About Lori Breitzke
E&S Consulting's innovative approach to "Perfecting Payments" reflects a consistent hallmark of Lori's work. Throughout her career, she has developed pioneering payment programs and solutions that have raised the standard for innovation in payments.
At RBS WorldPay, a prepaid processor, Lori served as Vice President of the Prepaid Card Issuing division and brought the first MasterCard® J Hook gift card to market in 2006.
While at VeriFone, Lori launched SoftPay, the first generic software application for a POS device that revolutionized the industry by lowering costs and decreasing time to market. At VeriFone, Lori also created the first sales materials designed by a hardware manufacturer specifically for merchant sales representatives.
At Ingenico, Lori created an environment for third party developers that resulted in the development of more than twenty innovative applications for the Ingenico platform. Lori recognized the surge of the POSA (prepaid point-of-sale activation) market and provided strategic direction that lead Ingenico to be the first hardware manufacturer to focus on this growing industry segment.
At Envoy/FDC, Lori contributed to the creation of a "Best of Breed" product set after First Data merged five hosts. She also designed the first Hypercom solution on the Envoy (First Data Nashville) front-end.
Lori began her career in financial services at MicroBilt (later purchased by First Data), where she worked on one of the first smart card pilots in the United States at Ohio State University. Her work was instrumental in the development of the first signature capture devices for Sears and JC Penney.