About National Payment Network
National Payment Network has enrolled over 100,000 customers just like you; helping them simplify their finances and meet their short-term and long-term financial objectives.
National Payment Network, Inc. is the nation's leading provider of loan acceleration programs for the automotive industry. Our turn-key solutions allow agencies, service contract administrators, menu providers and other organizations to offer Biweekly payment programs easily and effectively. These programs are designed to help borrowers customize the timing of payments, accelerate loan pay offs, and build equity faster.
The payment processing partners used by NPN initiate payments for more than 6.6 million consumers and more than two-thirds of the nation's 8 billion Automated Clearing House transactions. Also, our processing partners guarantee that our clients are covered 100% for any funds improperly removed from their bank account while using these services.
National Payment Network is financially backed by
Foundation Capital, a leading private equity firm with $3
billion in capital under management.
Financial security is our primary focus. We continuously implement state-of-the-art technologies and process designs to ensure the integrity of all funds transfers.
Management Team
- Stephen B. Baus CEO
Steve Baus is a private equity investor focused on business
services companies. Steve takes an active role in managing his
investments and most recently was the Executive Chairman of
Weblistic, Inc. where he worked with the Company’s founder
and management team to build management infrastructure, design
and implement a marketing strategy and grow revenues. Weblistic
was acquired by Spot Runner, Inc. in March, 2008.
Prior to Weblistic, Baus was CEO and co-owner of Excell
Services, a Directory Assistance call center outsourcing firm.
During his tenure the company successfully designed and
implemented an operating strategy that returned the company to
cash flow positive, executed a highly successful add-on
acquisition, and retained and developed a management team which
delivered exceptional returns to its shareholders. Excell
Services was acquired by Infonxx, Inc. in September, 2006 in an
all cash transaction.
Prior to leading Excell Services, Baus was a General Partner at
Platinum Equity, a middle market private equity firm from
2002-2004. Prior to Platinum Equity Baus was Chief Financial
Officer of Ebone (NYSE: GTS), a George Soros backed pan-European
alternative telecoms company. GTS was acquired in March, 2002.
Steve Baus has lived and worked throughout the US, Europe and
Asia and received a Bachelor's degree from U.C. Berkeley and an
MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of VRT Insurance
Services and Sconza Candy Company, and is an officer of the
Northern California Chapter of YPO.
- Sanj GoyleEVP and GM of New Verticals
Sanj Goyle is our EVP and GM of New Verticals. In this capacity, he is responsible for NPN's entry into new verticals and revenue opportunities. Sanj has extensive background in consumer finance lead generation and online marketing as well as privacy and legal.
He joins us most recently from Yahoo, where he lead the performance marketing team that developed and operated Yahoo's first Cost-per-Lead platform. Prior to Yahoo, Sanj managed the consumer finance lead generation lines of business at Adteractive and Nextag, as well as founded his own lead generation company called Logical Ads. Sanj also has considerable experience with the privacy and legal issues related to the marketing of consumer finance products, in particular, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and PCI compliance. Sanj is admitted to practice in California and New York, a licensed broker in California and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP).
- Praveer KumarVice President, Engineering & Operations
As Vice President of Engineering and Operations, Praveer is responsible for all aspects of core software development and operations infrastructure. Praveer has more than ten years of software development management experience at both public and start-up companies where he has managed the development of a wide range of technologies including online marketing platforms, globally distributed and scalable applications.
Prior to joining NPN, Praveer oversaw research and development of performance marketing engineering as Sr. Manager of Software development at Yahoo Inc. He was instrumental in the design and development of the next generation lead generation platform at Yahoo. Praveer also lead a working group to identify and solve issues related to end to end latency of banner advertisements.
Prior to joining Yahoo, Praveer oversaw research and development of the entire product range at Digital Impact (Acxiom Digital) as Director of Software development. Praveer was the lead architect of the Relevance-X platform currently used by Acxiom to leverage the direct marketing power of PersonicX in an online environment. During his tenure at Digital Impact, Praveer was instrumental in designing and developing key infrastructure components for online email and search marketing. Apart from other distinctions, Praveer designed patent pending online event collection engine.
Praveer has received Master's degree in System Science and Structural Engineering from Louisiana State University. He holds a bachelors degree from National Institute of Engineering Rourkela, India.
- Douglas S. ByrneVice President, Account Management
Doug is responsible for NPN´s account management efforts, including all of NPN´s dealer and partner support effors. Prior to NPN, Doug was with Penske Automotive Group where he served as the Director of Financial Services, responsible for all F&I revenue, training and compliance for 70 franchises in the western United States. In this role Doug developed and taught an F&I training course, introduced A.F.I.P. compliance certification and worked closely with both GM´s and finance managers resulting in significant improvement in PVR across the region. Prior to this Doug held the position of Strategic Relationship Manager for Chase Automotive finance where he directly supported major dealer groups, providing indirect auto financing and other banking services. Beginning in automotive sales nearly 20 years ago Doug has held many positions in sales, sales management, finance and technology on both the retail and banking sides of the automotive industry.
Doug holds a BA from Pennsylvania State University in Middle Eastern Studies/Languages and served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps.
- Amit MenghaniDirector, Software Development
Amit Menghani oversees software and core technology development efforts for National Payment Network. Before NPN, Amit architected and implemented proprietary business critical systems for J. D. Power and Associates, ADP, UPS Trade Management Services, Ministry of Transportation (Singapore) and Tata Group of Companies. These enterprise systems are currently in use by several fortune 500 companies. Amit has been a senior consultant to Groupe Danone, IBM Global Services, Lotus Development Corporation, Avnet and Covance on several business and mission critical applications.
Amit holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Computer Science and several IT accreditations and certifications.
- Bill WilsonDirector of Product Management
Bill Wilson has over 14 years of experience for bringing new technologies to market and managing the creation of web-based products. He headed product for lead generation products at Yahoo! Inc., managing product integrations into core technologies such as their payments platform. More recently, he has consulted with several Silicon Valley ventures, including managing portfolio products for Monvia, a consulting and start-up incubation firm.
Bill graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelors degree in Economics.
