Peppercoin Appoints Mark Treco Vice President of Sales and Market Development

Mark Treco has spent almost two decades helping retailers determine how to best utilize integrated payment technologies to increase their revenues and market share, said Mark Friedman, president and CEO of Peppercoin. He will be crucial to strengthening merchant adoption of Peppercoin's innovative suite of technology, which continues to gain market momentum by helping merchants boost customer loyalty and reduce card transaction costs.

Treco worked in sales leadership positions for more than 13 years at VeriFone, a secure electronic payments company. At VeriFone, where he was most recently general manager of the retail division, Treco sold integrated payment technology to the top 300 retail chains in the United States , repeatedly surpassing sales goals and successfully negotiating contracts for payment solutions.

Previously, Treco worked at Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc., a provider of retail point- of-sale systems, where he developed new business opportunities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. While there, Treco led sales campaigns for targeted national accounts.

About Peppercoin, Inc.

Peppercoin is a small payments technology company transforming routine card transactions into new revenue opportunities. Peppercoin's platform accelerates the cash-to-card transition, getting customers to come back more often and spend more using the cards in their wallets-all while costing merchants less. Only Peppercoin provides a loyalty-ready PCI-compliant small payments suite for all payment models, including prepaid, subscription, and pay-as-you-go with Intelligent Aggregation.