Bio

Keith Smith

CEO

Keith is an entrepreneur and fintech expert who has dedicated his career to building and leading innovative businesses in the mobile technology, payments and prepaid industries. He specializes in modernizing financial technologies to create new value and drives business growth.

As founder, CEO and President of Payouts Network, he is focused on expanding the company's market-leading payments platform. This revolutionary technology gives businesses more speed, flexibility, and control over payments to workers, customers, and suppliers, and transforms customer experiences across a variety of industries.

Before establishing Payouts Network, Keith founded CorFire in partnership with Korean mobile comm SK C&C. He was a founding member of Firethorn, an early U.S. leader in mobile banking, and ITC (acquired by inComm), a leader in gift cards and reloadable prepaid cards. Previously, Keith was a senior executive at Concord EFS (acquired by First Data) and an EVP at Vital Processing (acquired by TSYS) as well as CEO of Vital Merchant Services.

Keith serves as an advisor to Schedulicity, a leading online scheduling platform for discovering and booking local services in more than 50 different industries. Most recently, he was appointed to the board of Fintech Atlanta, a coalition of companies working to advance Atlanta as a global capital of financial technology.

News

Payouts NetworkTM News

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Payouts Network Expands Sales Leadership Team with Chris Razaki as Vice President of Sales

Payouts Network welcomes Chris Razaki as Vice President of Sales to lead strategic growth. With 25+ years in payments and loyalty, he strengthens the expanding leadership team.

Payouts Network Expands Executive Team with Chief Product Officer Judson Preuss

Judson Preuss has joined Payouts Network as Chief Product Officer (CPO)

Move Over Cash: How Points Can Be the Future of Currency

By year end, ~50% of rewards will go unused. But what if reward points from across brands were a form of currency that actually drove loyalty and top of wallet status?