Kurt Dicus

Shield Compliance, the industry’s only purpose-built compliance management and payment integrator system for banking legal marijuana-related businesses, has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Kurt Dicus as Chief Technology Officer.

Reporting to Shield’s president and COO Tony Repanich, Dicus is responsible for leading Shield’s technology roadmap, ensuring faster infrastructure scalability, integrating additional data sources into the Shield Data Hub, and providing best-in-class solutions that safeguard client data. Dicus brings more than 20 years of executive IT management across diverse industries including consumer packaged goods, travel, entertainment, high-tech, insurance, banking/finance, utilities, sports, wireless, retail and e-commerce. Prior to joining Shield, Dicus was Vice President of IT at Funko.

Some form of medical and/or recreational marijuana is now legal in 33 states. As more states pass legalization measures and federal cannabis legalization gains greater support, demand for banking services is growing rapidly. Compliant banking operations for today’s legalized cannabis industry require continuous enhanced due diligence that reaches far beyond traditional BSA/AML compliance tools. The Shield Data Hub simplifies and improves compliance and reporting requirements and helps financial institutions scale their core competencies to serve the growing cannabis industry.

About Shield Compliance

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Shield Compliance is transforming the way financial institutions manage risk, comply with regulations and satisfy operational demands associated with serving the legal cannabis market across the United States. Its purpose-built AML/BSA compliance management software solution sits behind the financial institution to simplify compliance, automate processes across multiple data sources, create efficiencies, unlock new revenue, and scale operations. For more information, please visit https://www.shieldbanking.com/ or contact [email protected].