Kevin Jones founded Celero Commerce in 2018, leading the company from startup to one of the nation’s top non-bank merchant acquirers by combining organic growth, key strategic acquisitions, and the creation of a technology-led, partner-first payments platform. Deluxe acquired Celero in 2026, adding Kevin to the Executive Leadership Team as the President of Merchant Services.
Earlier in his career, Kevin built the Financial Institution Channel at Chase Paymentech achieving record growth results, rebuilt and scaled the strategic partner channel at First American Payment Systems, and served as President of SignaPay, where he drove five-fold growth in adjusted EBITDA. He then founded and led Anovia Payments to a successful exit that returned 8.5x to investors while organically acquiring more than 10,000 customers in four years.
Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He serves on the board of Operation Song and previously served as President and Board Chair of the Electronic Transactions Association, where he strengthened the industry’s government relations and advocacy efforts.
