February 2015 – NXGEN International, the payment services company, today announced that John Barrett has joined the company as President of NXGEN Payment Services.  Barrett brings over 20 years of sales and sales operations experience and an in-depth understanding of how to drive incremental revenue within sales, channel and customer organizations.  In his new role at NXGEN, Barrett will be responsible for creating and implementing overall operations and sales strategies designed to help achieve the company’s North American business objectives in the United States and Canada.

“John’s extensive experience in sales operations, channel and sales with start-up and Fortune 500 companies made him a natural fit for this position,” said Thomas Nitopi, CEO of holding company NXGEN International.   “His understanding of creating, communicating and executing programs for revenue generation and sales effectiveness will help NXGEN scale its sales programs in the coming years.”

Barrett joins NXGEN from First Data, where he was Senior Vice President, ISO/Agent Sales, responsible for developing and managing the third party distribution channel for First Data which consisted of over 600 Independent Sales Organizations and 200+ Independent Agents.  Prior to that, John has extensive sales and sales operations experience in the Telecom industry and with Xerox Corporation.“I am excited about the opportunity to work with a veteran executive team that understands the importance of building a world-class sales organization within a fast growing company,” said Barrett. “I’m looking forward to supporting the strong sales operations team and programs that are currently in place and building new programs, processes and tools to scale sales operations and increase sales efficiency for NXGEN’s future growth.”