Leading Experts in Credit Card Experts

Rich Bialek is the Chief Executive Officer of BialekGroup, a corporate development boutique that serves as a trusted advisor to C-level executives and investors in financial services. He provides corporate development and strategy consulting services, partnership, market and product development, and...

Megan Bramlette is a Managing Associate at Auriemma Consulting Group, a consulting firm specializing in the credit, debit, and private label card markets. Ms. Bramlette is based in ACG's London office, where she leads the firm's global research efforts. She is also the Managing Editor of Cardbeat®,...

Tom Dailey is the Founder of Tom Dailey Consulting. He is a former management committee executive at Discover and senior vice president, head of Discover's merchant network and Discover's bankcard business, which included Mastercard and Visa processing. Following 22 years at the company, he most recently...

Ed Falco is currently a Managing Associate with Auriemma Consulting Group. Mr. Falco has extensive experience in the card industry and has experience ranging from complex product configuration problems to TSYS and FDR platform support to portfolio migration between banks to traditional operations problems....

Jeff Feldman is the Vice President and World-wide Product Manager at 4Access Communications, a POS terminal manufacturer. He has over 17 years of experience in the payments industry; in all facets of payment processing including POS hardware and software, integrated solutions, back office processing...

Eric Fox, PhD, is currently the VP of Product Development at Transactis, a security and bill pay & presentment company. Mr. Fox leads Transactis' new business development efforts in financial services and telecommunications. From 1999 until 2006, Mr. Fox was with Capital One Financial Corporation,...

Barbara Fraser was Senior Vice President, Global Brand Strategy for American Express; she was one of the company's top 50 executives until her retirement in August 2006. During her five years at American Express, Ms. Fraser also served as Executive Vice President, Products and Chief Marketing Officer...

Anunay Gupta is COO of Marketelligent, a Bangalore-based company that has the singular mission of enabling its Clients to make the most of their information...

Steven Jacowitz is a Director at Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG), a consultancy specializing in the credit, debit, and private label card markets. Mr. Jacowitz has substantial expertise in the consumer credit business, including operations, collections, finance, strategy, and marketing. Prior to joining...

Kenneth J. Kral has been the Senior Vice President of Business Development at US Bank Voyager Fleet Systems since 1998. Prior to his tenure at US Bank, Mr. Kral was a Vice President and National Sales Manager at GMAC Mortgage Corporation where he increased the closed loan volume by 59% and total profits...

Kevin Kramer is a Principal at K2 Consulting. He is also a President at West End Financial Advisors. He was previously a Senior Executive Vice-President at MBNA America until April 2005, where he was responsible for Database Marketing, Merchant Services, and Recurring Payments Initiatives. Dr. Kramer's...

Norman Litell was most recently a Vice President of Strategic Planning at Visa USA (leaving December 2003) where he provided strategic planning, risk management and product/project management support for business and government payment system activities. In this role at Visa, Mr. Litell was responsible...

Duncan MacDonald is an Independent Consultant. Mr. MacDonald is currently a consultant to financial institutions, corporations, and think tanks on payments, privacy and data protection, alternate dispute resolution, bankruptcy, class action reform, antitrust, joint venture, plain language and constitutional...

Neil Montilla is an independent consultant supporting primarely off shore financial institutions in strengthening their payment systems strategies, risk management and internal controls. He has provided consulting services to several banks in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Europe as well as discussing...

Daniel Paul is an independent Consultant in the UK Retail and Financial Services markets and has completed assignments with a number of leading UK retailers and financial institutions. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Strategic Development Manager at Argos Retail Group, a UK retailer in general merchandise...

Matt Simester is a Director at Auriemma Consulting Group, a UK based firm providing comprehensive management consulting to the financial services industry with a particular focus on payments, lending and retail banking. Previously, from 2005 till 2007, he was the Head of Value Added Services at Barclaycard...