About Donna Embry

As of 2020, Donna Embry has 53 plus years of experience in the payments industry.. Her prior executive positions include SVP and Chief Payments Officer for Payment Alliance International (PAI), Executive Vice President, Product and Marketing for Vital Processing (TSYS Acquiring) and Senior Vice President, Electronic Banking for PNC Bank, as well as Chief Operations Officer for PNC’s former division, CFC Financial Services. Embry authored the first ETA publication, The Encyclopedia of Terminology for the Acquiring Industry, and developed/taught the inaugural introduction series of classes for ETA University. Boards and Committees: currently co-chair for the ATMIA US Regional Board, chair of the ETA Professional Development Committee, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Task Force, NAMA education committee, the ATMIA Next Gen ATM Council and Withdraw Cash Wednesday committee, the ETA Mobile Payments Council, and Board Member of the NEAA, a founding member and served as Chairman for the former Kentucky-based Quest ATM network, former President of the Midwest Acquirers Association (MWAA) in 2013-2014, MWAA Board (2008 - 2012) and currently is a Regional Board Member for the Make-A-Wish Foundation (Kentucky/Indiana/Ohio). Awards: 2005: The Green Sheet’s profiled industry leader. 2009: the MWAA "Lifetime Achievement Award" for Payment Industry Professionals. 2013, 2014 and 2020 she was recognized as “One of the 20 Most Influential Women in Payments” by SourceMedia. 2016: received the “Distinguished Payments Professional” award from the Electronic Transactions Association and the ATM Industry Champion Award from the ATM Industry Association (ATMIA). 2017: recognized as “Distinguished Payments Professional” from the Women in Payments global payments ecosystem network and recognized by the ATMIA with an “Outstanding Service” award. In 2018 Embry received the International PayTech Leadership Award from FinTech Futures. 2019 was inducted into the ETA Payments Hall of Fame. 2020 earned an ATMIA service award.