Womens Payment Group Elects NAMAs Balakgie To Board

McLEAN, VA -- The Women's Network in Electronic Transactions, known as W.net, announced that National Automatic Merchandising Association president and chief executive Carla Balakgie has been elected to its board of directors for 2016,

Balakgie became NAMA president and chief executive in December 2011. She served for more than eight years as chief executive of the Electronic Transactions Association before joining the vending association. The 15-member W.net board will be led by incoming president Chris Lee of Moneris. Executive board officers include 2016 president-elect Gloria Colgan, PYMNTS.com; treasurer Theresa Gongora, TSYS; secretary Carol Grunberg, Google; and immediate past-president Linda Rossetti, Bluestone Payments LLC.

Also elected to the W.net board are Jane Elliott, Global Payments; Diane Vogt-Faro, National Benefits Program; Joan Herbig, ControlScan; Christine Larsen, First Data Corp.; Linda Perry, Linda S. Perry Consulting; Deana Rich, Deana Rich Consulting, Inc.; Holli Targan, Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, P.C; Kelly Tufts, Discover Financial Services; and Mary Uslander, First Data Corp.