Aite Group announces that Howard Polack has joined the firm as a senior analyst covering the payments space, including prepaid cards and merchant acquiring. Mr. Polack brings to Aite Group more than 20 years of hands-on experience working with payments products at startups and large banking institutions. He has been responsible for product innovation and business development as well as operations, technology, and compliance.
Before joining Aite Group, Mr. Polack served as product manager with Springbok Services, a prepaid card processor and marketer, where he led product development activity, including strategic acquisitions, business development, market expansion, and the development of six new product lines. Prior to this, he was a business manager at Merchant Bankcard and a senior vice president at FirstMerit Bank. He also worked at KeyBank as a senior vice president in a number of roles, including consumer payments business development, e-commerce management, and global treasury management.
Howards breadth of experience across many areas of the payments industry will provide great value to Aite Group and its clients, says Aite Group research director Gwenn Bzard. His product management expertise will be of particular use to clients looking for practical recommendations in prepaid card processing, issuing and marketing, and merchant acquiring.
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