Velo Payments CEO and leadership

CTO and co-founder of Velo Payments & Incept5 Previously CTO and co-founder of C24, founded in 2000, sold to Iona Technologies (on NASDAQ) in 2007 (which was then sold to Progress Software 2008). C24 bought back from Progress Software in 2011 and sold to Gresham Technologies (on UK Stock Exchange) in Oct 2016. C24's product was payments integration technology for investment banks, predominately SWIFT, Fedwire, SEPA, ISO 20022, BOJNet etc. and used by the majority of the worlds largest banks as customers. C24's [patent-pending] ''binary Java'' technology-enabled Vodafone to handle over a million messages per second; John was the inventor. John is also CTO of Incept5, leaders in innovation and the team behind Visa Checkout and the BBC's new iPlayer. John was also designed and ran FX trading technology at Paribas, head of technology consulting in BNP Paribas and global head of architecture at JP Morgan, also an interim chief architect at several startups. John has co-authored 5 Java and architecture books and is a regular speaker at technical and financial services conferences.

Elliott DeLoach is a CFO at Yapstone and CFO at Velo Payments and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Corporate Finance and Development at Celera, CFO at Eat Just, and Vice President - Finance at ANNIE S INC.. Elliott attended Amherst College, Harvard Business School, and The Hotchkiss School.

As a Global Payments, Innovation and FinTech leader, I build global ecosystems, multi-million dollar channel partnerships and go-to-market strategies from the ground up for emerging payment and digital identity platform launches.

INDUSTRY-DISRUPTIVE SOLUTIONS:

Driving strategies grounded in payment leadership tenures that span Samsung, The Boston Consulting Group, Citigroup, Bank of America, and multiple startups, teams under my direction have launched solutions that disrupted the industry and cemented their standing as an Alternative Payments and Digital Commerce Contenders.

COMMITTED TO SERVING THE UNDERBANKED:

As a thought leader, I am passionate about harnessing technology to support the underbanked. To this end, I’ve participated in cross-industry coalitions, incubators and have spoken at industry-leading forums.

In fact, I co-created the ”Next Billion” program as an Executive-in-Residence at MIT’s Center for Future Banking - aimed at leveraging mobile globally to expand financial services to the underbanked.

CONNECT: ☎ 704-681-0896 📧 MARC.B.KELLER5@GMAIL.COM

SKILLS:

Global Payments | Emerging Digital & Mobile Payments | Digital Identity | Go to Market Strategies & Roadmaps | Channel Partnerships | Revenue Pipelines | Business Transformation | PE/VC Pitches | Consumer Banking | M&A | P&L Management | Negotiations | | Product Management

HIGHLIGHTS:

✅ SAMSUNG: Led ecosystem, global business and channel partnership development for a biometric Identity as a Service (IDaaS) solution - the OEM industry’s first foray into the emerging identity market.

✅ CITIGROUP: Create a mobile and digital payments framework used by institutional and corporate clients across Asia, Europe and LATAM, and pipeline with Microsoft, HP, Blackberry, LG and U.S., U.K., Italy, Hong Kong and Mexico telecom carriers.

✅ BANK OF AMERICA: Launched banking’s first multi-card, multi-network mobile wallet - earning Inventor of the Year Award recognition.

Peter Strandell is leading the financial activities and acting as the strategic business partner to CEO and the executive management team. Providing the product developers and customers with problem solving solutions based on 20+ years of experience of complexed payment flows.

Peter's passion is to overcome challenges both from his personal and professional life.

Patrick Giblin is an entrepreneurial-big-picture senior manager and consultant, experienced in transitions, conversions, decommissions, implementations and operations management in a dynamic operating environment. He demonstrates skilled and effective decision making with focus and experience in revenue generation, profitability, relationship building, risk management and compliance. Mr. Giblin currently is brought on to revamp and revitalize the risk, compliance, legal, and operational risk management for companies in the electronic payment product lines and emerging payments. He is knowledgeable about network guidelines and expectations on the issuing and acquiring sides of the industry, as well as FFIEC, FDIC, OCC, CFPB and NACHA guidelines related to all respective electronic product lines. He has been working with startup financial technology companies helping them establish the compliance and legal structure for the business and liaising with the Banks on matters relating to risk, legal, and compliance. In past services, Mr. Giblin has had oversight of 9 different departments within the payments division during his tenure in the banking industry, including various operational product lines, risk, compliance and underwriting. Operating Income increased 250% from YE 2010 - YE 2012, EBIDTA increased 200% to $5.4mm over the same time period while maintaining an EBIDTA margin of greater than 65% over the two years after assuming oversight role for operations. He has typically been a critical decision maker for organizations he works with and an escalation point for clients, staff, and management team. He has had specific experience in multiple bank conversions, core processing conversions, and decommission and divestiture of assets post acquisition.

Stuart Martin is a Chief Architect & Development Manager at Velo Payments and is based in United Kingdom.

CTO and co-founder of Velo Payments & Incept5 Previously CTO and co-founder of C24, founded in 2000, sold to Iona Technologies (on NASDAQ) in 2007 (which was then sold to Progress Software 2008). C24 bought back from Progress Software in 2011 and sold to Gresham Technologies (on UK Stock Exchange) in Oct 2016. C24's product was payments integration technology for investment banks, predominately SWIFT, Fedwire, SEPA, ISO 20022, BOJNet etc. and used by the majority of the worlds largest banks as customers. C24's [patent-pending] ''binary Java'' technology-enabled Vodafone to handle over a million messages per second; John was the inventor. John is also CTO of Incept5, leaders in innovation and the team behind Visa Checkout and the BBC's new iPlayer. John was also designed and ran FX trading technology at Paribas, head of technology consulting in BNP Paribas and global head of architecture at JP Morgan, also an interim chief architect at several startups. John has co-authored 5 Java and architecture books and is a regular speaker at technical and financial services conferences.

Elliott DeLoach is a CFO at Yapstone and CFO at Velo Payments and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Corporate Finance and Development at Celera, CFO at Eat Just, and Vice President - Finance at ANNIE S INC.. Elliott attended Amherst College, Harvard Business School, and The Hotchkiss School.