OUR TEAM
STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD
Partnering our executive team’s aspirations for greatness with the knowledge, experience, and perspective of some of the world’s leading FinTech business executives – PayQwick’s Strategic Advisory Board was built with a purpose – to drive meaningful impact in the cannabis banking industry and fuel our path to success.


Peter Tapling
Payment Innovator
- Advisor to NACHA on Phixius
- Launched Zelle platform for Early Warning Signs
- Founding CEO of Authentify
- Accredited Payments Risk Professional
- Member/Advisor of U.S. Faster Payments Council and Association of Financial Professionals


Todd Lasher
Payments Expert
- SVP at FIS
- First Data & World Pay Veteran
- History of focus on high risk business verticals – telehealth and cannabis
- Experienced in innovative payment processing solutions


Prema Wargo
FinTech Strategist
- Fiserv veteran having served in multiple senior management roles
- Dovetail CIO (sold to Fiserv)
- CTO Princeton eCom, sold to ORCC, now ACI. Built the first bank electronic bill payments and remittance consolidation products


Peter Davey
Product Innovator
- Leads product innovation at The Clearing House
- Board Director, Strategic Advisor at ePay
- Head of Payment Strategy, Innovation & Industry at Capital One
- Innovation in Payments Award issued by ePayResources


Jeff Ghitman
Cannabis Finance
- Cap Gemini veteran consultant
- Founded Cannabis finance company Bespoke Financial
- High growth emerging markets investor
- 4th generation entrepreneur with a history of launching and scaling dozens of early stage businesses


Karen Barrett
Payment Innovator
- 35 years in financial services
- Managed and developed credit card projects for Visa, Mastercard and Merrill Lynch
- Bank One and Huntington Bank
- Experienced Government relations professional


Gerald Facciani
Consulting Actuary
- Consulting actuary of pension and fee-based retirement
- Past President of ASPA
- Built and exited his firm to a Trans Atlantic public company
- Extensive Government advisory to Department of Treasury, DHHS, Department of Labor


Donnie Gross
Payment Innovator
- Managing Member of Varsity Investment Group
- Numerous successful exits to both private equity firms and public companies
- Investor in vertically integrated Maryland cannabis company CULTA
SOCIAL EQUITY INITIATIVES

At PayQwick, we have a genuine desire to increase access to opportunities within the cannabis industry. While our platform and tools help small business owners operate at a higher level with the larger players, we believe there is always more that can be done. This is why we work with other like-minded partners to strive for social equity in the cannabis industry.
Our Social Equity program provides preferred terms, dedicated account managers, complimentary in-depth training on compliance requirements and more to cannabis businesses which need a hand.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
“The entire PayQwick team has been incredibly professional and enjoyable to work with. They had the quickest onboarding time of any bank that we looked into, and I had zero issues integrating all of our payment processors. To top it off, the rates are incredibly reasonable. My team and I are very happy with our decision to bank with PayQwick.”
Josh Eisenberg
Pineapple Express
“PayQwick has been a huge help to our cannabis company. We have been able to process our payables and receivables through a compliant and secure banking alternative. It has helped us to expedite the turnaround for company payments as well as processing payroll for our staff. The support team has been a wonder to work with over the past few months and we appreciate their keen eye for compliance and transaction details. The PayQwick team is ambitiously striving to incorporate more banking options into their portfolio and take customer suggestions to heart.”
Nathan Kelly
Green Rocket Design & Technology
“Since working with PayQwick, banking as a cannabis company has become more reliable than ever without the worry of our account getting closed down when paying bills. The customer service representatives are attentive and patient whenever I have a question or issue.”
Dominick Ramirez
RJRC
“We have been with PayQwick bank since we started growing light dep cannabis in Chelan. PayQwick has been great to work with for all our banking needs. We recommend PayQwick to our retailers, vendors.”
Jeff Oberfelder
Be Well Farms
THE BOTTOM LINE
- Normalize cannabis business operations
- Reduce/eliminate the need for cash
- Ensure BSA/AML and state-law compliance
