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Rellevate

About Us

Rellevate is a fintech empowering consumers with innovative services for flexible money access. Available through private and public sector partnerships, our offerings include Digital Bank Accounts, Debit Cards, Earned Wage Access, Bill Pay, and Money Transfer. Our proprietary software ensures real-time money movement and account funding to various end-user methods such as wallets, multi-wallet accounts, debit, prepaid, and incentives.

Trusted by over 3 million account holders

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Our Mission

Empowering Americans to affordably access, move, and use their money - anytime, anywhere.

Rellevate empowers American employees, gig workers, and consumers by providing access to a suite of high value, low-cost digital banking and payment services. Rellevate partners with employers, public sector, non-profit organizations, and directly with consumers so that nobody is financially left behind.

Our Team

Dedicated, Passionate, Experienced.

Rellevate leverages our team’s collective experience at leading financial services and money movement companies over the past 20+ years (e.g. Mastercard Worldwide, Western Union, American Express, Chase, Simon Property Group, and J.G. Wentworth, etc.).

We are committed to delivering digital transactional services to empower American consumers to simplify their lives, save them time and money.

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Stewart A. Stockdale

Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO

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Greg Schneider

Co-Founder, Chief Information Officer

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Victoria Lopez Negrete
Victoria Lopez Negrete

Chief Administrative Officer

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Matthew Krull

Senior Vice President - Strategy, Legal, and Public Affairs

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Awards & Recognitions

Digital Payments Innovation

Excellence in Finance

PayTech Awards USA 2023

2024 PayTech Awards

Rellevate’s commitment to innovation and financial inclusion has been recognized through several prestigious industry awards. These accolades not only highlight our technological advancements but also underscore our mission to empower middle and lower-income Americans through cutting-edge digital banking and payment services.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Rellevate provides modern financial technology and payment solutions for organizations looking to optimize how they pay and support their workforce or beneficiaries. We serve:

  • Private Sector: Improving retention through Earned Wage Access (EWA) and digital banking.
  • Government & Public Sector: Modernizing distribution for TANF, Foster Care, Child Support, and Disaster Relief.
  • Non-Profits & NGOs: Streamlining humanitarian aid, project funds, and volunteer stipends.
  • Universities & Higher Ed: Simplifying research payments, student-athlete per diems, and NIL compensation.
  • Rellevate eliminates the friction of traditional financial cycles for both organizations and individuals:
    • Rigid Pay Cycles: Breaks the “two-week wait” with on-demand pay.
    • Financial Stress: Reduces reliance on costly alternatives.
  • Manual Overload: Replaces costly paper checks with automated digital workflows.
  • Payment Delays: Enables near-instant distribution of reimbursements, aid, and claims.
  • Banking Gaps: Provides secure accounts for unbanked or underbanked populations.

Earned Wage Access (EWA), or on-demand pay, allows employees to access wages they have already earned before their scheduled payday. It is not a loan; it is real-time access to accrued earnings.

  • Instant Access: Employees can access up to 50% of earned wages immediately.
  • Zero Cost: A rare, fee-free benefit for both the employer and the employee.
  • No Payroll Changes: Our “easy path to launch” requires no disruption to your current payroll process.
  • Digital Liquidity: Funds move instantly to a Rellevate Mastercard® Pay Any-Day or digital account.
  • Seamless Reconciliation: Rellevate handles the advances; the remaining balance is paid normally on payday.

 

Our platform acts as a digital bridge to move money faster and more securely:

  • Instant Delivery: Send funds directly to the Rellevate Digital Account.
  • Paperless Logistics: Eliminate the fraud risks and costs of physical checks.
  • Versatile Use Cases: Supports payroll, bonuses, disaster relief, and more.
  • Real-Time Transparency: Track every dollar with enterprise-grade reporting.

Getting started with Rellevate is fast and friction-free — no complex HRIS or payroll integrations required.

  1. Discovery: A brief session to align our modular tools with your specific program goals.
  2. Rapid Enrollment: You select the features you need. Our flexible architecture allows you to toggle features like prepaid, wallets, ATM access, send money, billpay
  3. Earned Wage Access (Pay Any-Day), digital accounts, or specific SKU-level spending controls for disbursement cards.
  4. Fast Launch: Once your program configuration is approved, we quickly enable distributions and provide real-time analytics so you can start seeing results without the heavy lift

Rellevate is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by our partner banks, Sutton Bank and Republic Bank & Trust Company, Members FDIC.

The Rellevate Visa® and Mastercard® Debit Cards are issued by these partner banks pursuant to licenses from Visa U.S.A. Inc. and Mastercard International. This partnership ensures all accounts are secure, FDIC-insured, and accepted globally.

Rellevate is designed to be a high-impact, low-barrier solution with flexible pricing models tailored to your sector:

  • For Private Employers: Rellevate is provided at no cost to the employer. It is a turnkey financial wellness benefit that allows you to offer Pay Any-Day and digital banking without adding a line item to your budget.
  • For Government, NGOs, & Educational Institutions: For more complex fund distribution programs, there may be a setup fee or implementation costs, depending on the project’s scale and technical requirements.

In all cases, our goal is to provide a sophisticated, cost-effective platform that delivers a significant return on investment through improved operational efficiency and recipient satisfaction.

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Stewart A. Stockdale

Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO

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Stewart A. Stockdale is Chairman & CEO of Rellevate. He is responsible for the company’s vision, strategic planning, and business growth. He is also responsible for overall fiscal management.

Stockdale brings broad experience with world-class companies in the payments, financial services, and consumer products sectors. He was named one of the Top CEO’s of tomorrow by Bloomberg / Business Week. Most recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of The J.G. Wentworth Company. J.G. Wentworth is a diversified consumer financial services company specializing in mortgages, structured settlements, payment systems, and personal loan options. There he stabilized, diversified and restructured the enterprise.

Previously he was President at the Western Union Company, where he ran Western Union’s Money Transfer and Consumer Payments businesses across five global regions (North America, Latin America & the Caribbean, Europe & CIS, Middle East Africa, and Asia Pacific). At Western Union, some of his successes included repositioning and turning around the U.S. Domestic Money Transfer and Consumer Payments businesses and returned them to growth after years of steep declines as well as launching the U.S. Prepaid Card business, delivering almost one million cards-in-force in the U.S. alone.

Stockdale also held roles such as Senior Vice President, Global Marketing & Product Management at MasterCard Worldwide, among other positions at leading multinational companies such as Simon Property Group where he launched and built the largest Visa Giftcard program in the United States, American Express, and Procter & Gamble.

Stockdale holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in marketing from the University of Denver and completed The Executive Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He resides in Darien, Connecticut with his wife and six children.

Greg Schneider

Co-Founder, Chief Information Officer

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Greg Schneider serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Rellevate.

Previously he was Chief Information Officer for The J.G. Wentworth Company, a position he held since 2014. Prior he served as a consultant to SCA Promotions Inc., a marketing agency.

Greg was Senior Vice President, Marketing Information Management at The Western Union Company from 2008 to 2012. At Western Union he also led the prepaid card opportunity that yielded over 1 million cards.

Prior to these engagements, Mr. Schneider held senior leadership positions in consumer and financial services businesses, including Simon Property Group (built Simon Giftcard Program, which at the time was the world’s largest Visa giftcard program), Conseco and Banc One Corporation dating back to 1984.

He holds a B.B.A. with honors from Ohio University and lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Victoria Lopez Negrete

Victoria Lopez Negrete

Advisor, Customer Experience

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Victoria is a senior leader in global Fortune 500 business environments with a consistent record of leading customer experience, enhancing service levels, improving workflow processes, creating innovative marketing initiatives, and building profitable, sustainable customer partnerships to accelerate revenue growth.

She is a passionate, visionary executive experienced in strategy, planning, and product/service creation and has led high-performance teams that deliver industry-leading growth and profits.

As Senior Vice President & General Manager, North America at Western Union, she directed U.S. domestic and international Money Transfer, Bill Payments, and Money Orders − as well as Mexico and Canada money transfer − serving nearly 24 million retail customers and bank customers, with 16,500 billers affiliates, and presence in 77,000 physical locations.

Prior to this, Victoria had a seven-year career with Citigroup, including roles as Executive Director, Regional Credit Cards/Vice-President where she drove enterprise-level vision, strategy and leadership for the credit card portfolio spanning 13 countries and nearly 3 million accounts in Central and South America; Director, Cards & Marketing/Vice-President at Citibank Mexico, Grupo Financiero Citibank; and Head, Marketing & Service Quality/Vice-President at Citibank Chile.

Earlier in her career, Victoria held a General Manager position at MasterCard International in Mexico City, where she was the first female GM of an international company in Mexico; and she started her career as Marketing Director at American Express.

She was previously on the Latin America Visa and the TSYS – Mexico and Prosa (Promoción y Operación, S.A.) Board of Directors; affiliated with the Mexican Banking Association; is a Citibank Chile & Junior Achievement Strategic Partnership Leader and was named by El Diario newspaper among the Top 50 Outstanding Latina Women.

Victoria received her bachelor’s in Sciences of Social Communication, Major: Marketing; Minor:-Film and Journalism from Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico City, Mexico

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Matthew Krull

Senior Vice President - Strategy, Legal, and Public Affairs

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Matthew Krull serves as Senior Vice President – Strategy, Legal, and Public Affairs for Rellevate.

Most recently, he served as the Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Ethics Officer for the Georgia Department of Human Services, where he assisted in managing the State’s largest agency with over 9,000 employees and a multi-billion-dollar budget. As Deputy Chief of Staff, he oversaw the Office of General Counsel, the Financial Division, and the Office of Health Law and Policy. Krull also led several critical initiatives for the agency, including the One Time Cash Assistance program – which distributed over one billion dollars through virtual and physical MasterCard prepaid cards to three million Georgia residents and became one of the largest deployments of digital wallets ever.

Krull previously served as the Health Policy Counsel for the Georgia Department of Community Health, where he focused much of his work on the innovative Georgia Access 1332 waiver and the Georgia Pathways to Coverage 1115 Medicaid waiver authorized by the Patients First Act. Krull was instrumental in gaining initial approval from CMS for both waivers.

Before working for the State, Krull was the Solicitor-General of Douglas County, Georgia, for over six years, where he was recognized as the M.A.D.D. Prosecutor of the Year for his work reducing DUIs in Douglas County. As a former prosecutor, he has extensive experience litigating cases, including trying over 50 jury trials.
He has previously been appointed to serve as a representative on the Georgia State Board of Education, Commissioner for the Georgia Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund, and a Georgia Rare Disease Advisory Council member.

Krull’s coolest job, thus far, was being a Zamboni driver for the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League.
Krull is a graduate of Georgia State University with a B.A. in Political Science and a J.D. from The Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

Matthew resides in Sandy Springs, Georgia, with his wife and two children.