YapStone, a global provider of web and mobile payment technology solutions for large vertical markets and online marketplaces, announced the addition of Daniel Issen as Chief Technology Officer.
Issen will lead the engineering and product delivery teams as YapStone continues to rapidly expand in the online and mobile payments industry, projecting growth of 45 percent in 2015.
“We are thrilled to have Daniel join as YapStone’s CTO. He brings impressive technology and payments experience from his roles at past companies, including Amazon, Google, PayPal and eBay, and he’ll be instrumental to our growth,” said Tom Villante, Chairman & CEO and Co-Founder of YapStone. “We have a great deal of momentum as the leading electronic payments provider for large vertical markets, such as apartment and vacation rentals, as well as rapidly adding to our mobile and online marketplace customers, which currently include vacation rental marketplaces, HomeAway® and VRBO®. With Daniel’s extensive experience in architecting and growing payments platforms at scale, our proprietary payment technology will continue to be our competitive advantage.”
In his new role, Issen is responsible for the management and recruitment of the YapStone technology team, as well as architecting the company’s technology stack to support continued rapid growth. Issen joins YapStone from Amazon Local Commerce, where he launched Amazon Local Register. Prior to Amazon, Issen was Engineering Director of Google’s Payments Platform, where he spearheaded the team that launched Google’s second generation order processing system with significant success.
“YapStone is uniquely positioned in the payments industry, and I jumped at the opportunity to join the company,” said Issen. “Rather than focusing on common use cases in the crowded space of large payments players, YapStone has an immense opportunity to focus on complex, trillion dollar domains that are under-addressed by technology. We have a huge opportunity to revolutionize payments and I’m excited to be part of this talented team.”
A 28-year veteran of technology and payments systems, Issen also held senior technology and architect roles at a number of successful companies. He led the technology organization at adBrite, managed the Application and Data architecture team at PayPal, and was one of four enterprise architects with end-to-end responsibilities across the eBay marketplace.