Craig Tieken, Vice President of First Data’s TransArmor Product offering – a Secure Transaction Management solution. TransArmor is a secure payments service designed with the needs of merchants in mind that offers a multilayered approach to data security – encryption and tokenization. Prior to his current role, Tieken was the Product Family Manager for credit acceptance, debit acceptance, fleet card acceptance and ATM reseller product offerings. Tieken joined First Data in 1991, focusing his career activities on the acquiring side of the payments industry.