Understanding the Evolution of the Buy Now, Pay Later

Cooking Experience & VIP Dinner - New York City, NY

Mar 14, 2024 6:00 PM8:30 PM EST

Request The Full Recording

Here's what we talked about

  • What has been happening in the BNPL Industry the last few years
  • BNPL players that are innovating with new business models
  • Optimizing checkout by providing options for every customer at every price point
  • How much approval rates impact conversions and sales
  • Ways to reduce cost of acceptance for merchants

Event Partners

Sezzle

Sezzle provides provides an alternative payment platform, offering interest-free installment plans at selected online stores. They are a leading Buy Now, Pay Later provider.

Connect with Sezzle

Guest Speaker

Paul Paradis

Paul Paradis LinkedIn

President at Sezzle

Paul is Cofounder and President at Sezzle, a digital payments company focused on financially empowering the next generation.  Paul is a sales and marketing veteran with over 17 years of experience in the fintech, retail, management consulting, medical device, and entertainment industries. Paul has a BA in Political Science from Davidson College and an MBA from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three children.

Charlie Youakim LinkedIn

CEO at Sezzle

Charlie Youakim is a serial tech entrepreneur who has founded two payments companies. His most recent is Sezzle, a publicly listed company he co-founded. Sezzle has the goal of financially empowering the next generation. Sezzle offers consumers an interest-free installment payment option in over 47,000 stores and has over 10 million subscribers. Prior to Sezzle, Charlie founded Passport, where he had a focus on mobile payment solutions for parking and transit systems. Passport is the software behind many of the largest municipal parking and transit installations in North America, including ParkChicago, and ParkBoston.

John Duncan LinkedIn

VP Business Development, Head of Partnerships at Sezzle

Event Moderator

Paul Paradis

Paul Paradis LinkedIn

President at Sezzle

Paul is Cofounder and President at Sezzle, a digital payments company focused on financially empowering the next generation.  Paul is a sales and marketing veteran with over 17 years of experience in the fintech, retail, management consulting, medical device, and entertainment industries. Paul has a BA in Political Science from Davidson College and an MBA from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three children.

Charlie Youakim LinkedIn

CEO at Sezzle

Charlie Youakim is a serial tech entrepreneur who has founded two payments companies. His most recent is Sezzle, a publicly listed company he co-founded. Sezzle has the goal of financially empowering the next generation. Sezzle offers consumers an interest-free installment payment option in over 47,000 stores and has over 10 million subscribers. Prior to Sezzle, Charlie founded Passport, where he had a focus on mobile payment solutions for parking and transit systems. Passport is the software behind many of the largest municipal parking and transit installations in North America, including ParkChicago, and ParkBoston.

John Duncan LinkedIn

VP Business Development, Head of Partnerships at Sezzle

Request the Full Recording

Please enter your information to request a copy of the post-event written summary or recording!

How can we help?

Hang tight! An event summary, key takeaways, & a full transcript will be posted shortly. In the meantime... How can we help?

What is BWG Connect?

BWG Connect provides executive strategy & networking sessions that help brands from any industry with their overall business planning and execution. BWG has built an exclusive network of 125,000+ senior professionals and hosts over 2,000 virtual and in-person networking events on an annual basis.
envelopephone-handsetcrossmenu linkedin facebook pinterest youtube rss twitter instagram facebook-blank rss-blank linkedin-blank pinterest youtube twitter instagram