Michael Müller is currently a partner at eQventure, Austria's largest private equity company for start-ups, alongside his role as member of the board of directors at Payrexx. It offers consultancy services in business and organisational development for young enterprises. He has had a profound connection to the payment industry through several advisory board mandates and investment projects in the DACH region for over 25 years.

After studying Business Economics, Michael Müller worked in Corporate Finance at UBS in Switzerland for several years. From 2000 to 2014, he was co-founder and CEO of paysafecard in Vienna, the world's largest provider of prepaid online payments.

Michael has extensive experience in the internationalisation and scaling of financial institutions and knows the international payment market from the ground up. We are pleased to have brought such an experienced strategist on board.

- Ivan Schmid, CEO of Payrexx

Michael Müller is the father of two teenage children. The native Austrian lives near Vienna. In his free time, the 50-year-old enjoys being outdoors, travelling, visiting exhibitions on various topics, or spending time with friends.

This is Payrexx

Payrexx was founded in 2015 in Thun and specialises as a payment institution in the processing of digital payment methods. The Swiss company operates a self-developed payment platform as a registered payment facilitator of Mastercard and VISA. More than 40,000 customers across Europe process their payments via the cloud-based platform. The range includes regionally strong enterprises such as BKW, Swiss Youth Hostels and Swissmilk, as well as large corporations like SBB, Swiss Post and Swisscom.

The platform unites over 40 payment providers and more than 200 payment methods and currencies from all over the world through a single interface. Payrexx is the only provider in Switzerland to offer the payment methods TWINT, PostFinance, Mastercard, VISA, Samsung Pay, Google Pay and Apple Pay from a single source with an acceptance contract.

In a representative survey of online merchants conducted by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI), the use of Payment Service Providers (PSP) by the participating respondents for processing online transactions was assessed. As a result of evaluating the responses from all Swiss comerciantes, it was established that 25% of all online shops choose and trust Payrexx as their PSP. This makes Payrexx the second most popular payment provider for Swiss online comerciantes. This placement illustrates that Payrexx fully meets the needs and requirements of Swiss SMEs for a payment provider, both with its offering and its approach to work and communication.

All systems of Payrexx are redundantly designed, ensure maximum fault tolerance, and are certified according to the strictest PCI-DSS Level-1 guidelines.