About Dean Wallace

Dean Wallace has been in the solution space for over 20 years. Initially starting out at IBM as an IT architect consulting to cross-industry blue chip clients, it was at IBM where, as lead integration architect on an ePOS chip & PIN replacement programme for a leading UK retailer, Dean caught the cards and payments bug. Following IBM, Dean moved 100 percent into cards and payments solution consulting and product management leadership within TSYS, and later with Vocalink. At Vocalink Dean was head of product for what is now known as Pay By Bank App, combining faster payments with mobile payments to replace plastic cards to buy goods (a precursor to PSD2). At ACI Worldwide, Dean Wallace has held various product leadership roles covering consumer and merchant management, clearing & settlement, reconciliation, dispute management, mobile payments and now immediate payments and hub solutions. With this latest addition Dean is working with global partners to support the transformation of payments into a digitally-native, real-time industry, supporting any payment, every possibility. Seasoned professional able to craft visions from ideas and turn visions into executable reality. Comfortable in strategy, business development, product and management roles within technology and Payments. Core strengths in Alternative & Mobile Payments, Retail & Digital Banking, Cards & Payments (Credit, Debit, Prepaid, ACH, Instant / Real-Time, RTGS, APMs), Issuing, Merchant Acquiring, PSPs, Processing, Scheme Operations, Digital / API / PISP, P2P, Solution Design, Proposition Design bringing together Strategy, Product, IT, Business Development and business disciplines in both business development and performance improvement initiatives. Extensive personal network in the UK, pan-Europe, US, Middle East, India and SE Asia.