Juan Bianchi

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    Juan C. Bianchi
    Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Money Transfer Segment

    JUAN C. BIANCHI joined Euronet subsequent to the Company's acquisition of RIA Envia Inc., the third-largest global money transfer company in April 2007. As CEO of the money transfer segment, Mr. Bianchi oversees Euronet's money transfer operations worldwide. He is responsible for the financial and operational performance of the Segment in addition to driving the global strategy for the money transfer division. Prior to the acquisition, Mr. Bianchi served as the CEO of RIA and has spent his entire career at either RIA or AFEX Money Express, a money transfer company purchased by RIA's founders.

    Mr. Bianchi has more than 15 years of experience in the money transfer industry. He began his career at AFEX in Chile in 1992 and in 1996, he moved to the U.S. to join AFEX USA's operations. While at AFEX USA, first as assistant manager and then as general manager, the company grew from processing 5,000 money transfer transactions per month to 300,000 per month. Subsequently, Mr. Bianchi became the chief operating officer of AFEX-RIA in 2003 and was instrumental in integrating the two companies. Mr. Bianchi studied business at the Universidad Andres Bello in Chile and completed the Executive Program in Management at UCLA's John E. Anderson School of Business.

    Rick Weller

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      Rick L. Weller
      Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

      RICK L. WELLER was named chief financial officer for Euronet Worldwide in November 2002. He is in charge of the Company's financial operations including financial planning and analysis, acquisitions and treasury aspects of the business. Mr. Weller has more than 30 years of business and financial management experience.

      Prior to joining Euronet, Mr. Weller held several operating and financial leadership positions with companies ranging from start-up businesses to large, multinational operations. He served as chief operating officer of ionex telecommunications, a competitive local exchange company. Prior to ionex, Mr. Weller served as chief financial officer of Intek Information, Inc., an information technology outsource service provider. His previous experience includes various management roles at Sprint including vice president, finance of Sprint Communications' consumer services long distance group; assistant vice president, finance for the company's business services long distance group; and as assistant vice president of Sprint's corporate-wide internal audit group. Prior to joining Sprint, Mr. Weller served as senior manager in the financial service industry practice of Price Waterhouse, an international public accounting firm. Mr. Weller is a certified public accountant and received his bachelor's degree from Central Missouri State University.

      Kevin Caponecchi

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        Kevin J. Caponecchi
        Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, epay, Software and EFT Asia Pacific Division

        KEVIN J. CAPONECCHI joined Euronet in July 2007. Kevin is responsible for the strategic planning, operations and management of epay (Euronet's Prepaid segment) on a global basis and the software and Asia Pacific EFT businesses. In this role, he oversees the growth of the segments in addition to exploring new business opportunities and expansion into new markets.

        Kevin has 17 years of domestic and international management experience with various GE businesses. Prior to joining Euronet, he served as president for GE Transportation's Global Signaling business. Under his leadership, the Signaling team posted double-digit growth and expanded the business into China, India and South America. During his long and successful stint at GE, Kevin worked in various management capacities within manufacturing, technology and marketing.  He holds degrees in physics from Franklin and Marshall College and industrial engineering from Columbia University.

        Michael Brown

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          Michael J. Brown
          Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President

          Michael J. Brown co-founded Euronet in 1994 and has served as its Chief Executive Officer ever since. He is chairman of Euronet’s board of directors and the Company’s President. An accomplished entrepreneur with 30+ years of combined experience in the computer software and digital payments business, he is actively involved in Euronet’s day-to-day operations while overseeing the company’s business strategy, financial performance and growth across all markets. Mr. Brown’s guidance has been instrumental in developing Euronet’s global cash/digital payments network and diverse products and services that provide Euronet with resiliency to changing market conditions and continual year-over-year growth in the global payments marketplace. Following early successes in his career with Kansas City-area companies Informix and Visual Tools, Mr. Brown founded Euronet in 1994 in Budapest, Hungary, by installing the first independent, non-bank-owned ATM network in Central Europe. Guiding the company through several strategic acquisitions and technology endeavors since then, Mr. Brown has grown Euronet to approximately 10,000 employees and 67 offices worldwide. He has also brought financial inclusion and convenience to businesses and consumers through a payments network spanning 200 countries and territories. A lifelong Kansas Citian, Mr. Brown is an active supporter and past and present board member of many Kansas City-area charities. Please see Mr. Brown’s complete biography here.

          Chairman of the Board

          Thomas McDonnell

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          Thomas A. McDonnell
          Retired President and Chief Executive Officer

          Thomas A. McDonnell has been a Director of Euronet since its incorporation in December 1996, and he previously served on the boards of Euronet’s predecessor companies. He has served as Lead Independent Director since September 2014. From October 1984 until September 12, 2012, he served as Chief Executive Officer of DST Systems, Inc., a former stockholder of Euronet. From September 12, 2012, through December 31, 2012, he served as non-executive Chairman of DST Systems, Inc. From 1973 to September 1995, he served as Treasurer of DST Systems, Inc. From January 1, 2013, until his retirement on December 31, 2014, Mr. McDonnell was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Mr. McDonnell is currently a director of ENDI Corp., where he is a member of the audit committee. Mr. McDonnell has a B.S. in Accounting from Rockhurst University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Finance.

          Independent Director
          Lead Director