CHICAGO and LOWELL, Mass., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- DMA08 -- Litle & Co.
(www.litle.com) today said that Marc Haskelson has joined the payment
processing company as vice president, business development, responsible for
the company's demand generation, partner and business development efforts
across key direct-to-consumer merchant segments.
Haskelson comes to Litle & Co. from Questcon, Inc., the IT consulting
firm, where he led the company's sales and business development organizations.
Prior to Questcon, Haskelson was an executive with The Hearst Corporation,
serving as vice president and general manager for business solutions of its
CDS Division-a leading provider of outsourced direct commerce solutions for
catalogs, marketing, financial institutions and magazine publishers.
Previously, Haskelson was vice president strategic sales and development at
NewRoads, Inc., now part of GSI Commerce. He began his career with
assignments at Experian, Inc. and AT&T. Haskelson has served on the
Membership Committee of the Electronic Retailing Association and as a member
of the Scholarship Review Committee of the Direct Marketing Educational
Foundation (DMEF).
"Direct-to-consumer merchants increasingly look for value-added service in
a payments partner," said Tom Litle, president and CEO, Litle & Co. "Litle &
Co.'s rapid growth is directly attributable to our focus on advising direct
merchants in all aspects of the payment lifecycle, and Marc's experience in
the direct-to-consumer community continues our commitment to providing
leadership in this space."
Litle & Co. is a leading payments platform for merchants who sell goods
and services directly to consumers. Providing transaction processing and
consultative merchant services for card-not-present and alternative payments,
the Litle & Co. payments platform is engineered specifically to meet the needs
of companies in Direct Response (DRTV, radio, print), Multichannel Retail
(including catalogs), Internet Retail, and Online Services. Founded in 2001,
and based in Lowell, Massachusetts, Litle & Co.'s growth has been acknowledged
by a No.1 Inc. 500 ranking (2006) and a No.8 Entrepreneur Hot 100 ranking
(2008).