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Bradley Wilkes
CEO & Co-Founder
About Bradley Wilkes
Bradley is passionate about payments. He is the CEO of Open Payment Network, an ambitious effort to deliver to financial institutions and their customers, a cloud-based, next-generation, real-time payment network. Since 1997 when he graduated with an MBA, he has been an innovative entrepreneur having demonstrated industry and thought leadership by co-founding or founding six payment companies. He enjoys defining and refining a company’s vision and mission, building a team, and then executing. In starting and building companies, he’s been responsible for every aspect of the business’s success including strategy, raising funds, company culture, team building, accounting, audit, sales, marketing, information technology, compliance, regulation, and legal. He’s also been granted ten payment related patents. He is ardent about volunteering to improve the US payment system and spent four years working as a member of the Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Task Force, the Faster Payments Task Force Steering Committee responsible for advising the Fed on the work of the Faster Payments Task Force, the Secure Payments Task Force, the Governance Framework Formation Team responsible for organizing the U.S. Faster Payments Council, the Directory Workgroup, and many other Task Force related workgroups.