2008 NACHA Payments System Awards

The 2008 NACHA Payments System Awards Luncheon Sponsored by IBM. Join us for this full service luncheon where outstanding accomplishments in the electronic payments industry are recognized with the presentation of the 2008 George Mitchell Payments System Excellence Award and the 2008 Kevin O'Brien ACH Quality Award. The annual NACHA awards are an excellent opportunity for companies, financial institutions, and service providers to demonstrate their performance and results in electronic payments. After the ceremony, sit back and enjoy hearing Ben Mezrich. Whether describing the thrills of insanely high stakes poker or exposing the seamy underbelly of boxing promotion, Ben Mezrich has established himself as the premier chronicler of the lives of the young, the brilliant, the impossibly rich, and the borderline crazy. On the lecture stage he brings to vivid life the clandestine worlds that have figured in his blockbuster books and made him one of the hottest commodities in publishing and entertainment today. Recently named People magazine's "Sexiest Author," Mezrich has penned eight books with a combined printing of more than one million copies in nine languages. They include the wildly popular bestsellers Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (the basis for 21, the MGM feature film starring Kevin Spacey); Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions; and Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees. Mezrich also co-hosts GSN's World Series of Blackjack, contributes regularly to Stuff magazine, and advises casino owners on ways to avoid getting fleeced by the card sharks whose exploits he has made the stuff of legend.

Speakers:
Peter Bearor
Global Payments Executive, IBM Corporation
Danne Buchanan
Executive Vice President, Zions Bancorporation
Steve M. Ellis
Executive Vice President, Wells Fargo
Elliott C. McEntee
President & CEO, NACHA - The Electronic Payments Association
Ben Mezrich
Author