Melissa Townsley, CEO and Co-Founder of GIACT joins us for an intimate fireside chat at Startup Grind Dallas! Melissa has led the company since its founding and is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the company. Under her leadership, GIACT has grown to include a client roster of over 1,000 companies, many of them in the Fortune 500.
As the CEO and Co-Founder of GIACT, Melissa has led the company since its founding and is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the company. With a new approach to identify and eliminate payments fraud, GIACT has grown to include a client roster of over 1,000 companies, many of them in the Fortune 500.
As the CEO and Co-Founder of GIACT, Melissa has led the company since its founding and is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the company. With deep expertise in payment processing, risk mitigation and compliance, Melissa identified the need in the market for a new approach to identify and eliminate payments fraud as multiple industries increasingly began to rely on digital payments. Under her leadership, GIACT has grown to include a client roster of over 1,000 companies, many of them in the Fortune 500. Prior to founding GIACT in 2004, Melissa held a broad range of leadership positions across multiple departments including sales, customer service, claims payments and more during a 17-year career in the insurance industry. While the COO of iPromotion, she led new business development while it rapidly grew to $100 million in annual revenue in its first 18 months of operation.