Gordon Cooper, Icd.D Email & Phone Number

Canada

Halifax And London

I’m a co-founder at RTGS.global. I was COO from company founding in 2019 to end-2023. Now I'm an advisor. RTGS.global is a cloud-native Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) that enables Payment-vs-Payment (PvP) settlement for FX trades in the interbank market, based on liquidity backed by central bank funds. We support end-to-end instant cross-border.

Many fintechs are changing the way payments are made, including payments that run off the big card networks -- Visa and MasterCard. A lot of the innovation is hitting the front-end (UX/CX). PayTic is different. It's gone after a critical but neglected part of card payments: the back office (disputes, fraud, scheme fees -- all the fun stuff that.

Dr. Jackie Kinley is a gem for Nova Scotia and Canada. A psychiatrist by training, she has dedicated a good portion of her life to supporting those with acute mental illness. But her greatest gift lies in her unique protocol that is designed to prevent, or at least stem, a slide into mental deconditioning -- before it's too late. Jackie is a champion for.

Halifax, Canada Area

This was a stint of freelance consulting. My primary client was CFFI Ventures, the investment arm of one of Canada's most of successful entrepreneurs and business mentors, John Risley. I came to know John through his investment in Kinduct (-->Movella), where I was COO. I supported CFFI in their investment in ClearBank, a leader in agency banking and.

Halifax, Canada Area

Kinduct (now part of Movella) was a home-grown success story in Halifax, Nova Scotia, founded by a friend and entrepreneur, Travis McDonough. With a bunch of talented buddies, Travis his personal passion for sports and human performance and turned it into a booming business. The company was a pioneering SportsTech firm that built a digital Athlete.

Singapore

This was a dream job of sorts, as a member of the Asia Pacific Leadership Team (APLT). We split Asia into multiple P&L business units, from Japan, China, and a cluster up other markets up north, to Oceania down south, and South Asia to the west. Southeast Asia rounded it out, itself with two units: one with more developed card markets (Malaysia, Singapore.

Singapore

This role evolved as we consolidated multiple assets related to emerging market payments capabilities into a single business unit. It subsumed the product my team had created and trialled in Rwanda (mVISA -- see below) and other assets that had been forged out of the acquisition of Cape Town based Fundamo.The business unit -- "Emerging Markets Digital".

Singapore And Rwanda

I led a skunkworks project charged with incubating new business models for Visa to meet the needs of low income, unbanked consumers in emerging markets. We invented and patented a first-of-its kind mobile money service designed to bring interoperability between financial institutions and mobile network operators (MNOs). In looking for the right market to.

Singapore

Today, mobile payments are so embedded in everyday life that we don’t even call them that. They’re just payments. We tap our phones on a reader and march on with our coffee, or pass through a ticket gantry to board a subway train. No big deal. It wasn’t that way in 2006. This job was an exciting five year stretch where I ran innovation for mobile financial.

Singapore

During this year, I was Country Manager for Visa in Singapore and Brunei. I think the correct term for career instalments like this is "teachable moment". Or "learning opportunity". Being Singapore country manager for a great company like Visa is a privilege. I was fortunate to be entrusted with it. But it turns out, it wasn't for me. With the benefit of.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

In this role, I was general manager for Visa's business in Indochina, serving as Visa's first on-the-ground Country Manager in Vietnam, with additional responsibility for Cambodia and Laos. (Actually, I was Country Manager for Myanmar, too, but because Myanmar was subject to OFAC sanctions from the US Department of State, my only responsibility at the time.

Singapore

I was responsible for Visa’s product innovation agenda in Asia Pacific, covering e-commerce, smart cards, mobile commerce, and money transfers. During this time, my team launched Visa’s first-ever EMV chip-based contactless payment card service (Malaysia, 2004) – the basis for the contactless payment card offering that is now a mainstream global service.

Tokyo, Japan

This was a defined-term assignment to Visa's Tokyo office to kick start Visa's migration from magnetic stripe-based payment cards to smart cards in Japan – one of the first country-wide migrations in the world.Because Japan has always been so close to my heart, and because I had some facility for the language (however imperfect!), this was a great.

London Area, United Kingdom

For this, my second year in London, I was initially unsure of what to expect, returning back to Visa after a year's adventure at a startup. It ended up a fabulous year. I worked in the head office for Visa's Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) region. It was a stimulating year, with a mish-mash of exciting projects, ranging from.

London Area, United Kingdom

SmartAxis was an e-commerce micropayment startup born out of AT&T Unisource. When my wife and I decided to move from Singapore to London for her to pursue her MBA, I left Visa and joined SmartAxis. It was my first taste of startup life (which I would return to)! SmartAxis had a creative solution to a real problem but, ultimately, the impact of the dotcom.

Singapore

My first 'real' job in business was as a contract staffer in the emerging payments group at Visa, working mainly on smart card related projects and e-commerce. I then became permanent. My wife and I had moved to Singapore with suitcases and nothing more. No job, not even any firm lead. (Immigration officials allowed you to do that back then.) One thing led.

Tokyo, Japan

As part of my MBA, I did an internship at Canadian Airlines in Tokyo. Looking back at it now, they gave me a lot of rope for an intern, empowering me to meet with travel agents and corporate clients in Tokyo as part of an effort to formalize a sales division focused on corporate clients. This was my first taste of the business world, and it was in Tokyo..

Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

In 1994, my girlfriend (now wife) and I graduated from undergrad and wanted a year abroad before going to grad school. Without much science or forethought, we chose Japan, where we understood native English speakers could easily find employment as English teachers. She landed a great job as a teacher in a program sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of.

Icd.D

Accredited ICD.D corporate director. (Exam completion: 27 May 2024.)

Director Education Program (Dep) (Corporate Governance)

Completed ICD-DEP coursework and both written and oral exams at Canada's leading corporate governance training program, leading to ICD.D.

Mba, Asia / Japan Stream

Activities and Societies: Overseas exchange at International University of Japan (Niigata Prefecture) International MBA program within.

Education record

Ba (Hons), Political Science

Focus on International Relations. Joint degree with Dalhousie University.

Education record