Brandon Skinner CEO/Owner
Brandon GREW UP IN VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON. Brandon has been in the Merchant Services Industry for over 15 years. He has successfully built two processing companies from the ground up. Riverside Payments was founded in 2014 and has skyrocketed to National Prominence in a short amount of time under his leadership. As Riverside continues to grow Brandon found a unique opportunity in the Digital Marketing space. His latest venture has paired his knowledge of Client Satisfaction and Sales with the best Digital Marketing team in the country. Flyright Creative opened for business in 2018 and is primed to help business owners Nationwide to grow their business and brand online.
Brandon is very active in the community and sits on the Board of the Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter of Susan G. Komen. He has also partnered Riverside Payments with Dollar For Portland, a charitable organization that helps Portland ORegon families with overwhelming medical bills.
While Brandon has been able to achieve a great deal professionally, he takes the most pride in being a good husband and father. His wife Lana and four children are his top priority. He doubles as a youth hockey coach for one of their children and is actively engaged in their three girls dance, music and sporting events. His wife Lana is no stranger to building a business. At lipsense, She leads one of the most successful teams in the country. Brandon looks forward to watching his business and family continue to grow.
Jason Reese CFO/Owner
JASON REESE WAS BORN IN PORTLAND, OREGON. STARTING AT THE AGE OF FOUR HE BEGAN PLAYING ICE HOCKEY. BY THE TIME HE WAS FOURTEEN HE JOINED THE TRI CITY JUNIOR AMERICANS, AFTER MUCH PERSISTENCE AND PASSION, JASON WAS DRAFTED FIRST ROUND BY THE WHL’S VANCOUVER GIANTS AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN, THUS BEGINNING HIS CAREER AS A PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY PLAYER.
PLAYING IN THREE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES OVER 7 YEARS, HE WAS ABLE LEARN VALUABLE LESSONS AS A HOCKEY PLAYER. HE ALSO LEARNED A GREAT DEAL ABOUT LIFE, AS HE CONTINUES TO DRAW FROM THE LESSONS FROM THOSE EXPERIENCES. AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-FIVE HE MADE THE DECISION TO SETTLE DOWN AND RAISE A FAMILY, ENDING HIS PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY CAREER.
HIS LONGTIME FRIEND AND FELLOW HOCKEY PLAYER, BRANDON SKINNER, INTRODUCED JASON TO MERCHANT SERVICES. WITH SIMILAR SALES TECHNIQUES, VALUES AND VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE, THEY DECIDED TO GO INTO BUSINESS TOGETHER AND RIVERSIDE PAYMENTS WAS BORN.
FUN FACTS ABOUT JASON:
HE IS AN AVID CROSSFIT ENTHUSIAST. JASON ACTIVELY PRACTICES HOCKEY RECREATIONALLY IN A SENIOR A LEAGUE OUT OF JACKSONHOLE WY. JASON HAS A ENGLISH BULLDOG NAMED AFTER HIS FAVORITE BURGER EVER. BIG-MAC
Joshua Jensen COO
Josh brings nearly two decades of executive leadership and operations experience to Riverside Payments. He has built and scaled companies and teams of all sizes, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 firms, and brings knowledge and expertise from a wide array of industries including Payments, Financial Services, Real Estate, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Fintech.
Josh has worked with hundreds of business owners over the years and we are thrilled to have his contribution to the growth and expansion of the Riverside Payments brand and the number of lives we touch and change.
Josh got his start by business building a financial planning practice in Central Oregon, quickly making Partner and turning his attention to recruiting, training and expanding the company’s Advisor field force to over 125 throughout Oregon.
After nearly 12 years he traded his tie for flip flops and moved to Puerto Rico where he built and operated a small batch rum distillery and La Roneria Clandestino, a rum bar and music venue located in San Juan. Shortly after Hurricane Maria struck, Josh and his family returned to the states to rebuild, where he began his career in Merchant Services.
Fun Facts About Josh
Joshua is married, with three children, two dogs, and a cat. Joshua is always active - a mountain man through the winter with snowboarding, and tackling the water during the summer seasons; wake-boarding, surfing, or golfing alongside it! Joshua has run with the bulls in Spain, surfed in Indonesia, danced in Ibiza, and marveled temples in Thailand.
Michael Offutt SVP of People & Performance
Michael began his career with Riverside Payments in 2021, starting as our Director of Talent Acquisition where he was able to quickly scale our talent attraction strategies in a short period of time. In January of 2022, Michael moved on to create a brand new department within Riverside that is solely focused on the attraction, development, and retention of amazing talent while aspiring to identify new ways to elevate the overall performance and productivity of the organization. This department has been coined as the People & Performance team. This new department has revolutionized how we identify talent, how we engage and leverage human capital potential, and how we nurture and support our team members.
Prior to joining the Riverside team, Michael worked with a multinational consulting and staffing firm for 5 years in which he was able to support over 150 organizations transform their talent acquisition and HR strategies. Michael has extensive experience supporting rapid-growth organizations through cultural transformations, strategic planning, organizational design, and organizational performance. Prior to that, Michael worked with one of the largest Chiropractic franchise networks in the world for 5 years, specifically supporting the development, people-centric objectives, and operational excellence of the Southern California market. Michael’s relentless pursuit of creating a World Class culture while delivering continued growth and maximum performance uniquely position him to support the entire organization as Riverside continues to reach new heights.
Fun Facts about Michael:
Michael is a cat daddy of two
You will find Michael constantly learning and expanding his knowledge, if you want a good podcast recommendation, he is your guy.
Michael is an ex-competitive dancer and musical theater performer
Michael is originally from Southern California and moved to the PNW in 2016.
Samantha West Corporate Controller
known to her friends as Sam, was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington. Sam’s official title at Riverside Payments is Accounting Extraordinaire and she embodies the very essence of that title. She is in charge of all Riverside’s financials, payroll, and government entity reporting. Sam is the literal do-it-all employee of Riverside Payments and ensures all the hard work we do making Riverside look good on the front end, works on the back-end as well. She is a critical member to the Riverside team and can usually be found handling any number of challenges from behind her dual-screened computer setup.
Before Riverside, Sam was a General Manager for eleven years at a commercial maintenance company. During this time she returned to school and earned her Bachelor's in Accounting. She quickly put her degree to use and was offered and took a position with Robinson Brothers Construction. She worked as their staff accountant for one year. Around her year mark she was turned on to Riverside by a friend. She came in, spoke with Brandon and Jason and was recruited to Riverside. She realized that the opportunity to get on with a quickly growing company was too good to pass up. Since joining the team she has navigated the financials of the company through more than 2000% growth and a payroll that went from about twenty people to more than 150. She looks forward to the day when she can have an assistant, but until then we are fully confident in her ability to make time for whatever else comes her way.
Fun Facts about Samantha:
Samantha was an on air DJ for Portland’s Z100 FM radio station for a year and was known as Psycho Sam after walking through the door and insisting she would make a better on-air personality then their current morning show lineup . She is a huge advocate of St. John's Wort and believes in the spiritual impact of the spoken word. Her attention to detail and deep need to ensure her process is followed to a “T”, ensures Riverside can continue its growth regardless of the challenges that it faces.
Adam Harden Director of Corporate Development
Adam was born in Texas before growing up in Tacoma, Washington. He has quickly climbed the corporate ladder of success here at Riverside Payments.
Before Riverside, Adam held the position of Department Manager at Fred Meyer for nine years—working every holiday, every weekend and every Black Friday with little quality time to spend with loved ones. Shortly after his move to Riverside, Adam realized a vast difference in working for a company that was holding him back versus one that fosters growth opportunities, allows for rapid advancement, rewards its people with well-earned promotions and provides the means to create a viable living.
As one of the first new hires from the inception of Riverside in 2014, Adam quickly moved into his current role as National Sales Manager where he manages a team of reps across the country, inspiring them to dream bigger, and set goals that push them past comfort zones to realize their full potential both personally and professionally.
Fun Facts about Adam:
Adam really enjoys cooking, watching movies and knows a lot of random trivia. He says he would made a great lifeline.
Chris Crouch President of Sales
CHRIS BEGAN HIS CAREER WITH RIVERSIDE PAYMENTS AS A NATIONAL SALES MANAGER, BEFORE WORKING HIS WAY INTO THE DIRECTOR OF SALES POSITION. HE ENJOYS COACHING AND DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIPS, SO PUTTING HIM IN A POSITION TO HELP OTHERS GROW AND SUCCEED WITH RIVERSIDE WAS THE PERFECT MOVE.
BEFORE RIVERSIDE PAYMENTS, CHRIS WORKED AS A POLICE OFFICER FOR 15 YEARS. FOR 11 OF THOSE YEARS, HE WAS K9 HANDLER AND ATTACHED TO THE SW WASHINGTON REGIONAL SWAT TEAM FOR 3 YEARS.
CHRIS WAS BORN AND RAISED IN ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA BEFORE MOVING TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST IN THE EARLY 90’S. HE MARRIED HIS WIFE IN 2004 AND THEY HAVE THREE VERY ACTIVE AND ENTERTAINING CHILDREN. IN HIS FREE TIME, CHRIS IS AN AVID HOCKEY FAN AND STILL LACES UP THE SKATES EVERY WEEK. HE ALSO ENJOYS GOLFING, CAMPING, AND BOATING. HE AND HIS FAMILY RECENTLY DISCOVERED THEIR LOVE OF WAKE SURFING AND TRY TO HIT THE WATER WHENEVER TIME ALLOWS.
FUN FACTS ABOUT CHRIS:
CHRIS LEFT THE PNW DURING HIS SOPHOMORE YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL TO RETURN TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TO PLAY HOCKEY FOR THE ANAHEIM JR. DUCKS HOCKEY CLUB. ADDITIONALLY, HE’S PLAYED WITH THE SAME MEN’S LEAGUE HOCKEY TEAM FOR OVER 20 YEARS—THE VANCOUVER VIPERS!
Nick Clay Director of Operations
Nick was born in Portland, Oregon and resides in Vancouver. He first met Brandon and Jason when he was about seven. From the age of four he enjoyed playing hockey. Even after aging out of Junior B hockey in Beaverton, Nick became an official working a lot of Junior Hockey games and earning an invitation to officiate two WHL preseason games.
Before Riverside, Nick held a position as merchandiser and account manager for Coca-Cola for nearly seven years. Longtime friends Brandon Skinner and Jason Reese approached him with an offer to work for them at Riverside Payments. Nick started out in the marketing department setting appointments and quickly moving into tech support where he now holds the title of Department Manager with Riverside. With his primary focus on Point of Sale Systems, Nick ensures that the tech team always offers the best possible service to meet client’s unique needs.
Fun Facts about Nick:
Outside of work Nick is involved in bowling, reffing hockey and playing softball. He is also an avid beard-grower.
Emily Shepherd Client Success Manager
I was born in Portland, OR then was raised in a small town at the foot of Mt. St.Helens called Toutle. I started at Riverside in 2018 in our marketing department but quickly moved into a role in our Client Success department as of 2019. Fast forward 3 years I became the assistant manager of the department; now I have taken the reins as our full time Client Success Manager. Riverside has always nurtured growth within the company and that is one of the things I have always appreciated about being a part of the Riverside Family is the amazing team and support at this company.
Fun Facts about Emily:
In my free time I enjoy a plethora of hobbies, I enjoy hiking with my 3 fur babies - Gilly & Phoebe are both Maltese and then there is Ragnar; a Husky/Labrador they are my favorite hiking companions. I enjoy Kayaking on calm waters and snowboarding in the winter. I am a big fan of sports and enjoy going to Blazer games the most! As well as watching UFC pay per views.
