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Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Develop partnerships with organizations that need a voice to navigate and understand the complex Fintech space around payments.- Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestures in public and private equity scenarios.- Work with companies to evaluate M&A opportunities through due diligence, contract review, and reputational risk along with strategic planning.- Data mining with ACH data and card issuing data to secure additional products/services while increasing retention of bank customers. - Commercial Banks, Agent Banks, & Correspondent Bank merchant acquiring/electronic payment programs through in-house or 3rd party relationships.- Sales training/development, strategic planning, 3rd party contract review/negotiation, compensation plans, along with specialized recruiting/placement. - Motivational Speaker to high school, college and Industry Conferences.- Company Representative for litigation, deposition and pre-trial work.

Miami, Florida, Us

Startup - unique prepaid card that provides privacy to consumer and reduction of friendly fraud/chargebacks to the merchant.Unfortunately the organization was never able to successful launch their products in the US and ultimately closed their doors and let go of all their employees.

Montréal, Québec, Ca

- Responsible for ISV and PayFac groups - $9.6M Revenue- Collaboration with Operations, Risk and Product to develop/deliver go to market solutions. - Executive Credit Committee - Member

Montréal, Québec, Ca

- Senior Executive responsible for developing strategic partnerships with Processors, Acquirers, PSP, ISO/Agents for international processing.- Expanded existing US/Canada merchant relationships to Europe, Australia and New Zealand.- Delivered +900% growth of annual processed volume for international acquiring.Promoted to Executive Vice President - Integrated Payments Group

Valletta, Mt, Mt

Finaro (Formerly Credorax Bank North America, MALPB)Credorax is a global e-Commerce Payment Cards Acquirer and Processor with locations in Malta, Israel, Japan, Boston, MA and Atlanta, GA.- Developed strategic partnerships for Business Development/Enterprise Sales with Processors, Acquirers and PSP's for EU Processing. - Led growth of annual Processed Volume to $870M and $20M Revenue.- Developed product with MasterCard Labs and launched in Ireland.- MALPB - Engaged in process for Credorax to obtain US Bank License and BIN's in the state of Georgia.- Worked directly with Chairman, CEO and Private Equity Investors of Credorax.- Credorax Bank North America, MALPB Board of Director's - Director- Provided international processing services to MasterCard Labs, Paysafe, Nuvei, Vantiv, CardConnect

PayLeap is a leading, innovative, payment platform company delivering a full suite of secure payment capabilities for many different processing environments. - Executive responsible for Sales, Sales Support/Relationship Management, Marketing/Communications, Operations and Customer/Client Technical Support.- Increased Revenue from $1M to $3.5M in 17 months- Rolled out new Payment Gateway Only offering to Processors and ISO/Agents- Added ability to board merchants on TSYS along with direct network connectivity - Reduced time and expense by automating account boarding process - Built scalable solutions in Operations and Sales for rapid growth - Consolidated payroll, benefits and human resources to a single outsourcing partner while reducing overall cost and rolling out a 401(k) program. - Provided Merchant Services fulfillment to BigCommerce customers.- Successfully led the process to sell PayLeap to Acculynk in October 2012 and elected to pursue other opportunities.

Brentwood, Tn, Us

- Established Senior Leadership Team of Sales/Marketing, Sales Support/Relationship Management, Revenue/Finance, Product Development/IT and Operations/Customer Service. - Increased Revenue from $2.3M to $40M and EBIT from ($6M) to $1 before divestiture.- Converted Auth and Settle functions to TSYS resulting in reduction of internal costs operating stand alone platforms.- Strategically aligned CPS to be cross-sold with products/services such as private label, fleet, purchasing card, payroll card along with closed loop gift/loyalty cards. - Completed Ceridian Global Leadership Development Program- Successfully led the process to divest the CPS business in December 2009 to a buyer in the payments industry and elected to pursue other opportunities.

Amsterdam, Nl

- Established Senior Leadership Team of Sales/Marketing, Sales Support/Relationship Management and Operations/Customer Service.- Managed P&L with $35M Revenue and $15M EBIT along with +15% growth.- Joint Venture- reported to Board of Directors comprised of LaSalle Bank and BA Merchant Services Senior Executives; results presented to board quarterly.- Strategically aligned with LaSalle Bank core initiatives to leverage bank customers for merchant services products.- Expanded agent bank division of AAMS through utilizing data mining of ACH data and card issuing data to secure additional products and retention of bank customers.

Amsterdam, Nl

-Established the Sales relationship with NPC, ABN AMRO, LaSalle Bank, and Standard Federal Bank since this was a new Joint Venture started late 2001. -Recruited, hired and trained TEAM of District Sales Managers and Account Executives for the Midwest.-Designed and implemented a branch referral program utilizing joint calling between AAMS Sales and Bank Managers.-Re-built the Tele-Sales Center to service inbound and association que lines, and outbound calls from databases containing bank ACH Data, New Business DDA and Supplier Enablement information.-Responsible for 3 DM’s; 1 Director of Associations; 25 Account Executives.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for Outside Sales & Inside Sales Teams for both US Bank & Firstar Bank after merger of the two banks and subsequent purchase of NOVA Information Systems.

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

Bs, Accounting

Ceridian Global Leadership Development Program

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