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Rick Wessel is a Vice Chairman/Pres/Secy/Treasurer at First Cash Finl Services Inc and CEO at FirstCash Inc. He has experience at PwC and has worked as Board Member at First Cash Finl Services Inc, Chairman/President/CEO at First Cash Finl Services Inc, and Vice Chairman at FirstCash Inc.

Andrew Siden is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Prepaid Ventures, a next-generation cloud-based payments processor as well as the parent of several Prepaid card brands, including Nexscard. Mr. Siden brings 25 years of financial services and electronic payment processing experience to the company. Before starting Prepaid Ventures, Mr. Siden began his career at SmithBarney in 1991, where he worked as a Guided Portfolio Manager and ultimately became an Equity Trader with Knight Capital Group. In 2003 Mr. Siden left Wall St. to pursue the changing Alternative Financial Services (AFS) industry, where he joined a leading New York-based Check Cashing company. Once there, Mr. Siden implemented new corporate strategies, leveraged technology, and updated compliance & operational procedures. All the while gaining a broad understanding of the AFS landscape and ultimately launching Prepaid Ventures and developing its initial product, the NexsCard Prepaid Visa Card. Now distributed across the country, NexisCard propelled Prepaid Ventures into the payments technologies space where Mr. Siden’s investments in financial technology, program management, and electronic payment processing, has accelerated the growth of Prepaid Ventures. The company now offers a suite of realtime electronic payment solutions on its proprietary processing platform across multiple payments products and distribution channels. Prepaid Ventures is a proud member of the INC. 5000, which gives recognition to America's fastest growing and most successful companies across America. Mr. Siden serves on the board of the Innovative Payments Association (IPA), formerly the NPBCA, the national trade group serving the Fintech and Mobile Banking industries. Specialties: I am on out of the box thinker with a knack for problem solving. I like to tinker with things, I was the kid who opened everything up to see how it worked from the inside.