Austin K. Email & Phone Number

Austin is the Founder and Principal at Apricety llc. which helps merchants and issuers create value around their payments strategies. He is an 18 year veteran of the payments industry. He is considered a pricing and revenue expert and has a thorough understanding of the costs and revenue drivers throughout the value chain from cardholders to merchants to issuers and payment networks. • Business Development.• Crafting and delivering partnership deals with networks, brands and issuers, creating new revenue.• Deep dive analysis into transaction drivers and cardholder customer payment behaviors.• Helping merchants review and drive down their processing costs and create new revenue streams.• Creating partnerships to help drive transaction growth for merchants.• Customizing new technologies and processes for mobile and e-commerce transactions.• Creating and executing cross border transaction retail strategies driving margin expansion.• Monitize a merchants payment process to reduce the cost of acceptance.Customer list has included: Fanatics, Official Partner to the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL & NASCARRue La La, Boutique On-line RetailerSun Ben, Whole Sale Fashion AccessoriesLuxing Look, On-line Fashion Retailer

Plantation, Florida, Us

Ownership of Payments and Fraud, end to endBuilt and managed the Riskified Fraud Management parntershipBuilt and managed the Payments Product, Operations and Analytics teamsOwned the strategy and managed the Payments Cost of AcceptanceOwned the strategy and managed all third party Payment Partnerships including Networks and ProcessorsLargest Publicly traded, pure play E-Commerce Pet Products Direct to Pet Parents Retailer

New York, Ny, Us

Head of Payments Strategy for the Cost of Acceptance and Partnership Business DevelopmentFanatics is a market leading, global sports internet company with $2.4 Billion in annual sales. We partner closely with the most important sports leagues, teams, schools and players in the world : Leagues such as the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, NASCAR; Teams/schools such as the Seahawks, Giants, 49ers, ManU, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Man City, Everton, NY Knicks, Bulls, Notre Dame, UK, UNC, Cal, Stanford; Players such as Steph Curry, Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Judge and Kris Bryant.Leading the Fanatics' partnership development with Financial Institutions to create turn key brand partnerships in both e-commerce and in venue. Merchant brand partnerships, tailored partner promotions, advertising, social media, sponsorship opportunities, athlete and experiential opportunities and merchant technology innovation.Managed the Cost of Acceptance with all Network Brands and Payment partners.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Responsible for economic development and execution of MasterCard’s global products, network and service pricing and interchange strategy. Partnered with product managers and regional leads on cross functional teams to bring new products and services to market.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Responsible for all aspects of the new business deal process for MasterCard globally. Managed the profitability metrics, targets and performance reviews of the multi-billion dollar sales incentive fund.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Managed the team responsible for the incentive sales platform. Part of the management team responsible for pricing analysis and profitability performance.

Mba, Finance And Accounting

Ba, Economics And English Literature