Joe Jackson has an exceptional track record of growing large, consumer-oriented financial services businesses. Throughout every phase of his career, Jackson has taken a customer-centric approach that puts client and participant success at the top of the business agenda. He is also renowned as an outstanding leader. One of Jackson's key goals is to propel each and every employee in his organizations to achieve their full potential and maximize customer satisfaction by focusing on teamwork, solutions-based business practices, and new and innovative ideas. Jackson has nearly 25 years of experience in the financial services industry with First Data Corporation, one of the world's largest payment processing companies. He was most recently President of Western Union Global Payment Services, a subsidiary of First Data. Prior to that, he was President of First Data Europe, based in London. Early in his career, Jackson served in a number of increasingly senior services, sales, and sales management positions with First Data. Jackson is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, where he received a Bachelors' degree in business in 1982.