Card Briefs: First Data Promotes Risk Manager to EVP

First Data Corp.'s card services group promoted Gary E. Rutledge to executive vice president of issuer risk management.

He runs a division of the Hackensack, N.J., company that oversees portfolio acquisition, credit, and fraud risk.

Mr. Rutledge, 41, most recently was senior vice president of risk management. Before coming to First Data in 1994, he was senior vice president at Barnett Card Services Corp., Jacksonville, Fla.

He reports to Richard A. Zehnacker, president, First Data Resources.

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