Lance Nakamura

Semtek Innovative Technologies Corporation has been a leader in card data capture and magnetics technology since 1999, serving public and private sector customers who require highly secure OEM components for their fixed-base and wireless devices. Specializing in small form-factor data capture devices in magnetic stripe, smart-card, RFID, and biometrics, Semtek has begun to play a key role in providing technologies to the card payments space that resolve that sector's security vulnerabilities. Semtek's Data Capture business is a market leader in enabling wireless and handheld devices to accept card data (e.g. credit/debit cards and secure identification cards). It provides card reader components and interfaces that enable a wide variety of handheld devices and cell phones to effectively function as highly secure credit/debit card and data collection terminals. Semtek also provides hardware into non-wireless devices including POS systems and stand-alone terminals. Semtek's Security Solutions business is focused on data encryption, card authentication, security auditing, and other innovative methods of improving the security performance of magnetic-stripe based systems. Semtek's Cipher ModuleTM and Hercules ModuleTM, along with their complementary network-side appliances, provide a comprehensive array of definitive security benefits that enable merchants, processors, and issuers to accept and process payment cards with unprecedented security. Semtek typically provides its products to larger hardware vendors under an OEM model. Its customers include most of the world's leading providers of point of sale terminals, ruggedized wireless devices, points of sale system integrators, and governments around the globe.

ViVOtech is a market leader in contactless/NFC payment software, over the air (OTA) card provisioning, promotion, and transaction management infrastructure software, NFC smart posters, and contactless readers/writers. These innovative solutions allow consumers to make contactless payments with radio frequency-enabled credit cards, debit cards, key fobs, and NFC-enabled mobile phones. The company's products are used by some of the most prominent retailers in the United States. The company's products are in use at movie theaters, fast food restaurants (QSR), casual dining establishments, convenience stores, gas stations, drug stores, grocery stores, buses, taxicabs and vending machine locations, enabling a wide variety of businesses to accept contactless/NFC payments. Founded in 2001, it is privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Other offices are located in Asia and in Europe. Investors include strategic partners Citigroup, First Data Corporation, Motorola, NCR and Nokia as well as the venture capital companies Draper Fisher Juvertson and Alloy Ventures.

WAY Systems, Inc. is a service provider of mobile phone-based point-of-sale (POS) solutions for unwired merchants. Its Mobile Transaction Terminal (MTT) is a wireless POS device bundled with wireless data service plan already activated and ready to process transactions upon delivery. The firm's products include hardware, such as mobile phone and mobile printer; software, such as embedded mobile merchant payment application and secure access module (SAM); and accessories, such as antenna, belt clips, and car chargers. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Equinox Payments LLC provides payment terminals and related technologies. Its products include Luxe Family, Apollo AIO and L5000 Series. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

VeriFone, Inc. designs and manufactures transaction automation systems. The company was founded by William Melton on April 14, 1981 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.