T. Jack Williams
President
eCommLink, Inc.

Currently, Mr. Williams is President, eCommLink and Cubis Financial Services, located in Las Vegas. In his roll, he is responsible for the total operation of the prepaid debit card core processing for bank clients who issue, MasterCard, Visa, and Discover branded cards. Cubis is leading provider of prepaid debit card programs to financial institutions and other entities for programs such as payroll, travel, teen, general spend, and traditional giftcards.

Prior to this roll, Williams was Senior Vice President for Tier Technologies, responsible for all Strategic Programs for the company. In this role, he is responsible for the creation and ongoing utilization of the prepaid Visa debit card efforts; to migrate payments currently paid via paper check to a Visa prepaid debit card program. Included in this effort are all of Tier’s state programs for which payment is made monthly to millions of child support, unemployment, and pension payments.

Williams has a broad range of expertise within the payments space. One example is his work with biometrics for replacement of cards in college cafeteria and state subsidized day care programs. Prior to Tier, he was Senior Vice President, Relationship Management for National Processing Company (NPC) in Louisville, Kentucky. In this role, Mr. Williams was responsible for the national merchant portfolio. He oversaw the total acquiring and processing relationships with such retailers as Target, Exxon/Mobil, and Safeway. In all, approximately 6 billion credit card transactions were processed by NPC on behalf of Mr. Williams’ merchant portfolios.

Prior to NPC, Mr. Williams was one of the early employees of Stored Value Systems, (SVS) as Senior Vice President for Marketing. He is credited with the development of numerous closed loop giftcard programs for retailers such as Kmart, Kroger, Exxon, Mobil, and many more that in total at his departure in 2000 generated almost one billion cards per year. During this tenure, he was selected as the Card Management Magazines “Debit Executive of the Year”, for his innovative work and development of giftcards.

Mr. Williams is credited with the creation and implementation of the first giftcard program in the world during his tenure at Blockbuster Entertainment. It is the efforts outlined above that provide him is status as a national authority on all areas relative to both closed and open loop prepaid debit cards and as a visionary in the credit/debit/prepaid debit card arena that he holds today.

Other accomplishments include:

• Member of various federal governmental Committees and Advisory Boards.
• Member of the Texas EBT Commission for all state payments
• Chairperson for numerous prepaid card conferences
• Two time moderator for national Prepaid Card Expo, largest in US.
• Designed and implemented first live Visa smart card transaction in US.
• 1999 Debit Card Executive of the Year

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