About
Brian Shniderman is a 34-year veteran of the payments and fintech industry. His goal is to dramatically help improve how people afford and pay for the most important things, like healthcare. He is responsible for bringing a new financing and payment model to the US market with the mission of offering a smarter way to budget and pay for life-changing purchases like out of pocket costs for medical procedures.
He joined Opy from Deloitte, where he founded and grew the firm’s globally top-ranked payments practice. He successfully helped the C-suite of large global companies implement high-visibility, complex payments, fintech and banking strategies, mergers and acquisitions, operations, and technology initiatives. These include large credit card issuers, merchant acquirers, networks, payments processors, private equity, corporates, hospitals, insurance companies, governments, and merchants.
Prior to Deloitte, Brian was an executive at several advisory firms, focusing on fintech and payments. In 2001, he was recognized as an innovator of the year by Fortune for introducing approaches for B2B equity-based payments, continuing to innovate and launch new fintech products since then.
A thought leader in payments and fintech, Brian has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, American Banker, The Business Standard, Dow Jones, HBR, Wired, CIO, Bloomberg, Boston Globe and the Chicago Tribune to name a few.
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Work experience
- December 2020 – present
Openpay
US CEO & Global Chief Strategy OfficerLaunched Openpay’s B2C embedded finance/payment and B2B Buyer-Supplier SAAS solutions into the United States. - November 2006 – December 2020
Deloitte
Owner/Principal, US and Global Cross-Industry Payments LeaderHis experience includes advising clients on payments, the acquisition, design and integration of new payments products (like RTP and Zelle) and related services, spanning the full range of payments instruments. In 2001 Brian was recognized by Fortune for introducing one of the top 25 ideas of the year. Most recent accomplishments include advising The Clearing House, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve and Banks, merchants and corporates on Faster Payments and BNPL, executing payments strategies for global brands and franchises (processing consolidation, mobile payments, RTP ), consumer spend strategies, creating payments hubs for corporates and banks, developing payments strategies, identifying b2b virtual payment vertical offerings, and preparing networks for distributing business solutions to Issuers, MNOs, Payment Facilitators, Merchants and Acquirers via a self service portals to access advanced APIs. - November 2006 – September 2010
Deloitte
National Managing DirectorLead the largest, most respected Payments practice in the industry. Oversaw projects sold and delivered to strategic clients, including: Top 3 Credit Card Issuer Top 3 Debit Card Issuer Top 5 Merchant Acquirer All 3 of the Largest Card Companies/Networks Top 5 Retail Bank Largest Regional Bank Leading Payments Processor Top 3 Lender Leading Payments ASP Leading Debit Bureau Top 3 Credit Bureau Payments Technology Provider International Bank - January 2004 – January 2006
BearingPoint Consulting
Payments Practice & Key Account ExecutiveSold and oversaw performance improvements across large payments companies through strategy, operational change and technology implementations. - January 1999 – January 2004
CAST Center for Applied Strategy
Vice President, Financial ServicesOversaw relationships with large payments companies, delivered projects to improve performance in banking and payments. - May 1991 – May 1999
Cambridge Technology Partners
Client Partner - Financial Services - January 1987 – January 1990
Arthur Andersen
Senior ConsultantConsultant - January 1984 – January 1987
Genesys Consulting & Training (GCT)
ConsultantTrained and provided consultation to financial services executives on the use of technology for process automation and sales force effectiveness.
Education
- 2014 – 2014
United States Army War College
Strategic Leadership Development, Organizational Leadership - 2007 – 2008Post Graduate, Business Leadership
- 2004 – 2005
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Degree in Retail Banking, Retail Banking - 1983 – 1987BS, Business Administration, Finance, Marketing