The BayPay Forum announces its 14th event for year 2011; "The Future of Prepaid in the US." The event will be held Monday, December 5, 2011 at 6PM at Intuit Corporation's Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
  

For this edition of The BayPay Forum, we have asked industry leaders Brian Triplett (Global Head of Prepaid Products, Visa), Eric Dunn (SVP Payments, Intuit), Chris Britt (SVP Corporate Development, Green Dot), Amir Wain (CEO, I2C), David Tate (General Manager, Gift Blackhawk Network) and Gwenn Bezard (Partner, AITE) to share their vision about how Prepaid will grow, support mobile payments/acquiring and the next generation of exciting new products and initiatives.   

The Prepaid Industry is leading the economy’s shift from cash to electronic payments.  These new electronic payments will include more information, offers and security for cardholders than ever thought possible.  Particularly open-loop products, which grew over 30% last year, continue to deliver benefits to users and green field opportunities for new business innovators.  GPR, mobile payments/acquiring, online gaming, and payroll are all experiencing double-digit growth creating tremendous investment, IPO and development activity despite, or perhaps because of, the tough economic environment.  The Durbin amendment began to take effect in October and has resulted in a tilting of the playing field, damaging some business plans and enhancing others.  The Associations are working to satisfy issuers and merchants while Program Managers are updating pricing to comply with business plans.      

Andrew Radlow, Head of Business Development NA at Citi Prepaid Services, moderates the discussion. 

BayPay's Founder and Managing Director Daniel Chatelain introduces BayPay Forum's new website at www.baypayforum.com (free registration for payment professionals), new mobile application on Android and iPhone (if Apple approves the app on time), and streaming chat feature, which will be used for posting questions and comments during the session.

This event is sponsored by :                                                                                       

Agenda:

Gwenn Bezard - Partner - AITE: Presentation on the Prepaid Market

Panel:

Moderator:

Andy Radlow - Head of Business Development NA - Citi Prepaid Services

Panelists:

Eric Dunn - SVP Payments Initiatives - Intuit

Brian Triplett - Global Head of Prepaid Products - Visa, Inc.

Chris Britt - SVP Corporate Development - Green Dot

Amir Wain - CEO - I2C, Inc

David Tate - General Manager - Gift Blackhawk Network

Bios:

Eric Dunn - SVP Payments Initiatives - Intuit

One of Intuit's earliest employees, Eric Dunn is the company's senior vice president for payment initiatives. A recognized leader in the payments industry, Dunn leads the company's efforts to create innovative ways for people and businesses to migrate from paper-based to electronic payments.

Dunn first joined Intuit in 1986 and held numerous executive positions over the next 14 years, including chief financial officer, general manager of Quicken, vice president of international, chief technology officer and senior vice president of technology. He also served on the company's board of directors for seven years.While at Intuit Dunn wrote five versions of Quicken, led the 1993 IPO as CFO, and helped lead the OFX industry-wide connectivity standard.

Dunn returned to Intuit in March 2010 after 10 years as an early stage investor and general partner at Cardinal Venture Capital.

Dunn has served on the boards of directors and been an investor in numerous private and public payments-related startups including Corillian, PayCycle,PaySimple, Bill.com, eDo Interactive, Tempo Payments, Billeo and WePay.   In addition, he serves on the boards of two public software companies, Tibco andSuccessFactors. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard College, Dunn holds a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in physics.

Brian Triplett - Global Head of Prepaid Products - Visa, Inc.

Triplett’s deep experience across the payments industry includes expertise in developing electronic payment products, managing commercial industry alliances and establishing payment platforms for  B2B e-commerce, smart cards, prepaid products and contactless card products.

Triplett joined Visa USA in 2000, and held several senior positions within Visa’s product organization.  Previously, Triplett was senior vice president of Emerging Product Development for Visa USA, with responsibility for Visa’s new payment and security technologies such as the Visa payWave program and new authentication strategies. 

Prior to that role, Triplett led both Visa’s Commercial Solutions B2B products team and the Public Sector team responsible for federal, state, local and higher education card programs.  Triplett also led Visa’s Core Processing Solutions group, where he developed strategic direction for access, authorization, clearing and settlement platforms. 

Prior to joining Visa, Triplett held positions at American Express, including a role on the New Business Venture team, responsible for the development of prepaid products and chip-based payment devices.  He also served with the Corporate Services group, developing new products and services for commercial customers.

Triplett holds a master’s of business administration from Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management. 

Chris Britt - SVP Corporate Development - Green Dot

Chris leads corporate development at Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT), a prepaid financial services company.  Prior to Green Dot, he launched and managed Visa’s general purpose prepaid product line and also held executive positions at ComScore and Flycast / Engage, a subsidiary of CMGi.  Chris began his career in strategy consulting at Accenture after graduating from Tulane University.  He lives with his family in San Francisco and serves on the board of CoachArt (www.coachart.org), a non-profit that provides free lessons in arts and athletics to underprivileged children suffering from chronic illnesses.

Amir Wain - CEO - I2C, Inc.

Amir Wain is a pioneer in the prepaid card industry. He founded Innovative Private Limited, a software-development firm, in 1987 and led the development of the transaction processing platform FastCash. Propelled by the success of Innovative and expanding market opportunities, Wain founded i2c Inc. in 2001 and with his team, launched My Card PlaceSM (MCP), i2c’s customizable, feature-rich card processing platform. Under Wain, i2c has introduced a number of prepaid industry firsts, including its Campaign Manager, Giftogram and i-Coupons products. He introduced the term “Prepaid2.0” to describe the change in mindset that embraces previously underserved cardholders as valuable customers and leads to comprehensive and flexible lifestyle products that incorporate value-added services and foster customer loyalty. At i2c, Wain continues to develop his vision with strategies to meet the needs of the evolving prepaid marketplace.

David Tate - General Manager - Gift Blackhawk Network

David Tate is general manager of Blackhawk Network’s core gift business including open loop gift, closed loop gift and Blackhawk’s B2B incentive business. Tate brings a strong entrepreneurial background forged in a number of successful start-up ventures. Prior to joining Blackhawk Network, Tate served in various sales, management and executive roles at On Technology. During his six-year tenure, On Technology completed a successful public offering (Nasdaq: ONTC). Later, after leading his product group to the market leadership position, On Technology spun off the division to Elron Electronics (Nasdaq: ELRN). Shortly after, Tate joined his former CEO at On Technology in an executive role to build NewChannel Inc.