John Payne

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Jumpstart CEO | Chairman | Strategic Advisor @ Concentrate LLC
Laguna Beach, CA, US
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Laguna Beach, California, United States, United States
About John Payne

Former CEO of two public Internet companies, Stamps.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: STMP) and Day Software (Zurich SWX: DAYN), founder and CEO of two banking/FinTech startups, Executive Chairman and interim or jumpstart CEO for other tech companies in XR, mobile, fintech, cybersecurity and SaaS. Inventor and patent owner with 20+ issued patents in smartphone, push notifications, Internet messaging, cybersecurity, digital mail and social search. Experienced fundraiser with over $1 Billion in transactions as CEO, including $650+ million in public and private venture capital raised from well-known funds, institutions and strategic investors.Exits include one IPO (Stamps.com, Inc.: NASDAQ: STMP), one turnaround of a public enterprise software company (SWX: DAYN) later acquired by Adobe, one cybersecurity sale to a public company (NYSE: McAFEE), one cybersecurity sale to Trustwave, a merger with a company going public on the NASDAQ (CFI Proservices: PROI) and the founding, growth and sale of the first loan origination software (LOS) company in the US, which grew to have 9,000 banks as customers and is now owned by Wolters Kluwer (AMS:WKL).Started life as a Wilderness Ranger for the US Forest Service working on foot, horseback and skis. In a post COVID world, splits his time between Laguna Beach, CA and other parts of the American West.

John Payne's Current Company Details
Concentrate LLC

Concentrate Llc

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Jumpstart CEO | Chairman | Strategic Advisor
Laguna Beach, CA, US
Website:
concentrate.com
Employees:
2
John Payne Work Experience Details
  • Concentrate Llc
    Jumpstart Ceo | Chairman | Strategic Advisor
    Concentrate Llc
    Laguna Beach, Ca, Us
  • Croquet Labs, Inc
    Chairman And Ceo
    Croquet Labs, Inc May 2021 - Present
    Croquet Labs is the core technology provider to Multisynq Network and the Multisynq Foundation.
  • Gigxr
    Chairman
    Gigxr Feb 2019 - Present
    Los Angeles, California, Us
    GIGXR is a SaaS Education and Training Platform for Extended Reality (XR) in higher ed, medical and nursing schools, hospitals, vocational schools, industry, the US Department of Defense and college prep markets. In 2019 GIGXR, Inc. ( www.gigxr.com ) acquired the global mixed reality and immersive learning assets of Pearson PLC, the largest education publisher in the world. The company is headquartered in Venice, CA in the Southern California tech ecosystem. The company continues with senior sales leadership in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
  • Concentrate Llc
    Jumpstart Ceo | Chairman | Strategic Advisor
    Concentrate Llc Mar 2004 - Present
    Newport Beach, Ca, Us
    Concentrate provides advisory, turnaround, interim CEO, Executive Chairman, CEO coaching and strategic consulting for Internet related management teams and their boards and investors. Focus on SaaS, FinTech, mobile, consumer Internet, cybersecurity, digital mail/logistics and other sectors. Interim work includes supporting the efforts of current management, management transitions or evaluating strategic alternatives, including managing the sale of the company. Advisory work includes business model, growth and strategy problem solving. Frequently spend a day or two a week in the company with young management teams accelerating their plans and operations.www.concentrate.com
  • Simpleair, Inc.
    Chairman & Founder
    Simpleair, Inc. 2004 - Nov 2020
    SimpleAir was an inventor owned technology licensing company with fundamental patents relating to smartphone messaging, alerts and push notification technology connecting sites on the Internet with hundreds of millions of user devices in real time.John is the lead inventor of all of the patents in the SimpleAir portfolio, which number more than 20 patents in two families and have priority to January of 1996. The SimpleAir patent portfolio is widely licensed across the smartphone industry for its highly efficient method for enabling push notifications while optimizing device resources when communicating from very large numbers of Internet based content providers to hundreds of millions of mobile receiving devices. Licensees include Apple for its Apple Push Notification Service, Google, Microsoft, RIM, Amazon, Yahoo, Facebook, Disney, ESPN and others.
  • Volunteercrowd
    Advisor And Shareholder
    Volunteercrowd Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
    Irvine, Ca, Us
    Volunteer Crowd is a Volunteer Marketplace and Transcript Platform for College and Career Bound Students. It's transcript service helps students create a rich history of service learning and social-emotional skill building, including achievements, milestones, and recommendations from organizations they serve. Students’ portfolios are portable, capturing every project beginning in K-12 through college, to fully represent their community contributions on undergraduate and graduate college, scholarship, internship, scholarship, and job applications.
  • Rex, Inc.
    Advisor & Shareholder
    Rex, Inc. Jan 2014 - Apr 2020
    Austin, Texas, Us
    Over the last 20 years, the Internet has changed the way we live, from booking travel to watching movies, and from paying taxes to banking. Online transactions are faster, cheaper to execute, more convenient and generally more secure. Residential real estate, by contrast, remains stuck in a high-cost business model that pre-dates the Internet and remains stubbornly resistant to change. Harnessed properly, technology can help a lot - already, nearly 90% of consumers looking for a home go to sites like Zillow or Google to find and eventually select the properties that best suit their needs.REX was created in 2015 to bring residential real estate into line with today's expectations by using AI and big data to push past the outmoded practices of traditional real estate brokers to provide a superior outcome for both buyers and sellers at one-third the cost. So how does REX do it? We use data modeling and machine learning to match sellers and buyers of homes as accurately and speedily as possible on Zillow, Google, Facebook and more. And by doing that, we can reduce costs for all involved - REX charges a fixed 2% covering both sides of the transaction instead of the 5-6% charged by traditional brokers.
  • Lendingarch
    Member Board Of Directors
    Lendingarch Jan 2016 - Mar 2020
    Ca
    LendingArch gives customers choice. We help borrowers get a credit card, an auto loan or personal loan by allowing them to search for the right deal in one spot for credit card and personal loan providers. Using our intuitive “love score”, Canadians are able to enter their basic information into one application and within seconds be matched to cards and loans that they will most likely be accepted for, this reduces the risk of being rejected and having multiple hits on their credit report.Our mission is to help Canadians find the best rates and see how they can save money.LendingArch acquired Loanz in 2016.
  • Loanz Private Credit Fund
    General Partner
    Loanz Private Credit Fund 2014 - Sep 2019
    Los Angeles, California, Us
    The Loanz Private Credit Fund (QP) (the “Fund”) seeks to generate consistent, risk-adjusted net annual returns of 8.0% - 10.5% by investing in a diversified pool of fully-amortizing unsecured consumer loans originated by the Loanz, Inc. online platform. Loanz proprietary credit underwriting combines well established credit scoring and risk analytic tools with an assessment of borrower characteristics that are not available to credit reporting agencies. The Fund invests across all credit grades.
  • Loanz Private Credit Fund
    Chairman
    Loanz Private Credit Fund Nov 2013 - Jan 2016
    Los Angeles, California, Us
    Loanz is a Private Credit Platform for marketplace lending upon which many loan products and companies can be built, all using common underwriting infrastructure “powered by Loanz.” It represents the next generation of peer to peer lending in the $1Trillion market for financial services.The team is made up of lenders with many years of experience scaling wholesale and retail loan origination platforms that have produced over $50 Billion in loans plus technology industry veterans with a track record for building world class platforms at scale in heavily regulated environments.Loanz was acquired by LendingArch in January 2016. LendingArch, an OmniArch company, is an ensemble of global entrepreneurs, business leaders, and tech experts that have set out to re-invent lending with an online platform that puts the borrower at the center of the equation. OmniArch is part of the OmniArch Group of Companies and offers investment opportunities to qualified investors in the exempt market across Canada, and supports multi-language communities including French and Chinese. Loanz was "gestated" inside of Outset Ventures.
  • Digital Offering Llc
    Advisory Board Member
    Digital Offering Llc Oct 2013 - Mar 2019
    Laguna Beach, California, Us
    Digital Offering is a tech-focused merchant bank, launched in 2013, that partners with and invests in high-quality private and public companies. We bring efficiency and professionalism to the private placement process by combining the best practices of institutional-level research, sales and corporate finance with new securities industry rules implemented by the JOBS Act. Digital Offering’s principals have decades of experience in capital markets and advisory. We offer proprietary investment opportunities to funds, strategic investors, and accredited investors, many of whom previously had no access to such transactions due to regulations that prohibited general solicitation. But we’re NOT crowdfunders: Our business is built on close relationships with institutional money managers and high net worth individuals and their wealth managers, not individual investors making small investments. And because we participate in our transactions, our interests are aligned with those of our partners. Digital Offering LLC is a licensed SEC broker dealer and FINRA/SIPC member.
  • Outset Ventures
    Managing Director
    Outset Ventures Jun 2013 - Jan 2016
    Irvine, Ca, Us
    Outset Ventures is a start-up studio where a central enterprise fosters successful development of multiple production companies by providing operating expertise, packaging and team building, relationships, know-how and capital to develop ideas into companies. Outset is not an incubator or a venture firm. It is an operator focused on turning valuable ideas into operating companies with exit velocity through business creation, jumpstarts, turnarounds or combinations.Outset's focus on young companies in the FinTech space, including in marketplace lending, private credit funds and cryptocurrency, have resulted in one acquisition and several currently stealth projects.
  • Local Corporation (Nasdaq: Locm)
    Member Board Of Directors
    Local Corporation (Nasdaq: Locm) Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
    Irvine, Ca, Us
    Local Corporation was a leading national online media company that connects merchants and consumers using powerful technology platforms. Local provides a host of innovative business solutions including digital marketing products and tools such as local business and product search, mobile, SEO, web hosting, social media and daily deals—all to help merchants grow their business.John was recruited to join the Local Board of Directors as part of a turnaround effort in a declining business with a focus on a significant patent portfolio acquired in a series of prior acquisitions. Setbacks in distribution relationships combined with an acceleration in the decline of core revenues resulted in the company seeking strategic alternatives in the spring of 2015 which resulted in its sale in November 2015 as part of a bankruptcy proceeding.
  • Digital Post Australia
    Member Board Of Directors
    Digital Post Australia Oct 2011 - Jul 2013
    Digital Post Australia was a joint venture between Computershare Limited (ASX: AU:CPU), FUJI-Xerox/Salmat Limited (ASX: SLM) and Zumbox Inc. This collaboration, including Australia’s leading essential communications providers, was destined to bring the world’s first all-Digital Postal Mail service to every household in Australia. This proven platform, pioneered by Zumbox in the USA and licensed in a joint venture to DPA, provides an Australian-based Digital Post service to all consumers across Australia. This offering allows consumers to receive their important postal mail, such as bills, statements, insurance documents, government mail, stock and brokerage disclosures and annual reports in one central and secure online location.After a fierce multi year battle with Australia Post fought in the market and in the courts, the company was unwound in 2014.
  • Zumbox, Inc.
    Turnaround Ceo & Board Member
    Zumbox, Inc. 2010 - Jun 2013
    Zumbox was the leading provider of digital postal mail services. The company created a web-based platform for the delivery of paperless mail. For every U.S. street address, there is a corresponding digital mailbox – a Zumbox – enabling mail and other content to be sent as digital files and received online with no paper, printing or postage.In April of 2014 the company was wound down after a valiant 5 year effort to change the world.
  • Breach Security, Inc (Acq'D: Trustwave)
    Jumpstart Ceo ==> Chairman / Board Member
    Breach Security, Inc (Acq'D: Trustwave) 2004 - 2010
    John partnered with venture investors to acquire an Israeli security and services company and migrate that company to an Enterprise and SMB application security company in the United States market, leaving engineering as an operating group in Herzliya. Funded by Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Evergreen Ventures, Pitango Venture Capital and Sid R. Bass Associates. (Acq'd: Trustwave www.trustwave.com )
  • Circleup, Inc
    Ceo
    Circleup, Inc 2006 - Dec 2009
    CircleUp, Inc. was the leading group messaging platform for payments, wireless and VOIP services. It's primary offering, SmartMessage Center, combined a structured Internet messaging service for groups with a messaging gateway that connects email, the instant messaging networks and social networks, including Facebook, proprietary providers such as Kintera in the non-profit markets and many others. CircleUp operated a consumer service and offered co-branded and white label communications services for partners including eteamz and The ActiveNetwork, Kintera (Nasdaq: KTA), Blackbaud and other software as service providers of vertical applications.
  • Preventsys (Acq'D: Nyse Mcafee)
    Jumpstart Ceo ==> Chairman
    Preventsys (Acq'D: Nyse Mcafee) 2002 - 2006
    Us
    Preventsys was an innovative IT GRC product that aggregated security data from other security products to help companies understand how well they were implementing technical controls associated with major regulatory policies such as HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, and PCI. Acquired by McAfee in 2006, Preventsys became the building blocks for McAfee Risk Advisor. Enterprise regulatory compliance and security risk management company funded by Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, APAX Partners and UVEN.
  • Day Software (Swx:Dayn) (Acq'D: 2010 Adobe (Nasdaq: Adbe)
    Turnaround Ceo
    Day Software (Swx:Dayn) (Acq'D: 2010 Adobe (Nasdaq: Adbe) 2001 - 2003
    Day was a leading provider of global enterprise content management solutions. Its customers range from the largest financial institution in the world to well known global brands such as McDonalds Corporation, DaimlerChrysler, Volkswagen, Intercontinental Hotels Group and the European Central Bank.Objective of the turnaround was to migrate a low gross margin professional services business to a high gross margin enterprise software business leveraging the powerful roots of the team.Day was public on the Swiss Stock Exchange during the time of the turnaround effort and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and Newport Beach, CA. It was later acquired by Adobe (Acq'd: 2010 Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) in 2010 as a strategic acquisition to form a foundational part of the Adobe Creative Cloud.
  • Stamps.Com
    Ceo / Chairman
    Stamps.Com Feb 1998 - Jun 2001
    El Segundo, Ca, Us
    Stamps.com (NASDAQ: STMP) is a rapidly growing software-as-a-service public company listed on the NASDAQ that is highly profitable and owns dominant market share in its offerings. He joined the pre-revenue, pre-regulatory approval company when it had 5 employees and $600,000 in cash having been recruited by its Series A investors and during his tenure the company gained 385,000 subscription SaaS customers, realized a $65 Million IPO / NASDAQ public offering and a highly successful, $365 Million Secondary Offering co-managed by Goldman Sachs and Salomon Smith Barney while gaining 85% share in its market segment.Stamps.com developed the first FIPS 140 Level 3/4 cryptographic stored value system operated over the Internet and during John's tenure quickly acquired and served 385,000 consumer and SMB customers with federally regulated postage from the US Postal Service, delivered via hosted wallets and remote key management.Venture investors included Enterprise Partners VC, Redpoint Venture Capital, ForestBinkleyBrown, Chase Capital, Vulcan Ventures, Intel Ventures, et al.
  • Encryptix, Inc.
    Founding Chairman
    Encryptix, Inc. 1999 - 2001
    EncrypTix, Inc. delivered stored value "crypto as a service" for mobile devices, providing the storage, transmission, and verification of value over mobile networks and the Internet via one of the earliest centralized cryptonomic networks. Its secure technology platform was licensed from Stamps.com as a means of creating a non-regulated business leveraging the highly valuable Stamps cryptography technology assets.Focusing on the events, travel, and financial services industries, EncrypTix delivered tickets, coupons, vouchers, certificates, and other forms of value–bearing instruments over public and private networks to any device, including printers, smart cards, PDAs, and wireless devices. The company was funded by a world class league of financial and strategic partners and investors including The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), Stamps.com (NASDAQ: STMP); Vulcan Ventures, Inc. ; American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (NYSE: AMEX); Galileo International; GetThere.com, Inc.; Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corporation; Mail Boxes Etc. USA, Inc.; Mitsubishi International Corporation; Sabre Holdings, Inc.( NYSE: AMR) ; SunAmerica Investment, Inc.; and Tickets.com, Inc.(NASDAQ: TIXX)These industry leaders invested in the company and forged partnering and customer agreements to secure transaction, authentication and verification technology for their respective products and services.The company went through an orderly wind down during the Siberian Winter following the crash of the NASDAQ in 2001.
  • Airmedia
    President And Ceo
    Airmedia 1994 - 1998
    Us
    The AirMedia Live! Network delivered a national footprint of wireless broadcast, narrowcast and one-cast content and messaging from more than 60 well known internet sites with real time alerts and notifications.AirMedia Live was awarded the prestigious "Editors Choice" by PC Magazine for its wireless "push technology." It shared the award with co-winner PointCast and was featured on the cover of its February 18, 1997 issue that rated more than a dozen providers of "Push Technology." It was chosen as a finalist by the Software Publishers Association for "Best New Product of the Year" and was a winner of the Innovations '97 Award at that years Consumer Electronics Show. It also won New Media Magazine's 1996 Gold Medal gold medal for technical innovation and creative excellence in interactive multi-media, and was honored as a Premiere Product along with Sun's introduction of JAVA, the global announcement of the Palm Pilot and other leading technology products at InfoWorld's highly respected Demo '96 conference.AirMedia OEM licensees included Hewlet Packard, NEC, Global Village Communications, Philips, Compaq and other PC and mobile device manufacturers who manufactured and distributed AirMedia software and hardware based upon an AirMedia reference design to enable PC's and handhelds to receive broadcasts from the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network. The company also entered in to an international technology license and operations agreement and strategic partnership with SK Telecom in South Korea for operation on the largest CDMA network in the world at that time.
  • Fingertip Technologies, Inc.
    Ceo/Founder
    Fingertip Technologies, Inc. 1992 - 1994
    Critically well regarded (by Steven Levy, Walt Mossberg, Peter Lewis, et al) but financially unsuccessful early stage pioneer in the handheld space that was wound down when all of the hardware platforms (Apple Newton, Penpoint, GO, et al.) for its software were discontinued.
  • Financial Microsystems,Inc (Acq'D: Nasdaq Proi)
    Founder And Ceo
    Financial Microsystems,Inc (Acq'D: Nasdaq Proi) Jul 1986 - Apr 1992
    Founder and CEO of Banking Industry Platform Automation software provider focused on commercial banking and credit unions, which was acquired by CFI Proservices in preparation for that company's initial public offering on the NASDAQ.
  • Loanstar Computer, (Acq'D: Bankers Systems, Inc.) (Acq'D: Wolters Kluwers Financial Services)
    President/Co-Founder
    Loanstar Computer, (Acq'D: Bankers Systems, Inc.) (Acq'D: Wolters Kluwers Financial Services) 1979 - 1986
    LoanStar was an early provider of PC based automated loan origination systems for the commercial banking, savings and mortgage industries. Focus of the company was on regulatory compliance solutions for the Truth in Lending Disclosure and documentation challenges faced by lending institutions at that time. During John's tenure both before and after the acquisition the company's products were installed in 9,000 of the 16,000 commercial banks in the US at that time.
  • U.S. Forest Service And California State Department Of Parks
    Wilderness Ranger
    U.S. Forest Service And California State Department Of Parks 1975 - 1979
    Washington, Dc, Us
    Wilderness Ranger working on foot, horseback and skis in Federal and State wilderness areas. Responsibilies included general recreation, visitor safety, area patrol, packing (by horseback) for fire lookout towers, trail creation/maintenance and picking up trash.
  • Tribe Of Tahquitz (Boy Scouts Of America)
    Chief
    Tribe Of Tahquitz (Boy Scouts Of America) Aug 1973 - Aug 1974
    The Tribe of Tahquitz is the honor scouting organization of the Long Beach Area Council, Boy Scouts of America

John Payne Skills

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John Payne Education Details

  • Uc Irvine
    Uc Irvine
    Economics

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