Gajda

Visa's William Gajda is courting Silicon Valley to keep them from stealing his business.

Visa's Mobile Payments Plan Lee Gomes 2010

Visa's William Gajda is courting Silicon Valley to keep them from stealing his business.

Visa's Mobile Payments Plan Lee Gomes 2010

William Gajda earns his living helping Visa adapt to new technologies.

Visa's Mobile Payments Plan Lee Gomes 2010

As Gajda makes the Silicon Valley startup circuit, he emphasizes the size of the Visa network and its decades of experience fighting fraud, the scourge of electronic-payment systems everywhere.

Visa's Mobile Payments Plan Lee Gomes 2010

Just as Gajda gave up hope, he found out that his billfold was safe.

Visa's Mobile Payments Plan Lee Gomes 2010

Gajda says he is encouraging mobile entrepreneurs to innovate all they want around the edges of a network but to stick with Visa to handle the details of the actual payment.

Visa's Mobile Payments Plan Lee Gomes 2010

To avoid Jurassic status, Visa in February hired Gajda as "head of mobile innovation," recruiting the 46-year-old University of Chicago M.B.A. away from the telecom trade association where he had spent seven years.

Visa's Mobile Payments Plan Lee Gomes 2010

There have been rumors that the next version of Apple's iPad and iPhone will have this technology built in, but, as Bill Gajda, global head of Visa Mobile, told CNET, people don't want to wait two years for NFC-enabled phones to come out or to switch phones.

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"I hear all the time that we're dinosaurs," says Gajda, "and that we should just make room for the new guys."

Visa's Mobile Payments Plan Lee Gomes 2010

"I'm glad to be back at a time when the industry has achieved critical mass with digital cinema installations and is now able to take advantage of the technology innovations and cost saving opportunities from the platform that Cinedigm has been developing," said Gajda.

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