5280 Advisory Partners was founded with one belief: payments don’t have to be complicated.

Our founder has spent more than a decade leading payments strategy for global enterprises, high-growth startups, and everything in between. He has built payments teams from the ground up, guided enterprise-scale transformations, and partnered directly with leading fintech providers to solve some of the industry’s toughest challenges.

That dual perspective — sitting on both the merchant and the vendor side — fuels our approach today. We know the challenges businesses face, the questions investors ask, and the realities technology providers live with — because we’ve been there.

5280 Advisory Partners exists to distill complexity into clarity. Whether it’s designing a payments foundation, enabling embedded finance, or navigating the latest in agentic AI, we help companies cut through the noise, align strategy with execution, and unlock growth.

We’re based in Colorado, but our reach is global. Our story is one of building bridges in payments — so our clients can focus on building their business.