Our Team

Operators first. Fintech builders second.

SLYCE360’s leadership team built its expertise as operators and marketers before it became a provider of payments fintech. The team has decades of experience marketing and processing card-not-present (CNP) subscription transactions as a high-risk merchant through multiple gateways and acquiring venues. The payments expertise they developed became the core of SLYCE360.

Today the team combines marketing leadership, card-brand compliance knowledge, fraud and dispute analytics, and SaaS product development into a risk and compliance platform like nothing else in the marketplace allowing our clients to move seamlessly from one-time to Continuous Underwriting.

George Richards

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

As CEO and a serial entrepreneur, George conceived Slyce360 as a service to address the turbulent and multi-faceted risk exposures, high merchant churn, and lost ROI that plague the medium and high-risk acquiring ecosystems. With 30+ years of experience as a high-risk merchant himself, as well having acted as a former McKinsey & Company consultant to Fortune 100 companies, he thrives on designing problem solving solutions like Slyce360 for payment services providers and their merchants. He’s uniquely suited to guide the company’s strategy and drive its future growth. George earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics, summa cum laude, and an MBA, with distinction, both from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Paul Wallerich

Senior Vice President, Market Strategies

Paul leads the Slyce360 go-to-market strategy, building relationships with the acquiring, ISO and merchant communities. He also drives the product roadmap that makes Slyce360 unique in the marketplace. Paul’s background includes merchant and ecommerce experience with senior roles at Sempris, a leading marketer of discount savings programs, and at Digital River where he managed several ecommerce platforms and led the launch of their affiliate network, OneNetwork Direct. Paul earned a Finance undergraduate degree and an MBA, graduating with distinction, from The University of Minnesota.

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Nic Wacker

Vice President of Business Intelligence

At Slyce360, Nic leads the development of analytics and business intelligence capabilities, translating complex payments data into strategic, actionable insights. He also oversees the analytics, forecasting, and payments teams for other companies under Slyce360’s parent company, Big Bridge Holdings. Previously, Nic served in Grant Thornton’s advisory practice, where he advised companies on transaction-related matters and conducted complex forensic accounting investigations, primarily related to bribery and corruption. Nic earned an undergraduate degree in Accounting from the University of Minnesota – Duluth.

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Ethan Soper

Director of Product Development

Ethan is the senior technology leader focusing on building scalable, efficient enterprise SaaS platforms, bringing that drive to the creation, launch, and improvement of the company’s products and services. His background includes architecting and executing Best Buy’s migration of its monolithic ecommerce backbone into the AWS cloud, pairing cloud infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and load testing at scale. At C.H. Robinson, he engineered high-volume transaction and analytics systems within Microsoft’s Delivery practice, processing millions of events during peak retail periods.

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