Joy has more than 20 years of experience designing and leading enterprise HR initiatives ranging for executive to front-line leader development, DE&I learning programs, and change and talent management programs.

Joy graduated from Northwestern University with a Master’s in Learning and Organizational Change. She lives in the Chicagoland area with her husband, two sons, and dog. She is passionate about taking a human-centered approach to talent development and believes that your difference is your differentiator. Her passion is shaped by her immigrant parents, being neurodivergent, and being the mother of an adult with autism.

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A 30+ year media veteran, Jennifer Keitt is widely known as one of the most passionate, engaging and powerful communicators today. Jennifer has reached millions of listeners and through her various syndicated radio shows aimed at empowering audiences nationwide. Jennifer holds a Bachelor in Broadcast Journalism a Master of Arts in Practical Theology, an Education Specialist degree and she is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Educational Psychology. She is CEO of the Keitt Institute: A Center for Emotional Development and Well-being. Jennifer and her co-founder, Morgan Holmes (who is Jennifer’s eldest daughter), use the best practices from instructional design and educational psychology to create high-powered, engaging, research-driven experiences that help professionals thrive in life.

As a TEDx and Money 20/20 speaker and thought leader, Erin is a frequent speaker on the topic of inclusivity and workplace equality - encouraging women to think strategically, while making confident decisions.

Erin leads Poker Power, a PEAK6 company with a mission to teach one million women how to play the game. Previously she served as the Strategic Advisor to the management team of Evil Geniuses, a legendary esports organization. She was an independent corporate director on the boards of Roomlinx and Marbles: the Brain Store and a Vice President at JPMorgan. Erin received her MBA in finance from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and her BA from Bates College.

Jennifer is a sought-after partner for payments and fintech brands that are passionate about leading and disrupting digital financial services. She leads The Fletcher Group, an award-winning PR and marketing agency with a passion for payments, which represents many of the top fintech companies throughout North America.

She is a popular speaker on fintech communications strategy, entrepreneurship and women’s leadership and has presented at Money 20/20, PayThink, CPPO Symposium, Card Forum, The Payments Canada Summit, Group Futurista’s Global Conference, Prepaid International Forum and Prepaid Expo. She is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization, is an advisor to The Paytechs and hosts the annual CPPO Symposium. Her writings and commentary have been featured in Forbes, Medium, The Financial Post, The Toronto Star, Payments Journal, Fintech Finance and the Paypod.

The Fletcher Group is woman-owned business with an all-female executive team, supporting initiatives to propel women’s careers in payments such as Wnet and RiseUp.

In her role, Zarling leads global communications initiatives, including communications strategies for mergers and acquisitions, integrated brand-building programs, leadership communications programs, perception coaching, crisis communications, associate communications, and culture-building and engagement strategies for the $16 billion company.

Zarling led the communications strategy to redefine the company’s vision and mission cultural framework, launch of its naming rights agreement for Fiserv Forum, the home of NBA Champions Milwaukee Bucks, and the Fiserv annual client conference. Under Zarling’s communications leadership, Fiserv achieved distinction as a FORTUNE® World’s Most Admired Company for eight consecutive years, as well as significant year-over-year increases in associate engagement.

With more than 20 years of corporate communications, brand and culture-building experience, Zarling’s background includes managing communications and brand identity programs at Zizzo Group for clients in diverse industries, and began her career at GE, where she built her communications expertise in various capacities across multiple GE businesses and industries.

Aubrey is a first time founder of a health & wellness payments company PayRio. PayRio focuses on helping underserved markets in the industry who primarily accept cash. Prior to founding PayRio Aubrey held a position as the Chief Revenue Officer at QuickFee, a fast growing Fintech.

She began her career in payments at J.P. Morgan over a decade ago working her way up from a merchant services Business Development Associate to an Executive Director Commercial Banker for the Technology and Disruptive Commerce group in the Silicon Valley.

Aubrey earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Seton Hall University where she was an Academic All-American on the Women’s Soccer Team. She also has an MBA from Chaminade University of Oahu. She is a native of California and currently resides in the East Bay. Aubrey enjoys spending her free time with her 3 young children, coaching their soccer teams, playing soccer herself, eating good food and traveling when she can fit it in.

Erin Barbeau leads the Business Administration function for FIS’ Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) business. As the Chief of Staff, Erin supports the business’ General Manager in developing business routines, strengthening stakeholder relationships, driving results and leading key initiatives.

Erin joined FIS in 2013 as a summer intern and has rapidly grown her career, taking on stretch roles in the areas of finance, risk, strategic initiatives and business administration. She is driven to improve office culture and loves connecting people.

She has a passion for women’s inclusion networks and was honored with the Wnet 2021 Emerging Trendsetter Award, recognizing individuals 40 years or younger who exemplify a commitment and energy to improving the PayTech industry. Erin thrives off learning new things and meeting new people and is currently receiving her Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Strategic Business Leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Nicole Baxby is the Vice President of Global Customer Success at Featurespace. Her teams are dedicated to helping some of the largest brands in the financial industry leverage Featurespace’s market leading solutions to prevent financial crime.

She has 15 years of expertise in the financial technology industry, previously working in fintech and banking consulting with European banks.

Nicole was recognized as part of 2018 Money 20/20 Rise Up cohort, named Georgia Forward's 2019 Young Gamechanger and serves on the board of Hope Harbour. She holds a BA from Columbus State University and master's degree from USC Gould School of Law.

Amanda recently took a new position with Signature Payments. Previously, she was with Humboldt Merchant Services for more than 14 years. During this time, she held a variety of positions, developing and strengthening her industry knowledge, ranging from Call Center Customer Service Representative to Technical Support to Merchant Processing Manager, and most finally, Director, Partner Relations.

She has a thirst for knowledge and is never done learning! She is a Certified Payments Professional (CPP) and has been involved with Wnet since 2014. Amanda is a recipient of the Wnet 2021 Lean In To Lead Award and is a 2022 ETA Forty Under 40 honoree.

Amanda is genuine, charismatic, supportive, and reliable. She resides in Northern California and this mother of three enjoys collecting miniatures and spends her non-working hours volunteering in the classroom, child-shuttling, and when she’s not coaching sports, being the number one fan on the sidelines!

Martha Beard is a Managing Director and head of Public Sector Products and head of Payment Industry Advocacy within JPMorgan Payments. Prior to this post, Martha was head of North America Corporate Sales and Healthcare Payments, which included the integration of InstaMed, a healthcare payments fintech.

Prior to her Sales and Healthcare role, Martha was Global Head of Client Service and Implementation, leading collaboration with the regional Sales and Operations teams. She spearheaded the Firm’s investment in digitizing client cash management onboarding activities and launched the first global connected data approach to client inquiry management.

During her over 30-year career with the firm, she has held a variety of positions within JPMorgan Payments. Notably, as head of Healthcare and Public Sector Strategy, Martha’s advocacy with members of Congress for administrative simplification across financial transactions on the Affordable Care Act led to further work with the Congressional Budget Office on scoring of the legislation.

Dondi Black has extensive experience leading strategic planning, development and commercialization across the financial services sector, with a focus on payment technologies, fraud and risk innovations.

As Chief Product Officer at TSYS Issuer Solutions, a Global Payments company, she leads global product strategy and commercialization, as well as strategic partnerships. In that capacity, Mrs. Black is focused on ensuring all parties to the payment ecosystem have access to dynamic services and technologies needed to enable access to paymentn technologies and fuel growth through service expansion into new geographies and new segments.

Dondi’s continued success in strategic planning, commercialization and global expansion is the result of her in-depth experience leading innovation and transformations in banking and payments, wealth, fraud and risk, and compliance for the last 30 years. Her approach to articulating market dynamics, emerging opportunities and disruptions, through the lens of the financial services sector, have made her a sought after voice and thought leader in the banking and payments industry.

Rob is responsible for the Relationship and Operational performance of the global Account Management and Issue Management teams in support of Merchant Services Clients, Bank Segments and Relationship Management partners.

This includes a focus on the CIB, CCBSI, MMBSI, PayFac, and Payments 1st segments with special support of the Energy, Financial Institutions, Full Liability Submitter, Grocery, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Petro, QSR, Technology and Third-Party Payment Processer verticals.

Rob earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX with a focus on Business Management, Communications and Information Systems.

Dr. Gail Burgos is the former Senior Diversity and Inclusion Officer for TSYS and Senior Vice President, Diversity Equity Inclusion, at 1st Sentry. Upon retiring after 25 years with TSYS, Gail started her own consulting company and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Burgos Consulting LLC.

Prior to retirement, Gail led Global Payments’ efforts to continue to build its inclusion and diversity efforts across the company. She previously served as the Senior Advisor to the Chief Information Officer, supporting all business lines and aspects of the information technology business at legacy TSYS. With Burgos’ tenure at the company, she brought a wealth of knowledge and experience for the company’s customers and to the payment industry. Her passion and love for her company and its team members never went unnoticed. She maintained a strong understanding of the corporate culture, an impeccable leadership record, and remained committed to the success of children, women, and people from all walks of life.

In her consulting work, Burgos continues to provide clients with expertise, guidance, and knowledge to help them with their DEI organizational strategy and conscious inclusion exercises. She helps her clients launch their DEI programs and meet their goals to create and sustain a culture of inclusivity and improve a diverse presence embedded in their recruiting, retaining and succession processes.

Kim is responsible for day-to-day operations, ensuring operational excellence, and developing strategic relationships. Kim is a highly respected business leader and has more than 15 years of experience in the Payments industry.

The scope of Kim’s leadership responsibilities span the organization as she works closely with sales, client services, and the product organization to uncover new opportunities in technology and payments. Focused on growth, Kim is constantly studying the competition and inventing more efficient methods for her business to increase customer satisfaction and drive sales. Kim is a strong advocate for transformation and works hard to foster innovative thinking and collaboration

Kim joined FIS in 2006 as a Senior Financial Analyst and rapidly grew her career by taking on many leadership roles within finance and the business, being named the Divisional Controller for the Emerging Commerce group in 2016 and the SVP of Prepaid and Government Solutions in 2020. Kim champions FIS’ core values to win as one team, lead with integrity and be the change.

Lucky Caves has spent more than 20 years in Financial Services, leading transformational programs and building high-performing teams.

As an NCR Payments & Network executive director, Caves leads acquisition transition projects and program management, reporting directly to Don Layden, executive vice president of the Payment & Networks Business Unit and the Corporate Strategy and M&A team.

Lucky lives in Oklahoma City with her husband and daughter, enjoys traveling and has an established tradition of visiting at least one National Park every year. Caves is currently involved in multiple community leadership positions at NCR and has throughout her career.

Erin Davis is a Senior Vice President and Corporate Banker leading the Payments and Technology practice for Bank of Texas, a subsidiary of BOK Financial. She works with high volume payments companies, helping drive strategic relationships between processors, fintechs and the bank. In her role, she consults on complex cash management processes and financial solutions.

A 25-year finance veteran, Erin re-joined Bank of Texas in 2018 to launch the Payments and Technology practice. She was previously with Bank of Texas from 2010-2015 and served as a Senior Treasury Management Consultant. Between her tenure at Bank of Texas, Erin led the North Texas Treasury and Liquidity team for Texas Capital Bank. She also led strategic efforts for sales processes and new lines of business.

Erin received her Bachelor in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin and subsequently earned her MBA from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. She is active in the Dallas Regional Chamber’s Innovation Task Force and a member of the Dallas chapter of Social Venture Partners. Mom to two active teenagers and a labrador, Erin resides in Dallas.

After more than 25 years in the banking and payments industry at FIS, Connie realized her passion for financial wellness and inclusion. During the pandemic, Connie started Kairos DCC, a digital consulting firm that serves the greater good by bringing data, unique technology and strategic consulting services to help non-profits and communities thrive.

Connie is also the Chief Product Officer at CryptoFi, a cryptocurrency start-up that provides a platform to bridge crypto with financial institutions and businesses across the United States. Through her consulting work with non-profits like NPEIV, Connie's desire to help heart-centered women grow and build the life of their dreams ignited. Stepping into her role at CryptoFi, she realized that she had the opportunity to help completely transform and reimagine financial services. If Crypto can shake up banking and payments, why can't it do the same for financial inclusion and literacy efforts? She is now a passionate, action-oriented advocate and consultant who devotes her consulting firm to Interpersonal Violence non-profit organizations.

Her purpose and spiritual mission is to raise the voices of survivors and victims, as well as to advocate for the Financial Services industry to embrace a new category of "Trauma Informed Financial Services" in our communities.

Maia Davis-Singleton is responsible for client support to our global network to network partners and the Americas.

She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Florida A&M University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Loyola University. She is an executive with a breadth of experience across multiple functional teams and various industries.

Maia has worked with a variety of financial services companies including Household Finance, HSBC and Capital One. In addition, she has managed a variety of departments including Marketing, Government Relations and Diversity and Inclusion.

As part of the Business Operations team, Rachel is responsible for internal operational performance tracking, supporting matrix collaboration, is a regular contributor to dynamic industry reporting and is focused on telling the Payment Solutions story within FIS. She thrives when distilling abstract information and data into actionable, strategic solutions and business process improvement.

Rachel is deeply involved in several inclusion networks at FIS. She currently serves as the Global Communications and Marketing Lead for the FIS Aspire Rising Professionals network and is a leader in the FIS Empower Women’s Network – Milwaukee chapter. Each network provides space for her to develop her skills, grow her network and feed her passion for developing rising professionals and women in the fintech industry.

Rachel also volunteers with Wnet in several capacities. She is currently a member of the Rebranding Implementation Task Force where she’s able to put her communications background to use. She also served on the 2022 Leadership Summit Content Team.

Kim Fitzsimmons is building the future of Talus Pay. She is an accomplished payments executive with the vision, drive and passion to help companies grow and achieve sustainable results.

At financial services giant J.P. Morgan, Fitzsimmons served as president of global merchant services. She was chief executive officer of Cynergy Data prior to its merger with Priority Payment Systems and held a number of leadership positions, including North American president of merchant services and community banks, during a long tenure with First Data. A principal and co-founder of EFS Card Services, Fitzsimmons began her 30-year payments career with Concord EFS.

Voted one of the top 100 Global Sales Leaders of 2020 by The Modern Sale, Fitzsimmons has twice been named as one of the Industry’s Most Influential Women in Payments by American Banker and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Midwest Acquirers Association (MWAA). She has also served as president of both the Electronics Transactions Association (ETA) and Women’s Network in Electronic Transactions (Wnet).

Stephanie Foster is a Fintech veteran of 20 years who has climbed the corporate ladder at Fortune 500 companies, private equity owned firms, and a bootstrapped startup. She most recently served as the Chief Administrative Officer at a financial planning startup where she oversaw the firm’s business operations.

Stephanie was named one of the Electronic Transaction Association’s (ETA) Forty Under 40 for 2019, an annual award that celebrates gamechangers in the payments technology industry. In 2018, she was selected from a list of 500 international nominees to participate in Money 20/20’s inaugural Rise Up program, an exclusive cohort of 35 women leaders in the financial services ecosystem. Stephanie is a member of the Advisory Board at Defynance, a fintech leverating income share agreements to refinance student loans.

As part of her commitment to strengthening diversity and inclusion in her industry, Stephanie helped found Women Driving Innovation with the mission to connect, inspire and showcase the next generation of female thought leaders in the technology industry. She has served as a member of the Women’s Network in Electronic Transactions’ (Wnet) Advisory Board. Stephanie is trilingual (Creole, English, French). She received a Bachelor of Science in marketing from Barry University and an Executive Master of Business Administration in international business from Florida Atlantic University. Stephanie resides in Atlanta, GA with her husband and their two children.

Jennifer Frasier is a seasoned HR professional with 25 years of experience within the technology, hospitality, healthcare, waste management and professional services industries.

She currently serves as the first leader of Inclusion & Diversity for FIS, the world's largest provider dedicated to financial technology solutions. In her role, she is responsible for developing and leading the company’s strategy to leverage inclusion and diversity as a change agent to respond to ever-evolving and complex global dynamics and to drive positive bottom-line impact. Prior to FIS, she worked in I&D roles at Marsh & McLennan Companies and Mercer.

Sarah earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at Auburn University, and completed her dietetic internship at Emory University Hospital. After working inpatient at Emory for 5 years, she decided she wanted to transition her career into more of a wellness-based space. She took some time off from clinical practice to pursue her dream of becoming a yoga teacher, while maintaining some part-time work with private nutrition clients on the side.

We are so thrilled to have Sarah on board at STAT wellness, where she can blend her passion for both wellness and nutrition together. When she's not at STAT or teaching yoga, you can find her at her apartment with her husband and two cats, either catching up on some reading and emails by the pool, or cooking a yummy meal that somehow manages to use most of the pans in the kitchen. It's her super power!

Juan Garrido joined Bank of America in 2019 and leads the Global Banking Product team for Merchant Services while providing support to 10K+ global clients spanning Business Banking, Commercial and Large Corporate Banking. Juan is charged with orchestrating the overall product strategy and value proposition for large clients with complex banking and payment processing needs throughout various areas of the bank.

Prior to his current position, Juan spent 18 years at JP Morgan Chase and Co. in multiple leadership roles within Chase Merchant Services and Chase Card Services. During his tenure there, he played an integral role in leading the enablement and strategy of the bank’s proprietary payment network, ChaseNet. In addition, Juan also spent time leading initiatives to elevate the customer experience within the JPMC Payment Network Office.

Juan is a member of Bank of America's LGBTQ+ and Latino/Hispanic Executive Leadership Councils. In addition, he was selected to participate in Bank of America’s Diverse Leadership Sponsorship Program (DLSP).

Laura previously led as the Operations Executive for Featurespace, an award-winning fraud and risk management platform, enabling business growth and customer support in the US for the UK based company. Laura’s history includes a variety of experiences from supporting high profile mergers at Bank of America within eCommerce, the enterprise transition during the legacy Wachovia-Wells Fargo acquisition, and then implementing new technologies, products, and services with Ally Bank (an award winning digital bank) at the onset of its existence.

With a long list of accomplishments, Laura likes to point out that she is most proud of her role in launching a co-branded credit card product, establishing a PCI compliance program, and insourcing externally hosted applications and services. To enable the successful completion of these efforts, Laura managed cross-functional teams and budgets in excess of $40MM, developed business cases, identified long term strategic plans, identified and managed risk, and increased her seat at the leadership table..

Theresa Gongora is the EVP, Finance of Global Payments, a Fortune 500 company. In her role, she is the lead finance executive for Global Payment’s merchant solutions business, responsible for all financial planning activities of a multi-billion dollar, global operating segment.

Prior to her current role, Theresa was the head of corporate strategy at TSYS where she led strategic planning and corporate development. She was a key contributor in merger and acquisition activities which ultimately resulted in the $21.5B merger with Global Payments in September 2019.

Theresa is member of the Board of Directors of GPC Financial Corporation (GPCFC), a Federally Regulated Financial Institution (FRFI) in Canada. She is also a Wnet Past-President of the Board of Directors.

As a Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Global Payments, Robyn Growe is responsible for executing talent strategies to maximize business profitability, performance and team member engagement.

Robyn joined the company in 2008 and has led the HR Business Partner function for several of Global Payments' business units. She and her teams currently partner with the Vertical Markets, International, and Issuer businesses and the Worldwide Product, Operations and Facilities functions.

In his 25 years at Discover, Matt has held leadership roles across Information Technology, Discover’s global Payments business, Lean Management, Human Resources and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I).

He is a graduate of Illinois State University where he and his wife have established the Matt & Sue Johanson Diversity in Technology endowment, and he holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Matt also serves on the Board of Directors of Little Friends, a Chicagoland non-profit organization serving children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities.

Jodie brings over 25 years of experience managing and providing strategic guidance to large organizations. Prior to joining ETA, Jodie was at BSA where she had extensive responsibility for strategic, operational, legal and financial issues. As BSA’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel, she oversaw the primary revenue generating activities for the organization, managed programs that supported the software industry in more than 30 countries and was a spokesperson for BSA and the business software industry in front of a wide variety of audiences.

Previously, Jodie served for six years as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Fannie Mae, a government-sponsored enterprise that helps provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the U.S. housing and mortgage markets. She was responsible for litigation management and advised the CEO, board of directors and business units on a wide range of issues. Before joining Fannie Mae, Jodie was a partner at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., where she managed teams of attorneys and paralegals and represented clients in litigation and before regulatory agencies.

With over 25 years experience in the Payments Industry, Monica’s primary focus has been Sales Strategy, Client Operations, Client Management and Client Implementations within the Merchant Services space. Monica is highly versed in complex client issue resolution, technical integrations, operational excellence and client advocacy.

Monica joined Bank of America’s Enterprise Payments team in March 2019 where she serves as Head of the Global Banking Merchant Services Portfolio team. Prior to this, Monica spent 7 years at Bank of America Merchant Services leading the Relationship Management and Implementation teams within the Global Banking, Commercial Banking and Business Banking segments. Her teams provide premier portfolio management, implementation of new products and services, managing client’s complex payments infrastructure and assisting clients to navigate the changes and expectations resulting from regulatory and compliance initiatives happening in the payments industry.

Edie Kirkman is the VP of Product Development, leading Fiserv’s Online Banking solutions in personal retail, small business, and treasury management. She leads the transformation of the engineering process and architecture strategy to enable the creation of new products faster to help financial institutions compete in this tough economy, as they encounter deposit erosion and heavy competition. She drives multiple top-line growth initiatives across a portfolio of eight banking products that generate $500M+ in annual revenue, serving 2500+ financial institutions in the Up-Market, Community, and Credit Union segments.

Edie’s prior experience includes product leadership at several startups and Fortune 500 companies, including InterContinental Hotels Group and UPS. She has driven the roadmap for multiple global omnichannel and e-commerce platforms to help companies achieve their revenue growth targets. Edie has a diverse background across product management, software development and user-centered design to help companies upgrade user experiences to meet today's client expectations.

Edie’s people-first leadership style focuses on developing talent to transform how we work in this “always-on transformation” era. Edie is also a Gallup Certified Clifton Strength’s coach to help meet the changing workplace demands through strength-based coaching. She helps each person understand what being your best means when you play to your strengths at work and everywhere else.

Kathryn (Kathy) Kmiotek is an influential strategic marketer with years of distinguished performance in the media/publishing, insurance and fintech industry.

Kathy joined Fortis in 2022, however, her payments industry journey began at TSYS, a Global Payments company, in 2017. While she may have been new to the payments industry, she was not new to the SMB merchant audience.

She is a dedicated advocate for women, passionate about lifting and connecting women in the payments and fintech industry. She is a committed Wnet member and a board advisor as part of the Presents Advisory Committee (PAC), additionally she is a Money 202/20 RiseUp alumna

Kathy proudly hails from New York, is a wife and mother of two boys and a graduate of Hunter College – CUNY (undergraduate) and New York University (graduate).

Todd Linden recently served as Chairman and CEO for Paysafe Payment Processing, North America; the world's 5th largest non-bank merchant processor. Mr. Linden has a lifetime of experience in the merchant acquiring business, more recently holding the position of President and CEO of Merchants’ Choice Payment Solutions.

Prior to that, Mr. Linden served as Senior Vice President/Head of Operations at National Processing Company (NPC), President & COO of Card Commerce International, and spent 11 years with Bank of America Merchant Services where he held several key management positions.

Mr. Linden has served multiple terms on the Electronic Transaction Association Board of Directors, the ETA Advisory Board and has chaired several related committees; including the ETA Government Relations Committee. Todd has been a featured speaker at Money 2020, ETA conferences, and several other payment industry forums. Todd has been an advocate of WNet for the payments industry for several years.

Julie Holunga is a leadership trainer and coach who trains and develops attorneys, CPAs and business leaders, with an expertise in the careers of female professionals. Her trainings inspire driven professionals to lead with influence and authority.

She is one of 30 Master Trainers in the world with Emergenetics International, working with teams and individuals to communicate effectively and improve personal and team development. Her TED Talk, "Don’t Let Your Words Sabotage Your Career", speaks to our unintentional habits of undermining our impact and influence by using weak language.

Kristin obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice, Masters of Science in Nursing with a Family Nurse Practitioner focus, and is a Registered Nurse. She is also an entrepreneur, functional and lifestyle medicine guru, personal trainer, group fitness instructor, and lover of everything health and wellness!

Passionate about taking a Personalized Medicine approach, Kristin focuses on uncovering the root cause of chronic illness and disease. Taking into account her patients lifestyle, diet, genetics, environment, and stress, each treatment plan is unique and individualized.

Kristin founded STAT Wellness, which stands for Strength To Achieve Total Wellness, to help transform medicine. Statistically, as a society, we are getting sicker and sicker. At STAT Wellness, we want to partner with you to help you not only look your best but to feel your best by combining the best practices of medicine + movement.

Tommy has spent his 20+ year management consulting career focused on digital financial services and fintech. He works to bring his depth in payments, banking, capital markets, finance & regulation together with the Georgia and global fintech ecosystem to lead and support the objectives of the Georgia Fintech Academy.

Tommy is a graduate of Davidson College and holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University. He has called Atlanta home for the past ten years.

Shannon McCann currently leads the Marketing and Sales Enablement efforts at VizyPay and is responsible for brand growth, the creation of sales tools and education, and marketing strategies to raise awareness for VizyPay's founding pillars.

In her short time at VizyPay, she has held three different titles within the Marketing Department, including, Lead Marketing Strategist, where she was responsible for the origination and execution of campaigns to drive quality lead generation for VizyPay's Strategic Partnerships. Prior to her time in payments, she spent majority of her career in communications at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.

She has a passion for sales enablement and is using her commitment to professional development to make an impact within the industry. She is an active member of Wnet and has a Bachelor's degree in Public Relations from Iowa State University. She currently resides in the Des Moines area, and when not at work, you can find her wrangling her three rescue dogs, Addi, Billie and Ruxin.

Crystal is a Client Services Specialist for the Healthcare line of business at TSYS. She specializes in complex issue resolution, consulting and relationship management. Graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Fort Valley State University, she has more than 13 years of experience.

Crystal has been a member of Wnet since 2018. She serves as a Champion of Champions, the Global Payments Corporate Champion, member of the Atlanta Chapter, Membership Ambassador and served on the Silent Auction Sub Committee for the 2019 Leadership Conference.

She is the President and Board Chair of Atlanta Run Club and is also heavily engaged in the community through the United Way as well as her membership in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Elizabeth is the Director of Corporate Communications at Fiserv. Her passion is strategic communications that develop company culture and advance sales, marketing and public relations.

For more than 18 years, I have positioned, polished and pitched companies (large or small), their leaders (willing or reticent) and products (new or legacy) in financial services, high tech and consumer spaces. Through rigorous planning, research and purposeful communications, I've helped launch start-ups, position companies for acquisition, transition companies through mergers, rebrand products and organizations, grow market share and minimize the impact of incidents.

My experience includes PR planning, execution and evaluation; message development; post-merger or acquisition rebranding; brand building, awareness and management; media and speaker training; analyst and media relations; public speaking; strategic PR counsel to executives; expert source development; team leadership and management; event planning and trade show support; crisis communications planning and execution; and writing and editing.

Laura Miller leads the J.P. Morgan segment of Merchant Services, the global payment acceptance and merchant acquiring business of JPMorgan Chase and a leading provider of payment, fraud management and data security solutions. As J.P. Morgan Merchant Services President, Laura oversees merchant acquiring and payment processing for U.S.-based companies with annual revenue between $20 million and $2 billion and global corporations with annual revenue above $2 billion.

She has more than 20 years of financial services experience, joining JPMorgan Chase in 2009. Most recently, Laura served as President of the U.S. Commercial Bank segment of Merchant Services. She also previously led the Small Business Segment of Merchant Services, leading a team that worked directly with business owners as well as through 5,300 Chase branches.

Before coming to Merchant Services, Laura was President of Chase Ink, the firm’s small business credit card and she has held progressively responsible positions in the J.P. Morgan Global Commercial Card business.

Jay Moran is the SVP of the Platform Engineering organization at Fiserv and came into the position after Fiserv’s acquisition of First Data in 2019. He also holds the title of Fiserv Distinguished Engineer, applying his broad technical acumen across the Fiserv business. Platform Engineering architects and engineers all of the global technology infrastructure for public/private cloud, infrastructure automation, digital transformation, application integration, and developer experiences & pipelines for the multiple business units of Fiserv. In 2021, Jay was asked to join the WIT (Women In Technology) Advisory Board, where he continues supporting their mission in any way he can.

Prior to joining First Data in 2016, Jay led the Technology Operations organization at Vistaprint.com and parent company Cimpress from 2014 to 2016. Prior to Vistaprint, Jay capped his 15-year career at AOL as a VP & Distinguished Engineer.

Jay has also worked for Perot Systems, Tenet Healthcare, and started his career in 1988 at Eastern Data, Inc. Growing up in North Carolina, living in Dallas, the DC Metro and Boston, he, his wife and their four kids (all under 12) now call Atlanta home. He is strong believer in the Oxford comma.

Megan Mountain is a recognized Fintech and ACH expert, with more than 13 years of progressive experience leading cross-functional teams across sales, operations, implementation, product and go-to-market. She currently serves as Director of Product Management at Paya, an industry-leading integrated payments and business solutions provider, and leads Paya’s holistic ACH product strategy and delivery.

A committed advocate for diverse and inclusive work environments, Megan has championed Paya’s continued sponsorship of several industry groups, including Women's Network in Electronic Transactions (Wnet), Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), Women In Technology (WIT) and Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).

Megan’s industry recognition includes The Most Influential Women In Payments, NEXT by PaymentsSource (2021) as well as Forty Under 40 by the Electronic Transaction Association (2022). Additionally, she has been selected for esteemed industry leadership programs including Money 20/20 RiseUp (2021 cohort) and Electronic Transaction Association’s Young Payments Professionals (2022 cohort).

As Chief Diversity Officer, she has changed the culture, and impact of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion across the Company to support its business goals and strategies and the needs and aspirations of its 24,000 employees around the world. She has worked with leaders across Global Payments and many lines of business to build and manage an integrated talent management process through a lens of inclusion.

One of Ms. Parker's significant contributions as SVP Talent Management has led the RFP and implementation process to replace the MSP/VSP provider. Post-merger, Ms. Parker has transformed Global Payment's HR function by identifying new Leadership Capabilities, standardizing succession planning across the organization and introducing career pathing and internal mobility.

Prior to joining Global Payments, Jackie served as the President and Founder of JWP Consulting LLC., a strategic advisory firm that helped the C-suite improve its brand and reputation by developing Equity & Inclusion and Corporate Giving Strategies. Before that she served as President, GM Foundation and Director of Global Corporate Philanthropy. She has held various positions over the course of her career at Newell Rubbermaid, PepsiCo, Nabisco Foods, Campbell Soup Company and Quaker Oats.

Liz Pike is the President of Green Rhino Recruitment, a payments and fintech recruitment firm with offices in Phoenix, Seattle, and Atlanta. Liz has 15 years of payments industry experience, including corporate recruiting and hands-on roles in payments to better understand the industry ecosystem.

Liz resides in Phoenix with her husband, and received her Bachelor’s from Arizona State University. Green Rhino is primarily referral driven and withs with payment facilitators, banks, software companies, startups, international companies, and anything payments or fintech related. Green Rhino Recruitment is a sponsor of Wnet and a member of Merchant Acquiring Committee and Electronic Transaction Association.

Stephanie Polen is an energetic and authentic leader with more than 20 years of executive experience leading teams through massive business transformation while driving bottom-line results. Most of this experience was with one of the payments industry leaders (Vantiv/Worldpay/FIS). She is a visionary who is passionate about developing people to their fullest potential. With experience in roles ranging from Product Development and Human Resources to Marketing and Business Development, Stephanie brings her diverse experience and passion for individual development to drive change and motivate individuals for success.

She practices what she preaches when it comes to professional and personal change. After almost 20 years in high-growth companies, Stephanie transitioned into the role of entrepreneur and business owner of The Polen Group.

Dr. Katelyn Raymond is a Physical Therapist, Trainer, and Coach. Katelyn graduated from Georgia State University with her Doctorate of Physical Therapy and is trained in rehab based Pilates through Polestar and ACSM for Personal Training. Katelyn specializes in Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, which is integral in assessing all aspects of functional health.

She is passionate about injury prevention and loves to educate her clients on proper body mechanics. Katelyn loves getting to know her clients and encouraging healthy lifestyle changes. She looks forward to helping you accomplish your goals to help you live your best, pain-free life. When she's not at STAT, you can find Katelyn taking long walks around town with her husband and their puppy, Arbor, spending time with friends outdoors, or practicing new stability moves.

Eva Robinson is a Managing Director in the Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB). In her role as an Industry Head, Eva leads a team of Treasury Service sales and service managers to offer a differentiated model to client engagement. Externally, the team bring a uniquely tailored Wholesale Payments value proposition to the large US Government, Public Sector and Multi-Lateral organizations to foster relationships and drive revenue. Internally, the team represents the “voice of the client” on emerging trends and client needs. Eva serves as the senior Treasury Services executive in Washington, DC for Federal client relationship management. She is a member of J.P. Morgan’s Washington, DC Market Leadership Team.

Eva also serves as the Executive Sponsor for J.P. Morgan’s participation in the US Treasury’s Minority Bank Mentor Protégé program working internally and externally to increase financial inclusion in underserved areas and promote sustainability for the MDI community.

Eva holds a MS degree in Organizational Leadership and is an alumnus of the International Institute for Management Development’s Executive Education program, Lausanne, Switzerland.

John Skinner is the head of Core Payments and Value Added Services providing a range of payment solutions to corporate clients spanning from middle market to large corporate organizations. Serving clients in the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB), Commercial Bank (CB) and Business Banking lines of business, Core Payments and Value Added Services products include; Commercial Card, Prepaid Card, ACH, Disbursements, Corporate Clearing and Corporate Zelle. Integrated Payables/Receivables and Bill Presentments/Payments.

John joined J.P. Morgan in 2011 to lead Commercial Card Partnerships. In 2016, John took over leadership for Commercial Card Client Management. In this role, John had overall responsibility for Commercial Card client sales and relationship management across the bank. In 2019, John was named Head of Commercial Card and was responsible for all aspects of the business. During his tenure with Commercial Card John implemented strategies to drive record sales and growth including an international expansion of the business.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan John held various positions at American Express over a period of 17 years including product management, marketing, sales, relationship management, finance and business management.

Amanda Stanzione is the Founder and President of 360 Talent, a woman-owned and operated recruiting firm specializing in the Product and Technology space.

Prior, Amanda served as a Product Leader at Paya where she was responsible for expanding the organization’s product management and commercialization efforts in preparation for the company going public. Before Paya, Amanda was the General Manager of a multi-million dollar business unit at First Data where she scaled and grew the organization prior to the acquisition by Fiserv.

Passionate about advancing the careers of women in technology, Amanda spends much of her time volunteering with organizations like Women in Technology (WIT) and her alma mater, Georgia State University, where she is a board member for the Robinson School of Business’ Executive MBA program. Outside of work, Amanda can be found spending time with her husband traveling to their favorite beach, binge-watching her favorite shows or visiting their kids at UGA and UTC.

For 20 years, Whitney Stewart Russell has been focused on the ways technology can enhance consumer financial services experiences. Whitney’s combined expertise in consumer payment behavior, customer segment strategy, and retail banking products have prepared her for a leadership role at Fiserv. Whitney is currently tasked with guiding management of development of Fiserv’s Digital Banking and Digital Lending Solutions for banks and credit unions.

Prior to joining Fiserv, Whitney held executive positions at Higher One, SunTrust Bank and Discover Financial Services. She has also held senior management positions at Carreker, Bank of America, eFunds Corporation and Deluxe Corporation.

A recognized industry thought leader, Whitney has served on the Steering Committee of the US EMV Migration Forum, the MasterCard Debit Advisory Board, the MasterCard Point of Interaction Advisory Board, the STAR Network Advisory Board, the Accel Exchange Advisory Council, the Deluxe Corporation Collaborative, the Consumer Bankers Association Interchange Working Group, and the Financial Services Roundtable Interchange Working Group.

One of the country's leading authorities on payment systems law, Holli is a partner at Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss. She is a Board Member of Jaffe, and chairs the firm’s Electronic Payments Group, which specializes in card processing, ACH, fintech, money transmitter and payments systems law.

Holli has been recognized as a Most Influential Woman in Payments, Best Lawyer in America, Michigan Super Lawyer, and DBusiness Top Lawyer. She has received the MWAA Industry Achievement Award and numerous other industry awards.

Holli serves on the board of directors of MAC (Merchant Acquirer's Committee) and is a past president of ETA. She blogs at www.electronicpaymentslaw.com.

Jess leads the strategy, design, development and commercialization of Mastercard’s blockchain, digital assets, crypto and open banking products. She is also responsible for driving fintech innovation via various programs including Start Path, Mastercard’s global startup engagement program.

Since 2006, Jess has held various roles of increasing responsibility at Mastercard including customer engagement and collaboration with telecommunications companies and banks where she was responsible for delivering both card and digital solutions, as well as payment experiences for both emerging and developed markets. She has extensive experience working with key issuers globally and advancing the company’s inclusive growth strategy in North America.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Jess led product development at Affinion Loyalty Group after beginning her career at Capital One for over 5 years.

Polly has more than 20 years of recruiting and talent identification experience including the past 14 years in Payments and FinTech building and leading Talent Acquisition teams with Greenings International, Bank of America Merchant Services, Heartland Payment Systems and WorldPay.

She dedicates much of her own time to organizations focused on empowering women and has led enterprise-wide Women’s Leadership Networks and is on the Executive Board for Wnet. Her love for championing women spans her professional and personal life where she serves as a coach and mentor for women.

Polly further demonstrates her commitment to giving back to organizations like Sleep in Heavenly Peace, where she and her husband, build beds for kids who are sleeping on the floor and she was just appointed to the Board of La Amistad, an organization committed to education, after school programs and camps for underserved Latino children.

For the past 10 years Helen has served in various key leadership and organizational development roles within the Human Resources Partnership at University of California, Irvine. Helen’s extensive experience includes over 25 years of experience in human capital improvement in various Director and Sr. Leadership Team roles.

She has worked as both as a consultant and in internal roles for both profit and not-for-profit organizations, within various industries. Helen has a passion for and expertise in leadership development, facilitation, consulting and coaching.

Helen’s focus, in all her endeavors, is to help others unleash their potential and live their best lives, from the inside out!

Debra Fine joined PSCU in September 2018 after several years as a consultant to PSCU in leadership and organizational development. Fine currently serves at managing vice president of the learning and organizational development business unit.

She has over 25 years of leadership coaching, leadership development and organizational development experience as an external consultant and internal team member

Deb’s passion is to foster organizational success through leaders and their teams. This passion led to co-founding Wired4Women with Helen. The future is abundant with opportunities to help others achieve their GREATNESS!