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ACQUISITION Aliaswire expands with grow-focused team

Aliaswire made organizational changes to ramp up new
FortisPay acquires Zeamster business development and growth. Its PayVus busi-
ness development team is headed by Eugene DeSliva,
FortisPay reported that is acquisition of Zeamster an 18-year-payments veteran who served as senior vice
strengthens its continued focus on technology and gate- president, head of commercial products and solutions
way services. Noting that it has been in the payment for Mastercard North America before joining Aliaswire.
technology space for nearly two decades, FortisPay said Joining Eugene's team are Mike Hord and Kathleen
that along with increased sales has come an urgency on Cavanaugh Elliott, both of whom are serving as relation-
the part of the company to move all tangible entities ship managers.
in-house, which included the acquire the Zeamster gate-
way. This agreement entails the merging of FortisPay Aliaswire's DirectBiller business development team now
and Zeamster employees, as well as the addition of reports to Andy Waskey, a payments veteran who held
Kevin Shamoun as chief information and technology positions with Transactis, MBNA, and Vantiv before
officer to FortisPay's executive team. joining Aliaswire. Joining Waskey's team are Declan
Cooney, director of partner solutions; Brad Hench, direc-
APPOINTMENTS tor of partner solutions; and Jan Stewart, sales engineer.

NMI expands executive team Supporting both business development teams is sea-
soned technology marketer Brent Watters. In addition,
NMI selected three new executives to play a significant chief technology officer Nirmal Kumar was promoted
role in the company's growth: Jennifer Sherman was to also serve as head of product. Kumar will have addi-
named senior vice president of product. In this role, she tional oversight in Aliaswire's product strategies and
will help create a vision and roadmap for NMI solutions development of payment technologies.
designed to empower unified commerce. Kate Hampton
was appointed vice president of product and gen-
eral manager of NMI's U.K. operations. Hampton
will head the U.K. product team and serve as lead
for the Bristol office.

TJ Fund was appointed senior vice president and
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and mergers and acquisitions activity for NMI.
In addition, long-time NMI executive Nick Starai
moved to the role of chief strategy officer. Starai
has been instrumental in building and growing the
business over the past 15 years.
Wnet welcomes Polly Van Duser to its board

The Women's Network in Electronic Transactions
(Wnet) unanimously elected Polly Van Duser to
its board of directors. She is senior vice presi-
dent, talent acquisition at Bank of America
Merchant Services. Wnet also appointed Natalia
T. Leonardis, Cardflight's senior vice president of
business development, to its board of advisors.

Brien Henderson, Payments Industry Veteran,
Joins Mercator Advisory Group

Mercator Advisory Group appointed Brien
Henderson as its vice president and managing
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decades of experience in sales leadership that
includes analyzing, marketing, managing and sell-
ing sophisticated industry research and consulting
services as well as retail banking software in both
international and U.S. markets.

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