Les Whiting is the Vice President of Payments at Wave Accounting – a company that specializes in online small business software.  He brings to the firm over two decades of expertise in: ecommerce payments, lending, merchant acquisition, new payment technologies, retail banking and wealth management. Within his position at the firm, he is committed to setting up the simplest ways small firms can take payments.

Before joining Wave, Whiting worked as an independent payments consultant to a variety of companies in: acquisition, business, finances, processing and procurement.  He was also VP of Sales & Marketing at Beanstream Internet Commerce, Director of Corporate Sales (Canada) at First Data Corporation, and Account Manager (and then Regional Sales Manager) at TD Canada Trust.