Work with payments executives to design & launch mobile, prepaid & other alternative payment products & develop emerging payment markets
ABOUT ME
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C-level executive with extensive payments and financial services experience who thrives on the challenges of a new markets, technologies, products and businesses.
• Successful P&L; and M&A; experience. Have led due diligence and post merger and acquisition management teams for over a dozen mergers and acquisitions in financial services.
• Led over twenty infrastructure improvement projects for financial services companies with a focus on call centers and transaction processing operations and technology platforms.
• Experience with new products and technologies that are changing an industry.
• Ability to build teams and identify industry partners to work with to advance the business from plan to profitable operations.
• Strong analytic skills that enable my teams to quickly identify weaknesses in a business strategy or business plan execution and make the necessary adjustments to tactics or resources.
• Outstanding communication skills with board members, investors and C-level executives as well as peers and team members.
Specialties
Mobile payments, remittances, person to person payments, credit cards, debit cards, prepaid debit cards, merchant acquiring, interchange, loyalty programs, reward programs, transaction processing, micro-lending, alternative payments, near field communication. M&A; and turnarounds, pre-transaction due diligence, post-merger management. Call centers, Securitization, risk management strategies, scoring models, collections.Product and market development, brand reputation, online reputation, credit scoring/modeling,
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Harvard University
MBA from 1980 - 1982
Harvard University National Fellow.
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Harvard University
BA - Economics from 1975 - 1978
Harvard College National Scholar. Boydon Scholar. Earned degree in three years.
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Bialek Group
CEO from 2006 - 2010
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Global Card Solutions
CEO from 2002 - 2006
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Kemper
CEO - Nekema from 1998 - 2002
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Visa
SVP from 1994 - 1998
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Ameritech
GM from 1991 - 1994
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Ameritech
GM from 1991 - 1994
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GE
from 1988 - 1991
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Neiman-Marcus
Director from 1982 - 1988
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