Events Committee
The Events Committee is comprised of members that define event topics that drive NYPAY events. They “own” selected events, outline event agendas, select and recruit moderators and panelists, and generally make this volunteer organization work. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to support the organization or have any ideas for NYPAY.
Committee Members
Edward Dellheim
G. Michael Flores
Thomas Layman
Gene Neyer
Therese R. Revesz
Alfredo Sarria
Barry Tooker
Committee Members
Edward Dellheim
G. Michael Flores
Thomas Layman
Gene Neyer
Therese R. Revesz
Alfredo Sarria
Barry Tooker
Edward Dellheim
Event Committee Member
Edward Dellheim is National Director for Financial Services at MorganFranklin Consulting, a midsized advisory firm with significant focus on serving the finance, accounting, risk management and IT needs of tech-forward financial services and fintech organizations. Over his consulting career, he has held several executive positions, including Payments and Fintech practice leader at Point B, Executive Director at his own firm, The Abaco Group, and Midwest Financial Services leader for North Highland Worldwide Consulting. His experience working with clients has focused on helping them activate their strategies through corporate development as well as internal transformation initiatives. Ed received his Master of Business Administration with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an A.B. in Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
G. Michael Flores
Event Committee Member
He is the CEO of Bretton Woods, Inc., a specialty management advisory and research firm serving the financial services industry domestically and internationally.
Michael brings over 40 years of financial services experience with focuses on loan and deposit operations, commercial deposit and cash management product strategies, alternative financial services, overdraft protection programs, payment systems and process improvement and reengineering through enabling technologies.
He has conducted research on controversial issues and written white paper and testified before three House and two Senate committees (see http://bretton-woods.com/research.html).
He speaks frequently to industry groups and has authored several articles for industry publications.
Michael received a BBA in Accounting and Management from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
Thomas Layman
Event Committee Member
Thomas A. Layman is Senior Advisor and EVP at of Finance and Operations at TVI. Tom has 30+ years of international and domestic experience in the financial services and electronic payments industry. Tom is also CEO of Global Vision Group a boutique consulting firm specializing in electronic payments. He was also Senior Vice President with Visa, holding a number of executive positions during his 11-year tenure, including serving as Chief Economist and spokesperson for Visa. Tom also managed Visa’s Profitability Consulting practice and benchmarking studies. In addition, Tom also headed up all of Visa’s efforts to mitigate the impact of personal bankruptcies on creditors, and helped lobby and draft the most recent enhancements to the US federal bankruptcy laws. Prior to Visa, Tom’s experience was focused primarily on research and assessing the economic and business environment risk of emerging markets.
Gene Neyer
Event Committee Member
Gene Neyer is an executive advisor to Fis and Fintechs, focusing on Payment Modernization and Innovation. He has held a number of prominent roles, including SVP, Head of Money Movement Platform at U.S. Bank, board member and advisor to the US Faster Payments Council and Head of Product for Finastra. With decades of experience in Product Management and IT Leadership, he had been a representative to various industry organizations and is a regular speaker at business seminars and conferences. He holds an Executive Master in Technology Management from Wharton/University of Pennsylvania and M.S. & B.S. Degrees in Mathematics from City College of NY.
Therese R. Revesz
Event Committee Member
Therese (Té) Revesz is principal of the GlobalReach Network, an alliance of international consultancies, specializing in qualitative primary research and in solving complex problems. Clients have included Chevron, FedEx, IBM, Moderna, Motorola and Yellow Freight. Prior to founding GlobalReach, Té served as a practice director with FIND/SVP’s Strategic Consulting & Research Group, Adjunct Professor for International Trade and Business Strategy at Baruch, Publications Director for Business International and had stints with CitiBank and Prudential Bache. Té holds a Masters from Columbia’s School of International & Public Affairs and a BA cum laude from Goucher College. Publications include the Boomer Market, Cobranded Credit Cards, Global Branding, and Small Business Finance.
Alfredo Sarria
Event Committee Member
His expertise spans continents and currencies in Fortune 500 organizations such as Santander, Citibank, and Mastercard as well as the fintech startup ecosystem. Alfredo also built a content-as-a-service platform powered by Generative AI.
He currently advises organizations in orchestrating business turnarounds, customer success, and go-to-market transformations, powered by a blend of commercial acumen, stakeholder management, and seamless execution.
Alfredo holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering with honors from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Barry Tooker
Event Committee Member
Barry is the Principal at TransactionBanker.com, a payments consultancy. He has been involved in payment operations, systems transformations, and modernization related projects for global banks and hardware and software firms for decades. He has managed day to day operations, as well as planned, organized, directed, and managed, major banking initiatives for banks around the world. Barry is a member of well-known industry associations and is Chairing their payments related workgroups.