Leadership Team

Iser Cukierman

Business Leader, Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer

Iser Cukierman was named Business Leader of Fiserv's Austin Operation in March of 2009. Prior that, Iser served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Fiserv, Iser acted as CFO of Strategic Forecasting, a geopolitical analysis and professional services company. Iser was also an associate with VirtualCFO, a consulting firm providing strategic and tactical financial consulting and support services for early-stage and emerging growth companies. As a financial consultant, he partnered with management teams at such companies as Techsolve, @hand, Voxpath Networks and Palisades Developers, to create infrastructure and systems to support rapid growth.

Mr. Cukierman served as Director of Corporate Finance at Softbank Emerging Markets, a $200 million international venture capital fund formed to invest in Internet and telecommunications-related companies in developing countries. He also has served as Director of Finance and Business Development at Brand 3, Inc., a "virtual ISP" company, and as Manager of Mergers and Acquisitions at Ernst & Young. Iser holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas in Austin and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Chris Ritchie

VP, Engineering

Chris Ritchie brings over 20 years of high tech leadership and experience to Fiserv EDD. Chris became the Vice President of Software Development in January 2008 and has overall responsibility for the IT, Web Hosting, Architecture, Software Development and QA groups. Chris is responsible for the strategic leadership of a diverse team of technical professionals that rapidly define, develop, and deliver innovative new products and services for Fiserv customers.

Previously, Chris served as VP of Software Development at Harte-Hanks, where he was responsible for building consistent best practices in the delivery of CRM solutions across six international Software Development teams. Prior to Harte-Hanks, Chris was in leadership positions in several start-up ventures including The Cobalt Group, an enterprise-class CRM provider to the automotive industry. He also enjoyed a distinguished 15 year career at IBM composed of extensive hardware and software experience in the Product Development and Services arenas. Chris has led change management and provided solutions on an enterprise class architecture platform to a variety of Fortune 500 customers throughout his career.

Chris holds a degree in Computer Science from St. Edwards University, and is involved in the Austin inventor community.