What Happened?
Troy, MI-based North American Bancard Appointed Jim Parkinson as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
North American Bancard is a privately held multifaceted payment solutions provider. Our team of 900+ employees within NAB and affiliate entities facilitate the processing of more than $34 billion-worth of electronic payment transactions for over 250,000 merchants nationwide. The launch of our mobile POS solution, PayAnywhere, has enabled us to remain on the forefront of technology and meet the evolving needs of our customers. Based in Troy, Michigan, North American Bancard offers a wide array of payment processing solutions to a diverse range of clientele. Our customers range from small startups to established corporations, and include nearly every sector of the business world. North American Bancard offers customized merchant accounts for retail storefronts, Internet retailers, mobile merchants and more. As a full service merchant account provider, we offer our clients the integrated hardware and software they need to process credit and debit card payments, verify checks, issue credit and much more.
About the Person
Jim Parkinson comes to NAB with extensive experience with digital projects and strategies, and in leading IT teams. In his most recent position with Valassis, Parkinson was the chief technical officer, chief digital officer and executive vice president of digital advertising, where he was responsible for the oversight of the company’s technology directions, development and implementation of the digital media strategy. Parkinson was instrumental in executing Valassis’ acquisition of Circle Street and Brand.net. He also managed the company’s overall business strategy, which included digital coupons and web-based/mobile offers for RedPlum.com and Save.com, a local advertising and digital ad network. Parkinson also managed the building of a state-of-the-art product development team that was responsible for growing the digital business. Before joining Valassis, Parkinson spent 24 years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of positions including senior vice president of cloud computing engineering and director of partner sales-East Coast. While at Sun, he was part of the team that built the world’s first utility computing platform that led to the introduction of cloud technology. During his time at Sun, Parkinson also led many different teams, including the Sun developer network, developer products and productivity products and solution delivery.
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