Allen Kopelman
Allen Kopelman’s Biography
Allen Co-Founded Nationwide Payment Systems Inc. in 2001 with the plan to sell credit card processing services and equipment to merchants in the South Florida area and provide concierge-style service for each client. Quickly, the company grew to 1000 plus clients, and we had clients all over the United States.
The entrepreneurial bug started early in Allen’s life. He came from a family of business owners and learned about business from an early age behind the cash registers at his father's clothing stores in Miami. Later, I went to Culinary School in Atlanta and became a chef, then executive chef for Metro Hotels in Dallas, Texas, running hotel food and beverage operations. In 1992, I moved back to Florida and opened a restaurant, catering company, and consulting group.
After gaining years of experience selling merchant services, Allen Co-Founded Nationwide Payment Systems with David Burney. The company started and quickly grew; products were added, processing banks, and the company became laser-focused on technology that would help merchants. Along with that came a focus on hard-to-place businesses many banks did not want to work with.