Deva is the Head of Payment Strategy Solutions Consulting within the Biller and Payments Group at Fiserv. In his role, Deva works with our clients and partners from various industry verticals to collaborate and apply Fiserv Payments API solutions.

Deva has spent the last 15 years in the Financial Industry and loves to see how technology can help solve real-life problems. His specific focus is on accelerating payments and brings faster payment solutions to various industries including Insurance, Gig Economy, Marketplaces and others.

Deva is also a principal advisor for the INV Fintech startup accelerator program by INV Fintech/Bank Innovation and various Financial Institutions and Fintech startups. As a startup mentor, he helps startups that solve the Financial wellness problems for customers and consumers.

Ken Mertzel is an Insurance and Banking industry executive with over 25 years of experience improving business performance and organizational effectiveness in a variety of roles including CFO of the Insurance Group at Bank of America, Associate Partner in the Insurance Strategy practice at Accenture, Finance Controller at Progressive Insurance and Consultant at Bain & Company. In his current role at Automation Anywhere, Ken provides thought leadership and crafts tailored RPA solutions using his deep domain expertise to address the needs of the Insurance and Banking industries as well as the Finance/CFO function.

Jason Verlen is Senior Vice President of Product Management for CCC Information Services Inc.  He has extensive experience in the software industry with specific expertise in product management, big data, and analytics.  Before joining CCC in May 2015 Jason spent five years at IBM where he was VP of Big Data Analytics.  Prior to IBM, he was VP of Product Management for SPSS, a predictive analytics software company.  Jason earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

As the Director of Enterprise Sales, Zander Steele lead the go-to-market organization bringing machine learning to the Global 2000 and government institutions around the world. HyperScience automates data entry using Machine Learning, helping global entities reduce labor costs and increase the speed and accuracy with which they can serve their customers.

Prior to HyperScience, Zander worked in pre and post sales roles at venture-backed enterprise software companies Medallia and Box. Zander holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Management Science from UC San Diego.