Mobile Payment Solutions: Present and Future by a Distinguished Panel of Experts

Dana as born and raised in Silicon Valley, and studied business and conomics at Santa Clara University. After college he worked at Ernst Young advising technology companies such as Quantum, Sun Microsystems, Remedy, Netscape, and Intuit.

In 1994 he left to help build Netscape, then a nascent, few-month-old, re-revenue company boldly defining the ways in which consumers and nterprises were going to use the Internet. In his four-year tenure, Dana held several executive positions in finance, sales and operations.

Dana left Netscape after its sale to AOL in 1998 and became a member of the founding executive team of Respond.com, an early pioneer in online lead generation. There, he served as the company’s Vice President of Business Development and CFO.

Dana joined eBay in 2001.  As Vice President of Internet Marketing, Dana managed the company’s global customer acquisition strategy and a multi-hundred million-dollar Internet marketing budget, where his responsibilities included running eBay’s search engine marketing and search engine optimization initiatives. Dana was also responsible for eBay’s Strategic Partnership Group, which generated more than several hundred million in revenue from third party partnerships and media sales.

In 2004 Dana joined PayPal, where he managed all business operations, including product, sales, marketing and, eventually, technology. Dana started PayPal’s international business from scratch, and led PayPal’s expansion beyond the eBay platform onto other online retail sites. He also initiated a number of other startup projects, including PayPal Mobile and the PayPal Developer Platform.

Dana left PayPal in 2008 to join Matrix Partners, where he invests in software and Internet businesses that target consumers as well as corporations.  He is a board member at numerous start-ups in the Valley, including Zong, the leading mobile payment service used by online gaming and social networking websites.

Outside of the office Dana loves to ski the bumps on Granite Chief in Squaw Valley, is an avid wake boarder and enjoys coaching youth sports.

Stephane leads Global Sales and Business Development. He joined Zong from PayPal, where he ran PayPal’s Consumer Products division, launched award-winning new products and dramatically accelerated the growth of existing, mature products. Prior to this, Stephane was the Managing Director for PayPal France, where he took the business from its infancy to being a very significant contributor to PayPal’s global P&L.
Stephane previously founded Fireclick, a leading provider of web
analytics which was acquired by Digital River in 2004. Stephane holds a MS in computer science from Stanford University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Eric Duprat is an influential global executive who specializes in the strategic development of mobile payment systems. In his current position as General Manager of Mobile at PayPal, he has worked with recognized industry leaders to develop and launch successful mobile payments systems.

During the past two decades, he has established a reputation throughout the industry as a results-oriented marketing and business development leader with a track record of directing global organizations to exceed corporate market penetration objectives by means of innovative strategies and gaining high customer satisfaction for Fortune 500 companies and customers in wireless, security and payment systems.

A raconteur with a gift for explaining how complex technologies drive changes in consumer products and behaviors, Mr. Dupratis
a graduate of ISEP (Institut supérieur d’Electronique de Paris) and has completed executive programs at Columbia Business School and INSEAD. He currently resides in the Bay Area with his family.

Joseph Wei is a marketing and technology veteran with a track record successfully launching new products. Joseph works as the Vice President at Wong's International Corporation since 2010 where he is responsible for the marketing and business development for the NFC mobile payment product called the iCarte. iCarte is a NFC reader/writer for the iPhone
developed by Wong's subsidiary, Wireless Dynamic, and has recently announced mobile payment applications with Visa Europe and MasterCard.

Joseph has over 25 years of experience in growing startup divisions to over $500M in revenue at DEC, NEC, SGI, and introduced innovative products such as the DEC Alpha/Oracle Parallel cluster, NEC's 16-way Windows server, the SGI Linux Clusters and ProPack Linux Performance Tools.
Prior to Wong’s International, Joseph was an executive with Inventec cCorp., a $15B leading ODM for consumer, mobile and server products. He currently serves on the advisory board of several startups and is the current vice chair of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (Santa Clara).

Frank is a Sr. Director with Firethorn, a division of Qualcomm, with a focus on business development related to mobile commerce and payments initiatives, including SWAGG, recently named the 2011 Most Innovative Mobile Pre-paid Application by Paybefore Magazine.

Previously, Frank was a member of MasterCard’s Global Business Development team where he advised both banks and large retailers in identifying how to drive business growth through payment-related initiatives. Earlier in his career, Frank was an executive member of Accenture’s Global Financial Services Strategy Practice. Frank has an MBA from The Wharton
School and a BA from Rutgers College.

Scott is currently focusing his work at Glenbrook on payments innovation, mobile payments, and social media/Web 2.0 in banking and financial services.

With more than 30 years' experience in information technology — as a technologist, senior executive, board member, venture investor, consultant, advisor, and mentor — Scott brings seasoned judgment and a unique business perspective to his work with Glenbrook.

Earlier, Scott was group executive vice president at First Data Merchant Services. Scott also was group executive vice president at Visa International, where he led the development of Visa's global payment systems strategies, including Visa's research and development initiatives related to card payments, Internet payments and advanced card technologies.

Scott began his career as a systems engineer with IBM where he held a series of technical management and product planning positions over the course of seventeen years.

In addition to his work at Glenbrook as a consultant, Scott is the Partner in Charge of Glenbrook's online web services serving payments professionals: Payments News and Payments Jobs.