Edward R. Starrs, B.B.A., Founder &
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Starrs has 20 years experience as an international business executive with management experience in multiple industries. Starrs has a proven record in team building, sales, marketing and distribution with full P&L responsibility as public corporate officer and as private company owner.
Previously, Mr. Starrs has been President of Starnet Systems Inernational, Inc., a public company that was processing more than $2 billion annually in Internet transactions by the year 2000 through its StarMX transaction processing engine. StarMX was the first Internet processing system to be certified by a Canadian chartered bank. Key to this success, Starrs created comprehensive solutions for Internet payment processing including successfully developing and implementing systems to control fraud, secure transactions and increase global distribution for e-commerce merchants.
Mr. Starrs owned and operated several successful companies including, ERS Marketing, Inc., where he produced over $20 million in contracts for his clients, and Bay Distributing, Inc. a major distributor of over 800 product categories to Fortune 500 accounts.
Starrs has also held senior management positions with Fortune 100 companies including McCaw Communications, Inc. (AT&T), and AMF, Inc., the world’s largest sporting goods conglomerate. |
"We are the first to market with an online Check 21 solution."
- Edward Starrs, CEO
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R. Stephen Blandford, B.Soc., I.T.P., Secretary & Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Blandford possesses more than 15 years experience as a Senior Information Technology Professional. With a background in Economics as well as Computer Science, Mr. Blandford is skilled at both the business case and technology adoption. Mr. Blandford has held the CTO position at a number of successful companies in the online entertainment and gaming industries. Blandford has extensive expertise as a senior systems analyst, project leader and development manager.
Mr. Blandford’s professional experience includes i2 Corp, MXM Media, Maxum Entertainment Group, Perspective Technologies, WinStreak and others. Blandford has composed SRS’s relating to implementation of proprietary technology, has been the project lead on software development operations, designed LAN /WAN integration of streaming media and software, organized and managed technical staff, and has held responsibility for P&L, purchasing and deadlines.
Mr. Blandford has expertise in the design and implementation of Java streaming media solutions for multiple platforms, using Coldfusion, PHP, & SQL DBs. For more than a decade Blandford has architected systems featuring virtually every emerging technology. |
"Our system provides merchants with access to more customers at a much lower cost than card processing."
- Stephen Blandford, CTO
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