REGO Payment Architectures Names Dr. Lisa Strohman as Global Advisor for Youth Digital Protection
Internationally recognized clinical psychologist, attorney, and child digital-safety advocate joins the only family digital wallet platform certified COPPA-compliant and third-party GDPR-compliant — the privacy-preserving infrastructure global regulators are now converging on.
BLUE BELL, Pa., May 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rego Payment Architectures, Inc. (“REGO”) (OTCQB: RPMT) — the only family digital wallet platform in the world certified to meet the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and independently certified as compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — today announced the appointment of Dr. Lisa Strohman as its Global Advisor for Youth Digital Protection. The appointment was announced by REGO CEO Peter S. Pelullo.
“From REGO’s inception, our focus has been to protect the privacy and security of children online,” said Pelullo. “For nearly two decades we have developed this platform, held to the architecture we believed the world would eventually require — long before the regulatory mandates arrived. The appointment of Dr. Strohman as our Global Advisor for Youth Digital Protection fortifies that commitment and positions REGO as the premier firm in the world to meet the needs of the most vulnerable demographics.”
Dr. Strohman is a clinical psychologist, attorney, advocate, and author who has spent nearly two decades advocating for stronger protections for children in digital environments. She is the founder of Digital Citizen Academy, a leading nonprofit focused on online safety for children and families, and has worked with school districts, parent organizations, legislators, and federal agencies across the United States and internationally on online safety, mental health, developmental, and legal dimensions of children’s online lives. Her background working as a visiting scholar with the FBI profiling unit helped create her passion to help proactively prevent and educate students, educators and parents on issues related to technology.
As Global Advisor for Youth Digital Protection, Dr. Strohman will help shape REGO’s strategic approach across:
- Child safety strategy and program design
- Age assurance standards and architecture
- Parental governance guidelines
- Ethical AI child-interaction policies
“I am honored to work with REGO, a company whose commitment to the safe and dignified protection of children online predates every major regulatory mandate now reshaping this field,” said Dr. Strohman. “For too long the technology industry has operated under a system built on self-regulation, and in return our society has witnessed historic increases in youth anxiety, depression, exploitation, online grooming, and other serious harms. We are now moving rapidly toward an AI-driven age verification environment built on behavioral surveillance and biometric data collection with few guardrails — exactly the wrong architecture for the children we are trying to protect.”
ABOUT REGO PAYMENT ARCHITECTURES
REGO Payment Architectures, Inc. (“REGO”) is a family digital wallet platform that empowers financial institutions to let their customers’ children spend, save, donate, and invest in a safe, parent-controlled environment. Founded in 2008, REGO has spent nearly twelve years building, refining, and patenting the privacy-preserving architecture that global regulators are now converging on as the standard for child digital safety. REGO is the only family digital wallet platform in the world that is both certified compliant with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and independently certified as compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — the two most rigorous child-data and privacy frameworks currently in force globally. The company holds multiple patents related to the safety of parent and child data, including foundational claims on age verification of users that pre-date virtually every commercial age-assurance scheme now being mandated by regulators globally. REGO offers financial literacy tools for parents to teach their children to be smarter shoppers, savers, givers, and investors. Financial institutions of all sizes can offer a family digital wallet product through REGO as a white-labeled stand-alone application or fully integrated into their existing app. For more information, please visit regopayments.com.
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MEDIA CONTACTS
Pawan Murthy
Chief Marketing Officer
Rego Payment Architectures, Inc
pawan@regopayments.com
Donald A Tremblay
Dr. Strohman PR Director
Dtremblay1006@gmail.com
718-664-3405
