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Phillip Riese has served as a director of Hypercom since October 2004. Since 1998, Mr. Riese has been President of RIESE & OTHERS, New York City, providing advisory and consultancy services to an array of Fortune 500, and private and publicly held mid-cap companies. Prior thereto, Mr. Riese spent 18 years at American Express where he was President of the Consumer Card Services Group for American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. He was responsible for developing, marketing and servicing all charge and credit card products for consumers in the United States. Before being brought into the Card Business in 1990, he had managed a variety of Systems, Customer Service, as well as Marketing, Sales, Risk Management, Data Mining, and Business Development activities at American Express. Mr. Riese previously had been a Division Executive at the Chase Manhattan Bank, and before that a partner in the consulting firm of M.C. Geffen and Associates in Cape Town, South Africa. After leaving American Express, Mr. Riese also served as CEO and a director of AirClic Inc., and of OptiMark Technologies. Mr. Riese holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.) degree from Leeds University in the UK, with joint study in Economics and Textile Engineering, an MBA from the University of Cape Town, and Masters Degree in management from the M.I.T Sloan School of Management, where he was a Sloan Fellow. | 