Beth Horowitz Steel Joins Glenbrook Partners

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Glenbrook Partners, a leading payments consulting, education, and research firm, announced today that Beth Horowitz Steel has joined the firm as a partner.

Beth is a transformational business leader who has developed new products, created successful partnerships, and driven technology and marketing innovation throughout her 25 year career in the payments industry.

"Our clients are telling us that they need to revisit key elements of their core business strategies," said Carol Coye Benson, managing partner at Glenbrook.  "As a respected thought leader on payments, with specific focus on consumer and issuer-based solutions, Beth will add an invaluable perspective."

As an independent consultant since 2014, Beth led consulting engagements for banks, financial services organizations, and early stage Fintech companies, across a variety of strategic, product, and market development areas.

Prior to that, Beth led Global Marketing Solutions for Discover Financial Services and served as a member of the company's management committee. While there, Beth led efforts across product development, emerging payments, pricing programs, marketing strategies and merchant relationships.  Before joining Discover, Beth built a reputation for creating successful products and programs at MasterCard International. She spent time in Member Relations and led initiatives in the Commercial Products, Chip Card, and Co-branding departments.  As Senior Vice President of Advanced Payments, Beth went on to help develop and implement MasterCard PayPass, and build the company's early stage Global Innovation Practice.

"The team at Glenbrook", said Beth, "contributes incredible value to the industry with their broad understanding of market structures, trends, and technologies. I look forward to building on their 15 year history by bringing my perspective to fuel growth and innovation at all of our clients."

About Glenbrook Partners

Glenbrook is a payments consulting, education, and research firm that brings to our financial services and financial technology clients the unique combination of specialized skills in payments, many years of hands-on experience in the field, and a wide network of professional relationships. The firm helps clients with strategy definition, product development, and the application of technology to solve leading edge problems in the financial services industry. For more information, visit http://www.glenbrook.com/.

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