Zipline Hires President/COO

ZipLine today announced that Russell Scudder has been named President and Chief Operating Officer at ZipLine, reporting directly to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Goodrich.

Scudder comes to ZipLine from Portland, Maine-based Next Gen Payment Solutions where he served as President and CEO.

As President of ZipLine, Scudder will direct a senior leadership team responsible for all functional areas of the business, including current efforts in payment, loyalty and data analytics solutions to the Convenience and Fuel Marketing space, as well as emerging markets.

ZipLine technologies leveraging decoupled debit (ACH) have positioned it as the undisputed leader in both mobile and alternative payments to the retail petroleum sector.

“As ZipLine continues to build its strategic importance in the marketplace, the addition of Russ allows us to better focus on the market’s key issues.” said Stephen Goodrich “Our loyalty and data elements have elevated ZipLine to the number one form of payment within our leading merchant partners. Leading our day-to-day, Russ will help ZipLine achieve this goal within every merchant partner.” Scudder graduated from St. Lawrence University. He obtained a Certified Payments Professional (CPP) designation from the Electronic Transactions Association.