Leadership Team
Payment Tree’s leaders are an effective combination of industry professionals with entrepreneurial backgrounds, global payments and cybersecurity expertise. Founded in 2016 they have guided the company to serve the needs of both merchants and integrated software services in niche and high-risk markets.
Ruston Miles
Founder
Ruston Miles has served the global financial technology community as a payment security evangelist and pioneer for over twenty years. A founding member of the PCI Data Security Standards Council, Ruston combines extensive technical expertise with an inventor’s passion to create secure payment programs in challenging or high-risk markets. As a serial entrepreneur, his vision for Payment Tree was to provide businesses and the software providers who serve them access to world-class payment and cybersecurity technology. Ruston’s technical specialties include those which devalue cardholder data and prevent fraud including; PCI-validated Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE), End-to-End Encryption (E2EE), EMV, PCI-DSS, PA-DSS, NESA, tokenization, POS architecture & implementation, payment gateways, payment switches, ISO's, embedded payments, secure iFrames and transparent redirection.