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 – Executive Vice President. 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.

Michael Kopp – Senior Vice President. Michael was the COO of EDR and was previously Senior Vice President and General Manager for NOVA Information Systems and also held various management positions at NaBanco. Mr. Kopp brought extensive profitable growth to these organizations during his career of over 14 years in the industry. Mr. Kopp drove many strategic acquisition implementations that saw NOVA grow from 5,000 merchants to over 450,000 from 1993 to 1999.

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.

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.

Andy DeFalco – Senior Vice President, Bank Services Group. Andy has an extensive history in payment with organizations such as NDC and U.S. Bank Card. He was the EVP of Community Bank Relations for Payment Transaction Solutions prior to it’s acquisition by Payment Alliance International.

Dennis J. Hamilton – Senior Vice President, Partner Services Group. Dennis brings to PAI a wealth of knowledge and experience from his over 25 years in the financial services industry.  Most recently, Dennis was with Global Payments Inc. as the Director of Business Development in their Third Party Acquiring Group where he served Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) and Financial Institutions.  Prior to joining Global, Dennis was with Concord EFS (now First Data) as Vice President of Client Relations and Implementation for the ATM/POS/Debit Card acquiring services division responsible for both ISO clients as well as Financial Institutions.  Dennis has also served as Vice President with the Banking Services Division of Fiserv, Inc. (formerly a division of First Financial Management Corporation - FFMC) where he was responsible for supporting financial institutions utilizing their host based and PC based services.  Additionally, Dennis has worked for Automated Data Processing (ADP) and began his career with Chase Manhattan Bank.  Dennis has a BS Degree in Business Management from St Francis University in Loretto, PA.

Scott McFarland – Vice President of Sales, Merchant Alliance. 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 – Vice President of Application Development. 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.