BAY AREA CHAPTER

It is where we did most of our events recently. With all that happens here, we don't lack topics that are giving some lights on the future of payments and commerce. We started there our first Fireside Chat now called BayPay Speakers Series to share experience and inspire.

Who We Are

The San Francisco Bay Area is where we originally started with 20 executives attending our first event on Alternative Means of Payments for Merchants with BillMeLater and PayPal at Stanford. Today we continue bring executives and industry processionals together to speak on important and relevant topics in payments, commerce and fintech. 

Our Mission

The BayPay Forum Bay Area Chapter aims to act as a facilitator connecting fintech entrepreneurs, bank executives, industry regulators, investors and others in order to let the financial services ecosystem flourish.Together with the growing global community of payments, commerce, fintech and banking experts, we will create a value-adding network of entrepreneurs and executives who are focused on innovation and collaboration.
 

Meet Our Chapter Leaders

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Robin Leidenthal

Senior Director , eBay
Robin is a leader in the payments industry with over 20 years of banking and financial technology experience. Robin has led large, dispersed teams of Sales Executives, Partner/ Relationship Managers, as well as payment and compliance policy and operations teams. Robin is an expert in emerging acquiring models such as Payment Facilitators, as well as traditional SMB and large merchant, card-not-present acceptance. Robin brings her experience to traditional banking disciplines, as well as higher risk / frictionless onboarding to enable growth while balancing risk and brand exposure. Robin’s experience is also global, having managed large international teams and building global processing relationships in the EU and UK. Robin’s diverse experience, most recently as an executive with Visa Inc., includes working with large banks as well as with early, disruptive fin tech start-ups, including PayPal, providing a unique approach to enabling new and traditional acceptance models. Robin has served as a Board Advisor to the Merchant Acquirer Committee (MAC), and on various ETA Committees. Robin also currently serves as the W.net Bay Area Chapter Co-Chair.
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John Huber

National Sales Executive, Technology Banking Group, Wells Fargo
John is a Senior Vice President for Wells Fargo’s Technology Banking Group (San Francisco) where he manages client originations on national basis for growth stage, innovation based companies. He has a strong practice interest and expertise around all aspects of payments and commerce enabling technologies. John is a long time serving board member for AAMA and regional lead for Northwestern University.
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Thomas Layman

President/CEO, Global Vision Group
Tom Layman is the President and Founder of Global Vision Group. In addition to managing the company, he serves as the leader of its strategy practice group. His specialties include business strategy, financial modeling, research and risk mitigation. Tom has over 30 years of international and domestic experience in the financial services and electronic payments industry. Prior to creating Global Vision Group, Tom was Senior Vice President with Visa U.S.A., holding a number of executive positions during his 11-year career there. He managed the Visa Profitability Consulting practice, as well as all of the business research functions, which included performing cost reduction and benchmarking studies, and served as Chief Economist. As global relationship manager at Visa, Tom helped US-based issuers launch programs overseas. He also headed up all of Visa's efforts to mitigate the impact of personal bankruptcies on creditors, and cochaired a creditor coalition that helped write, introduce, and lobby bankruptcy legislation. Prior to Visa, most of his experience was directed toward assessing the business environment risk of emerging markets. Tom holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and a PhD in international trade and finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tom has over 20 published articles on credit card and economic policy issues and is coauthor of a book on the role of foreign direct investment in Indonesia. Tom also Chairs the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Consumer Credit Counseling Service (dba Balance).
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Kevin Atwood

Senior Consultant & Head of Business Development, Global Vision Group
Kevin is senior consultant with GVGroup and brings over 23 years of experience domestically and internationally in the financial services and electronic payments industry. Kevin’s career includes attaining the position of Senior Vice President at Visa, responsible for sales and partnerships with multiple top 10 issuing and acquiring banks that generated more than $40 billion in annual card sales volume. During his tenure there, Kevin was instrumental in delivering numerous new products and services to Visa’s banking clients. For example, Kevin supported supported the creation, development and initial launch of several fraud reduction programs, including the Issuers’ Clearing House Service and AntiCounterfeit Terminal Program, which have continued to save issuers millions of dollars. In 2002, Kevin joined Wells Fargo Bank as Vice President and National Relationship Manager for the Merchant Processing Business. Kevin also served as a mortgage lending officer at Washington Mutual Bank, where he brought card marketing innovation concepts to the Home Loan Mortgage Banking Division. Given this deep domain experience in the financial services industry, Kevin’s expertise covers a broad range of areas, including marketing, debit, credit and ACH products, customer life cycle management, relationship management, product innovation, merchant processing in both the physical and online environment, co-branding, commercial card products, operations, risk management and collections. Kevin holds a B.A. degree from San Jose State University.
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Bob Stock

Fintech Market Development Advisor

Bob is a fintech market development and product executive focused on innovation. Currently as a fintech startup advisor Bob helps private companies identify markets, source strategic customers, define product/sales strategies and develop explosive growth.  Equally adept at navigating start-up and Fortune 500 companies, he has been a senior management team member or advisor to three companies with exits over the last 10 years (Simility—acquired by PayPal; Arcot—acquired by CA Technologies; and ThreatMetirx—acquired by LexisNexis.). Prior roles include VP Business Development Digital Payments/Enterprise Mobility/IOT at CA Technologies, GM/New Ventures at Intuit, SVP/Head Consumer Credit and Commercial Products at Visa USA and SVP/CMO for Cards at NationsBank (Bank of America.).  His areas of focus are growth leadership, sales, business strategy, strategic alliances, product and portfolio management, P&L management, organizational development and strategic marketing—both in the U.S. and internationally. Domain expertise in all areas of B2C and B2B payments, authentication/identity, mobile, fraud prevention, lending, risk management, tokenization, networks/platforms, machine learning and data analytics.

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Michael Ting

Head of Global Financial Network, Hyperwallet
20+ years of product, business development, and operations experience in financial services, payments, and digital marketplaces with market-leading internet and mobile technology companies. Successful record in leading product strategy, market positioning, thought leadership, global expansion, and operational scalability of payment capabilities in areas of card issuance, disbursements, and merchant acceptance. Strong relationship builder among leading companies in payments ecosystem, including banks, payment networks, processors, and digital wallet services of all sizes.

Kapil Mokhat

Head of Growth, Venmo
20+ years of product, business development, and operations experience in financial services, payments, and digital marketplaces with market-leading internet and mobile technology companies. Successful record in leading product strategy, market positioning, thought leadership, global expansion, and operational scalability of payment capabilities in areas of card issuance, disbursements, and merchant acceptance. Strong relationship builder among leading companies in payments ecosystem, including banks, payment networks, processors, and digital wallet services of all sizes.

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