He started with mobile payments. Fifteen years later, the iBoxPay founder is building AI employees for small shops - and still asking what happens after the customer pays.
He set out to sell online. The trouble came at checkout. A decade after co-founding Paymob, Islam Shawky is still working on the obstacle that changed his plans.

The former bond investor now runs InterPayments, where the visible fee is merely the tip of an iceberg made of card rules, state laws and customer psychology.

A lawyer turned payments operator, Gass has spent more than three decades following the trail from a customer’s click to a merchant’s cash - and learning what leadership costs when the system fails.
Kathleen Schnering is the Chief Executive Officer of Clover Network, one of the largest cloud-based point-of-sale platforms in the United States. Under the Fiserv umbrella, Clover serves more than 800,000 merchants across retail, restaurant, and services verticals, processing hundreds of billions in payments annually. Schnering leads a platform generating over $2.7 billion in annual revenue with a workforce of approximately 1,500 employees, steering Clover's expansion into international markets and value-added services as it targets $4.5 billion in revenue by 2026.