Speakers

Chris Reddish is responsible for MasterCard Europe’s PrePaid activities in Europe. As such, he heads up the Prepaid cross-functional team, covering 53 country markets across the Europe region. He is responsible for the local alignments of MasterCard’s Prepaid development, product management and implementation strategy within the region.

An experienced business director, Chris comes to MasterCard with over 20 years of middle and senior management experience in financial services and other Blue Chip sectors.

Most recently, Chris was Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director for PrePay Technologies Limited, an international market leader in the design and delivery of innovative prepaid solutions. Responsible for ongoing operational and new business project delivery, Chris managed a two-fold growth of PrePay’s staff team, resulting in a quadrupling of sales revenue.

Prior to this, Chris held a number of senior roles within organizations such as Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Petroleum Geo-Services and various UK Government departments, which included international operations and project planning.

Chris’s interests include mountaineering, motor and water sports. He is a founding member of the European PrePaid Association and representative at the Electronic Money Association.

Michael Steinbach (1961) is Chairman of Equens’ Board of Directors since 1 May 2007. He has been spokesman of the Board of Directors of Transaktionsinstitut für Zahlungsverkehrsdienstleistungen AG (TAI) since July 2003. Prior to his appointment at TAI in 2003 he was a director of DZ BANK AG (Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank), where he headed the payments department.

During his career Michael Steinbach has gained extensive experience in payments. In 1985 he became head of the electronic payments department at the then "Genossenschaftliche Zentralbank" or GZB-Bank (cooperative central bank) in Stuttgart. Since then he has headed increasingly large and complex payment divisions formed by mergers in the German banking world. Steinbach is a member of many significant national and international payment committees.

Gianfranco Tabasso is CEO of FMS Group, a specialist in cash and treasury management, Vice President of the Association of Italian Corporate Treasurers (AITI) and chairman of EACT Payment Commission.

In this capacity, he plays an active role in the development of SEPA and represents European Corporate Treasurers to the EU Commission, the ECB and the EPC.

He is also part of SWIFT and TWIST working groups for new XML payment standards and represents Italy in the Registration Management Committee (RMG) of ISO 20022’s.

He has recently been named Coordinate of CAST (Corporate Action for STandards), a “market initiative” to extend and enrich SEPA, facilitate standardisation and common market practices in the Financial Supply Chain, allow cross-border interoperability of e-invoicing and e-signature, improve e-reconciliation and trade financing.

Gianfranco holds a degree in Economics and Finance from Bocconi University of Milan and an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York.
He is based in Milan, Italy.

Ms Tumpel-Gugerell graduated in economics and social sciences from the University of Vienna (Master degree with honours in 1975, PhD in 1981). In 1975, she joined the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. From 1981 to 1984, Ms Tumpel-Gugerell served as Advisor in the Cabinet of the Minister of Finance. After re-joining the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, she held various positions (including Comptroller General in charge of developing strategic planning and auditing) and was nominated Vice Governor in 1998, being responsible for the Economics and Financial Markets Department. She was Austria’s Alternate Governor of the International Monetary Fund and member of the Economic and Finance Committee. In 2003 Ms Tumpel-Gugerell joined the European Central Bank as Member of the Executive Board, being responsible for market operations (between 2003 and 2006), for human resources, budget and organisation (since 2006) and for payment systems (since 2003). Ms Tumpel-Gugerell has published on issues of economic policy, financial stability and regulation and has addressed the public in many speeches.

Francesco Vanni d’Archirafi is Chairman Citibank Europe Plc.

Mr. Vanni d’Archirafi has worked for Citigroup and its predecessor companies for the past 23 years. Before being appointed to his current position in June 2003, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citibank International plc and the European Customer Group Executive for Citigroup’s Corporate Bank.

Between 1998 and 2001, he was based in Madrid as Market Manager for Iberia responsible for the Corporate Bank and customer relationships in Spain and Portugal, and Country Corporate Officer for Spain. From 1996, he was Co-Head and Managing Director for Global M&A, based in London. Between 1990 and 1996, he was based in Milan and appointed Corporate Finance Head for Italy leading Citibank’s efforts in advisory and merchant banking activities in 1993.

Between 1987 and 1990, Mr. Vanni d’Archirafi was based in London responsible for Citibank’s Southern European Structured Finance business, handling acquisition financing and highly leveraged transactions in Italy and Spain. He relocated to London from Peru where he was Country Treasurer from 1986. He joined Citibank in 1983 as a Management Associate in New York.

Mr. Vanni d’Archirafi is the Chairman of Citibank Holdings Ireland Ltd and Citibank Ireland Financial Services plc, and serves on the Boards of Gemmo S.p.A., Mapfre America S.A., Clearstream International and LCH.Clearnet.

Passionate about community and volunteerism, he is Chairman of Junior Achievement - Young Enterprise (JA-YE) Europe, Board member of Junior Achievement Worldwide and Business in the Community, Co-Chair of ENGAGE, and a member of the Advisory Board of Fundacion Empresa y Sociedad.

Born in Munich, Germany, he spent his youth living in Rome, Madrid, Brussels and Buenos Aires. In 1981, Mr Vanni d’Archirafi graduated Magna Cum Laude from the American University in Washington D.C. with a BSBA degree in Finance. He received the Stanley I. Posner Award given to the graduating senior with the highest overall academic average. In 1983, he obtained an MBA in Finance and International Business from Columbia University in New York.

Juergen Weiss is Consulting Manager in the EMEA Hub Analytics, Financials und Compliance of SAP Germany. He directs an international team of consultants and he’s responsible for successfully positioning Financial Supply Chain Management, Incentive & Commissions Management and the New General Ledger within the European SAP subsidiaries. In addition he’s developing and coordination SAP consulting services for the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Before his current position Juergen was Director of Solution Management in the Application Solution Management ERP Financials (Enterprise Ressource Planning) of the Product & Technology Group Applications. He was globally responsible for the Financial Supply Chain Management applications including Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment, Dispute Management, Collections Management, Credit Management, Treasury and Risk Management, Bank Relationship Management and In-House Cash as well as Accounts Payable and Receivable. His career at SAP began in 1997 after a previous position as PR Manager in a large German bank. Juergen has got degrees in Economics and Business Administration from the Universities of Heidelberg and Hagen.

Martin Wilson is the chief commercial officer, responsible for the company’s strategy, marketing, product management and commercial growth.

Martin’s role is focused on using Voca’s new, award-winning, SEPA-ready payment platform to expand Voca’s processing services into new markets and developing related services for the payments industry both domestically and abroad.

Martin was the driving force behind the launch of Voca’s innovative international remittance service, Payport. This service allows consumers to make low cost global payments directly from their current bank accounts.

Martin is chairman of Digital Payments which provides payment capability through mobile and internet channels and is a board director of OneVu, Voca’s electronic bill payment and presentment subsidiary.

Prior to joining Voca, Martin was deputy director for the Department for Work and Pensions, responsible for the running and maintenance of all their IT systems.

Harry is specialized in the corporate (B2B) and retail business areas. He has been leading in the development of, amongst others, (corporate) electronic banking, web- and mobile banking, new payment development, financial planning and employee & employer benefits services. He is a catalyst in helping financial institutions to develop strategies, the appropriate solutions and a successful (commercial) implementation.
Harry, as expert, has published many articles and specialized studies in leading European Journals and other publications. Harry is a well known speaker on strategies and developments in the financial services industry.

Douwe Lycklama à Nijeholt (1965) is director and co-founder of Innopay, an independent consultancy firm specialised in payments and related financial services. Innopay typically works for commercial business management, responsible for innovation and business development. Douwe Lycklama has been in Payments innovation business since 1999, after an international career with Philips Electronics for PC multimedia products and strategy consulting with Adstrat. He holds a masters degree Electrical Engineering with Delft Technical University.