Fred P. Gore

Fred--GoreMr. Gore is an accomplished executive in all facets of electronic payments including processing, brand & portfolio management as well as product strategy development.

His background in payments is quite extensive and includes executive positions with a number of leading companies encompassing roles across a broad variety of disciplines

Most recently Mr. Gore served in an executive position at ACI Worldwide providing leadership to all areas that support the Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment P&L to achieve the business unit’s strategic and operating plans. He was accountable for the overall profitability of the business along with new customer implementations,
requirements changes and client services. Additionally managed all of the payment relationships including acquirers, processors, global payment networks and third party integrators.

Prior to ACI Mr. Gore served as Senior Vice President & Division Manager at First Data directly responsible for managing the full product life-cycle of eCommerce products globally. This included the prioritization of development resources, management of the product roadmap, commercialization and driving revenue targets for the product family thru channel partners and direct to market.

He has also served in executive roles with The Kessler Financial Institutions Group and as a partner at Dove Consulting (Hitachi Consulting) where he created solutions that addressed the various needs of payment companies as they relate to payment economics, product /channel strategies and partnership development.

For 15 years Mr. Gore was Senior Vice President & Group Head, North America Acceptance, at MasterCard Worldwide. While with MasterCard, he directed the strategy for MasterCard’s involvement with every aspect of acceptance including; establishing and managing the executive level relationships with top volume merchants and category leaders and developing acceptance strategies for each merchant category, responsible for business development activities with acquirers and merchant processors, working with large issuing organizations to facilitate reward and loyalty campaigns and provided consultative services to all of MasterCard’s Global Regions in support of the development of their local acceptance strategies. Additionally he was responsible for the co-branding practice for the company worldwide which included new sales and partnership management.