Scott Loftesness

Scott is a retired partner of Glenbrook Partners, a payments industry strategy consulting firm. At Glenbrook, he provided strategic consulting to a wide range of payments industry clients. Scott founded Glenbrook's PaymentsNews.com - the leading payments industry news blog - and frequently taught in Glenbrook's Payments Boot Camp program. With Carol Coye Benson and Russ Jones, he co-authored "Payments Systems in the U.S".

Scott is an avid street photographer - and can frequently be found walking the streets of San Francisco pursuing his passion. Follow Scott on Instagram: http://instagram.com/sjl

Prior to co-founding Glenbrook, Scott was Group Executive Vice President at First Data Merchant Services where he was responsible for product management, systems development and operations for the world's largest merchant acquiring enterprise. As Group Executive Vice President at Visa International, Scott led the development of Visa's global payments strategies, including Visa's research and development initiatives related to card payments, ecommerce payments and advanced card technologies. Scott's early career was with IBM where he held a series of technical management and product planning positions over the course of seventeen years.