Management

The Company has been fortunate to assemble a strong management team experienced in the technology start up process with over 50 years of small technology company experience.

Thomas Meredith- Chairman and CEO
Mr. Meredith has significant Internet, financial services and telecommunications experience. He started his computer career with Digital Equipment Corporation when the first 32-bit architecture was introduced. He was one of the original team of the first Apple clone manufacturer, Franklin Computers, managing 11 Western states and over 800 retailers. He was the OEM Director for Lisp Machine, a leading artificial intelligence company.

Mr. Meredith was founder of VoxLink and led the company for seven years to become the leading innovator of voice and electronic mail integration. He also founded one of the first game companies on the Internet, Internet Gaming; which was responsible for processing the first significant volume of credit cards on the Internet and internationally. Mr. Meredith gained additional financial processing experience consulting to the financial services industry, primarily in automation of mortgage and credit/debit card processing.

Mr. Meredith is a graduate of the Harvard Business School specializing in Entrepreneurial studies and the Stanford University School of Engineering where he graduated in three years on Academic Scholarship. He has a working knowledge of French and Spanish.

Steven E. Russell-CFO
Steve brings a rare combination of international finance and telecommunications start-up experience to the P2P Cash team. Currently the CFO of a satellite based content delivery company; he was previously CFO of Florida Digital, a leading telecommunications CLEC. As Vice President and International Treasurer for Lucent Technologies, Steve oversaw all foreign exchange operations. At Pfizer, he managed the treasury desk for Europe, including the Pfizer International Bank and the tax-center in Brussels.

Mr. Russell received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a Master of Science from Boston University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard and spent several years as an officer in the U.S. Army. He is fluent in German.

Joseph Bouler- CTO
Mr. Bouler has extensive experience with international payments operations and equity trading operations. He was previously with Visa International as Director of VOSAI- Visa Online Systems Architecture and Infrastructure responsible for delivering transaction data to over 20,000 financial institutions worldwide. He was also Director of System and Programming at Equifax, managing their credit application process. Joe was CEO at LogicWorx, where he oversaw the development of an institutional trading system for investment banking clients.

Most recently, Joe was the executive responsible for day to day operations of a $7 million loyalty processing services company. These responsibilities included leading the product development strategy, managing information technology and customer support for the company.

Chris McPhillips- President SE Asia
Formerly the Chief Marketing Officer of an international wireless Data/Security startup, Chris has extensive internet payment solution experience as well as merchant card marketing success. He has engineered mergers/acquisitions and spun-off technology divisions in Fortune 5000 to dot-com companies. He has significant numerous new technology consortium formation experience and implementation. He has worked in the authentication, verification, and anti-counterfeiting perspectives on a global basis. He successfully established new revenue generating e-commerce applications in the fields of mortgage banking for First American, Contour Mortgage and other related financial transactions categories. Chris was awarded a Joint MBA/JD degree from Pepperdine University School of Law.

John Holstein- President Russia-CIS
John has global expertise and a proven track record in formation of strategic alliances, new business start-up, business and technology acquisitions, risk mitigation and regulatory compliance. John founded Geospatial Metrics, providing business solutions for litigation and homeland security. Previously, he held several management capacities at Cardinal Health, a $75 billion Fortune 16 company for twenty years. His various responsibilities included development and implementation of multi-million dollar programs regarding information technology, data integrity, business intelligence, risk mitigation, acquisition integrations, market expansion, new technology introduction and business process improvement.

Previously, John pioneered advanced computer graphics for DARPA at the US Air Force Weapons Laboratory. He also founded five successful Russian charities endorsed by the Russian Ministry of Education focused on the education and integration of Russian orphans into mainstream Russian society. John has a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Nuclear Pharmacy from University of New Mexico and a MBA from Crummer School of Business at Rollins College. He is conversational in Russian and has a basic knowledge of Spanish and German.

Dr. Harald Stadlbauer- President Europe
Dr. Stadlbauer brings significant business development skills to P2P Cash especially in the European telecommunications markets. He was with the leading wireless carrier in Europe, T-Mobile, for over 8 years, most recently as Vice President Partner Development & Corporate Venturing for T-Mobile International. Harald also served as Executive Director New Business, T-Mobile Austria and Manager of eCommerce/mCommerce. Previously, he was Quality Manager for Cap Gemini and Project Manager for Sony in Austria.
Harald is fluent in several languages including English, French and Japanese with a working knowledge of Italian and Spanish. He received his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria and his Doctorate degree on “Intelligent Design” from the TU Wien Institute of Flexible Automation.

Advisory Board

Robert Horne
Mr. Horne has tremendous experience in new technology ventures especially in telecommunications. He was Vice President for Nortel Networks focusing on the Finance markets with an emphasis on e-commerce and managed Nortel’s internal venture fund. He was Chairman of NetActive, an internet security company and Board member of Ceon Corporation, a telecommunications software company. Previously, Robert was Vice President for Digital Equipment Corporation and General Manager in Latin America for Stauffer Chemical.

Robert is on the Board of the Southeast Council of the American Electronics Association, and is a Founding Member of the Georgia Technology Leadership Coalition representing the technology industry to the state legislature. He sits on the Operating Board of the Technology Association of Georgia, and on the External Advisory Board of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Clemson University. Mr. Horne received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, both from Cambridge University, England, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ted Cohen

Ted, former SVP Digital Development & Distribution for music major EMI, is one of the best known advocates for adopting new technology within the music and entertainment industries. At EMI, Ted led global digital business development, helping EMI become a leader in new technologies such as digital downloads, online music subscriptions, wireless services, high-definition audio and Internet radio.

Larry Gilbert

Larry Gilbert is undoubtedly one of the world’s leading experts in online cash legal issues; especially as pertains to Patriot Act Compliance and Identity Authentication procedures. Larry has significant senior management experience that complements his legal background position with emphasis in early development stage companies in the technology sector. His last position was as VP & General Manager, Authentication Solutions at ChoicePoint, a leading provider of decisioning and risk management data to insurance, government and Fortune 1000 customers. As CEO of Identico Systems, he was responsible for its sale to ChoicePoint where he integrated the Identico product line of point-of-service identity verification system for in-person transactions in retail, retail financial, security and similar markets.

Previous to that, Larry was General Counsel, VP Strategic Planning and GM of CyberCash, responsible for product development of the company’s Internet micropayments aimed at peer-to-peer transactions and for strategic positioning of company with potential regulators and other government bodies in the US and worldwide. Prior to CyberCash, Larry worked as Strategic Advisor and Legal Counsel to Verifone, the Originator of market for point-of-sale credit card verification terminals. Larry graduated with his Law degree for University of California at Los Angeles and his Bachelors Degree from Pitzer College, Claremont, California,

Consequently, Larry is uniquely positioned to assist P2P Cash in our development and positioning efforts with regulatory agencies worldwide.