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          Swych expands with GCI                                                    recently, McClure was responsible
                                                                                    for one of Visa's largest accounts in
          Plano, Texas-based gifting network Swych Inc. acquired Mumbai, India-     Europe, helping customers sign-off
          based Gift Cards India. Swych noted that GCI offers a wide selection of gift   on Visa Claims Resolution to con-
          products from over 250 of India's top brands. Deepak Jain, Swych founder   solidate the claims process.
          and CEO, added, "By integrating GCI's presence and expertise with the pow-
          erful Swych platform, we aim to greatly accelerate our mission of becoming   Sound Payments taps industry
          a truly global digital gifting powerhouse."                               veteran Nichols

        APPOINTMENTS                                                                Jacksonville, Fla.-based Sound
                                                                                    Payments  Inc. appointed  Bill
                                                                                    Nichols as Senior Vice President
          TSG welcomes Clark                                                        of Sales and Technology, where he
                                                                                    will guide sales team and strategy
          Bill  Clark  joined  The  Strawhecker Group as a  Senior Associate. Clark has   development for Sound Payment's
          more than 30 years' experience in the payments industry, and as a consultant   Seamless Commerce solutions. Well
          at the firm he will offer expertise in payment facilitation, integrated software   versed  in  U.S.  and  international
          verticals, issuing and mobile. Prior to TSG, Clark developed and operated a   markets,  Nichols  most  recently
          full-service payment service provider solution at Spindle Inc., which became   served as President and CEO for
          the first cloud-based platform to receive PCI Level 1 Service Provider certi-  AnywhereCommerce  Inc.  Previous
          fication.
                                                                                    to that he led global expansion and
          Chargebacks911 hires McClure                                              new product initiatives for First
                                                                                    Data Corp. and Verifone.
          The Chargeback Company, known as Chargebacks911 in the United States,
          hired chargeback expert Craig McClure as Director, Relationship Management   Rodgers joins PriceSpider
          to manage the firm's European merchant and banking customers. Most
                                                                                    PriceSpider,  a  provider  of  retail
                                                                                    technology  solutions  for  brand
                                                                                    manufacturers and retailers, hired
                                                                                    Kevin Rodgers as its new Director
                                                                                    of Sales. He will be responsible for
                                                                                    driving the overall growth strat-
                                                                                    egy for new and existing custom-
                                                                                    ers while building upon the com-
                                                                                    pany's existing foundation to create
                                                                                    an industry-leading client service
                                                                                    team. In his prior role, Rodgers
                                                                                    helped Google Inc. build and scale
                                                                                    sales and operations teams across
                                                                                    digital media and e-commerce.
                                                                                    PDCflow promotes Thomas

                                                                                    PDCflow  team  member  Matt
                                                                                    Thomas stepped into a new role. A
                                                                                    customer success administrator for
                                                                                    PDC flow since 2016, he is now a
                                                                                    member of the company's Product
                                                                                    Management team. Thomas' time
                                                                                    working in customer success will
                                                                                    bring a wealth of experience to
                                                                                    the Product Management team,
                                                                                    PDCflow stated, adding that he will
                                                                                    add new perspective and insight to
                                                                                    PDCflow's strategic product man-
                                                                                    agement process. He will also con-
                                                                                    tribute to the design, planning, and
                                                                                    creation of products devised to sim-
                                                                                    plify the payment process, the firm
                                                                                    noted.

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