As co-founder and CEO of Guard Street, Vince brings extensive experience in creating and/or leading global businesses. He is a major advocate for protecting data security and consumer privacy through using the right system and tools. He has found that success in any business, including Guard Street comes from a great strategy, a total focus on the customer, great people, hard work, being hands on and having fun in the process.

He has been a significant contributor to the success of multiple companies through various leadership positions in marketing and operations. Such companies include Nicor, General Electric Company, Green Organics, MH Equity Services and Teleformix. His experience spans from running a company that securely stored millions of records of sensitive credit card information for the largest financial institutions in the world, to providing identity theft protection to millions of consumers to providing social networking security to loyalty programs that included protection tools.

Through his most recent role as CEO of a global loyalty and technology company offering custom programs for several of the largest brands in the world, he restructured the growth of the company and drastically improved its profitability. Vince also serves as Chairman of Brentwood Financial.

The companies he has run have created successful loyalty, consumer protection product and membership solutions for companies in the private label credit card, co-branded bank card, home services, hospitality and insurance space including Alliance Data, Assurant, Citi, Hilton Worldwide, Progressive Insurance, GE, SkyMall and Vanquis Bank.