Apple Co-founder, Steve Wozniak joins Planet Capital Board

Planet Capital, FinTech innovator and developer of multi-function Next Gen ATM Kiosks, announced its launch into the burgeoning self service payments space this week.

Chairman, Lee Caplin is Co-Founder of Penske Media, owner of Variety Magazine and the entrepreneur responsible for creating the first military grade encryption for civilian telephones.

Planet’s CTO, Dan Sokol, along with Caplin made a joint statement, saying that “Planet’s strategy is to deploy kiosks free of charge, removing the ‘pay wall’ and common financial barriers for many merchants desiring to install service-ready, multi-function ATM’s to meet their clients growing financial, digital and virtual needs within this fast-moving economy.” Caplin referred to Planet’s strategic team, saying that “My brain trust consists of some of Silicon Valley’s heaviest hitters.”

Company directors and advisors include:

• Steve “Woz” Wozniak, Apple Co-Founder
• Reed Hundt, President Clinton Administration FCC Chairman
• Steve Mayer, Atari Co-Founder
• John Harris, former CFO of The Carlyle Group
• Ken Hardesty: former IBM/ Seagate Executive

A. Lyle Elias, Planet Capital CEO, ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) co-founder and PAYe Network founder said, “With an ‘All-Star’ team focused on exploiting our patent pending IP and “Blockchain” technology, Planet’s ‘Next Gen ATM kiosks, unique network architecture and state-of-the-art wallet solution will make us a major payments industry disrupter. Elias said, “Planet’s strategy is geared toward capturing a significant share of the growing global market low cost payments kiosks. Planet will become the global market leader in self-service alternative payments.”

About Planet Capital

Planet Capital is a “Next Gen ATM, Fin-Tech” company based in Los Angeles, California. The Planet Network products and services, are utilizing the Blockchain, Cloud and Patent Pending technologies to enable faster, easier and more secure self service payments and solutions. We are dedicated to the concept of “Smart Money” and revolutionizing the way people manage their daily finances and get instant interoperability.