A successful entrepreneur, Aran is the President and Co-Founder of Vantage Analytics. As one of Canada’s leading digital and mobile economy strategists, with a focus on predictive analytics, Aran has spent the past two decades working with retailers, payment networks, banks, and wireless carriers to shape Canada’s ecommerce environment. Aran is also an investor in accells technologies and Vello. He is an alumnus of such pioneering firms as Monitor, PSTG, MIST, Digital Cement, m-Qube, VeriSign, and EnStream/Zoompass. He is the past Chair of the Mobile Transactions & Commerce Summit, and co-founder of IdentityNorth. Sought-after conference speaker with significant hands-on experience rolling out platforms for web and mobile commerce, m-payments, money transfer and digital ID and authentication.