Speakers

Penny Gillespie
President, Gillespie International

Penny Gillespie is a pioneer in electronic banking and bill payment, solving problems in the areas of delayed payments, product and service online usage, compliance, risk and fraud. Penny assists enterprises:

• Minimize their risk on investment,
• Move toward straight-through processing, and
• Increase the efficiency of their invoicing and payments processes

Before starting Gillespie International, Penny served as a senior analyst at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group. Prior to her role as a senior analyst, Penny held a variety of positions focusing on product strategy and development in the areas of domestic and international retail banking and bill payment, EBPP, and multi-application smart cards.

Penny has over 25 years of management experience in the areas of finance and financial systems and a broad background in the development and use of financial applications. Her accomplishments include: developing the EBPP strategy for the Integrion Financial Network bank consortium, creating the successful international product strategy for Visa Interactive’s retail banking and bill payment product and developing a winning product strategy for their domestic product. Penny has developed other products to include multi-application smart cards for CyberMark (a subsidiary of SallieMae) and numerous financial applications for SallieMae and JCPenney.

Before becoming an analyst, Penny served on the NACHA Council for Electronic Billing and Payment and the IFX committee for Bill Delivery and Payment. As a senior analyst, Penny has appeared on ABC’s Business Now and participated in radio talk shows for CNET, CBS News, NPR, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. She has also been featured in such publications as the American Banker, Financial Times, New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.

Penny earned a B.S. in Accounting from Greensboro College and an M.B.A. from the George Washington University

Paul Sutton
President and Chief Executive Officer, Kabira

Paul Sutton has more than twenty-five years experience managing break-through software and technology companies. Paul has held positions in executive roles as well as in sales, marketing and technical management. He has grown Kabira to over 100 large customers in more than 30 countries, was the driving force that led the development of Kabira’s unparalleled 64-bit Kabira Transaction Platform and the revolutionary cross-network Kabira Transaction Switch, and won VISA, Motorola and Hitachi as strategic customers and partners. Before joining Kabira Technologies, Paul was vice president of sales and marketing at Intellicorp, a business modeling software company. Previously, he held positions as vice president of sales at Softlab, a computer-aided software engineering firm owned by BMW AG, and as managing director of Boole & Babbage, a system management software company.

Richard Martin
Editor at Large, InformationWeek

An Editor at large for InformationWeek, the premier print and online publication for the information technology industry, Richard Martin has been reporting on science and technology for more than a decade. He has also written for Wired, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. His feature story “The God Particle and the Grid” (Wired, April 2004) was selected for Best Science Writing of 2004. He appears frequently as a speaker and panelist at industry conferences including CTIA Wireless and Interop. Richard's awards include the White Award for Investigative Reporting (from the national City & Regional Magazine Association), an "Excellence in Feature Writing" award from the Society for Professional Journalists, and a Rotary Journalism Fellowship, and he is a founding editor of NewWest.Net, the winner of a 2005 Online Journalism Award for General Excellence.