Chuck Davidson
Chuck brings 15 + years of successful product innovation experience in US and global markets. Heralded as a mobile payments innovator, Chuck designed, developed and launched the largest mobile payment system in the US from idea to beta to 10,000+ stores while at Starbucks. Prior to launching Starbucks Mobile, Chuck developed and led the innovation strategy for the $1.5 B Starbucks Card program and ran the Global Card program, which deployed in Hong Kong, Mexico, UK and Ireland.
Chuck has also worked at Visa, FedEx and most recently at GoPago, a mobile commerce start-up where he was Head of Consumer Products. Chuck is skilled at turning strategy into products that exceed customer expectation, meet financial targets, enhance in store operations and offer intuitive value to the customer resulting in adoption.