Description
Merchant-only peer networking to identify, collaborate on, and affect solutions to payments industry challenges for Mass Merchant professionals.
Merchant-only peer networking to identify, collaborate on, and affect solutions to payments industry challenges for Mass Merchant professionals.
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.
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.