Jonathan J. Judge
ATLANTA – First Data Corp., an electronic commerce and payment processing firm, has named Jonathan J. Judge CEO.
Previously, Judge served as president and CEO at Paychex, Inc., a publicly traded, leading provider of payroll, human resources and benefits outsourcing solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses located in Rochester, N.Y. He will relocate to Atlanta, where First Data is headquartered.
udge succeeds Joe Forehand, chairman of First Data’s board of directors and a senior advisor at KKR, who was also serving as the company’s interim CEO. Forehand will continue to serve as chairman of the board.
During each year of Judge’s tenure as CEO, Paychex was ranked among Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Also in 2010, Computerworld magazine ranked Paychex for the sixth consecutive time as one of the best places to work in information technology.
Before serving at Paychex, Judge was the CEO for Crystal Decisions, a private $300 million software company providing business intelligence solutions. In December 2003, the company was purchased by Business Objects, a rival business intelligence software vendor, for approximately $1.2 billion. Judge helped integrate the two companies through 2004.
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