Myles Stephenson, CEO
CorporatePay has been founded by Myles Stephenson. Myles has extensive experience of the payment card market including 7 years with Retail Decisions. Myles’ most recent role, as Strategic Development Director, included creating the business plans, leading investments and developing a number of new businesses including Mi-Pay(a mobile payments business) and subsequently managing these investments by representing Retail Decisions as a Non-Executive Director. Previous roles at Retail Decisions included managing the development of a portfolio of payment services including industry leading fraud prevention services and leading client relationships across retail, petroleum, financial service and travel industries.
Prior to Retail Decisions Myles worked for Marks & Spencer performing a number of financial management roles which included the financial and operational management as well as systems management for business units with turnovers in excess of £30m and more than 150 staff as well as launching the Marks & Spencer store card in The Republic of Ireland. Myles is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford University.
Ron Reynolds, CFO
Ron is responsible for managing the Financial and Commercial affairs of CorporatePay’s business, including but not limited to fiscal management, financial governance and commercial relationships entered into.
Ron’s experience includes being a Client Director for the Finance & Accounting Sector of Xansa Plc and being the CFO of NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) Ltd (the first ever UK public/private partnership with the Department of Health which included innovations such as instituting the 1st independent SAS 70 Operational compliance environment for Shared Services in any UK Government environment as well as establishing a £34M banking facility with RBS).
Ron’s previous roles included being the CFO of Xansa North America (New York City & Houston, TX), Director of Finance at CSC Healthcare, along with various roles as a Finance & Analytical Specialist at GE Money, (GE) where he simultaneously graduated with honours from GE’s Financial Management Program (FMP); widely recognised to be the premier Leadership program of its kind for Corporate Financial training. Ron holds an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Cyrus Wadia, CTO
Cyrus has over ten years experience in the payment card industry in various roles covering card issuing, acquiring, transaction processing and fraud prevention. Much of this experience involved managing complex technical operations for these areas. Cyrus also has considerable experience in managing large projects in the payments industry and in working for a major supplier of payment processing software.
Cyrus’ most recent role was with Trustwave where he provided consultancy to a number of leading card processors, financial and retail organisations on implementing the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. In this position he was a Qualified Security Assessor for the PCI SSC (Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council), as well as a Visa Qualified Payment Application Security Professional.
In one of his other previous roles Cyrus managed the European IT operations for Retail Decisions, where he had operational responsibility for a transaction platform processing in excess of 220 million payment transactions per year.
Cyrus has numerous academic and professional qualifications including a MBA and is CISSP certified.