SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- EVERTEC, Inc. (NYSE:EVTC) (“EVERTEC” or the “Company”) today announced the following key organizational changes:

• Peter J. S. Smith will join EVERTEC’s executive team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on September 1, 2015. The Company’s current CFO, Juan José Román Jiménez, will be leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities.
• Operations and Information Technology will be re-organized to decentralize IT services so that customer support will report directly to the key business leaders. IT areas such as Data Security, Compliance and Vendor Management will be centralized under Phil Steurer, Chief Operating Officer. Eduardo Camargo, Chief Information Officer, will be leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities.

“EVERTEC has a very clear mission to effectively grow, and these organizational changes will improve our customer focus and our accountability across the organization,” said Mac Schuessler, President and CEO of EVERTEC.

Mr. Schuessler continued, “Peter brings significant industry experience to the team and we look forward to welcoming him and his family to Puerto Rico. I am personally grateful to Juan and Eduardo for their many contributions, and we all wish them well in their future endeavors.”

Peter J. S. Smith brings significant financial and industry leadership experience to EVERTEC. Prior to his appointment as CFO, Mr. Smith most recently served as Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Senior Vice President of Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS). In his role at FIS, Smith was the principal accounting officer responsible for enterprise-wide accounting operations and systems, financial controls and external reporting. Prior to this role, Smith served as Senior Vice President and Segment Controller at FIS where he was responsible for managing the finance and accounting functions for FIS Payments Solutions Group segment.

About EVERTEC

EVERTEC, Inc. (NYSE: EVTC) is the leading full-service transaction processing business in Latin America, providing a broad range of merchant acquiring, payment processing and business solutions services. The largest merchant acquirer in the Caribbean and Central America - and one of the largest in Latin America - EVERTEC serves 19 countries in the region from its base in Puerto Rico. The Company manages a system of electronic payment networks that process more than 2.1 billion transactions annually, and offers a comprehensive suite of services for core bank processing, cash processing and technology outsourcing. In addition, EVERTEC owns and operates the ATH network, one of the leading personal identification number (“PIN”) debit networks in Latin America. The Company serves a diversified customer base of leading financial institutions, merchants, corporations and government agencies with “mission-critical” technology solutions. For more information, visit www.evertecinc.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of, and subject to the protection of, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of EVERTEC to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Statements preceded by, followed by, or that otherwise include the words “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “projects,” “estimates,” and “plans” and similar expressions of future or conditional verbs such as “will,” “should,” “would,” “may,” and “could” are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical facts. Any statements that refer to expectations or other characterizations of future events, circumstances or results are forward-looking statements.

Various factors that could cause actual future results and other future events to differ materially from those estimated by management include, but are not limited to: the Company’s reliance on its relationship with Popular for a significant portion of revenue; our ability to renew our client contracts on terms favorable to us; the effectiveness of our risk management procedures; our dependence on our processing systems, technology infrastructure, security systems and fraudulent-payment-detection systems, and the risk that our systems may experience breakdowns or fail to prevent security breaches or fraudulent transfers; our ability to develop, install and adopt new technology; a decreased client base due to consolidations in the banking and financial-services industry; the credit risk of our merchant clients, for which we may also be liable; the continuing market position of the ATH® network; reduction in consumer confidence leading to decreased consumer spending; the Company’s dependence on credit card associations; regulatory limitations on our activities due to our relationship with Popular and our role as a service provider to financial institutions; changes in the regulatory environment and changes in international, legal, political, administrative or economic conditions; the geographical concentration of the Company’s business in Puerto Rico; operating an international business in multiple regions with potential political and economic instability; increased compliance risks associated with operating an international business; operating in countries and counterparties that put us at risk of violating U.S. sanctions laws; our ability to execute our expansion and acquisition strategies; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; our ability to recruit and retain qualified personnel; our ability to comply with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements; evolving industry standards; the Company’s high level of indebtedness and restrictions contained in the Company’s debt agreements; and the Company’s ability to generate sufficient cash to service the Company’s indebtedness and to generate future profits.

Consideration should be given to the areas of risk described above, as well as those risks set forth under the headings “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risk Factors” in the reports the Company files with the SEC from time to time, in connection with considering any forward-looking statements that may be made by the Company and its businesses generally. We undertake no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements, to report events or to report the occurrence of unanticipated events unless we are required to do so by law.

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Investor Contact
Alan Cohen, 787-773-5442
Executive Vice President
Head of Investor Relations
IR@evertecinc.com

Source: EVERTEC, Inc.