Yonathan Grigiac is a strategy leader with more than 10 years of experience in payments and fintech, with a passion for enabling people to access and move money conveniently and quickly. Throughout his career, he has specialized in crafting actionable strategies that connect customer needs and market demand with financial objectives, driving revenue and customer growth for payments and fintech companies.

His expertise includes building product roadmaps, implementing value-based pricing strategies, and forging impactful partnerships. At Melio, Yonathan was hired as the company’s first strategy analyst and went on to build a strategy team, leading initiatives that helped fuel Melio’s 10x revenue growth.

 Griffin Ortale partners with growing businesses to modernize their invoice-to-cash workflows at Flywire, helping finance teams move beyond manual A/R using the Invoiced A/R platform and Flywire's global payments network. Based in Chicago, Griffin has spent his career inside the A/R automation category — with prior roles at HighRadius, Centime (where he was a founding sales team member), and Quadient Accounts Receivable Automation (formerly YayPay), where he was the top-producing sales rep three years running. He brings a practitioner's perspective on what works — and what doesn't — when companies move from manual to automated A/R, drawn from years of conversations with controllers, CFOs, and finance leaders across mid-market and enterprise organizations. 

Sam Johnson is a partner success manager at PayTrace, who prides himself on helping merchant service and payment professionals leverage innovative technologies to grow their business. In his 10+ years at PayTrace, Sam has held a variety of roles, ranging from support to trainer, giving him unique insights into both the partner and merchant perspectives. An ETA-Certified Payments Professional, Sam provides the mentoring, tools and education required to not only succeed, but to stay at the forefront of the rapidly-changing payments space.

Currently residing in Spokane, Washington, Sam is an alum of the University of Oregon where he majored in Business Administration, and is the advocacy chair for the eastern Washington chapter of JDRF International—the leading charitable founder and advocate of juvenile (type I) diabetes research worldwide.