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New York NY 10016
212 293 2230
www.access-stp.com
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Access International Names John Buckner Jr. as
President and Chief Executive Officer
Feb 10 2003, New York City and Denver
Access International Financial Services, a leading provider of reference
data management for achieving straight-through processing (STP) requirements,
today announced that John Buckner Jr. has joined the company as President
and Chief Executive Officer.
“I am very pleased and excited to join Access International and look
forward to leading this highly talented team,” said Mr. Buckner. “Access’
innovative product portfolio and strong development team present a compelling
value proposition to our customers. The company is well positioned to become
the industry’s leading products and services organization that directly
addresses the challenges that exist within the reference data marketplace.”
In making today’s announcement, Access International Chairman and
co-founder Jeffry Metter said, “John is a tremendous talent who has
proven to be very effective in building and managing companies that deliver
products and services into the financial services industry.” Added
Metter, “John is uniquely qualified to ensure that Access leverages
the tremendous potential for our entire software product suite.”
Formerly, Mr. Buckner was CEO of Symphoni Interactive, a securities-industry
consulting company chartered to provide value-added project management consulting
services to banks, broker/dealers, and the vendors that serve them. Originally,
Mr. Buckner founded Symphoni Interactive as IMIS Inc. and, over a six-year
period, was successful in building the organization into a multi-million
dollar entity.
Throughout his career, Mr. Buckner has been exposed to many brokerage and
banking capital markets operations and has extensive experience in the evaluation
and implementation of large-scale back office applications capable of processing
enterprise-wide securities activities.
“John's expertise in managing the implementation of back office applications
within the financial services arena will be invaluable to Access as the
company grows,“ said Rob Stavis, partner at lead investor Bessemer
Venture Partners. “We believe that the combination of its recent financing
and John Buckner’s leadership will position the company to leverage
the opportunities that we see in the reference data marketplace,”
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About Access International’s Global Product Suite™
The Global Product Suite™ is designed and implemented as the corporate
product database that drives the processing of a real-time, multi-currency,
multi-entity back office system. Access International’s Global Product
Suite™ is comprised of three real-time application components:
Product Master –
a robust reference application comprising comprehensive product data to
support a global back-office system
Product
Classification – a flexible tool that permits unique views of
product information based on user-defined rules, updated in real-time via
Product Master
Firm Price Management – a powerful
database system for the collection and dissemination of multi-currency product
pricing information
About Access International
Based in Denver and New York City, Access International Financial Services
provides front, middle, and back office support to global market players
using a unique approach to product reference data and back office applications
to clear and settle cross border transactions. Access International provides
real-time, multi-currency application software that delivers straight
through processing (STP) across an enterprise in a consistent, timely,
and cost effective manner.
To learn more about Access International, visit www.access-stp.com.
About Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm that carries
on one of the longest-standing venture capital activities in the country.
In 1911, Henry Phipps established what was to become Bessemer Securities
Corporation, BVP's principal limited partner, as an investment firm for
the benefit of his descendants, starting with his share of the proceeds
from the sale of Carnegie Steel. Since its inception, a central component
of Bessemer Securities' charter has been to invest in and help build innovative,
high-growth companies. Some of the companies that Bessemer helped establish
or build in the early days include W.R. Grace, International Paper, and
Ingersoll-Rand.
To learn more about Bessemer Venture Partners, visit www.bvp.com.
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