
Management

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Joseph P. Meyer, Chairman and Founder
Mr. Meyer has more than 20 years of successful leadership and management experience in both large companies and start-up endeavors and successfully founded the first payroll debit card company in 1997. Mr. Meyer also founded another ACH payment processing company which processed over 1.5 million transactions per month and processed over $2.3 billion in 2006. He was the founder of Skylight, a successful debit card company, the former President of BellSouth Products, a $200 million subsidiary of BellSouth Telecommunications, and a Major in the US Army. Mr. Meyer has a BBA in Accounting from Iowa State University and served over 4 years in the active duty Army as an Armor Officer. |
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Cherie M. Fuzzell, President and CEO
Cherie Fuzzell has served as President and CEO of FirstView since May, 2008. Prior to joining FirstView, Ms. Fuzzell served for 6 1/2 years with NOVA Information Systems, Inc., most recently as Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel with global responsibility for the legal, human resources, facilities and training functions. After the sale of publicly-traded NOVA Corporation (NYSE:NIS) to USBancorp (NYSE:USB) in July 2001, Ms. Fuzzell also served as an Executive Vice President of U.S. Bank, reporting to the Vice Chairman presiding over all electronic transaction processing services. Cherie is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and has attended, and served as a panelist for, the Directors' College sponsored by the Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia. She is also a Member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Compensation Committee of Sonic Innovations, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNCI). Cherie has been profiled in the Fulton County Daily Report, Business to Business Magazine and Atlanta Woman Magazine. Before joining NOVA, Ms. Fuzzell served for 4 years with Magellan Health Services, initially as Assistant General Counsel and later as Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions. Prior to her employment with Magellan, Ms. Fuzzell was a Senior Associate with the international law firm Jones Day, with a practice focused on mergers & acquisitions. Ms. Fuzzell is a 1984 honors graduate of the University of Alabama (B.S. in Commerce and Business Administration, major in Accounting) and a 1987 graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Law. While at Vanderbilt, she served as Associate Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. She is a member of the Bar Associations of the States of Texas, Ohio and Georgia and the Beta Gamma Sigma and Beta Alpha Psi Honor Societies. |
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Mark D. Wingate, Chief Operating Officer, Card Division
Mr. Wingate is a veteran payments services executive spanning four decades. His responsibilities with FirstView Financial include overseeing sales, marketing, technology and operations/implementations. He also is key in strategic planning and new product initiatives aimed at long term growth. Mr. Wingate has vast background starting in credit card banking with the former FNB Atlanta, Visa USA, Inc., FBS Software, Equifax and Certegy. He has served as an industry consultant and has spoken at numerous industry events and acted on many advisory councils within the industry. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Georgia State University. |
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| Erik J. Toivonen, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Architecture
Erik brings twenty-eight years of progressive leadership experience in all aspects of Information Technology in both large and medium-sized companies. He has extensive experience in high-volume, high-availability electronic transaction processing environments both domestically and internationally along with significant experience in strategy and business development and a thorough understanding of banking and payment systems. Erik most recently served as Managing Director/CIO for Barclaycard US (Juniper Financial), the fastest growing card issuer in the marketplace. His prior experience includes CIO/Executive Vice President for NOVA Information Systems (transaction/payment processing subsidiary of US Bancorp), Sr. Vice President of Payment Systems for US Bancorp, and 13 years at Citibank in various leadership capacities within the European and North American Card Group. |
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| Harry Palles, Executive Vice President of eBilling Solutions
Mr. Palles is a seasoned business professional with over 23 years of sales, sales management, channel sales and product management experience in the financial services industry including 13 years specifically in the EIPP and EBPP space. He has held positions in various large and small organizations including IBM Global Services, CIGNA, Unisys, Bank of America, Derivion, and most recently Harbor Payments, an American Express company. In his role at Harbor Payments, he managed the direct and channel sales of B2B and B2C eReceivables solutions for the company and was responsible for driving a year-to-year sales increase of 700%. He was awarded the American Express Ambassador's Award for exceptional performance in 2007. Since joining First View in 2008, he has been instrumental in delivering a growth rate of 8000% in 2009 and over 450% through first quarter of 2010 in FirstPoynt revenue and transaction volume. Mr. Palles earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and a Master of Business Administration degree from Louisiana State University. |
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| Nancy Torres, Senior Vice President, Operations
Nancy Torres brings two decades of operational experience to FirstView’s management team. She joined the Company in October 2008, after spending 3 years at The Home Depot with responsibility for international payables, debit balance recoveries, freight payables, and purchase journal balancing. Previously, Nancy spent 9 years at First Data Corporation as Director of Finance, responsible for contract administration, billing and collections. She also brings relevant banking experience from Wachovia Corporation in the areas of lockbox processing, float management and systems management. She has a BBA from Georgia Southern University and an MBA in Business Information Systems from Kennesaw State University. |
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| Rakesh “Rocky” Gupta, Vice President, Systems and Technology
Mr. Gupta is responsible for all Systems & Technology initiatives at FirstView. He brings over 10 years of experience in the Payments Industry. Prior to FirstView, Rocky oversaw technology, process, and resource infrastructures for Elavon (formerly NOVA Information Systems). As SVP Global Enterprise IT Management & Support, he managed Release, Configuration, Change, and Problem Management in the US and Europe. Additionally he managed the successful integration of multiple portfolio acquisitions
in US and Europe and established a highly effective Global Service Desk for unified
customer support on both continents. He led the development and implementation of Global
Systems Management Facility (SMF) that followed the industry leading ITIL methodology. Rocky was formerly a Project Leader at Compass Management and Leasing, and received his BBA in Decision Science/Computer Science at Georgia State University. |
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| Rob Fantaski, VP of Product Management
Mr. Fantaski directs all product development and management functions for FirstPoynt Payments. His background includes more than two decades as a senior IT consultant with experience in all phases of development life cycle in EDI and banking industries. Prior to FirstView, Mr. Fantaski was a senior sales engineer for American Express, focusing on electronic bill/invoice presentment and payment. He has also held significant roles in Systems Knowledge Inc, Chase, CitiBank, Global Payments, Federal Reserve Bank and Unisys. Mr. Fantaski received his BS in Computer Science from the University of South Alabama and his MBA from Mercer University. |
