~Tyfone, CU4Kids co-branded coffee now available at First Tech headquarters and student-run coffee shop, Ground Up~ PORTLAND, Ore. – 04/09/24 – First Tech Federal Credit Union (First Tech), the financial partner for the people in [...]
~Previous relationship cements decision to implement Tyfone’s entire suite of digital solutions~ PORTLAND, Ore. – 03/15/24 – Tyfone, the preeminent force in digital transformation, account holder engagement and back-office efficiency for community financial institutions [...]
PRESS RELEASE to Implement New Instant Payment Solution, Now Certified For Federal Reserve’s FedNowSM Service Portland, Ore. – Digital banking innovator Tyfone, Inc. today announced its strategic partnership with Star One Credit Union to implement the [...]
PRESS RELEASE Transaction includes merger with Cubus Solutions + Significant Investment by Demopolis Equity Partners Portland, Ore. – Today, digital banking innovator Tyfone, Inc., announced a major transaction that includes [...]
PRESS RELEASE Portland, Ore. – Southwest Financial (Farmers Branch, Tex., $81 million; 9,200 members) planned to close its lone branch at its headquarters when Covid hit. Covid accelerated the branch closure and also [...]
PRESS RELEASE Portland, Ore. – With an aging online banking platform and no mobile app, Members’ Advantage Credit Union (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.; $178 million; 11,000 members) knew it needed a digital banking upgrade [...]
PRESS RELEASE Leading digital banking provider signs second Wisconsin client Portland, Ore. – It’s just within the last two years that the core processor for Odessa, Tex.-based Southwest 66 Credit Union created an [...]
PRESS RELEASE Leading digital banking provider signs second Wisconsin client Portland, Ore. – Marshfield, Wis.-based Marshfield Medical Center Credit Union ($86 million in assets, 3,800 members) is located in central Wisconsin. However, its [...]
PRESS RELEASE Leading digital banking provider signs its first Wisconsin client Portland, Ore. – Today a feature-rich platform and modern, compelling UX are table stakes for digital banking providers. Culture has become Tyfone’s [...]
PRESS RELEASE Portland, Ore. – With just one branch in Seattle that’s open one day per week, Nordstrom Federal Credit Union, a $63 million, single-sponsor credit union that serves employees and family members [...]
Marcell King is Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Product Strategy at Tyfone. As Chief Commercial Officer, Marcell oversees tyfone’s product strategy and execution, sales, marketing, partnership and account management efforts. Prior to joining Tyfone, he was Chief Innovation Officer at Payveris (acquired by Paymentus in September 2021) where he led product innovation, sales, and marketing.
While he was at Payveris, Marcell developed the banking industry’s first direct to biller credit card and debit card bank bill pay. Marcell has nearly 30 years of leadership in product management, sales, marketing, client services and P&L management in the digital banking and payments space. He has held key leadership roles at Paymentus, Open Solutions, Amazon.com, Incomm (formally Giftango) and Bankserv.
He is well-versed in digital banking, cash management, bill payments, peer to peer and account to account payments, mobile payments, gift cards, ACH origination, wire-transfer, and check/item processing technologies.
Nizar is responsible for technology direction and roadmap of Tyfone and contributes to strategic planning, sales, engineering process and operational execution of the company. Nizar is a technologist and entrepreneur with 30+ years of diverse experience in the Software, Security, Telecommunications, Marketing, Publishing, Legal and Financial services industries in US, India and Europe.
Previously, Nizar was a CTO at Maxval Group, a product and services organization providing intellectual property management solutions using Salesforce. Nizar was a Managing Director at UBS, responsible for implementing shared mobile and social platforms across UBS. Prior to UBS, he co-founded Impelsys where he conceptualized a cloud-based software as a services platform and transformed the company from a service organization to a software as a service, products and services organization. Nizar has held progressively responsible positions in technology startups prior to Impelsys.
Nizar received an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and a BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Annamalai University in India.
Dr. Siva Narendra is CEO of Tyfone, Inc., a digital banking and digital payments technology company in Portland, Oregon, he co-founded in 2004. Dr. Narendra has served as CEO since 2011.
Dr. Narendra is an inventor in 100s of patents. Inventions he patented have led to the launch of Tozny, a digital security company and iCashe, a digital payment fintech. Dr. Narendra was nominated to the National Medal of Technology and Innovation with recommendations from Oregon’s Attorney General and General (Retd.) David Petraeus. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Dr. Narendra was a Senior Staff Scientist at Intel’s Corporate Technology Group. Dr. Narendra is a published author and has more than 60 peer-reviewed papers. In addition to serving on the boards of tyfone and iCashe he co-founded, Dr. Narendra was a board member at OnPoint Community Credit Union from 2017 to 2020. He serves on the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines.
Dr. Narendra holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Prabhakar Tadepalli is a proven leader with over 30 years of experience in building teams and organizations in the technology sector. A recognized industry leader with demonstrated abilities in turning research ideas into viable, scalable products. A dynamic leader known for building strong organizational cultures with innovative, inclusive and successful teams. A dynamic public speaker with a strong ability to convince markets to embrace new ideas.
He is the is co-founder, President and COO of Tyfone, Inc. Tyfone develops an Omnichannel digital banking solution that empowers credit unions and community banks with a single-codebase multi-tenanted platform that is scalable, customizable, quick to deploy, and vendor agnostic. He is responsible for all operational elements at Tyfone and for developing strategic plans of the company.
Previously, he was Founder, CEO of Finatus, Inc, a venture-backed, web-application outsourcing company and was responsible for all the strategic and business management aspects of the company. Prior to founding the company, he was responsible for Strategic Planning at Intel Online Services, and also was part of the Intel’s Reseller Products Division, SMB Business Development team.
Prabhakar received his MBA from the University of Chicago, an MS in Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas and a BE from Bharathiyar University in India. Prabhakar is located in Bangalore, India.
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