Erdal Yazmaci is highly-motivated professional with broad expertise in the EMV and payment systems. He was founder at Cardtek having 17 years of experience in various roles. He was a founding engineer developing EMV Level 2 kernel in 2002 which is being used by many terminal vendors in the United States and Europe. He provided 40+ EMV trainings globally to acquirers, issuers and tech companies including NXP, FIS and Vivotech. He took roles in business development, partner management and product management at Cardtek. He led Cardtek from a startup company to an international solution provider which was valued at $ 85 million USD in 2016. He currently works as Product Director at Poynt, based in Palo Alto.