Daniel Kornitzer

Daniel Kornitzer is an Advisory Board member to Tillo.io and several fintech firms. Prior to this, he was Chief Business Development Officer for Paysafe. In this role, he was responsible for enterprise sales globally and for developing strategic partnerships for Paysafe designed to meet customer needs and grow new revenues. He was also a stakeholder in Paysafe’s M&A activities. Before this, Daniel served as Paysafe’s EVP and Chief Product Officer. Prior to re-joining the Group in 2014, he was CEO and Board Member of SiteSell.com. In his 20+ years in technology management, Daniel has pioneered ground breaking initiatives, from one of the world’s first over-the-phone speech recognition systems and the ISO/ITU standards for video coding in use today, to FirePay’s digital wallet and industry-leading risk management processes. This latter role resulted in his subsequent appointment as a member of the NACHA Risk Management Task Force. With deep knowledge of customer needs, and a profound understanding of the global payments industry, Daniel is also a well-regarded and active payments commentator and speaks regularly at industry events. He also sits alongside other industry visionaries as a member of the advisory board of the Merchant Payments Ecosystem (MPE), ETA Canadian Working Group, Blockchain Founders Fund, and as a board member of Open Finance Network Canada. Daniel holds a B.Eng in electrical engineering from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, a M. Eng from McGill University and a diploma in network engineering from the University of Toronto.