Tesmer has over twenty-five years in the transaction processing industry. At Heartland Payment Systems, one of the nation's largest bankcard acquirers, Mr. Tesmer served as Senior VP and created and implemented the company's stand-alone transaction processing division. He served as Executive Vice President and Director of the POS Technology Division of Southeast Switch, Inc. (HONOR), the precursor to STAR. The company was subsequently sold to Concord EFS and most recently to First Data (NYSE:FDC). As President of TransNet, now Paymentech and a joint venture of Bank One (NYSE:ONE) and First Data, he established and directed all aspects of operations, strategy and product development. Mr. Tesmer was President and CEO of Access Services, Inc. a provider of risk management services, which was later sold to Digital Courier Technologies, Inc. |