Lance Ott

Principal
Guardian Data Systems

Lance Ott is a 14 year veteran of the electronic payment processing industry. His core competency and expertise covers every aspect of merchant services including credit and debit card processing, PCI security, fraud and chargeback management, technology implementation, and payment consulting. Lance has a broad knowledge of the industry and has continuously demonstrated mastery not only of sales, but also pricing and interchange; business process, operations and workflow; products and solutions; risk; and regulatory, compliance and security matters.

Lance is the former Vice President of National Bank of California Merchant Services and currently operates as CEO of Guardian Data Systems, Inc. Guardian was created specifically to provide secure, reliable and transparent financial services for our cannabis community. Lance is a cancer survivor and fierce advocate of alternative medicine, including medicinal cannabis. Lance firmly believes that safe access to medical cannabis must be provided as medicine for any patient in need.

Lance has demonstrated the courage of his convictions by fashioning a network infrastructure of medical cannabis friendly banks, institutions, processors and software/hardware developers to provide the medical cannabis dispensing collective with a safe, legitimate venue for all commerce related and logistical challenges they may encounter. Lance has taken it upon himself to offer preeminent expertise for a unique and complex business model. Lance believes that proper regulation coupled with technology will bring credibility, legitimacy, and transparency to our emerging and evolving industry.