Lawrence Buettner Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Providing volunteer business mentoring to small businesses through SCORE, the nation's largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors.

Elgin, Illinois, United States

As a board member, I co-chaired the assessment of the organization and recommendation of improvements to increase the effectiveness of its mission. My tenure on the Board has expired. I continue to support the organization through volunteer opportunities.

Greater Chicago Area

Formulated the business and technology approach for a B2B digital payments and remittance directory.- Lead the design of product requirements and award of an RFP to a strategic provider- Completed the acquisition by NACHA to insure funding for the development and deployment of the Directory- Continue my role as board chair for the new NACHA BPDA entity

Greater Chicago Area

Deluxe eChecks provides the ability to instantaneously deliver a check payment and remittance details to a B2B payee without the need of sensitive banking information.- Lead the channel sales initiative to introduce eChecks to the top 50 financial institutions

Chicago, Il

Leading financial services technology provider of remittance processing and remote deposit capture systems• Designed and developed new digital integrated receivables product line.• Lead sales calling strategy to reposition company with senior executives of top 40 U.S. banks.• Developed prototypes for cash application and “big data” analytics.• Participant in the Federal Reserve Banks Receivables Coalition to address remittance data standards.• Contributing author of treasury services articles for Bank Systems & Technology website.

Chicago, Il

Leading brokerage and commercial bank.• Developed the credit policy for cash management products for small and medium size companies.• Completed vendor analysis and led the implementation of non-credit underwriting origination systems.• Completed business and technology case analysis for the issuance of commercial credit cards.

Privately held $1.7 billion global fleet leasing and fleet management company. • Created new fleet management financial asset backed securitization capability utilizing data warehouse technology resulting in AAA rated bond offering.• Deployed first pan-European fleet management product with new transaction and reporting platforms which resulted in 100% increase in business capacity.

Greater Chicago Area

Management consulting company focused on financial services risk management, technology and business continuity issues for the top 100 US banks, exchanges, and related service providers.

Chicago, Il

Payments company that created and developed the world’s largest cash collection and e-commerce systems. • Created the business plan resulting in the contract award of a $400M fixed price contract to develop and operate the cash management collection system for U.S. Treasury that processed $1 trillion in payments annually.• Founded $85 million annual revenue payment services company, upon contract award, with complete P&L responsibility, generated 40% ROS with 600 employees. Reported to Board of Directors.• Deployed a direct national sales force. Closed on $50 million Child Support System within first twelve months. • Designed and developed the electronic tax collection system in 15-month period utilizing 250 developers. • Installed two data centers with resilient disaster recovery and three call centers. Upon completion of deployment, assumed outsource responsibility for daily operation of the systems for the IRS.• Responsible for external vendor software and services selection, vendor negotiations and the outsourcing of data centers, software development, and call centers with an annual operating budget of $40 million. • Presented to the joint venture Board and received approval of company governance, audit, human resource, marketing, sales, internal process controls and investment policies.

Chicago, Il

Largest commercial bank in the United States and a market leader in corporate cash management.• P&L manager responsible for electronic payment products and operations (Fedwire, ACH, CHIPS, SWIFT), information reporting, and customer service for the leading corporate cash management provider. Senior Vice President• CIO for cash management systems and technology including customer care and process re-engineering programs • Developed industry leading first MS Windows based treasury management workstation.Vice President• Trade Finance and Trade Services general manager with P&L responsibility with daily intra-day credit exposure in excess of $1 billion, with five processing locations and staff of 250. Transformed $10 million loss into $5 million profit by re-engineering operating processes. • Led the acquisition team which completed due-diligence, negotiation and integration of international bank payments company which increased market position to the top-10 tier.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba

Activities and Societies: Graduated cum laude.