Manish Nathwani

Sr. Vice President, Product Development, SHAZAM

Manish is a key contributor to the vision of SHAZAM’s electronic payments business. He and his teams innovate and develop products to enhance SHAZAM’s core strengths and introduce new products into the marketplace to help its member financial institution remain competitive and contribute to their success. He is currently leading efforts on projects related to EMV, Tokenization and Mobile Payments. In his 12 years at SHAZAM, Manish has held positions as a Senior Engineer/Consultant, IT Technical Lead and Chief/Enterprise Architect. He is currently the Vice President of Network Products and Enterprise Architecture blending business with technology in providing innovative electronic payment solutions to the marketplace for SHAZAM’s customer base. Manish has over 25 years of experience in the electronic payments industry, primarily building enterprise-strength, high-performance online authorization systems. He has a depth of experience in point-of-sale (POS), ATM, acquirer, and issuer processing of electronic payments and has worked for companies such as CAP/Sema Group, Tandem Computers, ACI (UK). He also worked with Deutsche Bank (London) on FX and Money Market systems along with a number of other European financial institutions and processors to deliver electronic funds transfer products and solutions. Manish graduated from the University of Manchester (England, UK) with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and also holds a master’s degree in computing for commerce/industry.