eric grover

Eric Grover is a Principal at Intrepid Ventures, providing corporate development and strategy consulting to private and public financial services, processing, technology and payment network businesses, principally in North America and Europe. He has a comprehensive understanding of the global payment network, processing and credit card landscape. Mr. Grover is a renowned expert on the electronic payments space with high-level understanding of each node within the industry value chain including credit issuing, payment networks, acquiring, processing, and end-consumer value propositions. He was one of the first to publicly make the case for banks to demutualize MasterCard and Visa. Mr. Grover is the world's foremost independent authority on interchange, its economics and regulation. His prior experience includes Visa International, GE Consumer Finance, Bank of America, NationsBank and Transamerica. Mr. Grover currently serves on the board of Nordstrom's credit card subsidiary. He has over 25 years of experience in the financial services space and his commentaries have been frequently published in the American Banker, Cards International, the Daily Deal, Digital Transactions, Credit Card Management, Cards & Payments, Card Technology, Cards Insider, and the Washington Times.

Mr. Grover is a frequent speaker on card payment networks, payment processing, credit, debit and prepay payment businesses, and government's increasing role in the payments industry.