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The Payments Processing Information Sharing Council, formed earlier this year to share information about fraud, threats and risk-mitigation practices (CardLine, 4/27), has formed a volunteer steering committee to guide the group. Robert O. Carr, chairman and CEO of Heartland Payment Systems Inc., a Princeton, N.J.-based payment processor, will serve as the council's chairman. Vice chair is Rick Van Luvender, director of InfoSec Incident Response Center at First Data Corp., an Atlanta-based payment processor. Committee members include Terry Dooley, senior vice president and chief information officer at ITS Inc., the Johnston, Iowa-based parent company of Shazam electronic funds transfer network; Chris Kenyon, chief information officer and executive vice president of systems and technology at Atlanta-based Elavon Global Acquiring Solutions; John Kirkpatrick, senior vice president and chief information officer at TransFirst Holdings Inc., a Hauppauge, N.Y.-based processor; John Latimer, group executive and enterprise risk executive at Total System Services Inc., a Columbus, Ga.-based processor; and Tom Tesmer, chief technology officer at Pipeline Data Inc., an Alphraretta, Ga.-based processor. The committee will establish strategic goals for the council, a spokesperson says. The group is an offshoot of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a Sterling, Va.-based organization that helps the public and private sectors share information about transaction-data security threats.
