Steve Shaper

Steve Shaper joined Convergent Investors after serving as Chief Executive Officer of TeleCheck Services, Inc., a $420 million check guarantee and verification company based in Houston.

Steve was on the original Board of Directors of Payment Services Company, the Houston TeleCheck franchise which grew to be the largest franchise and eventually took over management of the entire TeleCheck system. Steve joined Payment Services full-time in 1987 as Senior Vice President of Marketing and has seen it grow from $14 million to its present size in thirteen years. Prior to TeleCheck, Steve owned or was a partner in more than 30 manufacturing, distribution, and importing companies during his business career.

He currently is a board member of Associated Building Services, CDP Corporation, General Investment and Trust, Middlemarch Capital Corporation, SureFire Commerce and Teravicta Technologies. He is very active in church and community work and recently completed a term on the Rice University Board of Governors.

Steve earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Shaper resides in Houston, Texas.

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