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David G. Yates was named president of First Data International in September 2007. In this role, he has executive management responsibility for all of First Data's activities outside the United States.
Yates joined the company in 2004 as president of First Data's Europe, Middle East and Africa region, where his oversight led to a period of rapid growth, trebling business volumes and extending the company’s presence into new markets. Under his leadership, First Data acquired and successfully integrated leading payments processors in Austria, Germany, Greece, Poland and the Baltics.
Yates has extensive international IT, banking and payment systems experience. During his more than 20-year career, he has sold, consulted and run major systems integration projects throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He has established outsourcing businesses in all these regions as well as Australia.
Yates has worked with major international corporations including IBM, General Electric and American Management Systems. He was a Divisional Managing Director with GE in Germany before joining AMS, an international IT systems integration and consulting firm. Here, as senior vice president, he managed the firm’s New York based financial services consulting business, before returning to Europe as Managing Director, AMS Europe, realigning the firm’s European operations and providing payments and clearing consulting services to Europe’s leading financial institutions as well as advisory services to major telecom operators.
An Irish and British citizen, David is fluent in German, English and French. He holds a Master’s degree in Law from Oxford University.
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