Joe Proto

Joe Proto has four decades in the financial technology and banking industry as a senior executive and serial entrepreneur. Joe built Transactis into a leading payments company serving 25 of the largest 50 banks which was acquired by Mastercard in 2019. He launched REMITCO, a payments company acquired in 2000 by First Data now part of Fiserv. He co-founded Financial Telesis (CashFlex) which was acquired in 1992 by CoreStates, now part of Wells Fargo. He served as chairman of DadeSystems (B2B integrated receivables) which was acquired in 2022 by Versapay a Great Hill payments company. Joe serves as chairman at Finexio (automated AP technology); is a board director at LendKey (lending technology with over three hundred credit unions and community banks), ActiveWorx (AP technology for multi-national enterprise companies), Green Check Verified (compliance for FI’s serving the cannabis industry), Identifee (sales enablement for financial institutions) and is also an advisor to CheckAlt and Photon Commerce. Joe also co-founded Windham Ventures (an innovation leader in med tech), and is a limited partner and advisor to several leading venture capital firms. Joe is a member of the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP); he serves on the advisory group at the National Automated Clearinghouse Association (NACHA); and enjoys attending and speaking at conferences in the banking and financial technology industry.