TransCard’s CEO Named a Top Five Rising Star of Prepaid

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Craig Fuller, CEO of TransCard (www.transcard.com)—a leading provider of prepaid debit card solutions branded with MasterCard®, Discover®, STAR and PULSE associations—has been recognized as one of the Top Five Rising Stars of Prepaid by Paybefore magazine, a respected publication serving the prepaid industry.

“Craig Fuller is among this group of prepaid’s best and the brightest, and Paybefore is pleased to recognize him as a Paybefore Rising Star for the innovative solutions he and TransCard are bringing to the prepaid market.”

Paybefore announced the competition online at www.paybefore.com and posted a voting box on the site from mid-July to early August. Voting was open to anyone (not just Paybefore subscribers). At the end of the allotted time, officials at Paybefore tallied up the votes and announced the winners. The five recipients will be profiled in the fall 2009 issue of Paybefore magazine and will appear online at Paybefore.com.

“I am honored to be chosen for this special recognition from a pool of such talented and pioneering individuals,” says Craig Fuller, CEO of TransCard. “What is most important to me as a CEO in the prepaid industry is to never stop innovating and pushing the envelope. This is a rapidly expanding field and only companies that invest in the newest, most cutting-edge technology will make it. At TransCard, I am proud to be a part of a team that continually generates groundbreaking ideas and solutions. We will make any organization’s vision a reality.”

Paybefore is the only family of publications fully dedicated to covering prepaid worldwide, reaching the industry’s top decision makers from all over the globe. Readers of Paybefore constitute the largest network of prepaid and stored-value card professionals in the market space.

“In this very young industry, there’s a group of talented young executives who are making their mark on prepaid with out-of-the-box thinking and enthusiasm,” says Marilyn Bochicchio, CEO of Paybefore. “Craig Fuller is among this group of prepaid’s best and the brightest, and Paybefore is pleased to recognize him as a Paybefore Rising Star for the innovative solutions he and TransCard are bringing to the prepaid market.”

About TransCard

TransCard (www.transcard.com) provides custom, turnkey prepaid programs for corporate, non-profit and government organizations. TransCard is one of a few privately held core processors in the world, providing prepaid debit card solutions branded with MasterCard®, Discover®, STAR and PULSE associations. The company specializes in providing on-demand, customized, turnkey prepaid programs for clients using a sophisticated proprietary technology platform that was built in-house to meet the unique needs of clients in the prepaid space. Along with the most robust suite of value-added cardholder benefits—including mobile banking, online bill pay, free credit scores and a Personal Financial Management tool that budgets, tracks spending and has customizable widgets—in prepaid, TransCard offers 24/7/365, live, bilingual customer service and a check-free online account accessed through an easy-to-use website.

TransCard handles nearly $2 billion in electronic transactions annually and was featured as a “10 to Watch” by Intele-Card News. The company was recently named as a 2009 Paybefore Awards Best-in-Category Winner for the Best Corporate-Funded Prepaid Card and the CEO, Craig Fuller, was recognized as one of the top five Rising Stars of Prepaid by Paybefore magazine—a respected prepaid industry publication.