Mel brings a 24+ year, proven track record of leading mission-critical IT teams, programs, and operations at companies like InterContinental Hotels Group, AT&T and Adecco. He has also played foundational roles with early-stage start-ups and spin-offs, leading product management.NowAccount® is an invoice payment solution that redefines how and when businesses get paid. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, Now® was created by serial entrepreneurs who felt the pain of waiting on invoice payments from larger customers. Now’s mission is to empower businesses to grow fearlessly through accelerated invoice payments. Inspired by the credit card system, NowAccount allows you to get paid immediately on your invoice while allowing your customers the flexibility to pay later. Now’s vision is to create a world where diverse businesses of all sizes have access to capital, commerce, and customer opportunities.

Led the Secure Payment Solution effort including conceptual design, selection of the solution partners, construction and socialization the business case, implementation of Enterprise Tokenization and deployment of Hotel Payments in the US. The project involved working with a large breadth of IHG stakeholders, application owners and solution delivery partners to get all aspects of the scoped solution successfully implemented.