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Don
Barbacovi, eCommLink, Inc.
VP
Sales & Business Development
Don
Barbacovi is the Vice President of Sales and Business Development for
eCommLink, with responsibility for acquiring new business through sales,
as well as developing the overall goals for the Company. With over 10
years of experience in the stored-value card business, the expertise that
Dr. Barbacovi brings to the Company is invaluable.
Since
joining eCommLink, Dr. Barbacovi has been instrumental in the initial
development of the product and program associated with the Company’s
proprietary stored-value card system. He has actively sought new
contacts and sales that promise to propel the Company into a leader in the
industry.
Prior
to joining eCommLink, Dr. Barbacovi was President of CashDISC.com, a
company specializing in the development and marketing of stored-value
cards. Before that, he was the co-owner of Voice-Poll Communications,
Inc., a company specializing in automated touch-tone feedback systems. He
also served for two years as Vice President of Corporate Development for
Phone Master, a division of U.S. Telecom.
Dr.
Barbacovi holds a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Special Education from
Western Michigan University, as well as a PhD in Organizational
Developmental and Research from Michigan State University. He also
has extensive training in systems development and business organization
systems.
Daniel
Csoka, Akos Technology
Founder
& CEO
Daniel
Csoka serves as Founder and CEO of aKos Technology Corporation, a company
that provides the transaction management gateway to allow seamless yet
cost-effective, convenient and secure mobile remittance services via its
patent pending approach that marries wireless and banking
infrastructures.
Most
recently, Csoka served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for
TDVision Systems, where he was responsible for selling and marketing
TDVision’s technology in each of its global markets, forging
relationships with partners and securing investment capital. Csoka laid
the foundation for TDVision’s foray into the Consumer Electronics,
Digital Entertainment, Military and Medical markets; secured partners from
the design, distribution and development arenas and prepared the company
for its next round of private equity financing.
Previously,
Csoka was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for VoiceCue Technologies,
Inc., a telecommunications software applications company that specializes
in real time processing and billing providing enhanced services to
wireless carriers. At VoiceCue he was responsible for closing the single
largest sale in the company’s history. Csoka led the initiative to
diversify its product line into the financial arena of Electronic
Transactions Management by leveraging the company’s core competency of a
“Stored Value Manager” into card-based stored value applications. In
this new division, he secured a contract with the 7th largest Financial
Transaction Processor in the world to offer Mexico's first national
loyalty program “Dinero Extra” to over 10 million customers.
Csoka
graduated from Northwestern University and is a Rhodes Scholar Finalist
and National Merit Finalist. In his spare time he enjoys an active career
as a concert violinist appearing as the concertmaster of various
orchestras including the Detroit Civic Symphony Orchestra. Csoka has
performed throughout North America and Europe for such luminaries as
President Bush, President Reagan, Pope John Paul II.
Ted
Dargan, MasterCard
Vice
President, Prepaid Product Sales
Team
Lead, Americas
Ted
Dargan joined MasterCard in June 2001 to manage the distribution, concept
development and rollout of MasterCard’s stored value cards, including
payroll, insurance, healthcare, teen, gift cards, general purpose and
incentives. Mr. Dargan brings
more than 18 years of experience in management, finance and technology to
MasterCard.
Prior
to joining MasterCard, Mr. Dargan was employed by American Express, where
he managed the co-branding and affinity marketing programs, Green and Gold
Card acquisition and participated in launching the Membership Rewards
Program in both New York and London.
Before
American Express, Mr. Dargan served as the senior director of Sales and
Marketing for Digital Equipment Corporation for 10 years, working on
product development, integrated communication for the various hardware,
and services and marketing for peripheral devices.
He has also held numerous positions in the advertising sector,
working with global industry leaders such as IBM, Sprint, Oracle and
Merrill Lynch.
Mr.
Dargan received a bachelor’s degree in
economics with a minor in finance from the University of Massachusetts-
Amherst and a Master of Business degree at the University of Pennsylvania,
The Wharton School of Business.
Mark
Edmondson, Chockstone
SVP
Corp. Development
Marc
has extensive management experience in the payments industry. His team is
responsible for providing strategic marketing consulting services to
clients of Chockstone. He brings a wealth of marketing expertise to
Chockstone. His 20+ years of marketing and business development experience
in the financial services industry has included successful stints at First
Consumers National Bank, U.S. Bank, Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo and VISA.
Prior to joining Chockstone, Marc built a successful consulting company
that provided strategic marketing services to banks (issuers and
acquirers), retailers and other specialty payment services companies.
At
Chockstone, Marc has excelled at developing innovative marketing and
growth strategies for Chockstone’s portfolio of stored value and loyalty
program clients. Marc holds a BA from the University of California at
Berkeley and serves on a variety of non-profit Boards in Oregon.
Alan
Fross, The PELORUS Group
President
Alan
Fross has over 30 years of experience in the information management
marketplace.
As
President of The PELORUS Group, Mr. Fross heads one of the fastest growing
communications research and management consulting firms in the United
States. The firm provides
market research studies and custom consulting projects to the industry’s
leading financial services providers worldwide.
Mr.
Fross is regarded as one of the leading analysts in the industry.
His expertise in the various financial and information services
markets is widely recognized. His
market assessments and opinions are often quoted in trade and business
publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times, CIO, and Communications
Solutions. In addition,
Mr. Fross has published numerous articles in leading industry journals
such as Communications News, Business Communications Review, and Intele-CardNews, and has spoken at national telecommunications
conferences.
Prior
to founding The PELORUS Group, Inc., Mr. Fross was Vice President of The
Eastern Management Group, where he was responsible for coordinating the
telecommunications research and consulting engagements for the company.
In addition, Mr. Fross has held several marketing positions with
New Jersey Bell.
Mr.
Fross received his bachelors degree in marketing from the University of
Dayton and an MBA with a concentration in finance from Rutgers University.
Craig
Fuller, TransMarkets Technologies
President
IPS,
LLC is an industry leader in electronic transaction processing services
both domestically and internationally. IPS offers electronic funds
transfer services including direct-to-card payroll technology, electronic
fuel and transaction processing, and global money remittance and payment
services. IPS processes over $960 million in electronic transactions
annually and expects to reach $1.2 billion in 2007.
Transcard
has been serving client’s payroll card needs since 1996, when it became
one of the first payroll cards in the marketplace. The product was
initially launched to service the trucking industry and the remoteness of
the driver population. By using the ATM and POS networks, Transcard was
able to provide employers the ability to pay their drivers in real-time
and without checks. In 2004, Transcard began to market the product outside
of the trucking industry and has since offered clients in transportation,
retail, food-service, warehousing, staffing, direct selling, and the
service industry with a low-cost, flexible, and customizable payroll-card
platform.
Prior
to joining IPS, Craig Fuller served as President of Xpress Global Systems,
a wholly owned subsidiary of US Xpress Enterprises. At
XGS, Craig helped to orchestrate the sell of the company’s
airport-to-airport subsidiary to Forward Air Corporation.
Prior
to being named President of XGS, Craig served as the
Vice-President/General Manager of the Xpress Direct division of US Xpress
Enterprises, the division he established. Under his leadership, Xpress
Direct became one of the largest and fastest growing divisions of US
Xpress Enterprises. The division offers on-demand expedited truckload
services to customers requiring just-in-time transportation and surge
capacity needs. In less than three years since inception, Xpress Direct
has become one of the largest providers of ground expedite services in
North America
Vance
Hodnett, The PELORUS Group
Vice
President of Research
Vance
Hodnett is the Vice President of Research – Financial Services with The
PELORUS Group. With over 30
years of experience in finance, information technologies and
telecommunications, Mr. Hodnett is responsible for the company’s
consulting practice and research offerings in the Stored Value,
Alternative Payments and Financial Services.
His skill set includes business planning, financial analysis,
network design and project management.
Prior
to joining The PELORUS Group, Mr. Hodnett provided financial consulting
and cost analysis to clients of Ernst and Young.
In this capacity, Mr. Hodnett utilized financial models to forecast
expected payouts and returns for various offers.
Before then, Mr. Hodnett was with AT&T where he held positions
in finance, regulatory and government affairs, investor relations and
network management, performance and engineering.
Mr.
Hodnett received his MBA, with a concentration in Finance, from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of
Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Thomas
Honey, Better ATM Services
Chief
Development Officer
Thomas
Honey serves as Chief Development and Marketing Officer and is a member of
the Board of Directors. He was
introduced to Better ATM in August 2006 and has been instrumental in
establishing the company’s strategic and market direction.
Mr.
Honey has over 30 years experience in services oriented industries both
domestically and internationally that includes an extensive background in
the development, operation, and management of secure electronic
transaction services. He is
currently CEO of his own firm that provides payment system consulting
services and markets cash card programs and ancillary financial services
nationwide but will devote full time to Better ATM.
Mr.
Honey has held senior positions with Visa USA and Visa International for
11 years and the NYCE ATM/debit card network in New York for 4 years.
At Visa (1973-84) he is credited with developing and implementing
the Visa debit card (now called the Visa Check Card), Visa
Travelers Cheque, Visa Gold Card, the Visa name change and card design,
and with establishing Visa International regions and offices worldwide.
He served as the Asia-Pacific region’s first Chief General
Manager where he established Visa’s online, real-time electronic payment
and telecommunications systems, brought up a $30 million operating company
in Australia under crisis conditions to save a key Visa market, and helped
pioneer Visa card services in the People’s Republic of China.
At
NYCE (1992-95), Mr. Honey served as Executive Vice President (Marketing
& Sales) where he led the establishment of NYCE in over 20,000
merchant point-of-sale locations in two years and expanding
owner/membership to include Citibank.
During this time, he also was a member of the Board of Directors of
the Smart Card Forum - a multi-industry organization dedicated to the
broader development of smart card services and standards in North America.
Mr.
Honey also served as President & Executive Director of the Consumer
Bankers Association in Washington, D.C. (1986-87) where he managed a
turnaround effort to re-establish this 80-year old trade association,
re-established the association’s leadership in consumer lending issues,
and led an industry wide effort to simplify bank credit card disclosures
resulting in successful bi-partisan legislation.
Martin
Hood, American Express Incentive Services
Vice
President
As
American Express Incentive Services (AEIS) Senior
Vice-President, Partnership Sales, Martin Hood
is responsible for the strategic direction and new business development
for both the reseller group and American Express (one of AEIS’ parent
companies). The reseller group focuses on serving a range of distribution
partners in the performance improvement, promotional, financial services,
advertising and loyalty sectors. AEIS serves American Express as a direct
customer, as well as a provider of value added solutions and services for
its own corporate and consumer incentives.
Prior
to his current position, Hood launched AEIS’ Consumer Promotions Group
where he was responsible for the overall strategic direction and planning
for the organization’s entry into the consumer promotion market.
Concentrating on rebate and loyalty programs, Hood led the team to target
brands and original equipment manufacturers directly, in addition to
working with agencies. Hood also established and led AEIS’ merchant
partnership and channel sales teams that acquired and managed a network of
over 200 merchant and 80 authorized distributor accounts.
Hood
came to AEIS from American Express, where he began his career as a
territory manager in Cincinnati, later rising to account executive and
senior manager in New York City, and ultimately director for new business
partnerships for American Express Establishment Services. While there,
Hood signed 35 national merchant partnerships that resulted in incremental
charge volume totaling more than $1 billion and developed notable
partnerships with Wal-Mart, Sprint PCS, Elder Beerman Department Stores
and Bob Evans Restaurants
Michael
Keresman
III,
Cardinal Commerce
CEO
Prior
to founding the Company in 1999, Mr. Keresman was one of the earliest
employees at STERIS Corporation (NYSE: STE) holding several senior
management positions from 1988 to 1999 including during STERIS' initial
public offerings. STERIS Corporation markets, develops, and manufactures
infection and contamination prevention systems, related consumables,
accessories and supplies for the worldwide healthcare and scientific
markets. Mr. Keresman's most recent position at STERIS was Senior Vice
President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Information Officer, as well
as functioning as the primary operations executive. During his tenure as
Chief Financial Officer he was responsible for investor and stockholder
relations. Mr. Keresman was
the company's first financial executive and played key roles in STERIS'
rapid growth from a true start-up through $800 million in revenue.
STERIS grew during the first six years from internal sources and
during the last portion of his tenure, in a combination of internal growth
and acquisition. He was the
primary executive involved in completing the acquisition of AMSCO
International, a company four times STERIS' size.
While CFO, Mr. Keresman helped arrange and complete acquisitions of
AMSCO, Calgon Vestal, Ecomed, Micro Dimensions, Isomedix and several other
companies. STERIS used
multiple financing strategies to support amassing the most comprehensive
collections of technologies for the infection prevention/contamination
control marketplace.
As
the CFO/CIO and principal operations executive, Mr. Keresman managed
STERIS facilities in Finland, Germany, and in Erie Pennsylvania, St. Louis
Missouri and Birmingham Alabama.
Mr.
Keresman was nominated as CFO of the year in 1996 and served on the NASDAQ
policy/advisory committee from 1997 through 1998.
In
1981, Mr. Keresman was one of the founders and Chief Financial Officer for
the first statewide HMO network in the country. HealthAmerica of Ohio
originated in Cleveland, Ohio and grew from 20,000 members to more than
100,000 members in less than three years. HealthAmerica, the parent
company of HealthAmerica of Ohio, became a public company during his
tenure and, as the financial executive of the largest subsidiaries, he was
part of the support team that helped the company go public. Between his
tenure at STERIS and HealthAmerica, Mr. Keresman held senior management
positions at International HealthCare, Inc. (IHC) and Western Reserve
Health Plan. Mr. Keresman
has a BSBA in Finance from John Carroll University.
Mr.
Keresman recognized the need for authentication and its application in the
commercial marketplace, perhaps before the industry initially did.
He essentially placed a bet with his time and talent, as well as
his financial resources, that in the future, authentication, or the
positive identification of individuals would become important; that this
concept would have a wide array of applications in the business world; and
that in order for authentication to succeed in adoption by various
industries it would need to take place very early on in the transaction
process. With the advent of
guaranteed payment initiatives specifically built around the concept of
authentication having been launched by Visa, MasterCard and JCB, with
others to follow, that bet looks to be certain to pay off.
The
flexibility of Mr. Keresman's concept and the way it has been designed and
implemented through Cardinal has enabled the Company to focus on specific
business opportunities when they have emerged, as the industry has
recognized the need for technology like Cardinal's, without losing focus
of Mr. Keresman's overall vision - to become the primary authentication
agent and enabler for both financial and non-financial transactions
worldwide. Cardinal has also
been successful in pursuing protection for its innovative technological
concepts, with many of its business methods in the final stages of
securing patents both in the US and abroad.
The
widely experienced and respected management team and board of directors
Mr. Keresman has been able to assemble is a testament to the leadership
that he has provided in his vast entrepreneurial experience and the high
standards to which he holds himself and those that support his business
endeavors. Moreover, many of
the associates who have been with Cardinal since its founding are still
actively present, having grown into more diverse roles and
responsibilities with the Company under Mr. Keresman's tutelage.
Edward
Maldonado, Maldonado Law Group
Partner
Steve
Mott, BetterBuyDesign
CEO
Steve
Mott is a 20-year veteran of the electronic payments industry with
specialization in online transactions, innovative use of debit networks,
authentication and security technologies, stored value products and
consumer adoption strategies. His
company, BetterBuyDesign, is a payments systems consultancy serving
clients that range from major banks and processors to technology startups
and investment capital/equity firms. Projects
span strategy reviews, market evaluations, business development,
technology assessments, and due diligence engagements to hands-on project
management and new product development and introductions.
Steve
has worked in the stored value arena for five years, advising clients in
both bank-sponsored and merchant-provided products, speaking at dozens of
conferences, writing for and being quoted by numerous publications, and
serving as the stored value expert on the advisory board of InteleCard
News. Of particular emphasis
is analysis and development of employer-oriented stored value and
debit-account applications such as payroll and benefit cards.
Current clients include leading providers of Health Saving Account
(HSA) systems.
Steve
is a noted speaker and author in the payments space overall, working for
planning committees and appearing in numerous banking, merchant, security
and technology conferences. An
acknowledged pioneer in eCommerce, in 1997 he was named by Interactive
Week (now eWeek) magazine one of the “Top 25 Unsung Heroes of the
Internet” and in 1998 by Business 2.0 magazine one of the “Top 25 Most
Intriguing Minds for the New Economy.”
He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and a White House
Fellow appointee, and has held executive positions at McKinsey & Co.,
McGraw-Hill, MCI Telecommunications, MasterCard International and
Priceline WebHouse Club.
Victor
Nappe, Stored Value Consulting
Chairman
Victor
M. Nappe is a highly regarded entrepreneur and visionary, building
industry changing companies from the ground up. Victor Nappe
consults for numerous Fortune 500 firms, chairs on numerous e-commerce
advisory panels; including US Congress, Kaiser College Business School,
The Prepaid Press and many others. Mr. Nappe also appears as a
technology, sales and marketing expert on several local and nationwide
broadcasting stations. Mr. Nappe regularly appears as key note
speaker on topics of Technology, E-commerce, Venture Capital and M&A.
In addition to Mr. Nappe's vast accomplishments he has combined eighteen
years of experience in business management, analysis, product development,
technical software development and IT consulting.
Victor
M. Nappe is the current Chairman and Founder of Stored Value Consulting
(SVC). SVC specializes in providing consulting and best practices to
stored value and telecommunication industries. SVC delivers more
than 50 years of combined industry experience to their clients. SVC
consultants have broad industry experience that provides clients access to
strategic industry trends and information. Mr. Nappe’s company
offers a complete portfolio of marketing, consulting and management
services for companies interested in launching or optimizing existing
stored value products and solutions. Some SVC customers include
TrioPass, American Greetings, Hewlett Packard and The PrepaidPress.
In
1999 Victor Nappe was Founder and CEO of DuoCash, the world's first patent
pending payments processing and clearing network, enabling internet
purchases through the use of prepaid calling cards. $5.2 billion
dollars of previously untapped money were made available to the electronic
payments marketplace through DuoCash’s ingenuity. Access to these
funds was made possible through DuoCash’s many partnerships with leading
telecommunication companies, prepaid calling card manufacturers and top
internet providers.
Prior
to DuoCash, Mr. Nappe was the Director of E-Commerce for Apple Computer's
AES division - the enterprise software and professional services division
of Apple Computer. Victor Nappe developed and maintained successful
planning and strategic partnerships with companies such as Standard &
Poor’s, TIAA-CREF, Philip Morris, NHL.com, among many others.
Through these alliances, it was Mr. Nappe’s responsibility to
incorporate Apple's enterprise experience and build some of the largest
e-commerce sites that exist today.
Blake
Patton, IKobo
CEO
Blake
Patton is President and CEO of iKobo, a global payments company that
provides prepaid card remittance services. Previously, Blake served
as iKobo’s COO. iKobo’s investors include Greenhill SAVP, Total
Technology Ventures, and Council Ventures.
Blake
has over 15 years of international e-commerce experience ranging from
early stage entrepreneurial to publicly-traded technology companies.
He has held senior-level positions with iXL, including EVP and Managing
Director of iXL Europe, and served as VP of Operations at Swan Media.
He was also co-founder of a software company he later sold.
Blake
earned a Bachelor degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from
Georgia Tech, where he was Captain of the Swimming and Diving Team.
He is active in the Alzheimer’s Association and co-chairs the North
Fulton Memory Walk.
Fred
Rackers, BenefitLogix
VP
Operations
Mr.
Rackers is Vice President of Operations for BenefitLogix.com, LLC, a
national provider of private label loyalty, reward and incentive packages.
BenefitLogix markets to a wide range of clients including credit/debit
card providers, fortune 1000 companies, associations and non-profits to
create or enhance revenue generation potential by embedding numerous cause
related benefits into card and membership programs.
Mr.
Rackers has been at the marketing forefront of emerging technologies
within the telecommunications and financial services industries for over
30 years. He has lead teams that launched several innovative new ventures:
telecom switching systems during divestiture, live operator services to
the hospitality and payphone industry, wholesale VoIP services, and stored
value card services. Since 2001 he has been instrumental in development of
stored value card programs and creating an array of beneficial services
that are now being embedded in a wide range of debit/credit card
platforms.
At
BenefitLogix Mr. Rackers oversees numerous operational and marketing
initiatives dealing with partner relationships, and general business
development of services that include dining, medical and travel discounts,
roadside assistance and financial coaching services.
He
holds a BS in Business Administration from University of Missouri -
St.Louis.
Asif
Ramji, RBS Lynk
Senior
VP
Asif
Ramji is currently Senior Vice President for The Royal Bank of Scotland
Group’s RBS Lynk Prepaid & Loyalty division.
He is responsible for the strategic growth of the company’s
closed loop, open loop and loyalty solutions.
Asif has over 12 years experience directing companies in key
leadership roles within the prepaid and loyalty transaction processing
industry.
Most
recently he was North American vice president of sales with Ernex, the
prepaid and loyalty card division of Moneris Solutions Corporation. Ramji
was responsible for growing Ernex’s and Moneris’ prepaid and loyalty
revenues by establishing leadership in key verticals and aggressively
pursuing new market opportunities. Mr. Ramji also successfully led
Moneris Solutions GiftCertificates.ca incentive marketing business.
Mr.
Ramji has extensive loyalty management experience consulting with
companies such as Eddie
Bauer, Darden Restaurants and RBC Royal Bank.
He has been instrumental in the consultation and development of
some of North America’s leading prepaid, incentive, private label
loyalty, and coalition loyalty programs.
Judith
Rinearson, Bryan Cave, LLP
Partner
Judith
Rinearson, a partner in Bryan Cave’s New York Offices, is a recognized
authority in the area of prepaid cards and stored value payment products.
Ms. Rinearson was Group Counsel responsible for American Express’
prepaid payment products for more than 10 years, and has hands-on
experience in all legal aspects of launching and managing a range of
prepaid and other electronic payment products, including store-issued
“gift cards,” bank-issued payroll cards, reward and incentive cards,
“teen cards,” bill payment services, internet and contactless payment
products. Her practice includes advising on compliance with federal
banking and anti-money laundering laws, as well as state money transmitter
licensing laws, consumer protection laws and abandoned property laws.
On the international level, Ms. Rinearson has supervised the
launch of a range of prepaid products in Europe, Asia and Latin America,
has met with international regulators and spoken on the issue of stored
value regulation. She has also
given numerous presentations about prepaid card law and regulations at
meetings held by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Electronic
Funds Transfer Association, Forum Europe, NACHA, and at annual meetings of
the Money Transmitter Regulators Association and the National Association
of Unclaimed Property Administrators.
Her many articles in this area include:
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“Prepaid
Cards: Coming of Age,” Standard & Poor’s Review of Banking
& Financial Services (April 2006)
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“Electronic
Payments: The Perils of
Third Party Distribution Arrangements,” Journal of Payment Systems Law (January 2006)
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“When
the Going Gets Touch: Under
Increased Scrutiny, Banks are Dropping Their Money Services Business
Customers and Regulators are Showing Concern,” Journal
of Payment Systems Law (May 2005)
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“Prepaid
Cards at the Crossroads” Standard & Poor’s Review of
Banking & Financial Services (January 2005).
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“Beware
Strangers Bearing Gift Cards – Some Wholesale Advice for your Retail
Clients” Business Law
Today (November/December 2004) (co-authored)
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“Regulation
of Electronic Stored Value Payment Products Issued by Non-Banks Under
State “Money Transmitter” Licensing Law, The
Business Lawyer (
November 2002)
Ms.
Rinearson chairs the Government Relations Working Group for the Network
Branded Prepaid Card Association (www.nbpca.com) and was recently selected
to co-chair the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section’s
Cyberspace Law’s Subcommittee on Electronic Financial Services.
She moderated two panels at the 2007 Prepaid Card Expo and has
co-chaired the American Conference Institute’s National Forum on Payment
Systems in New York City for the last three years.
Deneka
Scott, FSV
SVP
of Marketing
Jim
Tingey, Palm Desert National Bank
EVP,
Administration
As
Executive Vice President for the Electronic Banking Solutions of PDNB, Jim
is responsible for all electronic payment srvices offered to our
customers. Jim is responsible for the areas of national and regional
network sponsorship for issuance and acquiring services (including but not
limited to MasterCard, Visa, Discover, Star, Nyce, Shazam, AFFN, and Excel
Exchange). Jim is responsible for all aspects of PDNB's issuance of Stored
Value Prepaid Card programs and Merchant Acquiring Sponsorship service for
all EBS customers.
Jim
brings to PDNB over 25 years of executive management experience in various
corporations including insurance, retail, hospitality, medical and
finance. Jim has served in various law enforcement roles and due to his
accomplishments received the medal of valor, and the J. Edgar Hoover
distinguished service medal. His background includes significant expertise
in the coordination of large cash management projects. A recent example
included responsibility for all ATM, and cash services for the 2002 Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City. He holds a masters degree in management, with
dual related bachelor degrees, and an associate degree in risk management.
Jim is currently working on the completion of his doctorate degree in law.
T.
Jack Williams, eCommLink, Inc.
President
T.
Jack Williams is the President of eCommLink, Inc. with responsibility for
the total operation of the prepaid debit card processing of bank clients
who issue MasterCard, Visa, and Discover branded cards. With nearly 30
years of experience in sales, marketing and customer relations, Williams
brings a wealth of knowledge to his leadership role.
Since
being named President, Williams has propelled eCommLink to be one of the
top providers of card programs to financial institutions and other
entities for programs such as payroll, general spend, and traditional gift
cards.
Prior
to joining eCommLink, Williams was Senior Vice President for Tier
Technologies, responsible for all Strategic Programs. In this role, he led
the creation and ongoing utilization of the prepaid Visa debit card
program to migrate payments currently paid via paper check to a Visa
prepaid debit card program. Included in this were all of Tier’s state
programs for which child support, unemployment, and pension payment is
made monthly to millions of people.
Williams
was also Senior Vice President, Relationship Management for National
Processing Company (NPC), as well as the Senior Vice President of
Marketing for Stored Value Systems (SVS), where he is credited with the
development of numerous closed loop gift card programs for retailers such
as Kmart, Kroger, Exxon, Mobil, and many more. At his departure in
2000, he had generated almost one billion cards per year. During this
tenure there, he was selected as the Card Management Magazine's
“Debit Executive of the Year” for his innovative work and development
of gift cards.
Williams
has a Bachelors degree in Marketing from Southwest Texas State University.
Updated
as of November 16, 2007
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