Shawn Silver, founder of PaymentCloud, has led the company since its inception in 2016. Under his astute leadership, PaymentCloud has grown from a humble three-person team working out of a garage into a financial technology powerhouse. Today, the company boasts over 100 employees across its 17,000-square-foot headquarters in Los Angeles, as well as offices in San Diego, California, and Cleveland, Ohio.
Shawn’s visionary approach has earned PaymentCloud widespread recognition, including being ranked #915 on the Inc. 5000 list of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2021, #16 on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Disruptors: LA’s Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2021, and #63 on the Inc. 5000’s list of the 150 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Pacific Region in 2022. His personal accolades include being named to the Electronic Transactions Association’s prestigious Forty Under 40 list in 2018.
An entrepreneurial pioneer, Shawn also founded iPayment, Inc., which was later acquired by a subsidiary of Wells Fargo. He attended the University of Massachusetts Boston, bringing with him a deep commitment to empowering merchants of every kind to thrive in the payments space.