Anja Kämmerer
Senior Project Manager, OTTO

Anja Kämmerer has been managing various payment method projects at OTTO for 11 years. Currently in the position of Business Design Lead in the Narwhal project team.

Christian A. Chmiel
CEO, Web Shield

Christian A. Chmiel, CEO of Web Shield, is responsible for the development and implementation of novel investigative techniques and research tools to identify fraudulent or brand-damaging online merchants. Previously, he served as deputy head of the compliance department of a large German acquiring bank, specializing in online fraud investigation, credit card compliance and underwriting.

Dr. Ernst Stahl
Director, ibi research GmbH

Dr. Ernst Stahl is Director of ibi research GmbH and in the Competence Center Digital Commerce & Payment. The institute has been building a bridge between science and practice since 1993 and researches and advises on issues relating to financial services and commerce. Dr. Ernst Stahl's consulting and project work focuses on strategic management, e-business and e-commerce, the future of commerce and payment transactions in the area of conflict between innovation and regulation (SEPA, PSD2 etc.). Dr. Ernst Stahl is also the author of numerous publications as well as a moderator and speaker at numerous events and congresses.

Dr. Thomas Krabichler
Senior Manager

As Senior Manager, Dr. Thomas Krabichler is responsible for the further development of the MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group's payment processes. After training as a banker and studying business administration, he worked for ibi research at the University of Regensburg from 2002 to 2010.

Presentation: Agile Payment Development in Omnichannel Retail

Henning Brandt
Head of Communication

As Head of Communication, Henning Brandt is responsible for public relations at payment service provider Computop. After working in journalism and public relations, he has been speaking and writing about topics such as e-commerce, international payment processing and the future of payments since 2015.

James Booth
Head of New Business Development, PPRO

James Booth has over six years’ experience in the financial sector. Prior to joining PPRO in 2015, James headed up Business Development in the UK for mobile payment company Payleven. There, James was in charge of sourcing and maintaining key strategic relationships with retailers across the UK to fulfil their progressive growth and sales strategy. He played a key role in contributing to Payleven’s transactional volume growth that eventually led to its merger with SumUp.

Jay Olschewitsch
Senior B2B Marketing Manager, Rakuten

Jay Olschewitsch has been active in e-commerce for more than ten years. As Senior B2B Marketing Manager at Rakuten, the trained businessman and business administration graduate is responsible for the B2B offline marketing strategy, among other things. As Rakuten's expert for retailer success, he also represents the company at trade fairs and events. Before joining Rakuten, he worked for E-Plus Mobilfunk, where he headed the technical support team.

Jürgen Weichert
VP Business Development, Usercentrics GmbH

As VP Business Development at Usercentrics, the business administration graduate with more than 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and business development in the online industry is responsible for the development of new business areas, sales markets, customers and partners.

Kai Gondlach
Master of Arts (M.A.), Futures Studies, Senior Researcher

Raised in northern Germany, but always at home in the future - Kai Gondlach studied sociology and politics and completed a master's degree in futurology in Berlin before working in various positions in consulting firms and the strategy department of a DAX mobility group. After graduating, he built up the marketing department in a Berlin start-up in the publishing industry.

Mailin Schmelter
IFH Cologne

After studying economics in Hagen, Ms. Schmelter deepened her expertise in the areas of market research and consulting, initially as a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the FernUniversität in Hagen. As a consultant for the areas of sales and marketing, she then focused on the practice-oriented analysis and implementation of strategic operational issues and solutions.

Monika Moser-Bärlehner
Business Development Manager, Computop

As Senior Business Development Manager, Monika Moser-Bärlehner advises the management on Computop's strategic direction. To this end, she continuously monitors the global payment and e-commerce market and deals in particular with financial market supervision, regulation and compliance as well as the rules of the credit card organizations.

Nicole Groß
Managing Director, ZIIB Zahlungssysteme GmbH

Nicole Groß is Managing Director and founder of ZIIB Zahlungssysteme GmbH and has been working in the payment industry for 20 years. Before setting up her own business, Ms. Groß worked for the German Savings Banks and Giro Association, KarstadtQuelle Bank and the German Banking Industry (DK).

Niels Lohmüller
VISA

As Senior Manager at Visa, Niels Lohmüller is responsible for expanding acceptance in Central Europe. Before joining Visa, he held various management positions at several payment companies, including Director Commercial at Yapital.

Peter Seybold
Paysafe Pay Later

As Vice President Sales, Peter Seybold manages the sales activities of the Viennese FinTec specialist payolution with a focus on payment solutions for online merchants. In his position, the Regensburg native is responsible for the further development of the customer base and cooperations.

Philipp Nachbaur
Managing Director, MediaShop

As Managing Director and CFO, Philipp Nachbaur manages the commercial activities of the German-Austrian Mediashop Group, a leading omni-channel distribution company in Central and Eastern Europe. The Austrian has been responsible for IT and finance for over 11 years.

Rainer Birkner
Senior Key Account Manager Retail

The qualified banker, graduate in business administration (FH) and Master of Arts has been familiar with the card payment market from key account and project business for over 17 years. As Senior Key Account Manager Retail, he is the direct contact for retail / large accounts at CCV Deutschland GmbH.

Ralf Gladis
Founder and Managing Director

As founder and Managing Director, Ralf Gladis is responsible for Computop's international expansion and strategic direction. Gladis founded the company together with Frank Arnoldt in 1997. As a software architect, he developed the Paygate platform, Computop's central payment transaction portal. Gladis acquired the foundations of his technological expertise through his studies in business informatics at the University of Bamberg.

Sebastian Schulz
Of Counsel

Sebastian Schulz is Of Counsel at HÄRTING Rechtsanwälte, Berlin, and has been Head of Legal Policy & Data Protection at the Bundesverband E-Commerce und Versandhandel Deutschland e.V. (bevh) since 2012. In this role, Schulz is responsible for contacts with governments and parliaments at federal and state level. Previously, Schulz worked as a data protection officer in the German Bundestag and for an international management consultancy specializing in data protection management.

Sebastian Wentzel
Partner Manager Payment Service Provider

Sebastian Wentzel studied Economics at the Technical University of Berlin and specializes in payment and banking. Before moving to TeamBank in Nuremberg, he worked at Allianz SE. Since 2018, he has been the Partner Manager Payment Service Provider responsible for ratenkauf by easyCredit at TeamBank AG.

Stephan Kück
Managing Director, Computop GmbH

Stephan Kück has been responsible for German and European corporate development in his role as Managing Director of Computop Wirtschaftsinformatik GmbH since 2010. As a trained banker, he began his professional career at Stadtsparkasse Bamberg in 1989. There, Kück was in charge of media sales, payment transactions and IT, among other things, and was responsible for organizational management before moving to Computop.

Sten Werner
Computop

Sybille Schorn
Smart Intelligent Mobility & Innovations, Bank-Verlag GmbH

Sybille Schorn is responsible for the development of a multimodal mobility platform at Bank-Verlag. She has worked for around two decades in the automotive banking and automotive industry in various management positions and then spent five years in consulting. At the consulting companies, her focus was on building up the automotive finance business area, advising automotive banks on major harmonization projects, developing and introducing new financial products for automotive banks and solution portfolios for current trends in the automotive industry.

Thomas Schmitz
RheinLand Insurance Group

The trained insurance specialist with more than 27 years of professional experience has been responsible for the entire payment transactions of all companies of the Rheinland Insurance Group, including receivables management, as Head of the Collection/Disbursement Department since 2006.

Adam Bowman
Director of Partner Sales

Since January 2017, Adam Bowman has been Director of Partner Sales at Trustly, leading a team focused full-time on growing and managing Trustly's pan-European partner network. Adam joined Trustly after working at PAY.ON for three years, where he first helped build PAY.ON's gateway business in the US and then led the European sales team based in Munich. Prior to PAY.ON, Adam worked at OmniPay, a third party card acquirer based in Dublin, Ireland. During his five years at OmniPay, Adam was responsible for EMEA sales, winning acquirers and processors to outsource their processing business to the OmniPay platform. Adam grew up outside of New York and has lived in Budapest, Hungary for the past 12 years.

Arved Matthiesen
PayPal

Arved Matthiesen has been part of the Partnerships team since 2016 and is responsible for working with store systems, payment service providers and international partners. He had previously held various roles in key account management at PayPal since 2011. Before joining PayPal, Arved Matthiesen, who holds a degree in business administration, worked for arvato mobile and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Christina Hammerath
REWE

Christina Hammerath is a Payment Services Officer at REWE. After completing her commercial training at REWE headquarters, she obtained a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a Master's degree in Digital Business Management. Today, she is responsible for the strategic orientation of payment transactions at the POS in the stationary and online business for the national and international REWE companies.

Christophe Bourbier
Chairman & Co-Founder Limonetik

Christophe Bourbier is a born entrepreneur and an executive with more than 15 years of experience in competitive and disruptive strategies. Christophe Bourbier is passionate about competition and international affairs. Before founding Limonetik in 2007, he had set up various companies in the high-tech and communication sectors.

David Power
Chief Solution Officer

David Power is Chief Solutions Officer at eShopWorld. His role is to provide an end-to-end platform for retailers to grow their global e-commerce footprint. The platform provides store, checkout and logistics while keeping the retailer's brand at the center of the conversation with the customer.

Dirk Rummel
Payment Leader for IKEA Germany

Last companies: UBS and First Data, with IKEA since 2006, including 10 years in IT
Current main areas of activity: Multichannel transformation and customer experience, specializing in payment systems & digital solutions for stationary and online retail

Farid Langshausen
Senior Sales Manager

Farid Langshausen is 56 years old and has been part of nexnet GmbH for 15 years. The trained publishing specialist has over 20 years of experience in billing, accounts receivable and receivables management. Prior to that, he was responsible for various IT projects within the publishing industry, such as the implementation of billing solutions.

Fabian Mansfeld

Senior Director Damage Management & Payments

Fabian is an expert in scaling and managing payments business infrastructure, processes and teams.
At Zalando he was responsible for growing Zalando’s payments organisation from one country to 15, 3 employees to 90+, and transactions from appr. €150M to over €2B.

Felix Jahn
Puma

Felix is responsible for leading and growing the PUMA eCommerce business in almost 30 countries. He manages teams of international specialists in the fields of Website Content, Marketing, Marketplaces, Operations and Social Media. This also includes Payment Portfolio Development, Risk Management and Fraud Monitoring.

Hannes Rogall
TeamBank AG

33, M.A. International Economics, University of Göttingen and St. Petersburg State University, specialist in payment and banking; previous companies: Uniscon, SOFORTüberweisung and Klarna. Currently responsible for product and sales of ratenkauf by easyCredit at TeamBank AG.

Harald Hahn
IDEAL-FullService GmbH

Harald Hahn has been responsible for the eCommerce division within the IDEAL-GROUP since 2008. As CSO at Ideal-Fullservice GmbH, he is responsible in particular for cross-channel commerce, accounts receivable, risk management and receivables management. Ideal-Fullservice offers one of the most modern and flexible accounts receivable accounting systems in outsourcing.

Hasan Cürük
CIO Carl Knauber Holding GmbH & Co. KG

Hasan Cürük is Head of IT and Organization / CIO of the trading company Carl Knauber Holding GmbH & Co. KG in Bonn. After studying business administration with a focus on computer science at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, he began his career in 1984 as an organizational programmer at Pfeifer Unternehmensberatung in Cologne. In 1985, Cürük moved to Carl Knauber Holding and took over the management of the IT and Organization division as an authorized signatory. Since then, he has been a member of the management board of the medium-sized group of companies, which employs around 1,000 people and has eight subsidiaries in the retail, energy trading and energy services sectors. www.knauber.de

Laura Treude
Teamlead Online Payment

Laura Treude is Teamlead Online Payment at Parfümerie Douglas GmbH. After completing her studies with a focus on marketing and finance and working in the retail and banking sectors as well as at the Finance Chair at the University of Wuppertal, she joined Douglas in April 2015 as part of a traineeship. Since summer 2016, she has been responsible for the development of online payment and heads the online payment team.

Mailin Schmelter
IFH Cologne

After studying economics in Hagen, Ms. Schmelter deepened her expertise in the areas of market research and consulting, initially as a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the FernUniversität in Hagen. As a consultant for the areas of sales and marketing, she then focused on the practice-oriented analysis and implementation of strategic operational issues and solutions.

Peter Seybold
Paysafe Pay Later

As Vice President Sales, Peter Seybold manages the sales activities of the Viennese FinTec specialist payolution with a focus on payment solutions for online merchants. In his position, the Regensburg native is responsible for the further development of the customer base and cooperations.

Norman Krieghoff
Head of Development,Computop

As Head of Development, Norman Krieghoff is responsible for the implementation of new products and features in Computop Paygate. His international team comprises more than 22 developers, spread across various locations worldwide. Norman Krieghoff has been working for Computop for more than 14 years. His experience, intuition and expertise are indispensable components in Computop's quest for technology leadership in multi-channel payments.

Presentation: Inside Paygate: News from the developer forge

Philipp König
CRIFBÜRGEL

Philipp König has been working in the business information sector for 5 years. As an analyst and consultant responsible for a large number of projects for national and international clients, he has in-depth knowledge of risk management and fraud prevention. Today, as head of the Sales Strategy & Market Analysis team, he makes an important contribution to the strategic positioning of CRIFBÜRGEL.

Ralf Gladis
Founder and Managing Director

As founder and Managing Director, Ralf Gladis is responsible for Computop's international expansion and strategic direction. Gladis founded the company together with Frank Arnoldt in 1997. As a software architect, he developed the Paygate platform, Computop's central payment transaction portal. Gladis acquired the foundations of his technological expertise through his

Ronnie D’Arienzo
Chief Revenue Officer

Before joining PPRO as Chief Revenue Officer for Payment Services in 2016, Ronnie held senior strategic positions at large financial corporations, such as American Express and Paysafe (previously Skrill). As SVP Sales at Skrill, Ronnie implemented a complete restructuring of the company’s sales strategy and operations to deliver considerable and sustained growth, culminating in a year-on-year growth trajectory of 23 per cent. This ultimately led to the company’s €1.1bn sale to Optimal Payments in 2015.

Stefan Schneider
Owner

Stefan Schneider works as a consultant, networker, moderator and author. With CardsConsult, he advises companies and associations with a focus on the payment environment. In addition to support with regulatory issues, this primarily includes the transfer of know-how in the context of market analyses, market access and optimization projects. Based on 20 years of expertise and networking in the field of retail POS (e.g. Chief Executive of HDE / Chair of the German Retail Congress), the focus is on the perspective of retailers, which is appreciated by both retailers and their business partners (card issuers, network operators or solution providers). Through moderation at industry events, regular publications and ongoing social media activities, he provides professional impetus and ensures intensive networking.

Stephan Kück
Managing Director, Computop GmbH

Stephan Kück has been responsible for German and European corporate development in his role as Managing Director of Computop Wirtschaftsinformatik GmbH since 2010. As a trained banker, he began his professional career at Stadtsparkasse Bamberg in 1989. There, Kück was in charge of media sales, payment transactions and IT, among other things, and was responsible for organizational management before moving to Computop.

Steffen Ruppert
Head of Connected Commerce, Europe, Amazon Pay

Susanne Jenz
Senior Manager, Global Acceptance, EMEA Region

Susanne Jenz is responsible for the acceptance of Discover Global Network in EMEA and in her role supports partners in EMEA in the area of acceptance acquisition for Discover and Diners Club International.