I was introduced to Ken Salazar by a pair of our LoCo Next Level members, who’d heard him present as a subject matter expert at a chapter meeting. They’d later engaged with him to work on “peak payments performance” in their middle market or approaching-middle market businesses - and had great things to say!
Ken is the CEO & Chief Payments Architect at SilverEdge - or SilverEdge 2.0 as they’ve been referring internally. A payments architect is just what it sounds like - a designed payments system for business, instead of a “system” cobbled together through a series of vendors and accounting department leadership teams. Move money faster, reconcile easier, trim redundant work through AI and designed processes - and save money!
Why it’s SilverEdge 2.0 is because the OG SilverEdge (that he founded in 2004) was acquired by Madwire in 2018, and Ken became part of their leadership team for a few seasons before joining BillGo as Chief Sales Officer and departing as Chief Revenue Officer in 2024.
Ken has been on the leadership teams of some of the fastest growing firms in our regions for 2 decades now - and he knows a lotta things about a lotta things - especially fin-tech related. And - he’s a great conversationalist - so please tune in and enjoy my time together with Ken Salazar!