ETA Announces 2014 Board and Committee Leadership

Expanding Membership Confirms ETA as Hub of Activity for Payments Technology 

WASHINGTON, DC ─ The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), the trade association of the global payments industry, announced today the election of four new members to its Board of Directors. ETA also announced appointments to the Presidential Advisory Council, and named more than 200 payments professionals to 15 standing committees for 2014.

“Our new board and committee leadership reflects ETA’s broadened membership of more than 500 of the world’s largest payments and technology companies as ETA strengthens its policy, education and networking activities on behalf of our members,” said Jason Oxman, CEO of ETA. “Our energized volunteer leaders bring new ideas to ETA while fostering business connections and confirming ETA’s role as the place to get business done in 2014.”

“I am thrilled to welcome these top industry executives to ETA’s Board at a time of incredible growth in our industry,” said Kim Fitzsimmons, who will continue to serve as ETA’s Board Chairman and President in 2014.  “From payments processors and card networks to acquiring banks and mobile network operators to technology companies and ISOs, ETA is the only trade association representing the entire payment processing ecosystem.  Unprecedented innovation and change in our industry make ETA more important than ever.”

Four directors were elected to a two-year term on the board:

–       First Term Board Member Donald Boeding, President, Merchant Services, Vantiv

–       First Term Board Member Daniel Charron, President, Chase Paymentech

–       Second Term Board Member Chuck Harris, President, NetSpend, a TSYS Company

–       First Term Board Member Brian Mooney, CEO, Bank of America Merchant Services

The 2014 ETA board of director officers includes:

–       Board President Kim Fitzsimmons, Board Member, Vice Chairman, Cynergy Data

–       Board President-Elect Debra Rossi, Executive Vice President, Wells Fargo & Company

–       Board Treasurer Greg Cohen, Chief Revenue & Strategy Officer, Merchant Warehouse, LLC

–       Board Secretary Jeff Rosenblatt,  President, EVO Payments International

–       Board Past President Eddie Myers, President and COO, PayPros

Fitzsimmons announced new appointments to the Presidential  Advisory Council, which has a non-voting seat on the ETA Board:

–       Eric Dunn, SVP, Payments & Commerce Solutions, Intuit

–       Colson Hillier, VP, Precision Marketing, Verizon Wireless

–       Joe Kaplan, CEO, Total Merchant Services

–       OB Rawls IV, SVP and General Manager National Merchants and ISOs, First Data

–       Stacy Smith, ETA CPP, SVP, Director of Operations, Capitol One Merchant Services

Additionally, ETA named more than 200 payments professionals to serve as leaders and advisers on
ETA’s 2014 standing committees. For a complete list of ETA committees and volunteer leaders, visit https://electran.org/content/view/862/536/.

For media inquiries, contact Meghan Cieslak, 202.677.7406 or [email protected].

About ETA

As the only organization leading and representing the payments technology industry, ETA offers cutting edge news and information, facilitates business connections and growth, provides a standard of industry certification, and advocates on issues critical to their members’ success. ETA’s more than 500 members represent over $4 trillion in payments processed in the U.S. each year.