Dichter Ron

Ron Eliot Dichter founded Blue Dog Business Services LLC.
He is still Chief Executive Officer at this company.
Ron has been a founder and CEO of multiple companies in the Payments/Fintech sector since 1997.
As owner of the largest Agent office for Heartland Payment Systems, Ron was responsible for developing a 3-state territory.
In the 2+ years of developing the Intermountain states he added thousands of new customers processing billions in new processing volume.
As Founder & CEO of the Eliot Management Group (“EMG”), Ron grew it from one small room with 3 employees to a national payments leader with over 28 offices, 350 employees and $100M+ in sales.
EMG was sold to First American Payment Systems in 2004 and Ron remained a member of the Management team until leaving in 2010.
In 2013, Ron was Founder & CEO of BlueDog Business Services.
BlueDog served thousands of customers throughout the United States, ranging in size from small startups to multibillion-dollar enterprises.
Ron’s track record in the payment space quickly enabled BLUEDOG to become one of the fastest-growing companies in the payments space.
In 2020, BlueDog merged with FortisPay.
Ron is now the Chief Revenue Officer at FortisPay.
Ron is also a Member of the Advancement Board for the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Utah.
Previously, Ron was an Official Member of the Forbes Finance Council where he was a regular author on forbes.com writing about Financial, Payments, and General Business topics appealing to a broad audience.
Articles can be found @: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/people/rondichter/#41ae9cfb4a70 Ron is also a husband of almost 2 decades with two amazing children ages 15 and 16.
Ron and his family reside in Vero Beach, Florida full time, but spend much of the summer and a few weeks of winter in Park City, Utah.