About Ralph Dangelmaier
Ralph Dangelmaier is the CEO of a Fintech company and has spent over 30 years in the payments industry. He is passionate about growing companies through product innovation, go-to-market strategy, and customer success. He has been the President & CEO of public and private Fintech companies, with a consistent track record of high growth and creation of significant shareholder value.
Decades of experience have proven instrumental in shaping the Fintech company CEO’s unparalleled understanding of the payments industry and its evolution. The Massachusetts native maintains a largely unmatched knowledge of the successful establishment and expansion of multiple high-growth global payments companies.
Elsewhere, Stonehill College graduate Dangelmaier is a keen philanthropist, routinely supporting multiple charities and scholarships. His hobbies include golf, tennis, travel, and wine. The payments industry pioneer’s passion for wine led him to establish his own Patriot wine label. He resides in the city of Weston, in the Bay State, about 15 miles west of downtown Boston.
Current Role & Duties
For about 20 years, Dangelmaier has been the owner and founder of the Payments Advisory Team, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. With the Payments Advisory Team (PAT), he serves as a Strategic Advisor to companies that leverage his extensive experience and knowledge in the global payments industry to optimize payment solutions, increase sales, and reduce costs. As a CEO and Board Member growing public and private payment companies, he has worked with thousands of banks, payment processors, and Businesses across 60 countries.
Academic Background
Massachusetts native Dangelmaier studied at Reading Memorial High School in Middlesex County before undertaking further studies at Stonehill College in the Bristol County town of Easton. Stonehill is a private college founded in 1948.
It is from Stonehill College that he holds his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Stonehill College. Alongside the Fintech company CEO, other notable Stonehill College alums include former PayPal president Scott Thompson, the renowned financial analyst and investor Keith Gill, Lou Gorman, former Boston Red Sox General manager, and Dick Flavin, the famous journalist, television commentator, and playwright, and Red Sox poet laureate.
Career History
Dangelmaier’s career in the payments industry began at Bank of America. Formerly known as Bank of Boston, it long predates the modern Fintech sector, of which Dangelmaier is a pioneer. In the years that followed, the Massachusetts native held several key roles at the bank and other payments-focused financial services organizations.
Next at Bancware, Ralph was the VP of Sales for 3 years. During his tenure, Bancware grew its revenue 15x, and the company successfully sold to SunGard.
Following this, he became CEO of P&H Solutions, where he drove significant innovation in payments by launching the first internet business payment platform. The VC-backed company became the leader in the space, with 80% of the US Banking Market as customers, and the VC achieved a 10x return on its investment.
The same venture was subsequently acquired by leading real-time payments provider ACI Worldwide, a global payments and services company with offices in 23 countries and customers in 95 countries. Following the acquisition, Dangelmaier assumed the role of ACI President. As President, he managed all go-to-market activities and oversaw 1,500+ people across 60+ countries, serving 10,000 customers.
Dangelmaier subsequently joined BlueSnap as CEO & Board Member. Over his 11 years at BlueSnap, He was one of the first payment facilitators to provide a simple way to accept payments from anywhere. With a single integration to BlueSnap’s Payment Orchestration Platform™, B2B and B2C merchants can accept payments across 100+ global payment types and currencies in over 200 countries. During his tenure, BlueSnap grew revenue 40x, grew it monthly funds flow 70x, and expanded from processing locally in 2 countries to 47 countries. Dangelmaier remains an Advisor to BlueSnap.
Ralph also teaches classes to encourage the next generation of Fintech leaders at multiple institutions, including Stonehill and others such as Brandeis, Babson, Harvard, Santa Clara University, and the University of Illinois.
Appointments & Memberships
Dangelmaier has previously held board positions at MineralTree and Stonehill College.
MineralTree is a leading provider of Accounts Payable (AP) Payment Automation solutions. Funded by .406 ventures, Fidelity, and Fiserv, they were successfully sold to behemoth Global Payments for $500M.
Meanwhile, Stonehill College—of which he is a proud graduate—is ranked among the top 100 colleges in the United States by US News & World Report.
The Fintech company’s CEO’s other appointments include past and present board positions, such as the Electronic Transactions Association, and official membership in the Forbes Finance Council.
The founder of the Payments Advisory Team is routinely invited to speak at payments-focused and other technology conferences and has authored numerous highly circulated articles as a subject-matter expert. He has subsequently appeared on television and elsewhere to address outlets like Bloomberg and NPR.
Awards
Ralph Dangelmaier is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, business leader, and payments sector pioneer. He has collected over 20 prestigious awards during his career. Stonehill College recently inducted Dangelmaier into the Beta Gamma Sigma academic honor society. He also teaches classes to encourage the next generation of Fintech leaders at multiple institutions, including Stonehill and others such as Brandeis, Babson, Harvard, Santa Clara University, and the University of Illinois.
Elsewhere, the Boston Business Journal named him their Innovator of the Year. He has also received widespread acclaim following recognition from initiatives such as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, for which he is a 2x finalist.
Charitable Involvement
Boston-based entrepreneur Dangelmaier proudly supports a myriad of charities, nonprofit organizations, and other causes. These include Stonehill College and Habitat for Humanity.
The philanthropic entrepreneur has also contributed to golf scholarships and routinely supports various inner-city charities in Boston.
Personal Life & Interests
Away from his work and charitable endeavors, Dangelmaier revels in a variety of long-held hobbies and other interests. Chief among these hobbies and interests are golf, tennis, travel, and wine. Wine lover Ralph has established a wine label known as Patriot.
The Boston-area CEO resides in Weston, Massachusetts, about 30 minutes from the heart of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ capital and most populous city.
