2012 MRC Annual eCommerce Payments and Risk Conference

René founded Retail Payments Global Consulting Group LLC (RPGC Group – www.rpgc.com), as a specialized consultancy practice in the “card/customer not present” payments and cross-border/international payments. René brings to his Clients all the experiences accumulated from working for PayPal and Amazon.com. At PayPal, René was responsible for managing PayPal's relations with the financial services industry and defining payment strategies whereas at Amazon.com, he was head of Global Payments and responsible for all aspects of payments processing, managing relationships with banks, processors, credit card companies and for driving the adoption of new forms of payment. In his consultancy, René has advised companies like Google, PayPal, Symantec, Cybersource, First Data, Visa International, American Greetings, Netgiro in Sweden and Pago in Germany.
Additionally, René has held senior management positions at Electronic Payment Services, Inc., a leading electronic funds transfer (EFT) processor; GE Capital, an international consumer lending group; and Tandem Computers, a hardware manufacturer of fault tolerant systems heavily used by the payments industry worldwide.
Quoted and published in many industry related publications, René's opinions are highly sought. He has been quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, American Banker, Credit Card Management, USA Today, The Green Sheet, Digital Transaction, and many more. He has also contributed to specialized payment publications such as Association for Finance Professional's "The Exchange", the Canadian Payments Association "Forum", and Wiley Financial Series book "The Future of Finance after SEPA". During his tenure at eBay/PayPal, René filed for patents with the US Patent and Trademark Office for "Unified Identity Verification" and for "Payments Using Funds Pushing".
René received a B.A. in Business Information and Computing Systems and a M.B.A. from San Francisco State University.