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Company names Mike Farrell as SVP Global Enterprise Accounts and David Mathena as SVP Engineering
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FreedomPay, a leading execution layer for autonomous payments and commerce operating in over 80 countries, today announces the appointment of two senior leaders to its growing executive team: Mike Farrell as Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise Accounts, and David Mathena as Senior Vice President of Engineering.
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Together, these appointments underscore FreedomPay’s continued commitment to scaling its global enterprise offering, strengthening the execution layer that powers the world’s most complex payment environments, and accelerating an AI-native transition across how the company builds, operates, and innovates.
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Mike Farrell, SVP Global Enterprise Accounts
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Mike brings over 15 years of payments and financial services leadership to FreedomPay, joining from Subway where he served as Head of Global Payments and Fraud Prevention. During his time there he oversaw payment operations and fraud strategy for almost 29,000 locations across 15 countries.
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“Mike is exactly the kind of leader who drives meaningful growth within global enterprise accounts,” said Chris Kronenthal, President at FreedomPay. “He has lived on the merchant side of the table – building payment programs at global scale, navigating complexity across markets, and demanding the very best from his partners. He knows what enterprise merchants need because he has been one of our most sophisticated customers. That perspective is invaluable as we continue to grow our global enterprise business.”
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“As a Global Enterprise merchant, I was able to see firsthand how powerful FreedomPay’s offering could be: true global scale, multi-acquiring capability and a fully resilient architecture made them best in class,” said Mike Farrell, SVP Global Enterprise Accounts at FreedomPay. “I am excited to join the great team here at FreedomPay to continue to help other enterprise merchants remove the increasing complexity that payments presents with the world’s largest independent payment gateway.”
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David Mathena, SVP Engineering
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David brings over 20 years of experience building and scaling large financial technology platforms to FreedomPay. He joins from Priority Technology Holdings where he served as EVP of Engineering. During his tenure he helped grow the company from a small independent sales organization into a publicly traded global fintech platform, leading a distributed engineering team of 200+ engineers. At FreedomPay, David will help accelerate an AI-native transition by driving development efficiency, streamlining organizational operations, and embedding AI capabilities across FreedomPay’s products and services.
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