Joe Proto

Joe Proto serves as EVP Senior Advisor for Mastercard and brings over four decades of entrepreneurial experience honed through the launch of several multi-million-dollar tech companies. Through his work as chairman and CEO of Transactis, Proto facilitated the successful acquisition of the company by Mastercard in 2019 and prior to that, he oversaw REMITCO, acquired by First Data in 2000 and CashFlex, which was acquired by CoreStates in 1992, now part of Wells Fargo. He is also a founder of Windham Ventures, a medical technology VC. Proto formerly served on LendKey’s advisory board and currently serves as the chairman for Dade Systems, a leading fintech provider of integrated accounts receivables solutions.