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Description
Merchant-only peer networking to identify, collaborate on, and affect solutions to payments industry challenges for Mass Merchant professionals.
Contributors
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Ken Grogan | Director Treasury Services - Wakefern Food Corp.
Ken is a Finance professional with over 30 years’ experience in Treasury/Payments. He joined Wakefern Food Corp. in July 2007 as Manager of Treasury Services and was promoted to Director in March 2015. Prior to joining Wakefern, Ken had a successful 20 year career on Wall Street working in Treasury for Shearson Lehman Brothers, National Financial Services (Fidelity Investments) and TD Waterhouse. Ken has a BBA in Accounting from Pace University in New York City.
Ken has been an active member of the MAG for over 8 years, participating in the MAG Advocacy & Communications and Collaboration committees, EMV and SRC Communities of Practice and is currently one of the co-chairs of the Collaboration Committee. He is a co-leader of the SIG Mass Merchant group and has served on MAG panels at several industry conferences. Ken has also been on the EPS (Electronic Payment Systems) committee for FMI (Food Marketing Institute) for the past 10+ years and currently serves as the Committee Chair.
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Stephanie Meyers | System Manager, Payment Card Operations - CommonSpirit Health
Stephanie manages all operational aspects of payment cards and is responsible for the day to day processing, payment reconciliation, vendor management and all projects including alternative payments for CommonSpirit Health. Her strength is relationship management and serves as the liaison between the organizations centralized Treasury Department spanning 142 hospitals and 1300+ clinics in 21 states with 1.2 billion in credit card volume. Prior to joining healthcare, Stephanie had a successful 20 year career in the financial industry with extensive knowledge in Wealth Management. She holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology.
Stephanie has been an active member of MAG since 2019 and an ongoing participant with the Rising Payments Professionals and Healthcare Merchant Collaboration Meetings.
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Heather Sargeant | AVP Finance - Bath & Body Works, Inc.
Heather Sargeant leads the Banking, Cash Management, and Accounts Payable teams for Bath & Body Works, responsible for payment processing, cash collections, and payments. Prior to leading this department, she managed receivables related to International Franchise Partners including credit worthiness, billing, and collections. A CPA and auditor for many years, Heather started with Bath & Body Works (f/k/a L Brands) in the Internal Audit department after many years with Ernst & Young auditing public and private companies.
Heather has been active in MAG since Fall of 2017. In recent years she has increased her participation as a member of the Engagement committee and a co-leader of the SIG Mass Merchant group.
Heather obtained a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from The Ohio State University after several years in the field of Social Work. She also holds a master’s and bachelor’s in social work from The Ohio State University. Passionate about continuing to use these skills, Heather served for many years on a non-profit Board and continues to be activity with many organizations. -
Christian Johnson | Senior Economist - CMSPI
Christian gathers and investigates insights into payments trends and leverages those insights to advocate for a fair and competitive payments industry. Christian's core expertise covers digital and alternative payment method growth and, with a global perspective, these insights can cover a meaningful diversity of solutions, ranging from digital wallets, BNPL, open banking, and other disruptive payment methods.