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        Company profile, please                                                    In Memoriam
        H          ow much do you charge for those one-page company profiles you   We were sorry to learn that pay-
                                                                                   Philip G. Garcia

                   publish? And who should people contact? I think my ISO would be
                                                                                   ments industry veteran Philip G.
                   a good candidate.
                                                                 Werner Blevins
                                                                                   following a brief illness. Born April
                                                     Merchant Level Salesperson    Garcia passed away Feb. 28, 2018,
                                                                                   13, 1955, Garcia was a skilled tech-
        Company profiles are part of our regular editorial coverage, so they are published   nical analyst at Intel Corp. He had
        free of charge. For details, contact Laura McHale Holland, our Assistant Vice   previously worked for more than 16
        President, Editorial, at laura@greensheet.com.                             years at Hypercom Corp. and made
                                                                                   many friends in the payments com-
                                                                                   munity during his tenure there. Tom
                                                                                   Salamone, owner of Wellington Weir
                                                                                   Human Resource Solutions, was the
            Maybe  we need  to rethink  this race to the bottom...                 Senior Vice President of Human Re-
                                                                                   sources at Hypercom when he met
                                                                                   Garcia. He remembers a man who
                                                                                   had a smile and kind word for ev-
                                                                                   eryone he met.

                                                                                   "He was instantly likable and a per-
                                                                                   son you remembered for all the right
                                                                                   reasons," Salamone said. "Phil liked
                                                                                   people; it was obvious in his manner;
                                                                                   there was no pretense, no posturing.
                                                                                   He was genuine in every way, a truly
                                                                                   rare quality. Anytime you met him,
                                                                                   he was upbeat and positive; he al-
                                                                                   ways seemed happy to see you. His
                                                                                   passing comes with both a sense of
                                                                                   shock and a sense of loss."

                                                                                   A rosary and memorial mass took
                                                                                   place in Garcia's honor on March
           Tired of being promised the kitchen sink to find yourself circling the drain?  13 at St. Joseph on the Rio Grande
                                                                                   Church in Albuquerque, N.M., fol-
          Let’s be realistic.  We’re tired of seeing others’ impossible promises,   lowed by his burial at Sunset Memo-
          because in the end, we know it’s all hype.                               rial Park, also in Albuquerque.

              We don’t do wake up calls, but we’ll throw in some business cards!
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