Dwolla has appointed payments technology veteran Dave Glaser as the fintech's first president and chief operating officer.
In his new role, Glaser will guide Dwolla's advancements in enterprise growth strategies, customer onboarding, implementation and service processes.
“Dave’s breadth of experience in scaling large organizations is critical as we continue to expand our enterprise payment services. With his help, we’ll continue to build innovative products, implement operational efficiencies and automations that drive success and competitive advantages for our customers,” Brady Harris, CEO of Dwolla, said in a Tuesday press release.
“Dave is joining us at a pivotal time in Dwolla’s history," Harris added. "He will play a key role in helping Dwolla fuel innovation in real-time payments and provide our customers with the most options to move money.”
Glaser comes to Dwolla from Mastercard, where he served as senior vice president of global acceptance solutions and spearheaded new point of sale initiatives, acceptance products and solutions for acquirers and merchants. He advanced one of the industry’s first CloudPOS acceptance technologies.
Before that, Glaser bolstered his enterprise leadership at Worldpay as chief customer excellence officer, leading a successful IPO and $10.4 billion merger with Vantiv. He began his career in fintech at CyberSource, helping build the company’s global services division, helping drive the $2 billion acquisition by Visa.
“Companies around the world are embracing the move to digital payments, seeking fast, secure and simple solutions to transfer money,” Glaser said in the release. “Dwolla is well positioned to capitalize on this momentum with its modern platform for institutions of all sizes that need instant payment transfers to a bank account or debit card."
Glaser said he is looking forward to working with the Dwolla team "to drive growth and further solidify Dwolla’s position in the market as a modern payments platform.”
Dwolla says Glaser's appointment marks the latest step in expansion plans, following the hiring of Harris as CEO in March of 2020.The company’s history of payments expertise stems from founder and board chairman Ben Milne.
Dwolla also views the president's role as one to continue momentum for a company that supported more than $20 billion a year in gross payment volume, increasing 79% in 2020 alone. The company also saw a 102% growth in new end-users onboarded to its platform last year.
