 James W. Baumgartner
CEO & President
Moneris Solutions Corporation |
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James Baumgartner is a financial services industry expert with more than 25 years experience in the payments industry. As CEO & President of Moneris Solutions Corporation since 2001, he has helped the company become one of North America's largest providers of payment processing solutions, with more than 350,000 merchant locations generating close to three billion transactions annually.
Mr. Baumgartner joined Moneris from J.P. Morgan Chase's Commercial Payments Systems business, of which he was President. At J.P. Morgan Chase, Mr. Baumgartner grew a start-up business into one of the world's largest commercial card issuers. Prior to that, Mr. Baumgartner was President of US Bancorp's Commercial Payments Business. At US Bank, Mr. Baumgartner grew the start-up commercial card business into the largest issuer of Corporate and Purchasing cards in the world in addition to driving the Merchant Processing Business to become the 6th largest acquirer in the US.
A native of Minneapolis and a member of the AICPA, Mr. Baumgartner was also Senior Manager with Ernst & Young where he focused on the financial services industry. In 1999, he was named one of the 25 most influential executives by Business Travel News. In addition, Mr. Baumgartner was called one of American Banker's 10 most admired leaders in the BankCard business and in 2005 was designated as Electronic Transaction Association's Member of the Year.
Mr. Baumgartner has served on the Executive Committee, as President, for the Electronic Transactions Association. He is currently on the Board of MasterCard Canada.
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