The board members serve a two year term, and can be re-elected.
The Board votes on the acceptance of new members.
Currently the members of the board consists of:
30 Years in the Card Business
In 1992 Michael Hackel-de Witt started in the card business with Lufthansa AirPlus. As a system analyst in informatics, he was the project leader for various projects in the area of issuing and acquiring: Introduction AirPlus VISA, installation of the AirPlus acquiring platform, migration to a new processing platform, change over from Eurocard to Mastercard, to name but a few.
After having been responsible for various processing systems and the daily handling in informatics, Michael Hackel-de Witt changed internally to the functional side in 2006. As Executive Director he is since then responsible for the daily processing to the full extent. Since this time he is also the official representative of AirPlus for PayComm.
From 2013 to 2018 he was additionally in charge of the demand, project and portfolio management within AirPlus, controlled together with his team all important outsourcing and ensured a smooth operation of all product lines.
From 2019 to 2022Michael Hackel-de Witt was responsible for special tasks and strategic projects within Lufthansa AirPlus.
Michael Hackel-de Witt started his professional career 1985 at Hoechst AG as a mathematical-technical assistant. Parallel to his work, he obtained the Master Degree in Computer Science from the Hochschule Darmstadt in 1991.
Michael Hackel-de Witt has been a member of the PayComm Board since 2017.
Since 2008 Lars Schweigel is the Manager Technology (CTO) at WEAT responsible for the operation and further development of the technical network. He was nominated as Managing Director in November 2019 leading the IT department as well as product and market management.
Lars Schweigel has been working in the card business since 2003. Until October 2007 he worked as project manager at CCV-Allcash. In November 2007 he started working for the network service provider WEAT.
Within WEAT he established the areas of project management, IT coordination and software development. Today he is responsible for the production of more than 300 million card transactions per year.
With regard to the PayComm Association, Lars Schweigel appreciates the open and familiar communication within the industry and the well-structured and quality-assured documents.
Lars Schweigel has been a member of the PayComm Board since 2019.
More than 15 Years IT Know-How for Savings Banks
Patrick Biskup started his career in 2007 at Sparkassen Informatik GmbH & Co. KG (today Finanz Informatik)
After different positions in product management devisions for document management, office communication, and credit systems, he moved 2011 into card business to build up the new „card-processing“ department at Finanz Informatik.
After 9 years with different topics in credit card and debit cards, he is today Head of the card-processing division and responsible for the credit cards topics at Finanz Informatik.
Since 2012 Patrick is the member representative of Finanz Informatik at PayComm e.V. Since then the PayComm knowledge data base is a steady high quality asset for his project work.
Patrick Biskup has been a member of the PayComm Board since 2019.
More than 20 Years of Passion for Payment Solutions
His professional career began for Dr. Ulf Schwetz after his studies and doctorate at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena at Campana & Schott Realization Management as Senior Project Management Consultant and Head of Training Department in 1998.
His career in payment startet at First Data in 2003, where he still works today.
Until 2010 he worked as a Project Manager in the issuing environment before taking on the position of Senior Key Account Manager for acquiring.
In 2019 Dr. Schwetz moved as Sector Lead Acquiring Processing into the proceesing area before he was appointed as Senior Key Account Manager for Third-party processing in 2020.
The PayComm knowledge data base has always been an important source for professional know how for him.
Dr. Ulf Schwetz has been a member of the PayComm Board since 2023.