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Robert A. Jenisch, publisher of Digital Transactions, Digital Transactions News, and digitaltransactions.net, received the Industry Achievement Award from the MidWest Acquirers Association on Wednesday.
The award, which recognizes substantial career accomplishments and contributions in the U.S. merchant-acquiring industry, was given to Jenisch during the MWAA’s annual conference in Lombard, Ill. The association, which represents the interests of independent sales organizations, financial institutions, and other companies that contract with merchants for payment processing, has given the award to a single individual each year since its founding 11 years ago.
“I am extremely grateful to the MWAA and all its members and officers for this award,” Jenisch says. “When I think of the men and women who have received it over the years, all of them giants in this industry, I am truly humbled.”
“What comes to mind when I think of Bob is class, professionalism, and industry knowledge. He’s just an all-round good guy,” says Donna Embry, senior vice president for strategic development at Louisville-based processor Payment Alliance International and president of the MWAA. When considering candidates for the award, the association considers such factors as contribution to and impact on the industry as well as years served in the industry, she says.
Jenisch has been publisher of the monthly magazine Digital Transactions, the weekly email newsletter Digital Transactions News, and the associated Web site digitaltransactions.net since cofounding Glen Ellyn, Ill.-based Boland Hill Media LLC in 2003. The publications document trends and developments in electronic payments in North America.
Before Boland Hill, Jenisch was a publisher and executive with Source Media and predecessor companies Thomson Media and Faulkner & Gray, working on magazines, source books, and digital properties concerned with merchant acquiring as well as the debt-collection and international chip card industries.
Jenisch is the second publisher to receive the MWAA’s achievement award, following Paul Green, until recently owner of the industry newsletter The Green Sheet, who won in 2004. Other winners include Embry as well as Robert O. Carr, chief executive of Heartland Payment Systems, Dan Neistadt of Electronic Merchant Systems, and Biff Mathews, owner of CardWare International.
