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Mr. Shaper is a partner with Convergent Investors , a private equity venture capital firm based in Houston, Texas . He joined Convergent Investors after serving as Chief Executive Officer of TeleCheck Services, Inc., a $420 million check guarantee and verification company based in Houston . He was on the original Board of Directors of Payment Services Company, the Houston TeleCheck franchise which grew to be the largest franchise and eventually took over management of the entire TeleCheck system. He joined Payment Services full-time in 1987 as Senior Vice President of Marketing and has seen it grow from $14 million to its present size in thirteen years. Prior to TeleCheck, Mr. Shaper owned or was a partner in more than 30 manufacturing, distribution, and importing companies during his business career.
He currently is a board member of CDP Corporation, General Investment and Trust, Middlemarch Capital Corporation, Optimal Group, PayDay One Corp., Mickie Services Company, PreCash Corp., Cygnus Entertainment Group, Metal Oxide Technologies Corp. and Teravicta Technologies. He earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. | 