| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Chris Sibila |
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer | Profile |
Headquartered in Fremont California, US Merchant Systems was founded in 1992 by three entrepreneurs all of whom previously owned and operated small businesses. Since the company's beginning US Merchant Systems has grown into a major national provider of merchant services having served the needs of more than 100,000 businesses throughout the US. The founders, Lawrence S. Cohn- Chairman, Stuart H. Rosenbaum- CEO, and Richard L. Fenn II- COO, founded US Merchant Systems (USMS) on the principal that small businesses deserve the level of service and competitive pricing previously only available to larger companies.
Heartland Payment Systems provides debit, prepaid, and credit card processing, online payments, check processing, payroll services and a growing line of industry solutions for small to mid-sized merchants. Founded by Robert O. Carr in 1997, Heartland Payment Systems is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. There are also offices nationally in Texas, Colorado, Tennessee, Oregon, Indiana, New York, Arizona, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Heartland Payment Systems processes transactions for more than 250,000 business locations in the United States.Heartland Payment Systems currently processes more than 11 million transactions a day and more than $120 billion in transactions a year. Heartland focuses its efforts on small to mid-sized businesses.
WEX Inc. is a leading global provider of corporate payment solutions that enable its customers to manage their businesses more efficiently, with enhanced security and greater control over their costs. From its roots in fleet card payments beginning in 1983, WEX has expanded its scope to become a multi-channel provider of corporate payment solutions with millions of cardholders across several growing market sectors including travel, health care and employee benefits. Our focus is on providing exceptional payment security and control for a vast spectrum of payment sectors while delivering an exceptional experience so that our customers – whether large or small – can operate efficiently, securely and profitably. The Company has operations in North and South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, and employs more than 2,000 associates.
CircleUp is an online private company investment platform. They provide accredited investors free access to direct investments in high-growth consumer product and retail private companies that were previously difficult to identify and access. For retail and consumer product entrepreneurs, they offer an efficient way to access a network of sophisticated investors as well as value added partners. Typical investments on CircleUp are food, personal care, pet product, apparel or retail/restaurant companies with >$500K in revenue and are looking to raise $100,000 to $2.0 million in growth equity. A highly selective percentage of companies that apply are listed on their site. As the largest equity based crowdfunding site, CircleUp provides not only access to interesting consumer and retail private company investments, but also a wide ranging, sophisticated investor network. Their investor base includes retail and consumer product industry experts, venture capital, private equity and other financial professionals, business leaders, angel investors and others interested in expanding their investment portfolios with private company investments. Investors can review a curated list of private company investments, ask questions to the management team, request product samples and complete their private company investment online via CircleUp.
Baton Systems is the fastest, on-demand, highly secure clearing and settlement platform – bringing a new level of efficiency to the payments infrastructure across the capital markets. Batons shared, permissioned ledger serves as a real-time clearing and settlement gateway, enabling instant reconciliation down to the sub-account level. Accelerate payments and enjoy full control over the flow of capital. Baton Systems was founded as Ubixi in 2016 by industry veterans in technology, payments and capital markets, and is backed by venture capital. Baton works with numerous market participants – including major global banks, custodian banks and exchanges – to meet todays demands for cost savings, regulatory requirements and better capital management.