New talent joins The Kessler Group

Boston, Massachusetts—We are pleased to announce the addition of two key Kessler employees: Andrew McCarthy and Jeff Slawsky.

Andrew joins TKG as Managing Director, Client Services. Andrew will work with other members of the senior team to develop a world-class client relationship management organization. Our goal here is to more effectively cross-sell a wider range of products and services into our expanding client base by developing and executing cross-enterprise account plans for key clients. Andrew joins us from McKinsey’s Payments Practice in New York.

Jeff has come on board filling the role of Managing Director, Marketing Services. Jeff will drive forward in expanding both our client base and the range of our marketing services. Jeff will create a new emerging payments area to become a centre of excellence for the Group. Jeff has been operating his own consulting firm for the last 10 years where he successfully marketed consulting services to payment card issuers and supporting organizations and industry service suppliers.

About The Kessler Group
The Kessler Group is a privately-owned financial services firm based in Boston specializing in partnership development, credit card marketing and portfolio acquisitions. The Kessler Group employs its unique combination of marketing and transaction expertise to create innovative solutions for its clients in the credit card, consumer finance and insurance industries. Founded in 1979, The Kessler Group pioneered the affinity credit card concept and has created and marketed over 6,000 affinity and cobranded card programs for many of the leading partnership marketing card issuers in the world. Through its marketing subsidiary, the firm manages the production of approximately 1.5 billion pieces of direct mail per year and through its investment banking group, has managed over 350 credit card transactions, working with virtually all leading credit card issuers, as buyers and sellers, in the United States and the United Kingdom. To learn more about Kessler, visit www.kessler.com.