Company Profile
Digital Check is a leading provider of branch and teller scanners worldwide. DCC continues to introduce new check scanning products to meet the growing worldwide demand for distributed capture by integrating the best US and European technologies.
Executive Staff
Thomas P. Anderson, President and CEO
Thomas P. Anderson is the president and CEO of Digital Check Corp.. Anderson began his career with Digital Check’s predecessor company, Microseal Corporation, becoming president and chairman of the board and successfully managing the sale of the business to Bell & Howell, a Skokie, Ill.-based information management company, in 1994. Anderson started Digital Check following the sale of Microseal and has lead the development of the company’s check scanning business since.
Aside from being the founder, president and CEO of Digital Check, Anderson has been a leader within the document image industry, serving as a member of AIIM - The Enterprise Content Management Association for over 25 years. AIIM is an organization for users and vendors of document imaging, document management and knowledge management solutions.
Prior to working for Digital Check, Anderson served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy following his graduation from Miami University in Oxford, OH in 1971.
Microseal Corporation developed a worldwide reseller channel for distribution of both microfilm hardware and consumables. In 1988, the company acquired Digital Check Technologies (formerly Image Capture Technology) ; a California based high speed microfilm and document scanning company.
In 1994, Microseal, along with the microfilm assets were sold to Bell & Howell Company, a Skokie, IL based information Management Company.
Microseal Corporation was renamed Digital Check Corp in 1994 and focused on check imaging hardware, the company (now including the California based company) has developed, produced and sold, state of the art check imaging scanners as well as associated software for high image quality and MICR code line reading. Products continue to be sold through a worldwide network of resellers. The company has production facilities in CA and Japan, development in Korea and Italy and suppliers all over the world.
John F. Gainer, Executive Vice President
John F. Gainer is the executive vice president of Digital Check Corp.. Gainer was promoted to executive vice president shortly after joining the company in 1985 as vice president of Worldwide Marketing. Since then, he has played a pivotal role in the development and execution of Digital Check’s product, marketing and business strategies.
Prior to working for Johnson & Johnson, Gainer worked for Boston, Mass.-based Gillette®, a billion dollar shaving and hygiene product company as a product manager in the Consumer Products Division.
Gainer graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and the Harvard Business School MBA program.
Philip G. Barboni, President/CEO, Digital Check Technologies (DCT)
Philip G. Barboni is the vice president of manufacturing of Digital Check Corp. and president of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.-based Digital Check Technologies, Inc. (DCT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital Check. Barboni oversees worldwide production of Digital Check’s TellerScan® product line of check scanners.
Before coming to work for Digital Check Technologies, Barboni served as systems engineer, design engineer and project engineer of the Link Division of Binghamton, N.Y.-based Singer Company, where he designed simulation products for NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
DCT is a development and manufacturing company with its roots in high performance film transports, and microfilm cameras and processing equipment. From 1989-1995, Phil was General Manager of the Company, directing and leading the day-to-day activities of this manufacturing organization. In 1995, he was promoted to President/CEO. Over the past 11 years, Phil has transitioned this Company, focused on image capture, from the world of analog film cameras to the modern era of digital scanner technology. Today, DCT is the highly regarded producer of the TellerScan brand of check scanners that it manufacturers exclusively for Digital Check Corp., its parent organization.
Glenn Embury, Vice President of Operations
Glenn Embury is the vice president of operations of Digital Check Technologies, Inc. (DCT) (formerly Image Capture Technologies, Inc.), the manufacturing subsidiary of Digital Check and also the company’s center for engineering, research and design. Embury is responsible for leading DCT’s growth and profitability through manufacturing efficiency, high quality automated test processes, global partners and state-of-the-art product designs that meet the growing technical and cost objectives of the financial industry. Embury also coordinates and manages DCT’s manufacturing partner in Ueda, Japan.
Embury has more than 28 years of international, technical and business experience. He joined DCT in September 2002 as general manager, responsible for day-to-day operations. Prior to joining DCT, he was vice president of engineering at Fujitsu BCS, where he managed nearly 80 professionals in design of software, hardware, test technologies, product qualifications and design drafting for Fujitsu’s high technology telecommunication products. Before that, Embury was director of manufacturing engineering and technologies, and was responsible for manufacturing efficiency, cost reduction, factory automation and quality improvement. Embury received the first “Fujitsu Limited President’s Award” given outside of Japan for innovation and development of a new paperless assembly aid system. He began his career as a test engineer at Fujitsu BCS designing automated test equipment.
Tom Mason, Chief Financial Officer
Thomas Mason is the chief financial officer of Digital Check Corp. He came to Digital Check with more than a decade of CFO experience with both public and privately held organizations.
Before joining Digital Check, Mason served as CFO for MSO Holdings, Inc., a start-up healthcare company based in Bannockburn, IL, focused on bariatric surgery programs and obesity disease management.
Mason's other chief financial officer positions have included Centiv, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNTV), a marketing services company providing web-enabled point-of-purchase merchandising solutions for consumer package goods manufacturers and major retailers, where he was also a Board Member, Telular Corporation (NASDAQ: WRLS), a Vernon Hills, IL -based wireless technology marketer and manufacturer and Wheeling, IL - based Segerdahl Corporation, a privately held commercial printer.
Mason began his career with KPMG/Peat Marwick as a CPA and subsequently held various finance positions with American Hospital Supply Corporation, a premier healthcare distributor and manufacture, and then held various finance, general management and operating positions with Bell & Howell Company, a provider of software and hardware solutions for the document imaging industry.
Mason received his bachelor of science degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois in Chicago, IL and is a CPA.
Bruce Rennecker, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing
Bruce Rennecker is the vice president of product management and marketing of Digital Check. In this position, Rennecker leads development of new products and services at Digital Check and business development activities.
Prior to joining Digital Check, Rennecker was vice president of sales and marketing for Summit Industries Inc., a privately owned x-ray manufacturer. Rennecker was also vice president of sales and marketing for Tangent Systems Inc., a privately owned software company specializing in high-speed transaction processing solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. At Bell & Howell Company, he was vice president and general manager of the DMPC Scanner division, which manufactures the Copiscan line of page scanners. Rennecker began his career at Burroughs Corp. in financial product sales and later moved to Recognition Equipment, now Banctec.
Rennecker earned a bachelor of science in business administration from Valparaiso University and a master’s in business administration from Keller University in Chicago.
Paul Rupple, Director of Marketing & Product Development
Paul Rupple is the director of marketing and product development of Digital Check Corp. In this position, Rupple handles all marketing functions within the company, including branding, communications and market strategy and product development. He came to Digital Check with over 25 years of marketing and sales experience, having spent much of it within the financial services industry.
Prior to joining Digital Check, Rupple headed his own consulting practice developing customer strategies for clients within the financial services industry, following a successful career as sales director at BAI. Past positions also include business development at Maritz Loyalty Marketing and director of sales and marketing for Chicago, Ill.-based ConVergent Corporation, a marketing solutions and management consulting firm. .
Rupple is an active member of the American Marketing Association and sits on the Board of Directors of Future Water International (FWI), a group that aides in environmentally friendly waste water recycling projects around the world. He earned a bachelor of science degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis. and completed the Bank Administration Institute (BAI) graduate program of bank operation and technology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
Jeff Hempker, National Sales Manager
Jeff Hempker is the National Sales Manager at Digital Check. Jeff joined Digital Check in 2004 and has over 14 years of sales and marketing experience of check imaging solutions in the financial industry.
As National Sales Manager, Jeff is directly responsible for managing the sales organization at Digital Check and brings a tremendous amount of experience working directly with many of the leading software solution providers and Financial Institutions on check scanning related initiatives. He is also actively involved in many of the industry organizations such as AFP, BAI, NACHA, TAWPI, and FSTC.
Before joining Digital Check, Hempker began his professional career at Dayton, Ohio based Standard Register Company, serving in a variety of marketing and sales capacities for their hardware and software technology solutions division.