Keren Levy

COO @ Payoneer

Keren is the COO and GM of Merchant Services at Payoneer. Prior to this, Keren held positions at Leumi Card where she established their international acquiring and issuing department, and at Cyota, which was acquired by RSA Security. Keren holds an MBA in Finance.

Carlos Bo Maywald

Head of Costumer Strategy

Two years ago, Bo set the base for a new department within optile to support clients in optimizing their payment portfolio from a business perspective. He and his team are consulting clients in rolling out their business into new markets by identifying the right methods and payment partners to work with. Constant research and payment data analysis help them to grasp and understand how the market behaves and to provide useful first-hand information for enhancing the conversion rate and to lower transaction costs.

Stefan Buck

Chief Product Officer
@ optile

Expert with more than 20 years of experience in IT, as key product & subject matter expert for complex IT solutions, in domains of Payments, Financial Services, Risk Management and Insurance.

Daniel Smeds

CEO and Founder
@ optile

Daniel is the founder and CEO of optile with 20 years of experience in payments and e-commerce. He continues to pursue his goal with optile by creating an open payment world with the customer in focus and the merchant at the wheel.

Manuel Sandhofer

Senior Vice President Sales and Partners

Having successfully managed sales and partner relationships for over 5 years, Manuel is driving business growth of optile. With more than 15 years of experience in finance and payments, Manuel is an expert in the industry who is passionate about payment innovation and technology.

Danila Turuntaev

Lead Product Manager at optile

With more than 13 years experience in IT and a solid technical background, Danila joined optile as a lead product manager, working on payments processing backend (OPG API) and optile X - solution for ecosystems and marketplaces. He works with different stakeholders such as merchants, partners, optile management in order to capture requirements and priorities.

Viktorija Gileva

Head of Operations
@ optile

Viktorija's optile journey started 4 years ago as part of a hardworking sales team that is focused on selling and cultivating the market about the payment orchestration platform (POP) concept. Nowadays, Viktorija is taking care that the lead generation processes, sales processes and operations ensure the desired environment for the sales team to bring in new international enterprise clients. Viktorija’s area of expertise is built upon 10+ years of international sales in IT and fintech. 

Ernst Krippl

Head of Ecommerce
@ Mediashop

Ernst is a member of Mediashop’s Ecommerce Technology Team since 2008. He is responsible for technical ecommerce operations in Western Europe and for B2C Payments globally. Mediashop is one of the the biggest DRTV Shopping companies in Europe (active eleven countries) With more than 400 hours shopping program/day on 172 channels Mediashop is selling products for kitchen, household, fitness, beauty and similar. 

Mélisande Mual

Publisher and Owner 
@ The Paypers

Mélisande is the publisher and owner of The Paypers, the global leading source of news and intelligence for professionals in payments, fintech and digital commerce. The products are created by payment insiders and focus on innovation in Payments, Digital Identity, Open Finance, Fintech, Regtech and Fraud & Risk Management. The portfolio of The Paypers includes news, premium newsletters, industry reports, webinars and online events. Prior to The Paypers, Mélisande held several leadership positions in leading B2B Publisher (Wolters Kluwer) and Telecom (KPN) companies. 

Daniel Lee

Group Product Manager @ Kingfisher

Daniel is responsible for driving payments innovation and digital development of payments routing and risk solutions across the Kingfisher group. Across 7 countries, reaching 6 million customers, with sales of £11.7 billion, Kingfisher is Europe’s leading home improvement retailer. Key brands include; B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama and Brico Depot. Daniel joined Kingfisher from Worldpay in 2018 and has worked in financial technology for the last 8 years, in senior marketing and product roles.