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stated, adding this means one payment processing rela- Fivestars taps Ralph L. Leung, David King
tionship, billing statement, batching procedure and card
token group between in-store and online transactions. Local commerce platform Fivestars added two key mem-
bers to its executive team to help the company scale its
ESD selects PayRange for all-in-one payments and marketing platform for local
mobile payments small businesses. Ralph L. Leung joins Fivestars as chief
financial officer. In this role, Leung will leverage his 20
PayRange Inc., a network for everyday purchases, part- plus years' experience across strategic finance, invest-
nered with Equipment Systems & Devices, a payments ment banking and corporate strategy to scale Fivestars'
technology company providing of card reader equip- offering and optimize the company's resources against
ment for commercial laundry machines. ESD said has revenue and growth objectives.
approximately 2 million card readers in the field and
estimates its active user base at 20 million users who David King joins as vice president of operations after
use those machines regularly. Under this exclusive part- four years at Cass Information Systems as vice president
nership, PayRange will offer a new ESD BluKey device and general manager. Over the last 20 years, King has
designed to upgrade machines equipped with ESD card been responsible for overseeing operational growth and
readers to include mobile payment capabilities, offers, has a track-record for scaling contact center operations
loyalty, and value-added services at no additional cost and managing teams with up to 4,500 team members
to the machine owner, the partners stated. located across multiple time zones and countries.

Ondot to provide tokenization to Visa Tamarack hires Scott Nelson
Ondot Systems and Visa Token Services are collaborat- Tamarack Consulting brought on Scott A. Nelson, Ph.D.
ing to enable Ondot to tokenize credential-on-file digital as its chief digital officer. A well-recognized expert
payments for an additional level of security. Ondot said in technology strategy and development, including
it is now able to provide tokenization services through Internet of Things connectivity, Nelson will lead the
its Card App interface to support the use of Visa cards company's efforts to expand its impact on the industry
through digital wallets. This agreement enables card- through innovation with new products, system-level
holders to add Visa cards instantly to digital wallets and thinking, and the application of new technologies, the
authenticate the cards during the purchase of goods and company stated. Nelson joins Tamarack with more than
services. 30 years' product development, product management
and entrepreneurial business growth experience. Most
APPOINTMENTS recently he served as the chief product officer and vice

president of product at Digi International.
Motie Bring joins Nuvei
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Global payment technology provider Nuvei appointed Tradeshow
Update:
Motie Bring as its chief commercial officer. Bring will Update:
oversee the commercial strategy and development of
Nuvei's global unified acquiring business, while evolv-
ing its digital go-to-market channels. Bring has over 18
years of experience in payments and related industries
and served the last seven years in senior management
roles at Worldpay (acquired by FIS in 2019).
Shows go virtual
Jimmy Fong signs on with SEON
As you know, precautionary measures in
Fraud prevention company SEON appointed Jimmy place to help stop the spread of COVID-19
Fong as its chief commercial officer. Based in SEON's have meant many tradeshows we all look
new London offices, Fong will be responsible for the forward to have been turned into virtual
company's sales and growth strategies as well as con- events.
tinuing to be a vocal advocate for innovative fraud pre-
vention. "Jimmy's experience and passion for progress Information on other industry events
makes him the ideal hire for a business like SEON that that have changed course is available at
is on a mission to put the urgency back into fighting It’s Showtime!, which you can access at
fraud," the company stated. "Having previously worked www.greensheet.com. We update event
as vice president of sales for EMEA at InAuth (acquired information regularly to help keep you
by American Express) and enterprise sales director for informed. And if you are an event orga-
Cybersource (acquired by Visa) Jimmy brings a wealth nizer with updates, please contact us at
of technical and marketplace experience to his new role. greensheet@greensheet.com so we can help
" spread the word.

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