Lisa Shields

Lisa Shields is a Co-Founder of FI.Span and also serves as its Chief Executive Officer. She was the founder and serves as chief executive officer at hyperWALLET Syste Over the past 13 years Shields has guided hyperWALLET from technology start-up to a respected international payments processor specializing in low value, cross-border clearing solutions. Under Shields' guidance, hyperWALLET has become the de facto standard commission payments provider to the Direct Selling industry, a growing business sector with 90 million participants worldwide and over $150 billion in total sales. In addition, hyperWALLET operates a financial services business line offering consumer-to-consumer account-based money transfer services. Prior to founding hyperWALLET, Shields managed payments acceptance and risk management technology teams for high volume online merchants. Earlier in her career, she held a variety of technology management and technical software development roles. Shields was a founding director of the Wireless Innovation Society of British Columbia, and speaks frequently on payment and technology issues with a personal interest in consumer remittances. She holds Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees in Engineering, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.