Desmond Griffin

Desmond co-founded PayByPhone and was its CEO from inception through successful exit (now owned by Volkswagen), during which time PayByPhone went from a concept to a platform processing tens of millions of mobile payments annually for millions of consumers in over 100 cities around the world.

Desmond is the co-founder of Glance Technologies, enabling mobile payments for the restaurant industry. Glance achieved a public market valuation in excess of $400 million less than a year and a half after its IPO on the Canadian Venture Exchange.