Respected executive technology leader with over 18 years of development and consulting experience creating and deploying sophisticated solutions that deliver multi-million dollar benefits to the bottom line. Strategic executive with CTO-level success in planning, capacity/cost projections, IT governance, and quality BI solutions. Innovative thinker and strong communicator. Specialties: Skilled in leading design, development, implementation and maintenance of strategic product initiatives; understanding the technology landscape and trends; and adapting development methodologies to create and implement cutting-edge solutions

SVP, R&D @ Reporting to the CTO of North America, was recruited as a strategic technology leader tasked with driving all aspects of technology as well as the product vision to solidify the payments division of Sage North America as a preferred payment solutions provider. From December 2008 to Present (7 years 1 month) Group Vice President @ Reporting to the Senior Vice President of the Commercial Card Division. Used my technical development and consulting background to create a technology consulting and integration team at SunTrust in support of an enterprise procurement / T&E card management system. From October 2005 to December 2008 (3 years 3 months) Program Manager / Consultant @ Reported directly to the President of US Operations and was recruited by the ex-American Express leadership to help bring this UK companies’ electronic invoicing product into the US market. From 2002 to 2004 (2 years) Managing Consultant / Product Development @ Reported to the Director of Product Development and Technology Consulting and had responsibility for overall product strategy of the business-to-business e-commerce product line. Was the external face of the e-commerce business attending and presenting at numerous internet/e-commerce conferences around the country. Active participant in the ANSI X12 finance group for EDI as well as the OBI (Open Buying on the Internet) standard. From 1996 to 2002 (6 years) Project Manager @ Reported to the Director of Development and had responsibility for all project management activities for internal product development efforts related to Commercial Card products. From 1993 to 1996 (3 years)

BS, Decision Sciences @ Georgia State University From 1993 to 1995 Rob Bertke is skilled in: B2B, Integration, Process Engineering, Program Management, Strategic Planning, Product Management, Credit Cards, Business Strategy, SaaS, ERP, Payments, Team Leadership, Banking, Contract Negotiation, Product Marketing