FREE VIRTUAL EVENT • ETA MEMBERS ONLY
State of Payments
Leading Trends & Innovations
JANUARY 21 • 2PM ET
Hear from the leaders of ETA’s Industry Affairs Committees on what lies ahead for payments in 2026.
The ETA Industry Affairs Committees are on the front lines of driving change in the payments industry. Committees cover the breadth and depth of major payments industry segments including Digital Assets, Cybersecurity, Mobile Payments, Banks, Payment Facilitators, Payments Sales & Strategy, Retail Technology, and Risk, Fraud & Security.
Committee chairs and co-chairs will share their views on the business trends and changes affecting payments. ETA’s Government Affairs will share their political outlook for payments as well.
Questions? Contact Scott Talbott at stalbott@electran.org.
Agenda
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21
2:00pm
Opening Remarks
Jodie Kelley, CEO, ETA
2:10pm
ETA Committees' Outlook for 2026
- Digital Assets
- Magdalena Sawicka, Senior Product Manager, Boost Payment Solutions
- Hitesh Bajaj, Head of Payments Strategy and Digital Assets, TD Bank
- Marshall Greenwald, Founder and CEO, Ionia
- Payment Sales and Strategy
- Naomi Mastera, Business Development Manager – ISV, NMI
- Chris Williams, Business Development Director II, North
- B2B
- Raghuram Adiraju, Vice President, Commercial Acceptance, Mastercard
- Perryn Holtrop, CEO and Founder, PayNation
- Abhishek, Vice President, Global Head, B2B Acceptance, Visa
- Payment Facilitators
- Deana Rich, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Infinicept
- Caroline Hometh, Senior Advisor, Co-Founder, RPY Innovations
- Amy Schultz Pearn, Lead Product Manager, KeyBank
- Retail Technology
- Ryan Aumann, Quality Assurance Representative, Maverick Payments
- Gregg Aamoth, Co-Founder & CEO, POPcodes
- Mobile Payments
- Natalia Leonardis, VP of Business Development, CardFlight
- Ali Khan, EWS
- Georgia Kyprianou, Senior Director, PRIME Product Development-INT, Issuer Product Group, TSYS
- ISV
- Nerino Mayer, Head of Global Channels, PayFactory
- Gordana Hrnjez, Senior Director of Payments, TouchBistro
- Travis Chrisman, President & Co-Founder, Coastal Pay
- Brian Abernethy, Founder & Managing Partner, Utopaya
- Artificial Intelligence
- Russell Moore, CEO, amotivv
- Kevin Shamoun, SVP Product & Innovation, Fortis
- Abhi Vijayakumar Binsu, Senior Product Manager, Visa
- Investment Community
- Timothy Chiodo, Managing Director & Lead Analyst, Payments, Processors, & FinTech Equity Research, UBS
- Risk Fraud & Security
- Melissa Sutherland, Vice President, EverC
- Emily Baxter, Partner, RPY Innovations
- Bank
- Adrienne Gray, SVP, Payments Risk & Compliance, Commercial Bank of California
- Mary Meade-Koslen, Senior Risk Executive Merchant Third Party ISO Merchant Service, Synovus
- Compliance
- Tom Bloodworth, Director, Legislative and Regulatory Compliance, TSYS
- Gina Gioia, CAMS, VP of Compliance, AML and OFAC Officer, North
- Rob Johnson, Senior Director, Visa Rules Management North America, Visa
- Communications
- Fletcher Cook, Vice President of Global Communications, Visa
3:30pm
The Intersection of Policy & Payments
Scott Talbott, EVP, ETA CPP, ETA
3:40pm
Closing Remarks
Jodie Kelley, CEO, ETA