CardReady Promotes Kevin Hoehn to President

Sept. 13, 2010 - PRLog -- Los Angeles, CA, September 13, 2010 CardReady – the Los Angeles and London headquartered specialty merchant processor, today announced that Kevin Hoehn has been promoted to the role of President effective immediately.  Mr. Hoehn joined CardReady in January as Chief Operating Officer overseeing the company’s financial operations, business development, and risk management departments.  With over 10 years of payments industry experience, Mr. Hoehn will now add the marketing and sales departments to his management responsibilities and oversee the company’s core business strategy moving forward.

“Kevin’s a natural leader, and since joining CardReady he’s been instrumental in both developing and executing our strategic business initiatives.  He’s well deserving of the new title and we’re excited that he will officially be the captain of our ship,” said Brandon Becker, CEO of CardReady.  “In his short time with us, he’s proven to not only be an effective leader, but he’s someone with a clear vision for the future of this company,” continued Mr. Becker.

A Pepperdine MBA, Mr. Hoehn has been in the payment industry for over a decade, having held senior leadership positions with several nationally recognized organizations, including Imperial Bank and Comerica Merchant Services. Prior to CardReady, Kevin was with an international merchant acquiring firm, Global Electronic Technology, holding the position of President and Director while overseeing the operations and leading expansion efforts worldwide offering several specialized PCI-DSS gateway processing platforms. Previous positions include Chief Credit Office of Impac Warehouse Lending Group, a qualified subsidiary of the publicly traded Impac Mortgage Holdings REIT.

This promotion demonstrates CardReady’s stated goal to offer high volume and niche merchants turnkey global processing solutions by providing the personalized service and forward thinking of a boutique while remaining at the forefront of all emerging payments technologies that help maximize merchants' revenue generating abilities.  For more information please visit www.cardready.com.

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CardReady, LLC - a specialty payment solution provider founded by proven finance industry professionals with over a decade of experience in bank acquiring to provide a turnkey global solution for high volume and niche merchants with their electronic payment acceptance needs. With multiple direct global banking relationships established over the past decade, CardReady provides merchants a full range of dependable products and services enabling them to safely, conveniently, and efficiently accept electronic payments.