NPC Executive Management Team

The National Processing Company (NPC) executive management team is highly recognized in the industry for consistently delivering leading edge, high quality solutions for its customers.  Our executives have over 200 combined years of experience in the card-based industry and have worked together successfully as a team for over 140 total years.  Our unique talent pool of industry leaders, working together, has led some of the industry's most transformational events.

Tom Wimsett, President and Chief Executive Officer

Tom A. Wimsett is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of National Processing Company. Tom spent 19 years at “legacy” National Processing Company (NYSE: NAP), serving as its President and CEO from 1999 to 2002.  Under Mr. Wimsett’s leadership, NAP’s core business, merchant processing, was transformed from serving a narrow base of national retailers to providing multifaceted merchant processing services to over 650,000 merchant locations nationwide, through more than 1500 direct and indirect sales executives.  During Wimsett’s tenure as CEO, core revenues for the company increased by over 60% while profits nearly quadrupled. Market capitalization of NAP, which stood at $275 million at the beginning of 1999, peaked at nearly $1.8 billion just prior to September 11, 2001. Wimsett left NAP in September 2002 to form Iron Triangle Payment Systems (“ITPS”) in conjunction with GTCR, one of the largest private equity investors in the transaction processing industry.  Over the past six years, ITPS, now renamed National Processing Company, has completed four acquisitions (including a significant portion and the branding rights of legacy NAP) and become the sixth largest credit card processing provider in the U.S. with over 240,000 merchant clients and handling nearly $30 billion in credit card processing volumes each year.

Tom currently serves as a director for National Processing Holdings, LLC and Town & Country Bank and Trust Co.  Tom is widely regarded as a leader in the payment industry and is actively involved in several professional industry organizations and committees including having served for the past eight years as a director of the Electronic Transaction Association (the leading advocate for the payment processing industry).  Tom is a member of Discover Card’s Acquirer Advisory Council, and has previously served on Visa’s Executive Acquirer Council and is a former director of MasterCard’s U.S. Region.  Tom also serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Louisville’s School of Business and as a director of Bethlehem High School’s Legacy Foundation.
 

Jim Oberman, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer

Jim serves primarily as NPC's Chief Risk Officer (CRO).  In this role Jim is responsible for all aspects of NPC's merchant acceptance and transaction risk management activities.  Jim is a member of NPC's senior executive team responsible for many of the company's merger, acquisition, integration and other related strategic activities and initiatives.  Further, Jim is responsible for the executive management of a number of NPC's key sales partner relationships, NPC's Best Payment Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of NPC, and NPC's leasing, check, equipment and deployment product and service divisions.  In addition to his duties as CRO, Jim previously served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of NPC from 2006 through the spring of 2009, primarily focused on the integration of the acquisition of a significant portion of the original NPC from Bank of America.  Prior to 2004, Jim was a director with Retriever Payment Systems, primarily focused on risk management, leasing, and many product initiatives.  Jim's industry experience spans over 20 years, starting as the founder of Lease Finance Group in 1993, which later sold to CIT.

Steve Stevenson, Chief Financial Officer

Steve has spent over 23 years in the payment processing industry as a senior finance and accounting executive.  As CFO, he is responsible for all aspects of financial operations.  For the past 10 years, he has served in executive financial positions, most recently as the Executive Vice President and CFO for NOVA (now Elavon), a wholly owned subsidiary of US Bank.  Prior to NOVA, Stevenson spent two years as the CFO for LYNK Systems (now RBS Worldpay).  Before joining LYNK, he held several executive financial leadership positions over a twelve year period at National Data Corporation, the predecessor to Global Payments.

Joe Natoli, Director and Strategic Advisor

Joe serves as a director and strategic advisor to NPC.  Joe is a recognized leader in the payments industry and has held various senior leadership roles with NPC and Retriever Payment Systems since 1994.  Prior to joining the company in 1994, Joe owned and operated his own independent sales organization.  Joe has over 20 years of industry experience.  Joe currently serves as a member on the advisory boards for The Green Sheet and ISO & Agent.  While currently serving on the planning committee for the ETA, Joe has held various roles with the ETA, writing the ETA certification program, presenting at the annual ETA meetings covering such subjects as sales, marketing, and customer retention.

Mark Schatz, Executive Vice President Corporate and Business Development

As one of the co-founders of ITPS in 2003, Mark has played an integral role for both ITPS and NPC since the ITPS inception.  As Executive Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for NPC, Mark plays a key role in developing and executing the company's acquisition and general growth strategies.  Schatz has over 25 years experience in the payments industry, with key corporate development and market development responsibilities on both the issuing and acquiring sides of the electronic payments business.  Mark’s contributions in the industry have garnered industry recognition spanning from accomplishments with Citicorp on ground breaking work early on in the development of behavioral scoring tools on the card issuing side of the business to the development and execution of transformational acquisition and divestiture transactions for 4 of the top 15 merchant acquirers in the United States.

Blair Sanders, Executive Vice President Sales Partner Relationships

Blair serves as Executive Vice President of sales partner relationships for NPC.  Blair leads all indirect business development strategies and oversees sales partner growth efforts.  Previously, Blair worked with Bank of America and "legacy NPC" as SVP strategy of merchant division and third party relationships.  During his tenure at "legacy NPC", Blair was instrumental in a variety of roles including vice president of sales for ten district offices.  Blair brings 15 years of industry experience to NPC, along with 15 years of sales and management experience in various industries.

Kyle Howat, Executive Vice President Operations

Kyle serves as Executive Vice President of Operations for NPC.   Kyle’s responsibilities span over product development, project management and operations, which includes all back-office support functions as well as call center management for merchant services and technical support.  Kyle has over 25 years of industry experience, with areas of responsibility ranging from operations and call center management, relationship management, product development, and project management in both the acquiring and issuing sides of the payment processing industry.  Prior to joining NPC, Kyle has served as Vice President with Fifth Third Bank, Vice President with Bank United, Vice President with Michigan National Bank, and Operations Manager with Citicorp Retail Services.

Robert Hewlett, Senior Vice President Technology

Robert joined NPC in 2008 and has responsibility for all technology and data security initiatives.  Robert brings with him over 23 years experience and extensive knowledge of the electronic payment processing space at both a strategic and tactical level in both the healthcare and payment processing space.  Robert served as Vice President of Product Management at Emdeon Business Services (formerly WebMD Business Services) and Vice President of Product Services at Bank of America Merchant Services and "legacy NPC".

Marsha Lindholm, Senior Vice President Human Resources

Marsha heads up all human resources and facilities management activities for NPC.  She has over 28 years of human resources experience including 17 years at "legacy NPC", where she served as the most senior human resources executive for over 11 years.  In her role at "legacy NPC", Marsha was responsible for human resources oversight for over 11,000 employees in 23 operating centers around the world.