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Management: Executive Team |
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Christopher Haigh
President/CEO |
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Christopher Haigh is a recognized leader in the growth sector of electronic transactions and services. Chris brings an international leadership expertise in sales, marketing and technology innovation to The Tyburn Group. Most recently he was President & CEO of SVC Financial Services, a leading innovator in debit card management systems that integrates a mobile money solution for global distribution. Chris has led marketing and technology initiatives at ePIT (Trading Systems), Chuckwalla (Digital Content Management System), TransCom (Knowledge Management) and MSH Entertainment. Chris founded eCurator during the .com boom to assist companies like eBay in the international valuation and certification of online auction transactions.
Chris founded and ran East End Communications, a strategic marketing solutions company in San Francisco for over 17 years, providing creative communications and marketing solutions for clients such as Intel, Amdahl, Kawasaki Motor Corporation, The Gap, Cisco, Bank of America, Levi Strauss, McGraw Hill and Sun Microsystems.
Chris has degrees in English & History from Oxford University and resides in San Francisco.
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Deborah Davis
Chief Operating Officer
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Deborah has experience in both Product and Operations leadership roles spanning the payments landscape from Payment Terminals and Merchant Services/Acquiring to the Issuing of Prepaid Debit Cards. For the last four years she was the Senior Director of Bank/Processing Operations for Green Dot Corporation where she and her extended team were responsible for managing the day-to-day and strategic relationships with Processors, Gateways and a number of Issuing Banks. During her tenure at Green Dot, Deborah successfully managed the Processing and Program Management responsibilities for efficiency and scale that ultimately enabled Green Dot to meet very aggressive timelines and meet exponential growth expectations.
Prior to Green Dot Deborah was with TSYS Acquiring and Merchant Solutions for 4 years where she held leadership roles in both Product Management and Client Services. Deborah has also held Product roles with Hewlett Packard's Network Division and Logitech. Davis holds a BS in Industrial Management and a Minor in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Santa Clara University. |
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Chuck Nuzum
Chief Financial Officer |
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Chuck has tremendous breadth and depth of experience as a CFO that ranges from private start-ups to large publicly traded companies. For the past four years, Mr. Nuzum served as Controller of Dey Pharma, a large pharmaceutical manufacturing subsidiary of Merck. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President and CFO of SVC Financial Services, one of the first companies in the field to integrate a mobile money solution for global distribution, Vice President of Finance and Administration at Tiburon, Inc., the world leader in public safety and justice information systems and CFO of Winebid.com, the world's leading e-commerce wine auction company.
For more than two decades, Mr. Nuzum was CFO of Loomis Fargo & Co., the well-known provider of ATM cash servicing, armored car and other security services. Loomis grew to a $350 plus million-revenue company with over 3,000 employees during Mr. Nuzum's tenure with Loomis. Chuck also served in other senior executive positions in the U.S. and abroad for Loomis, as well as for SPL Worldgroup and OCS Technologies.
Mr. Nuzum, a Certified Public Accountant, earned his BA at the University of Washington at Seattle. A U.S. Army Special Forces veteran in Vietnam, he earned the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal.
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Bob Mack Peak
Vice President Marketing |
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Bob is a senior executive with extensive backgrounds in product development, sales, and marketing for the hardware, software and financial services industries. Prior to Tyburn, Bob was president of Beamit Communications, a digital marketing integration firm providing brand, launch and promotional services to enterprises like Cisco, Sun, IBM, DEC, Fujitsu, Siebel, Oracle, Universal Studios, Bank of America and Applied Materials as well as a number of startups and .com enterprises.
As VP of Worldwide Sales for Computer Associates, Bob managed enterprise sales for the US, Europe and Asia. As Director of New Ventures & 3rd Marketing at Tandem Computers, Bob was part of Tandem's dominant growth in NonStop Computing from $100 million in sales to over $2.6 billion in 6 years. Bob's role with third party partners provided growth from 12 partners in the banking sector to 650 partners supporting 11 vertical markets.
Bob began his career as VP of Engineering for Data Processing Enterprises developing software for LA-based entertainment and retail firms. As a founding executive with three technology startups, Bob was with these companies from the garage stage to IPO or global acquisition.
Bob holds a BBA in Marketing from the University of Texas, graduate work in Finance at Cal State Long Beach and an advanced degree in Systems & Programming from Houston Tech.
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Paul Agranat
Vice President Sales
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Paul has over 25 years of highly successful sales management and business development experience in financial services, technology, and media markets. He was co-founder of Foreword Financial which partnered with both the ABA and the Independent Bankers Association of America, providing education and networking solutions for executives in the Banking and Securities industry. He also worked closely with both TowerGroup and Oracle developing and supporting custom programs. After five years of consistent growth, he was instrumental in selling the company to Pulvermedia where he became Vice President of VON Media Group responsible for all publication and web program revenue including virtual events.
Prior to Foreword Financial, Paul played a leading role in driving sales initiatives with Momentix, a leading SaaS provider. As Vice President of Sales, he doubled revenue in one year. At Key3Media, producers of the COMDEX tradeshows, Paul was Vice President of Event Marketing. He managed a sales and marketing team that generated over $27 million annually, expanding revenue 2.5 times over two years. Prior to his promotion, he was National Sales Manager, where he increased revenue by over 80% including spearheading the launch of the company’s internet promotional programs. Paul holds a BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Cesar Paz
Vice President Sales
Latin America
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As Vice President of Sales for Latin America, Mr. Paz brings international business leadership to Tyburn’s global strategy. Cesar resides in Los Angeles and is recognized by the Los Angeles City Council for his work and participation in building relations with the community of Los Angeles and Latin American countries. Cesar is an expert in debit card processing and global remittances between the United States and Latin America. As a senior executive with CardMarte in Los Angeles, Cesar developed banking, processor and distribution relations with major organizations in Latin America.
Prior to CardMarte, Mr. Paz created Maravilla Distributor Corporation, establishing several brands in the Latino market. He developed special relations with the Latin American communities to establish their products in the market. Working with one of the largest group of companies from México, he created product awareness for their companies while developing the California marketplace.
As president of Latino Market Consultants, he developed and established Latin American products in the North American market, earning the right to represent the largest brewery from Guatemala, one of the largest soda industries from México and other products from the Central America area. Mr. Paz was born and raised in Guatemala. Upon coming to the United States he worked for one the largest printing corporations in America, Taylor Corporation.
Cesar holds a degree in Business Administration from San Carlos University in Guatemala.
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Frank Careccia
Chief Technology Officer |
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Frank is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience in global, mid-sized and start-up companies where he has brought a number of wireless, enterprise level, and infrastructure applications to market.
As VP of Engineering at Obopay where he delivered their first complete mobile payment platform and mobile client covering most of todays popular Brew and J2ME phones. Frank has in-depth knowledge of mobile banking technology and the carrier and banking requirements for successful integration delivery.
Frank has held executive level engineering positions at IPLocks Inc, Visto Corp, Inprise/Borland Corp, and BMC Software. In his role as CTO for Brandsoft, he delivered a large-scale implementation of the first Semantic Web software suite designed for large scale consumer interaction.
Frank has a proven track record in building, managing, and mentoring geographically dispersed software development teams. During his career, Frank has consistently set the architectural vision over a number of emerging technologies. He has planned and delivered projects on time and within the allocated budget.
Frank holds an MBA from Houston Baptist University, a BS in Systems Engineering and Operation Research from Polytechnic Institute of NY, and has done advanced studies at Lehigh University.
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