Our History
Specializing in building strategic partnerships with financial institutions, First American Payment Systems has been growing for 20 years. The company has expanded steadily and exponentially by developing its own in-house payment processing products, which benefits its partners and eliminates the need for third party providers. Plus, proprietary front- and back-end systems give First American additional control, flexibility and security.
First American provides merchant services to more than 120,000 businesses nationwide and processes billions of dollars in volume each year. Last year, First American processed $9 billion in Visa and MasterCard transactions and 135 million transactions. Currently, First American employs more than 1,400 W-2 employees working to support our partners and their merchant clients.
Our core programs allow our partners to receive valuable payment processing services that are tailored to their own service models and business client needs. Our team works one-on-one with financial institutions to deliver the right solutions and support.
First American Payment Systems' Bank Partnership Team
JASON PUTNAM
Vice President of Sales, Strategic Partner Channel
Jason Putnam joined First American in 2008 and has more than 16 years experience working in payment processing. He began his career at Chase Paymentech, where he worked for more than 12 years. Jason is responsible for developing and ultimately achieving all sales initiatives within the Strategic Partner Channel, which includes Independent Sales Offices, financial institutions, associations, referral partners and internal sales. He is additionally personally responsible for managing the relationships for First American’s top producing partners.
CODY YANCHAK
Director of Sales
Cody pursues and cultivates partnerships with financial institutions looking to offer electronic payment processing to merchants. Formerly with Chase Paymentech and Century Payments, Cody focused on providing solutions to merchants and partners alike, giving him the ability to view partnerships and programs from several perspectives. With an educational background in Business Management and a passion for finance, Cody is well-equipped to offer customized solutions to financial institutions.
JINNI TOUCHSTONE
Manager of Client Relations
Jinni is responsible for managing the Client Relations team, which is tasked with training, growing and cultivating First American’s strategic partners and financial institutions. In addition, she manages a portfolio of tenured agents and ISOs. Jinni began her career with First American in 2003. She has served in Leasing, Credit and Underwriting, Agent Support, Maintenance Support and now Client Relations. She and the entire Client Relations team are committed to serving First American’s ISO, agent and referral partners with the highest level of service.
First American Payment Systems' Corporate Sales Team
If you choose a referral program with First American, this team of seasoned professionals will reach out to your financial institution's business clients within two hours of the referral. Using a consultative approach, the team places calls on behalf of the partnering financial institution to sell or convert merchants to First American.
These proficient sales professionals have an average of five years in the payment processing industry and have a track record of increasing partners' residuals by 20-40 percent.
Copyright © 2010 All rights reserved. First American Payment Systems is a registered ISO/MSP of Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati, OH
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