Viewpointe Makes Executive Hires

VIEWPOINTE MAKES EXECUTIVE HIRES

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2006--Viewpointe today announced that it has hired two officer-level executives to join their ranks. Diane Scott takes the position of Chief Sales, Marketing, and Product Officer, and Rustin Carpenter becomes Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer.
Scott will create a new product development group, while overseeing and formalizing roles on the customer care, sales, and marketing teams. Carpenter is responsible for the continuing development, in concert with customers, of Viewpointe's long term strategy. Specifically, he will determine ways Viewpointe can extend its national infrastructure and capabilities in the payments industry to create better efficiencies for financial services organizations.

Both will be based in New York.

""Diane brings tremendous experience and credibility to her new role. She has vast global experience and her broad knowledge of marketing and product development will enable Viewpointe to further grow our service capabilities - making us an even stronger strategic partner of our customers,"" said Lou Buglioli, Viewpointe chief executive officer.

Buglioli added, ""Rusty has extensive expertise in payments and merchant check services and will be a significant force in expanding Viewpointe's role in the payments industry.""

Scott, former Chairman and CEO of Scott Communications Group Ltd. of the United Kingdom and Canada, led the corporation of market and product development professionals in providing management consulting for numerous global corporations. Prior to founding Scott Communications, she was Global Director of Marketing for Temenous Group AG, as well as the Financial Services Industry Group of Perot Systems Corporation. Scott holds a BA and Strategic Management Qualification from York University, Toronto, Canada and an Executive Business Management qualification from CEDEP, Insead University in France.

Most recently, Carpenter served as Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at Certegy, and was responsible for the North American Check Services business. As a senior executive experienced in managing multinational organizations, Carpenter's work background includes American Express Corporate Services, Andersen Worldwide, and Dun & Bradstreet. He holds a BA from Denison University and an MBA from Rutgers.

About Viewpointe
Viewpointe is a leading provider of check image processing and Check 21-related services to the nation's top financial institutions. Viewpointe operates the largest national archive of check images and information and is the only institution able to provide image exchange on demand through ImageShareTM and direct bank-to-bank image exchange through Pointe2PointeTM. Viewpointe customers and connections include: BancorpSouth, Inc., Bank of America, BB&T, Compass, Endpoint Exchange, First Horizon National Corp., Fiserv, Inc, Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., Harris Bank, HSBC Bank USA, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., National City Corporation, Southwest Corporate Federal Credit Union, SunTrust Bank, Synovus Financial Corp., U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo and Zions Bancorporation. For more information about Viewpointe and its services, please visit www.viewpointe.com