Leading Experts in Stored Value Credit Product Experts

Marianne Berry is a Managing Associate at Auriemma Consulting (ACG). ACG specializes in the credit, debit, and private label card markets. Ms. Berry has done research, marketing, and new product development at Fortune 100 companies, including HBO, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Chase Manhattan, and Verizon....

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...

Shawn Burgess, CISSP, is the Vice President & Chief Information Officer for Abrazo Health System. He has over 16 years of experience in managing technology progression, system implementation, support management, security program administration, and client services operations. Mr. Burgess is knowledgeable...

Pablo Castano is an independent consultant specialized in the Money Transfer, bill Payments and Money Service Business products industry. During 2008, Mr. Castano served as Director of Marketing at Sigue Corp., the largest privately owned MT Company focused on the US-Mexico corridor. Also he served...

David Cole is Executive Director of Transactions, a premier provider of transaction and payment solutions and services. He has over twenty five years experience in cards and management services with particular emphasis on applications in the credit, debit, and payment card industry. Over the last ten...

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...

Jack DeAlmo is President of West Bay Consulting, a firm focused on the retail, CPG, packaging and RFID industries. Prior he was the Vice President of Inventory Management and Merchandise Operations at CVS Corporation, from 2001 to 2005, where he established CVS as a leader in RFID development and use....

Larry Doan was a Store Manager at Lowe's, where he worked from 2001 to 2006. Previously, he was a Store Manager at The Home Depot from 1996 to 2001...

John Douglas is a Partner and the Chair of the Global Bank Regulatory Practice at Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker in Georgia. He concentrates his practice in the regulation of financial institutions, in mergers and acquisitions and other transactions involving banks and thrifts, and in advising officers,...

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...

Stephen Fugale is the Chief Information Officer at Villanova University In The State of Pennsylvania, an academic institution. He is experienced in the information technology sector. He specializes in the development and implementation of web based, custom and vendor based solutions. He is knowledgeable...

Robert Gilstrap is the President at Peachnet Communications, Inc., a wireless retailer and reseller. Peachnet represents Cingular Wireless, Nextel, T-Mobile, Sprint PCS, DirecTV, Dish Network, Direct-Way, StarBand Sirius Satellite Radio. They also represent smaller companies in the prepaid cellular...

Ira Horowitz is the President at I-Wireless Inc., a company providing cellular wholesale distribution and liquidation he is also COO of a firm that specializes in importing the latest GSM phones (appx 2500/month) for distribution to tier 3 carriers. He has over seven years of experience in product distribution,...

Ron Ingram is the Director of Product Management at Advance America, a cash lending firm with over 2600 retail financial locations in America. From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Ingram presided over one of the most prolific product development programs in the financial services industry at National Money Mart. Mr....

Howard Jackson is President of HSA Consulting Inc, the world's premier warehouse club, discount & food retail consulting firm, since 1993. He is the leading expert on the Mexican retail market. HSA provides retail strategy, productivity/cost improvement, marketing, licensing & acquisition services....

Gregg Kail was a reseller manager at AT&T, a long distance and data communications providers. He started with AT&T in the equipment unit that became Lucent and Avaya. He has worked for Pacific Bell SBC before moving to Cingular/AT&T for four and a half years. He is experienced in equipment, data and...

Scott Kimsey is a Senior Partner at PayEx, a payments consulting firm which works with banks, ISO's, processors, card associations, investment firms and merchants to evaluate current situations, develop markets and strategy, and implement solutions. He assists clients in the areas of strategy, Mergers...

Ed Lawrence is Managing Associate at Auriemma Consulting Group. He joined Auriemma in 2004 and brings over 25 years of experience in all aspects of the credit and debit card arena with previous experience in both a banking and consulting capacity. Previously, Mr. Lawrence was Senior Vice President...