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Merchant Warehouse expands ties with Operations. Campbell, who has 25 years' experience in
SBS the payments industry, has expertise in such areas as risk
management, fraud, credit, portfolio management and
Merchant Warehouse expanded its partnership with acquisition, analytics, and policy.
Specialized Business Solutions, with the addition of the
SBS Keystroke POS retail inventory control system inte- Most recently he was Senior Risk Consultant for The
gration with the Merchant Warehouse Genius Customer Strawhecker Group. Prior experience includes serving
Engagement Platform. According to SBS, the Keystroke in an executive capacity at WorldPay, Chase Paymentech
POS delivers an affordable, user-friendly, customizable Merchant Services, Chase Merchant Services and Barnett
retail store management system. Merchant Services.
Tranzlogic data choice for Merchants' YapStone appoints three executives
Choice
YapStone Inc., a global provider of web and mobile
Data analytics and technology firm Tranzlogic, in part- payment solutions, appointed Colleen Lindow as
nership with Merchants' Choice Payment Solutions, will Vice President, Payment Operations, and Christopher
offer ISO partners of MCP an opportunity to resell its McLaughlin-Brooks as Vice President, Technical
advanced proprietary customer intelligence technology. Operations.
The goal is to help MCP's merchant clients transform
transactional data into actionable insights, the compa- In her new role, Lindow is responsible for YapStone's
nies stated. processor, payment network and strategic client rela-
tionships. With more than 20 years of experience in
ACQUISITIONS e-commerce and risk management, focusing primarily
on international payments, she has held leadership posi-
tions at Square, PayPal Inc. and Billpoint. McLaughlin-
ACI finalizes Official Payments purchase Brooks is responsible for leading the company's global
Technology Operations and Corporate information tech-
ACI Worldwide completed acquisition of Official nology functions. He is a 20-year veteran of the technol-
Payments Holdings Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued ogy and retail services sectors and brings a strong track
at $8.35 per share. With the addition of OPI's more than record of success to YapStone.
3,000 bill payment customers in the government, educa-
tion and nonprofit sectors, ACI expects to strengthen its YapStone also appointed Tim Armandpour as Senior
position within the electronic bill payment market.
Vice President of Engineering and Technology. He brings
Blackhawk completes InteliSpend acquisi- engineering and executive management experience
tion within the payments industry to YapStone, having for-
merly led engineering teams at PayPal, Zong, SendMe
Prepaid network Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. Inc. and Yodlee Inc. He is responsible for overseeing the
completed the purchase of InteliSpend Prepaid Solutions, development and deployment of YapStone's payment
a leader in the corporate incentives and consumer pro- platform and application programming interface, as well
motions marketplace. Under the agreement, InteliSpend as bringing new mobile products to market.
will operate as a business unit of Blackhawk and remain MPX taps Sullivan
headquartered in Fenton, Mo. Terms of the all-cash
transaction were not disclosed.
MerchantPro Express hired First Data veteran Brian
EVO acquires Encore Group Sullivan as Managing Partner and Director of Sales in
Michigan. In that role, he will head MPX Michigan,
EVO Payments International LLC acquired the Encore MPX' newest and fastest-growing merchant services
Group, which comprises EVO strategic partners Encore sales hub, the company reported. For the past 15 years
Payment Systems, Prodigy Payment Systems and at First Data, Sullivan grew a client list predominantly
Momentum Payment Systems. The companies reported centered in the quick-service restaurant and in select
that the acquisition will enable EVO to leverage Encore's emerging market spheres.
proprietary processes and North American sales distri-
bution strategies to drive further expansion into global MPX noted that Sullivan has also been "consistently
markets. recognized as one of Michigan's most effective mer-
chant services bank relationship managers, specifically
APPOINTMENTS enhancing his bank partners' ability to acquire new com-
mercial accounts and retain them through value-added
merchant solutions."
Campbell signs on at Trust One
Charge Payment LLC subsidiary Trust One Payment
Services hired Michael Campbell as its Vice President of
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