Paymetric has announced that it has added Nick Sommerio, chief financial officer and Kevin Ferguson, senior vice president of business development, to the company`s executive management team. Sommerio joins from RBS WorldPay where he was chief financial officer for the past two years. Ferguson was most recently senior vice president and managing director of global field operations for SunGard Banks where he oversaw the product management and market strategy for the retail banking line of business.

Payments industry veteran John M. Perry has joined Transaction Network Services Payments division as General Manager of the Americas. Perry`s role will focus on "driving the growth of TNS' payments business by exploring new market opportunities and developing the company's global customer base."

Prior to joining TNS, Mr Perry was Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Ruesch International. He brings more than 20 years experience in the financial services and payments industries to TNS and has also spent time in executive positions at First Data, Elavon, Visa and Wells Fargo. READ MORE

Verifi, a provider of transaction risk management services for card-not-present merchants, has announced that Edward Katzin has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer. According to Verifi, "Edward is a senior executive with over 17 years of diversified experience in application development, enterprise technical architecture, infrastructure build-out, datacenter operations, and systems management. Mr. Katzin was most recently the CIO of Revolution Money, Inc. where he was responsible for managing the company’s technology infrastructure and system’s development as well as defining the technology strategy to achieve the company’s growth plan." READ MORE

Fiserv has announced that Lance Drummond will join the company as Executive Vice President leading several strategic growth initiatives and reporting to the CEO. According to the company, Lance's new role is "to accelerate the development of certain business line extensions in areas including data analytics, consulting and wealth management." READ MORE

Guardian Analytics, a provider of online account fraud prevention software for financial services institutions, has announced the appointment of Terry Austin to chief executive officer, effective immediately. Austin succeeds company founder Tom Miltonberger, who will focus on the future direction of Guardian Analytics’ products. The company also announced today that security industry veteran Irfan Salim, president and CEO of MarkMonitor, has joined the Guardian Analytics board of directors. READ MORE

ViVOtech has announced that Don Kingsborough, CEO and found of Blackhawk Network, has been named to its Board of Directors. READ MORE

First Data has named Robert P. DeRodes as its chief technology officer (CTO). DeRodes, 58, will join the company’s executive management team and report directly to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Capellas. READ MORE

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Rebecca Kalogeris has been named head of Product Marketing at eCommLink. Cathryn Kennedy has been named Controller at eCommLink.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Janey Place and Heidi Roizen have been elected to the board of directors of Online Resources.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Michael Diamond has been named Senior Vice President, Business Development, at Obopay. Previously, Diamond led business development teams in high-growth information software categories at IBM.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Jane Keller has been named Vice President - Strategy for the Electronic Payments Division at PurePay. Keller previously was with Electronic Clearing House, Inc. and the Executive Director of the National Check Network.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Tom Wills has joined Javelin Strategy & Research to focus on strategic risk management, security, fraud, and compliance advisory services. Wills has served as a director, advisory board member, or strategic consultant for NTT Data Corporation, Wells Fargo Merchant Services, PayCycle.com, Hyundai and several startup ventures in the security arena.

Phillip W. Steitz has been appointed to the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Barclaycard US, the credit card business of Barclays PLC in the United States. Mr. Steitz most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for American Express, where he oversaw global technology standards and strategy. READ MORE

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Sherri Hammons has been named vice president of engineering at Denver-based PaySimple. Previously, she was vice president of data and model performance at Abacus, a division of Epsilon Data Management.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• NetSpend has announced several senior management appointments including Frank Cotroneo as chief operating officer responsible for NetSpend's operations, finance and accounting, and business information, Anh Vazquez executive vice president responsible for NetSpend's online channel, and Tom Cregan as executive vice president and general manager, responsible for NetSpend's check cashing, payday loan, and general retail channels.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Carl D. Blandino has been named Chief Financial Officer at CashEdge. Previously, Blandino served as CFO of Open Solutions Inc.
• Eduardo Vergara has been named Global Commercial Card Executive at JPMorgan Treasury Services as Global Commercial Card Executive. Most recently, Vergara headed Global Product Management and Marketing for Global Commercial Card at American Express.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Michael Manchisi has been named chief technology officer at MasterCard Worldwide. Manchisi most recently was group executive, MasterCard Strategic Account Management.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Phil Wall has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer at First Data Corp., replacing Kim Patmore. Previously, Wall served as senior vice president of finance for First Data’s international operations.
• Chuck Fillinger has been named an associate at The Strawhecker Group. Previously, Fillinger worked at First Data Corp. for 23 years, mostly recently as Vice President of Product and Business Development.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Todd Pearson has been named Chief Customer Officer at San Francisco-based richrelevance. Pearson spent the last eight years at PayPal where he held roles building several business units and most recently was Vice President of Sales.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Daniel Lane has been named chief technology officer at Merchant Link.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Floris de Kort has been named Chief Commercial Officer at GlobalCollect. Mr. de Kort joined the Management Team of GlobalCollect in 2003 as Vice President Global Business Development.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Guilherme Blumenthal has been named Chief Operations Officer and Chief Payments Risk Officer at Visanet Brazil. Previously, Guilherme was EVP Global Sales and Operations at Hypercom Corporation.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Matt Simester has been named Director of the new UK office of Auriemma Consulting Group. Mr. Simester most recently held senior roles at Barclaycard and Affinion International.
• Kevin Sullivan has been named Managing Director of Communications at Barclaycard US. Sullivan most recently served as Senior Director-Strategic Alliances at Barclaycard US and, previously, at JPMorgan Chase in a variety of senior relationship, sales and marketing roles in the Card Services unit.

The NACHA Board of Directors has selected Janet O. Estep, most recently an executive vice president with U.S. Bank, to succeed Elliott McEntee, who will retire as president and chief executive officer at the end of 2008. During the transition period, Estep will serve as president and chief operating officer and McEntee will continue as chief executive officer. READ MORE

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Gregory Holmes has been named President, US at Obopay. Holmes previously worked for First Data Corp. and Visa USA.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Joseph Saunders has been named Vice President, Business Development, at Digital Resolve. Previously, Saunders was responsible for new market development at TARGUSinfo.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Mark Schwanhausser has joined Javelin Strategy & Research to provide analyst coverage of multi-channel financial services. Mark comes to Javelin from the San Jose Mercury News, where he covered personal finance and business reporting for almost two decades.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Roy Vella has been named Director of Mobile at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group leading RBS' global efforts in pursuit of opportunities at the intersection of mobile telephony and financial services. Vella spent the past five years with PayPal - most recently as PayPal's Head of Mobile Payments in Europe.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Pam Patsley has joined Advent International as a Boston-based operating partner, focused on opportunities in the financial services, payments and transaction processing sectors. Patsley spent the past seven years with First Data Corp., most recently as president of first Data International.

We have received news of the following recent management changes:

• Carol Ann Korpi has been named Vice President of Sales and Ken Silver has been named Vice President of Alliances at eBillMe. Korpi was previously Vice President of Sales for CNET Channel. Ken Silver previously served as Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise Integrations with Chase Paymentech Solutions.