ROAM Data CEO: Mobile Commerce Can Help Acquirers Win Merchants

ROAM Data CEO Will Graylin spoke to PYMNTS.com about the company’s recent participation organizing the Mobile Commerce portion of ETA’s Annual Meeting & Expo while giving insight on using new technologies to win merchants.

Part I: Company’s recent participation organizing the Mobile Commerce portion of ETA’s Annual Meeting & Expo

 

Part II: Insight on challenges within the mobile spectrum, and how acquirers can use technology to win merchants.

 


ROAM Data is Will’s fourth high-tech start up in the mobile and payments space, since his masters thesis at MIT on “Addressing The Complexity of Mobile Computing” in 1999. Founded in 2005 ROAM Data enables secure mCommerce applications and functions for small and large merchants across virtually any computing device. Previous credits include CEO of WAY Systems, the world’s first pocket size point of sale (POS) solution and service, acquired by Verifone: founder and CEO of EntitleNet, a security software company enabling Web and eCommerce applications with secure access management, sold to BEA Systems (now part of Oracle) and President of Marbles (later Skyfire Technologies,) the world’s first thin-client mobile software company focused on enterprise mobile workforce applications. Will earned two Masters degrees from MIT (MBA & MSEECS) after serving as a US Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer for nearly 6 years, (he was the first Chinese immigrant to serve in that role, after being naturalized as a US citizen in 1987.)