Ted Mason brings vast experience from former positions within the grocery retail industry, including as a retail technologist for the nation’s largest wholesale grocer, Director of Emerging Technology & Electronic Payments for the Food Marketing Institute, Director of Standards Implementation for the National Association of Convenience Stores PCATS (now known as Conexxus), and Executive Director of the Kentucky Grocers & Convenience Store Association. He most recently served as the Director of Information Technology for an independent supermarket chain located in Kentucky. Mason also served as chairman of the committee that first published the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) nationwide standards for today’s SNAP & WIC card-based electronic payments systems.