Phil Beck
Birchstreet Pay’s EVP Phil Beck leverages decades of banking and fintech experience to embed payments and modernise hospitality's supply chain processes
TL;DR
- Phil Beck joined Birchstreet in summer 2024 with significant experience in banking and fintech.
- Birchstreet provides cloud-based procure-to-pay software-as-a-service for the hospitality industry.
- The hospitality sector still relies heavily on manual payment processes, including cheques, which leads to inefficiencies and fraud risk.
- Beck's objective is to embed payment capabilities into Birchstreet's procurement platform to streamline operations.
- This modernization effort aims to bring payment controls to frontline operators and reduce fraud.
- Birchstreet's software automates eProcurement, AP automation, inventory control, recipe management, and analytics.
- Key focuses include digitizing payments, embedding them within the application layer, and reducing fraud.