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Behind Mike's avuncular exterior lies one of the sharpest minds in the financial technology industry. Over the last fifteen years, Mike has held leadership roles at a number of a FinTech firms. He joined Currencycloud in 2011, growing the firm to processing over $10bn of international payments per annum.As COO at Traiana, Mike played a pivotal role in ICAP's $274m purchase of a controlling interest. Mike was CEO at Infinity Financial Technology, Cohera and Coronet, and Chairman at FRS Global. As home in Silicon Valley as in the financial services world in London, you will be unsurprised if you meet Mike to learn that he has several degrees, including from Harvard. In his early career, he even spent six years working for the United Nations. In his spare time, Mike plays classical and jazz piano, a topic on which he can bore even the most ardent music aficionado rigid.

Don Bush, VP Marketing, Kount: Don joined Kount as the Director of Marketing in October 2010 and became Vice President of Marketing in December 2012. Don attended Brigham Young University studying Business Administration and Marketing. Prior to joining Kount, Don was the Director of Marketing at CradlePoint, a leading manufacturer of wireless routing solutions in the mobile broadband industry. Don has worked in several management roles within the technology segment for over 20 years with both hardware/software manufacturers and as a partner in two top technology marketing agencies. He has led products launches and marketing programs for dozens of companies around the world such as Citi, HP, IBM, Kodak, Motorola and Weyerhaeuser and co-authored the seminar series, “Common Launch Disasters and How to Avoid Them.

Kyle has worked in Contact Center operations and Fraud Prevention roles since graduating from Blackburn College in 2006. He currently works as the Fraud Prevention Supervisor for New Balance in St. Louis, MO. He has an affinity for data analysis and for reading industry white papers and articles. Prior to New Balance, Kyle spent nearly 3 years working for a small lead generation company as a Project Lead and Sales Manager. When he is not geeking out on data or reading a 30-page case study, Kyle is an avid St. Louis sports fan (Go Cardinals, Go Blues) and has an extensive collection of fitted hats.

Corey Glaze is the Sr. Sales Engineer of BitPay, a digital currency company with products and services that make it easy for payment processors, merchants, and consumers to accept and use bitcoin as a form of payment. For the past 20 years, Corey has been building transaction processing platforms and services being used by millions of consumers at retail and online businesses worldwide.Prior to joining forces with BitPay, Corey served as the Director of Product Development at InComm for 9 years, architecting prepaid products and platforms in the financial services sector. These platforms include game-changing consumer facing products such as the first open-loop gift card program sold at retail, General Purpose Reloadable products and retail cash-in networks such as the Vanilla Reload Network & the PayPal My Cash product. Corey's most recent prepaid program is called the BitPay Visa� Prepaid Debit Card. The BitPay Visa� Prepaid Debit Card allows cardholders to top-up dollars onto their card using any bitcoin wallet.

As Research Director of Aite Group’s Retail Banking & Payments practice, Julie Conroy covers fraud, data security, and anti-money laundering issues. She has more than a decade of hands-on product management experience working with financial institutions, payments processors, and risk management companies, including a number of years leading the product team at Early Warning Services. Julie is often quoted in numerous media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, U.S News and World Report, American Banker, and the New York Times.� Julie is fluent in Spanish and holds an M.A. in International Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.A. in Business Administration from the Michigan State University Honors College.�

Adele Glenn is a veteran software developer and designer for credit unions. With seventeen years of industry experience in creative solutions for credit unions, she currently serves on the senior executive leadership team at SACU with a focus on R&D and leading project teams in new and emerging technologies. Adele, a recognized conversion expert, joined SACU in 2005 during their core conversion and has made San Antonio her home. Specializing in innovation and self-service project work, Adele likes to lead projects and teams with an inventive approach. Adele graduated with an NMLA designation from NAFCU, holds an advanced certificate in Management and Leadership from MIT Sloan School of Management, and most recently was recognized in 2016 by the Credit Union Times as a Women to Watch honoree.� When not at work, Adele is working diligently towards a 2016 graduation with her MBA program and her black belt in Lean Six Sigma. Adele is also a Certified Cicerone (beer expert). Adele leadsmultiple regional technical groups in Texas specializing in social media and STEM education. You can find her on twitter @symigoddess.

As chief marketing officer of Geezeo, Bryan is principle driver of Geezeo’s global marketing efforts. He also heads Geezeo’s new interactive agency, Geezeo Interactive�Prior to Geezeo, Bryan was EVP of client development at Raoust+Partners. He joined Raoust in 2004 after eight years with Affinity Federal Credit Union, where he was vice president of marketing and E-commerce. While at Affinity, he served on the executive leadership team.Before his entry into the credit union industry, Bryan worked in marketing and product management positions at Summit Bancorp and CoreStates Financial Corp. While at Summit, he directed the organization’s retail banking incentive program and managed�deposit-based product development. At CoreStates, he managed the corporate and retail marketing function for the 88 branches of the New Jersey subsidiary, New Jersey National Bank.Bryan holds a BA from New England College. In addition to graduate studies in marketing, he has Six Sigma certification from Rutgers. He has been a presenter for several Credit Union Leagues, CUNA Management School, American Banker, CUES, NAFCU, and Digital Insight’s Client Conference. An avid boater, Bryan resides in Williamsburg, Virginia, with his wife and kids. He is currently Vice-Chair of Center for Child and Family Services, a former trustee of The Peninsula Fine Arts Center and a graduate of Leadership Hampton Roads.

Marcell King is chief revenue officer of Payveris, a provider of an open API digital payment and money movement platform designed to help financial institutions transform their customers’ digital payment experience and stay relevant in a digital world. The company’s secure cloud-based platform supports a range of digital payment and money movement services including electronic bill payment, presentment and management, person to person (P2P) transfers, external (A2A) account transfers and business payments all through a single unified platform.�As chief revenue officer, King oversees all of Payveris’ sales, marketing, partnership and account management efforts. Before joining Payveris, he spent 20 years in sales, marketing, product management, client services and P&L management in the payments, transactions, and prepaid card industries. He has held senior leadership roles at InComm, Amazon.com (Global Gift Card Channel), Open Solutions, Timely Rewards and BankServ.�King joined Payveris from InComm (formally Giftango), where he served as vice president of sales and promotions. He is well-versed in mobile payment, gift card, ACH origination, wire-transfer, check processing, and cash management technologies.

Trevor Nies is a payments and risk professional with over 16 years of ecommerce experience.� He is responsible for payment fraud prevention for Microsoft’s Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to Business (B2B) ecommerce businesses which include Xbox, Microsoft Store Online, Windows Phone, Windows 10 Store, Bing Ads, Azure, Office 365, and many others.� Mr. Nies is also responsible for commerce business analytics which encompasses bank authorization rates, cost of payments, chargebacks, currency stored value, payouts, etc.� Microsoft’s ecommerce businesses account for billions of Microsoft’s revenue and operate across multiple payment types and currencies across the globe. �Prior to his current role, Mr. Nies managed the Payments Group at Microsoft where he determined the right set of payment types to offer Microsoft’s customers worldwide and oversaw business development, payment processor management, process design, implementation, and operational aspects in support of ecommerce payments. �