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Pete Kight

Founder, Chairman, and CEO of CheckFree until selling to Fiserv in December 2007

Kight founded CheckFree in 1981 in his grandmother�s basement, with a vision of providing electronic funds transfer services to businesses and consumers. Over the following 27 years, CheckFree expanded its scope beyond online bill payments to online and mobile banking, digital payments and processing infrastructures, business intelligence analytics, electronic billing, digital reconciliation, and operational risk management systems � through both internal development and acquisitions. CheckFree, with revenues of $1.1 Billion, was sold to Fiserv, Inc in December of 2007 for $4.4 Billion. Kight is a member of the Board of Directors at Huntington Bancshares Incorporated.