John J. Leehy III – President & Chief Executive Officer. Prior to serving as the CEO of Confluent Technologies, John was a Founder and Managing Director of Resource Alliance Partners (RAP), an early stage venture firm focused on building shareholder value for e-commerce and high-growth technology companies. Prior to RAP, John served as Chairman & CEO of Financial Alliance Processing Services, one of the nation’s fastest growing transaction processing companies. From its inception in late 1991, he guided Financial Alliance through its sale in 1995 to Deluxe Corporation, a Fortune 200 company. Two years later, John and his management team repurchased the company in a leveraged buyout, which ultimately resulted in a successful sale to National Processing Company, a publicly traded (NYSE) computer services company. Following the sale, John served as EVP/CEO of NPC’s combined transaction processing group. Before Financial Alliance, he was Executive Vice President of Peachtree Bankcard Corporation, responsible for data services and financial transactions. Throughout the 1980’s, John directed First Data Resources’ Merchant Processing and Security Services companies through record growth and profitability. John has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Nebraska.

Greg Sahrmann – Chief Operating Officer. Prior to serving as the CFO of Confluent Technologies, Greg was a Founder and Managing Director of Resource Alliance Partners (RAP), an early stage venture firm specializing in e-commerce and high-growth investments. Prior to RAP, he was a founder and COO/CFO of Financial Alliance Processing Services (FAPS), a 1991 start-up company that grew to $100M revenue by 1998. After sale of the company to National Processing Company, Greg spent 15 months as SVP/COO and then EVP/CEO, where he successfully integrated operations and cultures, and forged the continuing growth strategy that is still in effect today. Prior to starting FAPS, he was SVP/Managing Officer of the Payment Services group for Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo) where he directed five years of record growth and profitability. Previous experience includes Regional Manager for MoneyMaker EFT Services, where he marketed one of the first integrated credit and debit card processing systems, Marketing Executive for CompuServe’s packet networks services and Corporate Planning Analyst for a wholly owned subsidiary of United Telecom. He has B.S. in Civil Engineering and an MBA from the University of Missouri.

Bill Blakey – Chief Marketing Officer. Bill has over 19 years of industry experience. Prior to founding EDR, Mr. Blakey held the position as Executive Vice President of NPC / Financial Alliance. Mr. Blakey also held the position of Chief Financial Officer of NaBanco, at the time the largest merchant processor, where he coordinated the acquisition of numerous merchant portfolios.

David Kozal – Senior Vice President & CFO. Prior to joining the Payment Alliance International team, David spent 22 years with First Data Corporation in Omaha, Nebraska. Starting out as a Manager of Financial Planning at FDC, David quickly demonstrated his financial expertise and rose through the company holding various positions within the Finance Department eventually becoming Senior Vice President of Finance and finally Chief Financial Officer for First Data Resources. During his tenure with the Company, David played instrumental roles in the pre and post merger acquisitions, managed the revenue forecasting and planning activities for the product and client segments. As CFO he successfully led the company in achieving the Company?s profit targets. David holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nebraska Lincoln and was a member of the Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity at UNL

Conrad De Lone Wilson – Senior Vice President, ATM Services Group. Mr. Wilson worked with NetBank Payment Systems (formerly Financial Technologies) since it's inception in 1995 and played an instrumental role in shaping the company and its success. During his tenure, Mr. Wilson directed the company's sales efforts, distribution programs and operations efforts. He served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing prior to taking over as President of the Company in April 2006. Before joining the Company in 1995, Mr. Wilson worked in non-profit fund raising with ALSAC-St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee for four years, and previous to that worked in insurance sales with Northwestern Mutual and Farmers insurance. Mr. Wilson holds a BBA from Mississippi State University and an MBA from Memphis State University.

David Ulrichs - Vice President Finance, ATM Services Group. Previously, Dave was the Vice President of Business Development and CFO of ATM Express, Inc. Prior to joining ATM Express in early 2003, he served for 2 years as a senior audit manager with KPMG LLP and 7 years with Deloitte & Touche LLP. Dave was selected to participate in Deloitte’s Management Development Program in Connecticut where he provided accounting research and SEC filing review services for some of Deloitte’s largest clients such as Dow Chemicals, Washington Mutual, Albertsons and General Motors. He also served to develop Deloitte’s official position on various accounting and SEC issues and was the firm’s representative on the AICPA xBRL Project where he wrote the original U.S. GAAP taxonomy. Dave holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and a master’s degree of accountancy, both from the University of Montana.

Steve Demaree – Senior Vice President, ATM Services Group. Steve was the CEO of PTS and began his career in the credit card industry in 1978. He has worked in the credit card divisions of such major financial institutions as Michigan National Bank, Lincoln National Bank and First Tennessee Bank, and his responsibilities have included administration, product development, sales management and data processing. In addition, he has advised both Visa and MasterCard while serving on various committees, including their respective Acquiring and Service Quality Committees and has been a member of the board of the Electronic Transactions Association. Most recently, Mr. Demaree served as Senior Vice President and Manager of the Indirect Sales and National Trade Organization programs at First Tennessee Bank.

Donald Apgar - Senior Vice President, National Sales. Don has over 25 years of experience in the financial services and electronic transaction processing industries. In addition to leading sales teams in both regional and national markets for industry leaders First Data, Citigroup, and Bank of America, Don has also held senior management and advisory roles with several start-up ventures. Don also has broad experience in compliance, operations, marketing, and product development, including merchant transaction processing, private label retail credit programs, e-commerce transaction systems, and commercial card programs. While at Citigroup Don successfully developed a strategic plan and product set aimed at business-to-business purchasing and payables automation within large corporations as an efficient alternative to the EDI standard. Don is a cum laude graduate of C.W. Post College of Long Island University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and Management.

Donna Embry – Senior Vice President. Donna was recently EVP of International Card Establishment/Neos Merchant Solutions and oversaw the development of operational procedures and new product development. She has more than 39 years experience in the payments industry. Donna additionally served as the interim Director of Education for the Electronic Transactions Association, where she was instrumental in developing the curriculum for the ETA University General College introduction classes. She authored the first ETA publication, The Encyclopedia of Terminology for the Acquiring Industry. She still serves as the instructor for the Introduction classes and is involved in the development of future classes in the other colleges of ETAU. Her prior executive positions include COO of TenderCorp, LLC; Senior Vice President of Product and Marketing for PaySys International; Executive Vice President of Product and Marketing for Vital Processing; Senior Vice President of Business Development for Financial Alliance, and Senior Vice President of Electronic Banking for PNC Bank as well as serving as Chief Operations Officer for PNC’s former division, CFC Financial Services. In addition, she has served on the Board of Directors and as Chairman for the former KY based Quest ATM network. She has also served on Boards for Bridgehaven, a United Way organization and Ascension school, in Louisville, KY. In October, 2005, she was selected as the Greensheet’s profiled industry leader. Donna has served on various Visa and MasterCard advisory and ad hoc committees and is a frequent speaker at many industry related conferences.

Bert Bailey – Executive Vice President, Bank Services Group. Bert began his career in the bankcard industry in 1996, working with Lynk Merchant Services and National Processing Company. Prior to entering the bankcard industry, Bert spent 27 years in the retail sector, managing retail and department stores before starting his own retail business and advertising agency in 1984. He joined PTS in 1999 and built their first regional sales team. As a Senior Vice President, he developed a successful sales team, many of which have been with the company since 2000. He also secured the relationships of many national retail chains, banks and credit unions and partnered with others at PTS to develop one of the nation’s most respected banking services companies.

Scott McFarland – Senior Vice President of Sales Training and Development. Prior to joining PAI, Scott was Executive Vice President for Event Marketing International (EMI), a large global business-to-business sales company. Scott began his career in the bankcard industry 9 years ago while managing a program with Cardservice International and later First Horizon Merchant Services. Under Scott’s tenure the business produced more than 40,000 new merchant accounts annually through door-to-door sales. Prior to bankcard, Mr. McFarland worked in the consumer credit arena. In this capacity, he oversaw a sales organization that acquired more than 12 million consumer applications annually around the globe.

Michael W. Hammer – Director of Information Technology. Mr. Hammer has experience in all facets of Information Technology. Having started his career as a developer, he has served in roles ranging from system architect to help desk support engineer. He served as Director of Software Development for Financial Alliance Processing Services of Louisville, KY, a leading provider of processing services to the credit and debit card industries, which was later acquired by National Processing Corporation. Michael has directed e-commerce projects that employ multi-merchant shopping carts, highly specialized web development, site personalization via Microsoft’s LDAP implementation of the ISO x.500 directory standard, and secure variable transaction flow to fulfillment partners. Mr. Hammer has a unique business analysis background, having worked in such diverse environments as small, privately held firms, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and Internet start-ups; and for a myriad of industries including legal, financial, technology, e-commerce and construction/development. He has also served as a Database Administrator (DBA) for Microsoft SQL Server on several occasions, and marries this database expertise with his development experience and varied business background to architect complete customer solutions.