Introducing the 2018 ETA Young Payments Professionals Scholars
1-10-2018
ETA is proud to present its newest class of Young Payment Professionals Scholars, a diverse group of ten of the finest young minds in payments.
The ETA YPP Scholar Program helps young payments professionals grow, connect with a class of scholars, and meet respected leaders from influential companies. The ten participants were selected by a committee of ETA volunteer leaders from a pool of 50 applicants to the scholarship program. Five of the ten 2018 participants are women. The ETA YPP Scholar Program, supported by ETA member Discover, provides professional development, education and opportunity to young professionals, encouraging leadership within ETA and the industry at large.
“We are proud to support the success of the payments technology industry’s next generation of leaders,” said ETA CEO Jason Oxman. “By recognizing and investing in these diverse and talented young professionals at ETA member companies, we believe the entire payments ecosystem stands to gain.”
This year’s YPP scholars represent a variety of finance, payments, and technology firms from across ETA’s membership. The 2018 scholars are:
• Amy Aton, Anovia Payments
• Caleb Bolden, Elavon
• Courtney Lee, Bank of America Merchant Services
• Louis LaMarca, Electronic Merchant Systems
• Nadia Choudhury, North American Bancard
• Nicole Meisner, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss
• Onkar Gokhale, FIS
• Ryan Reading, iPayment, Inc.
• Sagar Khatwani, Aliaswire, Inc.
• Sang Eun Park, Zinc Platform, Inc.
The YPP Scholars will receive complimentary registration, lodging and travel registration to TRANSACT, as well as complimentary registration to ETA’s Strategic Leadership Forum, TRANSACT Tech Events and for the ETA CPP Certification exam. YPPs are also matched with industry mentors for the duration of the program.
Read more about the program here. Congratulations 2018 scholars!
About ETA
The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) is the world’s leading advocacy and trade association for the payments industry. Our members span the breadth of significant payments and fintech companies, from the largest incumbent players to the emerging disruptors in the U.S. and in more than a dozen countries around the world. ETA members make commerce possible by processing approximately $56.75 trillion annually in purchases and P2P payments worldwide and deploying payments innovation to merchants and consumers.
ETAs membership spans the breadth of the payments industry to include independent sales organizations (ISOs), payments networks, financial institutions, transaction processors, mobile payments products and services, payments technologies, and software providers (ISV) and hardware suppliers. For more information, visit electran.org.
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