Canada
James Hicks is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Moneris, Canada’s largest provider of payment processing and merchant solutions. James has extensive international payments and financial technology experience having worked in North America, Europe and Asia as an executive at some of the industry's leading players. Prior to Moneris, James lived in Europe where he was the Chief Strategic Partnership Officer within Nexi's Merchant Solutions Business. During his career, he has also served as Executive Vice President, Global Acceptance and Solutions for Mastercard based at the company’s New York Headquarters and held several leadership positions around the world at Global Payments Inc. including President of Global Solutions, President of Global Payments Asia Pacific and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Payments / HSBC Asia-Pacific joint venture. Before moving to Hong Kong, James was based in Prague where he was President of Global Payments Europe following several years as an executive within Global Payments Canada and CIBC’s Merchant Services division. James has served on a number of committees, boards and councils and is currently on the board of North America’s Electronic Transactions Association, MS Canada and is both a board member and trustee of Lakefield College School.