Tommy Tante

About Tommy Tante

Tommy is a strategic partner, having led several groups in different organizations to deeper client relationships, while providing significant increases in revenue. More recently returned to the Risk space to lead Fiserv\'s deployment of Advance Defense (IBM Safer Payments), while earning a MS in Cyber Security! After successfully launching Advance Defense for several clients, Tommy went on to join Synchrony Financial to lead the Fraud Strategy and Initiatives, within the Transactional Fraud team. Tommy previously consulted with Creation Crate to take their products from the B2C space into the B2E space. He made great gains in revenue for Creation Crate and built a team to sell into more education clients. Tommy served Tech Mahindra leading the payments team to their first new clients in North America. Before Tech Mahindra, Tommy was an account executive with First Data, where he helped develop highly successful merchant programs for the QSR space for merchants across North America. These efforts earned Tommy the prestigious designation of being on the Chairman\'s Council. Before First Data, he managed the existing client sales team as a part of TSYS\' North American Services division. While at TSYS Tommy earned the distinction of TSYS\' Presidents Circle, a group that is selected to meet with the President monthly to help TSYS continue to grow and innovate in the Payments space. Both of these awards are the highest awards that TSYS and First Data provide employees.A 25+ year veteran of the financial services industry, Tommy\'s background also includes sales management, client relations, operations management, fraud/risk management.

Experience

1. VP, Affinity Deposits Technology Leader

   Synchrony

   Sep 2024 — Present · Alpharetta, GA, US

   Partner with clients and internal teams to deliver affinity deposit solutions. Responsible for oversight across cross functional and cross client teams to ensure compliance with Synchrony standards.

Education

• Columbus State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science

  1996 — 2000

• University of San Diego

  Master of Science, Cyber Security Operations and Leadership

Skills

• Business Loans
• Start-Up Ventures
• Product Management
• Credit
• Payments
• Requirements Gathering
• Acquiring
• Salesforce.com
• Payment Card Processing
• Project Delivery
• Portfolio Management
• Start-Ups
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Payment Industry
• Strategic Partnerships
• Payment Systems
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Mobile Payments
• Team Leadership
• Credit Cards
• Cards
• Financial Services
• Crm
• Transaction Processing
• Electronic Payments
• Entrepreneurship
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• E-Payments
• Banking
• Risk Management
• Debit Cards
• Payment Cards
• Payment Gateways
• Requirements Analysis
• Relationship Management
• Loyalty Marketing
• Merchant Services
• Business Analysis