After spending many years in the payments industry, Dustin Eide saw the opportunity to build the first legitimate debit payment platform for the cannabis industry when Colorado and Washington legalized their Adult Use marijuana industries in 2014. He went on to found CanPay in 2016 and the company now serves more than 1,000 participating cannabis businesses, including 10 of the 13 largest publicly traded MSOs, and 100s of thousands of consumer members across more than 30 state markets.

Dustin began his career in marketing for a Fortune 300 company, but quickly realized that corporate life was not for him and set out to make his mark on another industry. Always up for a challenge, Dustin entered the hyper-competitive payments industry where he served thousands of retail and ecommerce businesses, banks, and technology partners with creative payments solutions. The lessons he learned provided an invaluable foundation for Dustin when he launched CanPay.

Dustin has spoken at numerous events, including PBC Conference, Innovative Payments Conference (American Banker), New York Pay Cannabis and Fintech, Denver Marijuana Management Symposium and more.

He has published articles for several publications, like Payments Journal and New Cannabis Ventures, has had his insights quoted in outlets like CNBC, PYMNTS, New Cannabis Ventures, Payments Dive, Baltimore Sun, and has appeared on Bloomberg News.