Anand founded Optimized Payments in 2007. Under his leadership, Optimized Payments has helped Fortune 100 to mid-sized companies save over $500 million in interchange and processing fees.

Anand has also led the effort to revolutionize payments analytics…creating a scalable hosted solution that centralizes, normalizes and analyzes billions of payments records and identifies actionable insights. Anand is a noted payments expert and has spoken at numerous conferences included MAG, AFP, New England AFP, NACHA, MRC, CNP Expo and Money 20/20.

Known for a strategic approach and a commitment to employee well-being, Asya is dedicated to helping organizations build and retain top talent, ensuring compliance, and navigating complex HR challenges with confidence.

Oliver has extensive experience blending sales and leadership in the Payments industry.  Leaning into his strengths with strategy and communications, Oliver was the conducting driving force in launching and catapulting Elavon’s payment optimization products. His ability to motivate team players, energize customers, and create efficiencies cross functionally makes him the perfect strategic conduit between sales and marketing.

Joey is an interchange expert with over 13 years of experience in implementing cost management strategies for large merchants, particularly in the hospitality industry.

Previously, Joey worked for Elavon where he created and managed services that helped clients optimize their payment costs, through interchange and chargeback management solutions. His clients included the largest airlines, hotels and merchants processing billions in annual card sales.

John has nearly 20 years of experience in subscription operations, with a focus on the Magazine Publishing industry. He has tackled complex user flows across multiple billing platforms and payment processors.

Previously, John worked at Hearst, Conde Nast, and Outside Magazine, where he helped manage operational systems, including chargebacks, authorizations, and retry policies. He also has experience in fulfillment consulting, providing similar services to numerous clients.

Amit Badvar is the Vice President of Data Engineering & Operations at Optimized Payments, responsible for driving the strategy and execution of the company’s end-to-end data platform. He leads data ingestion, engineering, quality, and operations, ensuring scalable and high-performance systems that support analytics and decision-making. With a strong background in modern data architectures, Amit brings deep expertise in building reliable, enterprise-grade data platforms.

Prior to this role, Amit led key data transformation initiatives, implementing cloud-native solutions and optimizing pipelines to process data at scale. His work has significantly improved performance and efficiency, enabling near real-time insights and empowering teams and customers to make more informed payment decisions.

Fei brings over 8 years of professional engineering experience.  Fei has a Master of Engineering degree from Beijing’s Tsinghua University and a Master of Science in Business Analytics degree from Emory University.

Fei’s experience with building successful machine learning and other algorithmic models will allow him to focus on improving and optimizing our analytics solutions to deliver timely and relevant insights that our clients need to develop informed strategies.

Scott brings a wealth of expertise as a seasoned founder and go-to-market strategist, with two successful exits to his credit. In his recent role, he led Business Development and Partnerships at Sift, following its acquisition of Chargeback, a company he co-founded and led development of the industry’s leading SaaS based enterprise chargeback platform.

With over a decade of innovation in payments, spanning disbursements, chargeback automation, fraud, and machine learning, Scott will be leading strategic product initiatives, spearhead team-building efforts, and drive market-focused innovations while collaborating seamlessly with sales and marketing functions.

Sameer was the Senior Vice President at Visa, where he helped establish the firm’s strategy for integrated digital commerce products to support the adoption of electronic payments globally. He also headed the firm’s Middle East initiative and managed Visa’s South Asia office, where he was instrumental in establishing Visa’s leadership in the region. Prior to Visa, Sameer held positions at ANZ Bank, where he was the Head of Cards Business in India and General Manager of Consumer Finance in Australia.

Sameer holds a BS in Computer Science, MBA, and a DCI Fellow at Stanford University.

Mike is CEO of Posillipo Ventures and brings more than 30 years of experience leading and growing FinTech businesses. He served as the Vice Chairman at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Chief Executive Officer of Chase Merchant Services. Prior to his time at JPMorgan, he was the Chief Executive Officer and President of the 7th largest payments processing firm in the world, Elavon, Inc.

In addition to serving as an advisor to Optimized Payments, Passilla also acts in an advisory capacity for Forte Ventures and multiple PE firms. Passilla earned his MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and has a BBA from the University of Notre Dame.