The Future of Cards & Payments

Marketforce and the IEA's 5th Annual Conference: Discuss advanced payments and hear from leading market innovators at the UK’s premier strategic event

27th & 28th June 2012, One Whitehall Place, London

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Speakers:

Steve Perry

Commercial Director, Visa Europe

Biography

Dr Steve Perry joined Visa in 1990 and is Executive Vice President and Commercial Director for Visa Europe, based in London. He is responsible for delivering Visa's business plans and strategies in 36 markets, with a team present in 20 countries.

Steve was previously Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Visa Europe. Steve is a member of the Visa Europe Executive Management Committee.

Steve directed Visa's preparations for the single European currency, working with Visa's members to ensure the transition was smooth and cost-effective and made the world's first euro transaction in 1999. Prior to joining Visa, Steve was Group Economist for the TSB group.

He holds a Masters degree in economics from the University of London and a doctorate in the same subject from the University of Keele.

Steve is also a Non Executive Director and Chair of the ARF of E-ACT, a fast growing foundation established to promote excellence in education and learning in City Academies. He is also a Board Member of the CBI Financial Services Council, the 2012 Social Legacy Board and TheCityUK.

Steve was awarded the title of Cavaliere by the President of Italy in July 2005.

Simon Cadbury

Head of Strategy & New Technology, Credit Cards, Lloyds Banking Group

Dave Reynolds

Head of Debit Cards, Barclays Bank

Jan Pieter Lips

Managing Director, Nectar

Stephen Harrison

Chief Executive, National Fraud Authority

Matthew Mayo

Head, Market Expansion & Expert Sales, Mastercard

Biography

Matthew joined MasterCard in 2010 and is Head of Market Expansion and Expert Sales for UK and Ireland. In the Market Expansion team, Matthew is responsible for maximising business development opportunities with new customers in traditional and non-traditional sectors in the UK and Ireland division. Matthew is also responsible for the Expert Sales team, with focus on Core Payments looking after Debit, Credit, PrePaid and Commercial products. His team work to identify, develop and deliver customer led opportunities for MasterCard’s existing customer base.

Rob Harper

Head of Retail Services EMEA, Paypal

Karen Tyler

Head of Fraud Strategy, Santander

Debbie Strickland

Co-operative Financial Services

Tom Gregory

Head of Digital Payments, Barclaycard

Biography

Tom Gregory is responsible for the digital payments strategy at Barclaycard UK, including NFC / mobile payments, online payments, and adjacent areas in the payments cycle. He was previously head of change at the card company, tasked with overhauling the merchant acquiring, commercial and international lending and issuing business, which included integrating 1.5 million Goldfish card customers into Barclaycard's operations. Prior to joining the firm he worked at FirstCaribbean Bank in 2003 where he oversaw the merger of Barclays Caribbean and CIBC to create the new entity.

Daniel Angel

Head of Mobile Payments, Everything Everywhere

Karen Walsh

Head of Orange Cash, Orange

Phil Sowter

Director, Mobile Banking, Barclays

Johan Bendz

Chief Marketing Officer, iZettle

Gerhard Romen

Mobile Financial Services Director, Nokia

Rene Batsford

Head of Information Technology, EAT

Janet Smith

Clubcard Director, Tesco Stores

Biography

Janet is the Group Clubcard Director at Tesco - accountable for both Tesco UK Clubcard Operation and also for developing the Clubcard strategy and Operating Model for the Tesco Group. Janet has worked at Tesco for 17 years and prior to working on Clubcard was Space, Range and Merchandising Director and Price, Promotions and Trade Planning Director.

Earlier in her career Janet was a buyer in fresh food and qualified as a Management Accountant starting her career in Finance at Nestle and Mars confectionery.

Janet graduated from Loughborough University in Economics and Accountancy, where she was able to pursue her love of Athletics in which she represented Great Britain in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Max Geerling

Head of Card & iDEAL Payments, Currence

Biography

Since 2011, Max Geerling is Head of Cards and iDEAL Payments at Currence, the owner of the Dutch electronic payment products and online payments system iDEAL.

Following his study in computing science, Geerling started his career as a researcher and architect.

From 2002, he held a management position at a software & electronics engineering company, where he was responsible for projects in e-payments, mobile payments and payment terminals.

Next, Geerling was a managing consultant, acting in various roles and projects, most recently concerning SEPA products and cards (acquiring & processing).

Geerling holds a PhD in Computing Science from the University of Nijmegen.

Yann Gourvennec

Director – Web, Digital & Social Media, Orange Group

Ian Benn

Managing Director, FIS Global