Shawn Douglas has Joined Merchant Services as the Director of Business Development

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Sep 16, 2011, 06:00 ET

SARASOTA, Fla., Sept. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With twenty plus years of bankcard industry acquiring experience, Merchant Services is pleased to announce that Shawn Douglas has taken the position of Director of Business Development.

While studying at West Point and graduating from Boston College, Mr. Douglas began working in the industry as an intern for the President of MasterCard US for two summers. Since then he's held sales, management and business development positions with Unified Merchant Services, Fidelity National Bank, Moneris Solutions and Chase Paymentech. More recently at TSYS Acquiring Solutions, he was responsible for relationships with all VAR's, Internet Gateways and Cash Advance Program providers. In 2008, Mr. Douglas formed his own consulting company to provide business development expertise to specific channels in the merchant services acquiring industry with credit card processing software, and subsequently merged that company with Merchant First of Marietta, Georgia.

"We have found that the most expeditious way to develop merchant services business channels such as PC based credit card processing in today's market is by partnering with Gateways and other VAR's in a mutually beneficial relationship. We are looking to create more relationships with the 'Best of Breed' VAR channels and welcome their participation in our combined business development strategy," says Shawn Douglas.

"We are excited to have Shawn join us. With our new structure in place to effectively finance and operate the companies and provide equity award incentives, the timing was right to bring on an experienced leader and manager with a strong record of achievement, and reputation as a gentleman in the industry."

Benefits of the ISO program also include highly competitive pricing, best of breed technology, expert sales and technical support, lucrative commissions and residual income, training, marketing co-op programs, and a lead generation program to drive new business opportunities to the ISO / Agents.

For more information on the VAR, ISO and Sales Agent Program visit: http://www.merchantservice.com/iso-agent-program/

About MerchantService.com

MerchantService.com, Inc. does a superb job of supporting sales offices and processing merchant services applications. With approval rates of over 90% and average turnaround time of 2-3 business days, the merchant services businesses and credit card processors you acquire can expect to be up and processing in no time.

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