Card Industry Restructuring, Partnerships and Alliances
Thursday, September 6, 2007, 11:00am - 12:00

This all-important discussion will cover the biggest issues affecting what the industry will look like in the future. On the agenda are the association restructurings and the evolving roles of other key players; partnerships, private labeling and co-marketing ventures that are changing the way the game is played; and industry consolidation and foreign entrants that are changing who the players are.

Bruce W. Harting, CFA, joined Lehman Brothers in 1996 and is currently a managing director and senior stock analyst following the mortgage finance and specialty finance sectors. Bruce has been on Institutional Investor magazine's "All-America Research Team" since 1991, most recently ranking No. 1 in Mortgage Finance and No. 1 in Specialty Finance in 2006. Since 1997, Bruce has been the No.1, 2, or 3 ranked analyst in the Mortgage Finance and Specialty Finance categories of the Greenwich Associates Survey. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Bruce was a senior analyst at Salomon Brothers Inc. for nine years and worked for one year each at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Wertheim Schroder & Co. Bruce earned a B.S. in International Relations from American University in 1980 and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982.

Trevor Rubel, is chief strategy officer of First Data, Intelligent Results, which was acquired by First Data in March 2007. A veteran of the analytics software industry, Trevor joined Intelligent Results because he saw the power of embedding predictive analytics and decisioning into operational systems. Trevor oversees the company's overall product strategy and the integration of analytics within First Data's extensive offerings.

In previous positions, Trevor has led marketing, business development and product management at both Intelligent Results and other CRM analytics companies. Trevor holds a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Washington.