Carrie Blankenship is a Product Director at Fiserv, leading Product Development and Management for North American Instant and Emerging Payments on the Enterprise Payments Platform team. She joined Fiserv in June 2019 after leading the SunTrust Bank initiative to be the sixth bank to transact over the The Clearing House (TCH) Real-Time Payments rail on an internally developed system. She participated on several TCH Working Groups for the original core group of TCH Owner Banks to set the direction and design of the RTP processes and personas, and is participating in the same type of groups for the upcoming FedNow service. Additionally, she has Debit Card and Consumer Digital experience from previous tenures at Synovus Bank in Columbus, Georgia. Carrie earned her MBA at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.