CEO, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Advisory Board Member

Brian Shniderman

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.

Launched Openpay’s B2C embedded finance/payment and B2B Buyer-Supplier SAAS solutions into the United States.

US CEO & Global Chief Strategy Officer

His 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.

Owner/Principal, US and Global Cross-Industry Payments Leader

Lead 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

National Managing Director

Sold and oversaw performance improvements across large payments companies through strategy, operational change and technology implementations.

Payments Practice & Key Account Executive

Oversaw relationships with large payments companies, delivered projects to improve performance in banking and payments.

Vice President, Financial Services

Client Partner - Financial Services

Senior Consultant

Trained and provided consultation to financial services executives on the use of technology for process automation and sales force effectiveness.