecturer associated with the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz.PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, AI and Neural Networks researcher at a NASA center. Graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. Specialties: Entrepreneur and innovator with success in creating significant shareholder and customer value. Deep understanding of financial service products, transaction processing, unbanked market segments, self service delivery and monitoring.Business development visionary who has closed many multi-year, multi-million dollar deals with fortune 500 companies.Safwan's work has been featured in the New York Times, WSJ, the Los Angeles Times, on NPR's All Things Considered, NPR’s Life Kit and more.

Ijaz Anwar is a Sr Financial Service Executive at Nuvo Payments, Inc. and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at PayActiv Inc and is based in San Jose, California. He has worked as CFO /Treasurer (2003 to 2004) / Financial Controller (2002 to 2003) and Sr Accountant (2000 to 2001) at Chex Services Inc; SVP Strategy and Business Development at FIS, Inc.; and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at FastFunds Financial Corp. Ijaz works or has worked as Advisor at WeCare Card. He studied at University of Houston between 1991 and 1996.

Sohail Aslam is the co-founder and CTO for PayActiv, an industry leader helping millions of people develop financial wellness. He directs the technology, product development and information security for PayActiv’s financial ecosystem.Holding multiple graduate degrees in Computer Science, his professional achievements include developing both the world’s first biometric ATM, and the world’s fastest medical image delivery system. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, having launched multiple start-ups. With over 18 years’ experience taking projects from concept to market for Microsoft, Philips Healthcare, and Infonox (TSYS), he has demonstrated his expertise in payments, financial services, and healthcare.Sohail is a technologist by trade, but is equally recognized for his business and organizational development, and partnership building.

David is the CRO of Payactiv. He has 26 years experience founding, scaling, and growing 3 businesses: On Technology, New Channel, and Blackhawk Network. David is well known for building the gift card program you see in Kroger, Safeway, and most other grocery stores throughout the country. He has been a part of 2 successful IPO’s and Silver Lake and P2 Capital Partners acquired Blackhawk for $3.5 Billion in 2018. David focuses on efficient revenue generation, scale, and growth and considers making a social impact part of his goal of leading a sales force. David spends his free time watching Boston sports, Liverpool, and the San Jose Sharks.

Payments, transaction and Internet technology professional with a proven track record of successful entrepreneurship and leadership.CEO & Founder of PayActiv (an employer-sponsored financial wellness platform and leader in Timely Earned Wage Access (EWA)). PayActiv serves millions of employees world-wide, settles over $1B in timely EWA funds annually, increases employee retention by an average of 30%, and accelerates engagement: eNPS 84.7.Founded Infonox (pioneer in payment aggregation and automated merchant acquiring, sold to TSYS in 2008). Annualized, Infonox systems served over 100M consumers, facilitated over $20 Billion in transactions, managed over 200,000 merchant accounts through acquirers. Educator and lecturer associated with the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz.PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, AI and Neural Networks researcher at a NASA center. Graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. Specialties: Entrepreneur and innovator with success in creating significant shareholder and customer value. Deep understanding of financial service products, transaction processing, unbanked market segments, self service delivery and monitoring.Business development visionary who has closed many multi-year, multi-million dollar deals with fortune 500 companies.Safwan's work has been featured in the New York Times, WSJ, the Los Angeles Times, on NPR's All Things Considered, NPR’s Life Kit and more.

Ijaz Anwar is a Sr Financial Service Executive at Nuvo Payments, Inc. and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at PayActiv Inc and is based in San Jose, California. He has worked as CFO /Treasurer (2003 to 2004) / Financial Controller (2002 to 2003) and Sr Accountant (2000 to 2001) at Chex Services Inc; SVP Strategy and Business Development at FIS, Inc.; and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at FastFunds Financial Corp. Ijaz works or has worked as Advisor at WeCare Card. He studied at University of Houston between 1991 and 1996.

Sohail Aslam is the co-founder and CTO for PayActiv, an industry leader helping millions of people develop financial wellness. He directs the technology, product development and information security for PayActiv’s financial ecosystem.Holding multiple graduate degrees in Computer Science, his professional achievements include developing both the world’s first biometric ATM, and the world’s fastest medical image delivery system. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, having launched multiple start-ups. With over 18 years’ experience taking projects from concept to market for Microsoft, Philips Healthcare, and Infonox (TSYS), he has demonstrated his expertise in payments, financial services, and healthcare.Sohail is a technologist by trade, but is equally recognized for his business and organizational development, and partnership building.