2009 Speakers

Peter Kight
Vice Chairman
Fiserv, Inc.

Peter J. (Pete) Kight, Vice Chairman of Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), is considered a pioneer in financial services technology, specifically in electronic funds transfer, online banking and electronic billing and payment. Today he is focused on driving industry innovation, and leading strategic development, new product direction and the integration of the strengths of Fiserv and CheckFree Corporation. Kight is also on the Board of Directors of Fiserv, Inc.

Kight was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CheckFree until it was acquired by Fiserv in December 2007.

Kight founded CheckFree in 1981 in his grandmother's basement, with a vision of providing electronic funds transfer services to businesses and consumers. That vision expanded to building infrastructures to support new services that enable and uncomplicate the electronic movement and management of personal and business finances. Today, those products and services have become pervasive, particularly the ability for consumers to view and pay bills online, and provide clients with technology efficiencies as they bring them closer to their customers around the globe.

Under Kight's leadership, CheckFree expanded its scope to multiple types of payments and processing infrastructures, leveraging business intelligence to detect and prevent fraud, electronic billing, reconciliation and operational risk management capabilities - through internal development and acquisitions.

Kight was recognized as one of 10 unsung financial heroes by Money magazine and featured in FORTUNE magazine, where CheckFree's e-payments functionality was named one of the "Seven Silver Bullet Technologies." In 2007, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and was the first recipient of the Peter J. Kight Lifetime Achievement Award from Bank Technology News, a SourceMedia publication.

Kight is a member of the Board of Directors of Akamai Technologies, Inc., Manhattan Associates, Inc. and USA Track & Field Foundation.

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Tripp Rackley
CEO of Firethorn
a Qualcomm company

Recognized as one of the top three innovators in financial services today by Bank Technology News, Tripp Rackley serves as SVP and President of Firethorn (www.firethornmobile.com), a Qualcomm company. Firethorn is the mobile banking and payments enabler delivering the market's first mobile consumer wallet solution supported by the nation's leading financial institutions and wireless carriers.

Since its official launch in November 2006, Firethorn has signed strategic partnerships with AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carriers; brought the nation's first financial institution live with mobile banking and payments with BancorpSouth; and secured agreements with multiple top 10 financial institutions.

A financial services technology veteran and online banking pioneer, Rackley determined from the outset that for mobile banking and payments to succeed and reach mass-market adoption, financial institutions and wireless carriers would have to work together. For this reason, he assembled an all-star board of advisors and management team, representing veteran leadership, market-making insight and track records of success in financial services and wireless communications, whose collective experience have:

• Implemented over 2,000 financial institutions and trained over 20,000 bankers;
• Structured Firethorn to operate as a federation that assembles, connects and manages the complex web of partners, network standards and platform interfaces that make mobile banking and payments possible;
• Engineered a secure and scalable technology platform that delivers comprehensive mobile banking and payments capabilities today with a readymade roadmap to proximity payments in the future;
• Designed the industry's first and only true mobile consumer wallet solution, embedded on select AT&T handsets, that enables consumers to access, add and manage multiple financial relationships simply and securely on virtually any device, anywhere, anytime with a single password.

Previously, Rackley served as Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for nFront, Inc., a leading provider of full-service Internet banking solutions for financial institutions. Rackley built nFront from the ground-up and funded the company internally before taking venture capital in 1998. He then led nFront to a successful Initial Public Offering in 1999 and subsequent sale to Digital Insight, now an Intuit company, in 2000. With a comprehensive background in software development and banking technology, Mr. Rackley was responsible for nFront's overall vision and direction. nFront's technology solution was the recipient of Microsoft's Best Internet Banking Solution and endorsed by the American Banker's Association.

For his alma mater Georgia Tech, Rackley serves on the Board for the Alexander Tharpe Foundation, is a member of the Georgia Tech Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) Advisory Board and was inducted into the Georgia Tech Engineering Hall of Fame.

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Jeffrey C. Sprecher
Founder, Chairman and CEO
IntercontinentalExchange

Jeffrey C. Sprecher, IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Founder, Chairman and CEO, will share his financial industry expertise and vision with attendees at this year's Venture Atlanta, to be held on October 13 - 14, 2009 at the W Hotel in Midtown Atlanta.

Sprecher, a proponent of calculated risk in business decision-making, founded ICE in 2000 as a high-growth company. Since then, ICE has grown rapidly, with revenues exceeding $800 million in 2008. Today, ICE is a leading operator of derivatives markets and clearing houses. Under Sprecher's leadership, ICE expanded from energy into global markets for agriculture, chemicals, credit default swaps, emissions, equity indexes and foreign exchange. Today, ICE operates three regulated futures exchanges, two over-the-counter markets and five clearing houses.

In addition to expanding through acquisitions, Mr. Sprecher has focused ICE's resources on organic growth, including developing the industry's first cleared OTC contracts, building the first major clearing house in the U.K. in over a century and launching the world's first clearing house for credit default swaps.

Sprecher has received awards from BusinessWeek, Institutional Investor and other industry publications. He was selected as a finalist in 2002 for "Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year" and in 2006 as one of five finalists in the "MarketWatch CEO of the Year" program. In addition, ICE's stock was named 2006's best performer by The Wall Street Journal.

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