Russell Palay Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Providing payments and fintech industry expert consulting and guidance on a project basis.https://furtheradvisory.com/people/russ-palay/

Strategic advisory and consulting services to clients entering or expanding into digital payments, unattended payments, campus commerce, e-commerce and affiliated merchant/financial services.

Denver, Co, Us

Leading embedded payments product strategy and solutions engineering, empowering payment facilitators, ISVs, marketplaces, and ISOs for success.Responsible for merchant acquisition (enrollment, underwriting, and boarding) and management (reporting, reconciliation, funding, and disputes) product solution sets for ISOs, ISVs, Sponsor Banks, and payment facilitators.

Montréal, Québec, Ca

Enhancing the partner and developer experience by bringing innovative merchant processing acceleration tools, developer toolkits, SDKs, and APIs to the ISO, ISV, and Payment Facilitator spaces. Strategic initiatives due diligence. Backoffice solutions strategy. Enrollment, CRM, Underwriting, Risk Solutions product management. Solutions Engineering strategy and oversight supporting effective partner integrations and long-term relationships. Strategic focus on debit processing and build out of a least-cost-routing domestic debit processing strategy.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Executive leadership for all product initiatives and client advisory boards with focus on payment and consumer and patient engagement solutions in the Healthcare Practice, Property Management, Financial Services, Commercial, and Accounts Receivables Management verticals. Product leadership with payment gateways, IVR and SMS solutions, consumer/patient/supplier portals, and agent-driven virtual terminals, MSR/EMV terminals, and integrated services.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Executive leadership of all product management initiatives including establishment and governance of a new product management framework and lifecycle for new and existing financial technology products and solutions supporting multiple and diverse markets. Identifying process improvements and go-to-market expansion opportunities for new features and functionality meeting client and market demands. Public speaking at industry events on topics ranging from closed-loop campus cards to payments security and emerging and innovative global payments solutions.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Product owner and client/industry stakeholder advocate and relationship management for the campus, vending and unattended/self-service markets. Provide strategic direction and market-ready solutions with a full suite of products and services for EMV and contactless environments. In addition, identify new and emerging markets, technologies and opportunities for sustainable global growth.Product owner and client/industry stakeholder advocate defining strategy and direction of mobile SDK products for payment solutions integrators and developers including EMV, contactless and e-commerce capture channels.

Wakefield, Ma, Us

Strategic and operational leadership for Council-driven global training products, programs, and business development initiatives as well as relationship-building and global channel management with key partners supporting new and existing training programs. Additionally, manage the ongoing operations of training programs profitability, quality, and delivery for on-site instructor-led and eLearning channels. Led a team of instructors delivering Council training worldwide.

Wakefield, Ma, Us

Manage existing, and develop new, certification programs providing critical data security benefits for merchants, services providers, assessors, vendors, and other key members of the payments industry.

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Payments and e-commerce technology, strategy and operations, risk management, business and product development, and leadership of all corporate PCI compliance initiatives. General management of a payments authorization, settlement and fraud detection/management solution for USA and Canadian colleges and universities. Significant acquiring and processing industry experience as well as designing and maintaining e-Commerce and customer-facing eBusiness platforms and websites.Selected Case Studies and Articles:- http://www.emc.com/collateral/customer-profiles/10748-bbd-cp.pdf - http://www.fisglobal.com/cmspub/groups/public/documents/document/mvp0_019050.pdf- http://www.cr80news.com/news-item/securely-handling-credit-card-transactions-earns-blackboard-kudos

• Led provider identification and selection process for a payments processing partner for a new online gaming platform.• Analyzed products/services of candidate providers.• Determined the best partner to support the payments processing needs for new gaming platform.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Capitalized on emerging Web-based technologies to create and manage new and innovative online client self-service channels with a focus on operational streamlining and cost reductions.

Provided client-focused customization solutions for financial systems software.

Developed and implemented Informix-based software and database solutions utilized by staff focused on both inbound and outbound marketing campaigns.

Bba, Marketing / Minor: Computer Science

Ms, Computer Information Systems