Michael Bradley

Board Member

With nearly 30 years in payments and digital banking, Mike has helped drive a generation of innovation in payments. Mike’s career began in the earliest days of debit card roll-out and Internet banking in management roles with Bank of Montreal and the Canadian Bankers Association.

As head of Visa Canada’s product team from 2004-12, Mike oversaw the launch of new products including chip cards, RFID/tap cards, Visa Debit, prepaid and digital wallets. As a member of the global product leadership team, Mike helped to transform Visa’s Canadian operation through the IPO period.

As a consultant, Mike’s company NorthCard supports payment networks, financial institutions and companies across North America, including Payments Canada, major credit unions, Rogers, Interac, Moneris and others. Mike is the founder of Clik2pay, and an instructor for the Rotman course The Business of Payments.

Jordan Cohen

Advisor

Jordan Cohen is one of the leaders in the Canadian merchant acquiring industry. Jordan began his career with American Express establishment services, then moved to CIBC assuming responsibility for key functional areas within CIBC’s merchant services business – until assuming executive responsibility for the business within the bank.

Jordan led CIBC’s divestiture of the business to Global Payments Canada, which he joined in 2001 to lead its entry into the Canadian market. Global Payments immediately became one of Canada’s largest payment processors, as a division of Global Payments Inc. In this role, Jordan was actively involved in industry affairs, including as chair of the MasterCard Canada advisory board.

In 2016, Jordan became Chief Commercial Officer of Dream Payments Corp., with a mandate to develop customer relationships that grow the company within Canada and internationally. Jordan remains active in the industry as principal of Jordan Cohen Consulting.

Gerry Gaetz

Board Chair

Gerry is currently a Strategic Advisor with Tata Consultancy Services and Executive Advisor with Mindbridge AI and Clik2pay. From 2013-20, Gerry was President and CEO of Payments Canada, where he developed and executed a strategic plan to modernize the Canadian payments system. In this role, Gerry also oversaw changes to Payments Canada’s governance and board structure.

Prior to that, Gerry held executive roles at the Bank of Canada, leading Banking Operations, Corporate Services and Currency. Gerry has been a member of the International Council of Payment Association Chief Executives and was a founding member of P7 – a group of 11 Asia Pacific payment entities. He was a director of Fortress Global Enterprises and Landqart AG in Switzerland, and a member of an international business ethics accreditation council, based in London. He also co-led the flagship executive leadership program at the Gestalt International Study Center in Massachusetts and co-founded AdAstra, a Canadian charity organization.

Brian McCabe

Advisor

Brian’s career in retail banking includes executive roles in products, marketing and wealth management at Scotiabank. Brian led the everyday banking group, driving record business growth highlighted by the development and launch of new debit card and bank account products, a prepaid card program and mobile wallets.

Brian sat on the Interac Board of Directors, represented his bank in cross-industry payments initiatives and managed multiple business partner and vendor relationships. Within Scotiabank, Brian grew the person-to-person money movement business while reinventing customer experiences.

Brian led a marketing team where he drove the post-launch growth of the SCENE loyalty program, and in wealth management he ran the bank’s trust company and led strategic initiatives across the private client group. Brian spent the earlier part of his career in human resources, M&A, commercial banking services and credit cards. Brian currently consults in digital identification and payments.

Andrea Nickel

Board Member

Andrea has more than twenty-five years of experience in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic planning. She currently leads private equity investing at Celina Capital, a family office focused on the financial services and business services sectors.

Prior to Celina, Andrea was a partner at Beringer Capital, a private equity fund focused on the media and marketing industries. She has also worked as the CFO of one of the largest independent marketing services companies in North America and a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. She began her career marketing and launching software products.

She has an MBA from The Wharton School and is a Director of Starline Production Rentals and EQUA Specialty Risk Products.

Rob Pearce

Board Member

Rob has spent 40 years in the financial services industry including a long career with BMO Bank of Montreal where he retired as President and CEO, Personal and Commercial Client Group in 2006. He was on the Board of MasterCard International and Interac Canada for many years, as well as a past Chair of the Canadian Bankers Association.

Rob is currently on the Board of Directors of five companies located in Canada and the United States – all of whom are in financial services and payments. Rob has deep operational and leadership experience with a specific emphasis in electronic payments.

Wayne Pommen

Board Member

Since January 2021, Wayne has served as the Head of Canada for Affirm, a leading financial technology company providing “buy now, pay later” services to thousands of retailers and millions of consumers across North America. Wayne joined Affirm through the company’s acquisition of PayBright, where Wayne was President and CEO from 2015.

Prior to PayBright, Wayne was a Principal at TorQuest Partners – a leading Canadian private equity firm – and a Consultant at Bain & Company in the UK, Canada, and the US.

Wayne serves on the Payments Canada Stakeholder Advisory Council. Wayne previously served as a Director and Audit Committee Chair of the Hudson’s Bay Company from 2012 until its privatization in 2020, and of IOU Financial – a fintech company focused on small business lending from 2017 to 2021.

Wayne holds an A.B. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.

David Robinson

Chief Commercial Officer

David spent almost 30 years in diverse roles at Rogers Communications. He started in Finance in 1990 and became VP of Investor Relations and Financial planning in the mid-90’s. David transitioned to Rogers Wireless in 2000, just as the Company adopted GSM technology. In that role David authored the original business plan for the new mobile data network, and worked on many of the earliest mobile browser, Blackberry, iPhone and IOT projects. In 2004 he conceived of and founded the Inukshuk JV with Bell Canada, which built and operated a shared fixed-wireless network.

In 2005 David co-founded Enstream with Bell and TELUS, into which Rogers sold the Suretap Mobile wallet, a mobile payment service developed at Rogers that was years ahead of ‘the pays’ we are familiar with today. The concept of banking on a smartphone was so appealing to David that he developed a plan for Rogers to become a national bank itself. In 2015 David became the President and CEO of the Bank he founded. When David exited Rogers in 2019 Rogers Bank was Canada’s fastest growing Bank by assets.

David is the Chief Commercial Officer of Clik2pay and is currently pursuing his ICD.D designation.