Collaboration Committee

Identify, prioritize, and execute strategies to improve payments operational challenges most relevant to MAG merchant members. Drive merchants' voice through industry participation and enhance payment partners accountability.

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Collaboration Committee goals and strategies

Responsibilities

  • Manage relationships with brand networks and acquirers
  • Identify and prioritize strategies and tactics to improve merchant payments operations
  • Ensure merchant needs are prominent in industry discussions around payments operations
  • Represent the merchant perspective at industry events

Priorities

  • Influence the design, development, and commercialization of payments products, rules, and practices
  • Bring awareness of merchants’ payments challenges to all parties in the ecosystem
  • Promote fairness in the payment’s ecosystem 

Committee Leadership

  • Trent Addington
    Walmart
    Sr. Director, Emerging Payments
  • Ken Grogan
    Wakefern Food Corp.
    Director Treasury Services
  • Kimberly Johnson
    VF Corporation
    Product Owner
  • Anusha Ramanujam
    Square
    Head of Payment Partnerships
  • Kelly Andrus
    Merchant Advisory Group
    Director, Collaboration
  • Bryan Penny
    Merchant Advisory Group
    Vice President, Operations
The Merchant Advisory Group

Driving positive change and innovation in the payments industry that serves the merchants interest through collaboration, education, and advocacy.