Abhishek Veeraghanta is founder and CEO of Pidgin, an Atlanta-based fintech that empowers U.S. financial institutions to offer real-time payments to their account holders. Under Veeraghanta’s leadership, Pidgin became one of the first service providers actively facilitating live transactions for financial institutions on the Federal Reserve’s newly launched instant payment rail, the FedNow Service.
Tim Rozanski is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Pidgin. In his current role at Pidgin, Tim oversees our direct and partnership sales presence as the team consults financial institutions of all sizes on their faster payment strategies, identifies opportunities to drive revenue growth, and deepens engagement with account holders. Tim brings over a decade of experience in working with Financial Institutions to Pidgin. Tim is adamant that ‘people buy from people’, and the key to any successful, long term FI partnership is, and will always be, a strong foundational relationship.
Kevin Olsen is the Payments Professor bringing enthusiasm and motivation to presentations. Viewing the world as a classroom which is exemplified in the professor’s “edutainment” ed-u-tain-mint (noun\ Kevin is also a certified business coach helping lead organizations to innovate and communicate in the ever-changing world of payments, including building of payment strategies with a focus on product development and use cases for faster payments (RTP & FedNow). You can find the Payments Professor on YouTube, Instagram, through the Payments Podium podcast and usually speaking at an event near you.
Angela Murphy, Ph.D., also known as Payments Elsa, is a thought leader in faster payments, artificial intelligence, and innovation strategy. She currently works at the intersection of strategy and insight in the payments industry, bringing emerging technology to financial institutions. Her background in multi-vertical payments solutions integration informs her expertise on global commerce and payments innovation. Angela regularly provides guest lectures and webinars for the University of California: Berkeley, University of Missouri: Bloch School of Business, Regnier Institute, and consulting firms around the world and is a Founding Fellow of Coruzant Technologies.