Christopher Marczyk

Christopher Marczyk has 20 years of software development and database design experience. For the past 16 years, Chris has worked in many aspects of financial transaction system processing, including credit and debit cards, as well as prepaid products.

Before joining HOPS, Chris was Vice President of Fidelity National Information Systems where he ran the software and database development, quality assurance and change management teams for the Prepaid division in Sunrise, Fla. The staff included more than 300 engineers in many different locations, including overseas.

Prior to FNIS, he worked at Wildcard Systems (WCS) and eFunds (EFD) in various technology roles, including enterprise architecture, software development and data warehouse design and development. As a senior member of the enterprise architecture team, his role was to design and implement scalable and reliable platform enhancements to increase system capacity for a client base growing an average of 30-40%, year over year.

At WCS and EFD, Chris played key roles in launching many of the Prepaid products found common in the industry today such as gift, travel, incentive, reloadable and healthcare flexible spending account prepaid products. These open-loop card services interfaced with many processors such as Visa, Mastercard and Discover Financial Services, as well as pinned-based card processing with such debit networks as Interlink, Maestro, Plus and Cirrus. Chris also served as the technology leader to migrate and launch the American Express prepaid products on the EFD platform.

Chris received a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Currently, Chris also holds a patent for a low-cost routing algorithm used in the financial industry.