Study Group: Credit Card Industry Experts(?)

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,...

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...

Emilian Elefteratos is currently the Vice President, Americas for SCM Microsystems. The company develops markets and sells the industry’s broadest range of smart card readers for secure PC, network, physical access and digital media readers. Emilian is the former General Manager and Vice President,...

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...

Clay Wagner is President and Founder of Merchant Union LLC, a private ISO serving credit, debit and gift card processing solutions to merchants nationwide. Mr. Wagner is responsible for overseeing all departments of this corporation including inside and outside sales, direct marketing, customer service,...

Benjamin Prusky is the Chief Executive Officer of Freedom Merchants, a New York-based privately-held payment processing firm, where he is working since 2004. He knowledgable about credit card merchant account industry. Mr. Prusky is involved in re-selling all major POS products such as Verifone, Hypercom,...

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...

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...