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VARStreet selects Mercury Fexco acquires FLASHiZ Overton joins First Data
VARStreet Inc., an integrated sales Global financial services group First Data Corp. appointed Marc
quoting and e-commerce software Fexco, in partnership with Overton as co-General Manager
provider for the IT and office prod- BNP Paribas Personal Finance, of Europe, Middle East and Africa
ucts channels, entered an agreement acquired FLASHiZ, a mobile pay- and Head of the region's Retail
with Mercury Payment Solutions ment and loyalty startup based in Payments Solutions business. He
LLC, to make Mercury's payment Luxembourg. The FLASHiZ plat- will work alongside Roger Bracken,
processing and revenue generation form utilizes quick-response code co-GM and Head of the Financial
tools available to VARStreet cus- and NFC technologies to link mul- Services business, in the region.
tomers. tiple payment methods with loyalty Overton joins First Data from
and coupon programs. Everything Everywhere Ltd., where
ACQUISITIONS he was Vice President of Wholesale
APPOINTMENTS and Machine 2 Machine.
Cardtronics adds GCI ATMs TMGFS appoints Sarvis
to fleet Gardner named to
Cardtronics board Jon Sarvis is the new CEO of TMG
Cardtronics USA Inc., a wholly Financial Services. Sarvis has been
owned subsidiary of Cardtronics Julie Gardner, former Chief with TMGFS since its inception and
Inc., acquired the ATM business Marketing Officer of Kohl’s has served as Chief Financial Officer
assets of CGI Inc. (CGI Direct ATM), Department Stores, recently joined for the past six years. Sarvis stated
adding approximately 1,000 mer- the Cardtronics Board of Directors the long-term vision for TMGFS
chant-owned ATMs to its nation- of retail ATM owner Cardtronics. will continue to focus on providing
wide fleet. Cardtronics reported it Gardner's career is headlined by innovative, cost effective payment
now supports 64,300 retail ATMs more than 25 years of marketing solutions for its partners and card-
within the United States. experience in the retail industry. members.
TNS recruits Shipley
Payments industry specialist Lisa
Shipley joined Transaction Network
Services as Head of Global Strategy
for its Payments Division. In the
newly created role, Shipley will
be responsible for setting the stra-
tegic direction for the division.
Previously, Shipley was Senior Vice
President of Enterprise Accounts at
First Data.
Green Dot picks Wang
Green Dot Corp. named Grace
Wang as its Chief Financial
Officer. She joined Green Dot from
JPMorgan Chase & Co., where she
was Managing Director and Chief
Financial Officer of Investor Services
Sales for Europe, Middle East and
Africa. Directly prior, Wang held a
number of senior finance and lead-
ership roles at JPMorgan Chase,
including EMEA CFO and Head of
International Strategy and Business
Development of the Treasury
and Securities Services division.
Previously, Wang worked for Booz
& Co. and A.T. Kearney.
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