Found 11 investors
Gene Alston
San Francisco, California, United States
Gene Alston is currently at Groupon leading merchant mobile payments. Previously he worked at PayPal and Concentric Networks.
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Lawdingo
Rain Rannu
San Francisco, California, United States
Rain Rannu has been a long-time serial entrepreneur in the mobile payments space ever since founding his first company back in 2000. In 2007...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Teleport, Pipedrive, Taxify, Upgraded, Digital Sputnik, Plumbr, Greenhouse CI, GameFounders, Nutiteq, Messente, Bob W, Blogtree
Veljo Otsason
Tallinn, Estonia, Europe
Veljo Otsason is Estonian entrepreneur and investor. In 2007 he co-founded mobile payments company Fortumo and served as its CTO. Since 2013...
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Bolt, Monese, Digital Sputnik, Veriff
Jacob De Geer
Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Jacob de Geer is a Swedish serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of iZettle, the fast-growing mobile payments company that lets anyone ...
Individual/Angel
Jonathan Burdon
Lithuania
Mr. Ernestas Petkevicius serves as Chief Executive Officer at Vertex (Lithuania). Mr. Ernestas Petkevicius Co-Founded Birdchain. He serves as Chief Executive Officer & Angel Investor at Vertex (Lithuania). He serves as Board Member at Integrated Optics. He started Vertex as a Latvian and Lithuanian company focusing on mobile payments. He also serves as the Board Member at Gera dovana.
Individual/Angel
Joshua Abram
United States
Mr. Adam Brotman serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Brightloom. Mr. Adam Brotman served as President & Chief Experience Officer at J. Crew. He formerly served as the Global Chief Digital Officer, Vice President, Global Retail Operation & Partner Digital Engagement at Starbucks. He also serves as a Board Member at MOD Pizza. Prior to joining Starbucks in April 2009, Adam held several leadership positions at leading digital media companies, and most recently was CEO of Barefoot Yoga Company, a Seattle-based e-commerce company. He served as Senior Vice President at the digital image licensing and e-commerce company Corbis and founded PlayNetwork, Inc., a leading provider of in-store digital media and entertainment services for businesses worldwide. He is a key member of the Starbucks senior leadership team. Adam leads Starbucks core digital businesses, including mobile and mobile payments, web, card, loyalty, e-commerce, Wi-Fi, and the Starbucks Digital Network. Adam holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a J.D. from the University of Washington. He served on the Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. board of directors and currently serves the University of Washington Master of Communication in Digital Media advisory board. He also serves as Board Member at Ruby Tuesday.
Individual/Angel
Lawrence Illg
United States
Mr. Campbell Lanier serves as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at ITC Holding Company. Mr. Lanier is the Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at ITC Capital Partners. He is an experienced Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of numerous public and private companies throughout the telecommunications and financial services industries. Participated in starting or providing first funding for companies involved in long-distance, wireless, conferencing, internet, broadband, and transaction processing. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Talon. He served as a Board Member at Lease Term Solutions. He serves as Advisor at Kobiton. He serves as Senior Director at Kinetic Ventures. He also serves as Chairman at HIRENAMI. He teamed with Kinetic Ventures in 2008. His activities focus on communications, software, and financial services. He is a Director of LogicBlox, Cardlytics, LeaseTerm Solutions, Tower Cloud, Red Book Connect, and LogicBlox-Predictix, and is also the Chairman of ITC Holding Company, LLC. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Interstate Communications (Telecom*USA), which grew to be the fourth-largest long-distance service provider when it was acquired by MCI in 1990. He was the founding investor and Chairman of Powertel (now T-Mobile), which was acquired by Deutsche Telecom in 2000. He was also the founding investor for Mindspring, which later merged with Earthlink and the founding investor in Firethorn, a mobile payments company that was acquired in the fall of 2007 by Qualcomm. In addition, he was the founding investor of ITC^DeltaCom, Knology, and InterCall. He is also a Board member of Sunset Digital Communications.
Individual/Angel
Mark Opzoomer
Australia
Mr. Rajesh Yohannan serves as the Chief Executive Officer at AxiCorp Financial Services. He also is an Angel Investor. Previously, he was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Oanda Asia Pacific. Rajesh Yohannan leads OANDA's Asia Pacific business headquartered in Singapore. An entrepreneurial, results-oriented executive with extensive experience in financial services, digital marketing, mobile banking, mobile payments, call center management, operations and technology, Rajesh is responsible for driving OANDA's continued growth across the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining OANDA, Rajesh was the Managing Director and Global Mobile Banking Head at Citibank. During a decade of service with that financial institution, he was also Regional eBusiness and Direct Banking Head for Citibank's consumer business across 14 markets in Asia Pacific. Rajesh holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science and an MBA from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Individual/Angel
Microsoft 4Afrika
United States
Mr. Thomas Brown serves as Consultant at Camp One Ventures. He has several years experience in the payment industry, including a stint at Visa U.S.A. Inc., where he worked on the company's reorganization and eventual IPO (NYSE: V). Tom has counseled a number of the market leaders in the payment industry and has been described by the Financial Times as charting the future of mobile payments. He is a partner at a global law firm with offices in, among other places, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Hong Kong, Seoul and Bejing, and serves as co-chair of the firm's global payment systems practice. He serves as a non-lawyer advisor to a number of companies, including Zooz, LevelMoney, and Upstart. Mr. Brown holds a B.A. from Columbia College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.
Individual/Angel
Oded Lieberman
United States
Mr. Neeraj Aggarwal serves as Managing Director, Senior Partner; Chair of Asia-Pacific and member of the Executive Committee at Boston Consulting Group. He oversees BCG's business in Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. Prior to this Neeraj had led the BCG India office since 2015. Neeraj has 20 years of experience with clients in the technology, financial services, and consumer sectors. He has worked with clients across geographies ranging across India, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America. In recent years, Neeraj has worked closely with sectors that have been at the forefront of considerable change in India. Neeraj has deep experience in driving transformative change in both large and ambitious mid-sized organizations. He has worked on issues including business strategy, sales force effectiveness, digital disruption, operations excellence, and organization design. More recently, Neeraj has focused much of his work on the disruptive impact of digital across businesses. Neeraj is very passionate about using technology to leapfrog development and large-scale change in India. He has been playing a very active role in mobile payments and financial inclusion, leveraging his cross-industry expertise. Neeraj is a member of the firm's global client service team, which focuses on transforming BCG's engagement model with clients. In the past, he has also headed recruiting and operations at BCG in India. Neeraj is the author of multiple reports across technology, media, and financial services. Over the years, Neeraj has worked with numerous committees associated with India's Ministry of Finance, Telecom, CII, AIMA and NASSCOM. Prior to joining BCG, Neeraj was a senior member of technical staff at Cadence Design Systems, an electronic design automation (EDA) company.
Individual/Angel
PBX Innovations
Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
PBX Innovations founded paybox the first mobile payments company globally, now invests into promising teams and technology.
Venture Capital
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