Through Riese & Others, my focus is on providing strategic consulting, board, and advisory services to enterprises globally, with a particular passion for growth companies, primarily those disrupting the financial services industry.

I bring almost 30 years of executive and operating experience to the table, combined with an additional 20 years of working with some of the most innovative, disruptive, rapidly growing, and successful startup and growth companies and their management teams around the world.

Over the last 20 years, I have served on a number of public and private company boards, and today I am a board member of public companies: Flywire (FLYW) and Remitly (RELY), and private companies: Array, Betterment, Cross River, Mpower, Perch, and Relay Network. I am an adviser to a number of private company CEOs and venture funds globally. I also serve as a board member of Accion, a not-for-profit dedicated to global financial inclusion.

Prior to the formation of RIESE & OTHERS, I spent 18 years at American Express in a variety of positions, and for the last 8 years, I served as the president of the Consumer Card Group and chairman of American Express Centurion Bank. Before American Express, I had been a division executive at Chase Manhattan Bank, responsible for their Merchant Services business, and a partner of M.C. Geffen and Associates, a consulting firm in South Africa.

I am a Textile Engineer, earning a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Leeds University in England, an MBA from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and a Master of Science degree from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

My wife Tracey and I live in Brooklyn, New York.