Jeremy Smillie

With more than 17 years of IT experience, Jeremy Smillie acts as vice president of development, security and operations for Exact Payments and is an expert in managing strict industry standards, such as SOC, PIPEDA, CCPA, NIST, SANS, CIS and more. 

Early on in his payments career, Jeremy worked with the first company in Canada to roll out EMV payments at gas pumps and integrated payments for in-store sales. He also worked closely with merchants to help them become PCI-DSS certified shortly after the introduction of the standards. As a former entrepreneur of a successful software development company, Jeremy applies a proactive, ITIL-based approach to ensure IT always meets the needs of business.