Sam Sherzad

Sam is a San Francisco-based payments product manager with experience building back-end payments platforms for international and domestic P2P, B2B, and C2B payments, driving payment system roadmaps and prioritization of features, crafting solutions for automated payment reconciliation and exception handling, enhancing best practices for payment operation teams, and advising payment contract negotiations on behalf of merchants with acquirers.
He is currently at Fivestars where he is driving their transition to a payment facilitator; prior to this he has worked at Yapstone leading the development of their ‘Transact’ platform, Western Union Digital Ventures launching payment apps for international markets, Bank of the West/BNP Paribas owning their US enterprise payment solution, and Citi working in an operations capacity.