I had a good chuckle at this morning’s news report from WSAZ-TV, Channel 3, in Charleston, West Virginia:
A man from Charleston faces charges after police say he used his debit card during a robbery. [Name deleted] is accused of trying to rob the Certified Station in Sissonville on Monday.
Police say during the robbery, he bought a soft drink, swiped his debit card to pay for it and signed the receipt as “John Doe.” Police were able to track Lester down through his bank records. He told police he was just joking about robbing the store.
“Think of it as money…” as we used to say at Visa!
Scott is a founder of Glenbrook with more than 30 years of experience in information technology. He is a co-author of the book “Payments Systems in the U.S.” and a co-inventor of US Patent 6,332,126 and US Patent 7,840,459. At Glenbrook, Scott focused his work on payments innovation, mobile payments, and social media / Web 2.0 in banking and financial services.
Previously, Scott was group executive vice president at First Data Merchant Services and at Visa International, where he led the development of Visa’s global payment systems strategies. Scott began his career as a systems engineer with IBM, where he held a series of technical management and product planning positions over seventeen years. Scott formally retired from Glenbrook in October 2016, but remains important to the firm as both a friend and advisor.