James Kunkel is Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Trustwave, where he is responsible for strategic business planning, merger and acquisition activity and other corporate functions. While leading this area, Trustwave has become one of the top buyers and successful integrators of security companies in the industry. Prior to Trustwave, James spent more than 15 years in senior positions with leading payment processing companies, including Electronic Payment Services, Concord EFS and Vital Processing, where he led similar strategic planning, corporate development and M&A activities. He was named a top corporate development executive by ExecRank in 2012.