Fort Collins, Colo., September 27, 2018 – BillGO announced the addition of Mike Blazes, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to the team – leading strategic investments, mergers and acquisitions, finance, legal and human resources. Blazes will focus on helping BillGO scale its technology and continue to advance in the FinTech industry while experiencing aggressive growth. By transforming the real-time payment process for all bill payers and partners – BillGO is making this everyday need in our world, simpler, faster, more reliable and less of a financial burden.
“Mike is an accomplished leader that has brought together many amazing teams,” said Dan Holt, CEO of BillGO. “He knows how to guide and foster a growing, strong business – leveraging technology to make processes more effective and efficient, with straightforward and reliable tech solutions.”
Blazes comes to BillGO from Control Company, a visionary designer, manufacturer and marketer of measurement and monitoring instruments. There, he accelerated organic market segment and geographic growth – and invested in data focused devices and the development of a successful cloud based IoT platform to build rapid and sustainable growth. Blazes is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy where he received his BS in Mechanical Engineering. He then received his MBA in Finance at Colorado State University.
“It’s clear that the BillGO team is united in leading the step change in bill payments in the U.S.,” said Blazes. “This incredible team has created a faster bill payment engine that has proven to provide needed automation for its partners and billers. I’m truly excited to come onboard to lend my knowledge and expertise.”
BillGO is a tech-first company using automation to advance payment systems, rather than paper and human capital. Blazes is a proven leader of innovation, leveraging technology for market and portfolio development to create tangible company value. Adding him to the team will allow BillGO to embrace the extraordinary growth it’s currently experiencing to maintain its lead in the payment space.
About BillGO
BillGO constantly creates and innovates past what exists. That drive powers the BillGO team to relentlessly advance payment systems to accelerate speed, efficiency and security. BillGO provides a simple integration into any existing system that gives payment providers access to a faster, proven bill payments engine. Learn more: https://www.billgo.com/.