Team

Jared is a respected thought leader in the Payments Industry. He has significant industry experience, having spent more than twenty years in the merchant acquiring industry.

As the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), Jared is focused on bringing together key functions and team members at TSG to drive collaboration and unlock value to fuel growth and provide exciting capabilities for TSG’s client base. Jared is involved in a variety of strategic marketing initiatives, partnership opportunities and sales/business development efforts. Prior to the CIO role, Jared led and developed TSG’s market intelligence team for 8 years. Jared also has significant expertise in synthesizing and communicating actionable insights and intelligence to TSG clients having spent most of his career in market intelligence payments roles.

As a payments industry thought leader, Jared has also presented at a wide range of industry, client, and academic events, as an expert on the industry in areas such as cloud-based POS systems, integrated payments and EMV. Jared has been frequently quoted in mainstream media outlets such as the NY Times, WSJ, NBC, MIT Technology Review, Forbes and Digital Transactions as well as advised government entities, such as The White House, on industry public policy.

Prior to joining TSG, Jared held strategy and product management positions during his ten-year tenure at First Data. While at First Data, he developed and launched First Data’s first international market intelligence team under the Corporate Strategy group and managed First Data’s SpendTrend product under the company’s Information and Analytics Group. During his time with the Information and Analytics group, Jared also worked closely with First Data’s Clover team on building out data products such as the Insightics POS application.

Jared completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a major in Journalism. Jared resides in the Omaha area with his wife, Tiffany, and their daughter Jaelynn.