Josephine Potente

A payment industry professional with a legal background, Josephine Potente is the founder of Spend XTP Payments, a payment facilitation company that specializes in school lunch payments. In addition to overseeing daily operations and coordinating communication between merchants and sponsor banks, Josephine Potente heads development of proprietary technology to enable the use of debit cards for e-commerce transactions.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Potente spent several years as an attorney with Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in New York, handling an array of civil litigation defense cases, and as general counsel and chief compliance officer for Spend, Inc. She holds a bachelor of science from Fordham University, a juris doctor from Pace University School of Law, and a master of law from New York University School of Law, where she focused on taxation law.

Outside of work, Ms. Potente maintains a commitment to physical fitness through a combination of running, swimming, and hiking.