Frank Andrews Managing Director

Frank Andrews joined Transact Capital Partners with nearly 20 years experience in the electronic payments industry as a consultant as well as a corporate executive.

As a consultant, Frank's experiences include M&A, marketing strategies and execution, loyalty program design, partnership evaluation and negotiations, competitive analysis, market entry and revenue enhancements. These experiences were gained from his efforts while with First Annapolis Consulting, a strategic management consulting firm with a focus in the electronic payments industry. While with the company, Frank leveraged his consumer credit card experiences in providing strategic advice to issuers, co-branded partners, and branded networks (e.g. Amex, MasterCard, and Visa). These insights and experiences have provided industry-based perspectives not contained within the company. Frank later established the Coniston Advisory Group which developed strategic and tactical initiatives on key business development capabilities such as strategy development, mergers and acquisitions, data analysis and intelligence, response marketing strategy and execution, electronic payment product optimization, and opportunity facilitation.

Frank's corporate experiences included an extensive career at MBNA America where he held management positions of increasing responsibility in areas of business development, market management, operations, and corporate strategy. While with MBNA, he held a role as the senior executive of the company's 500+ agent bank programs. In this capacity, Frank had a significant role in acquisition efforts with many of the major agent bank acquisitions such as prospect sales, conversion planning and integration, new product development and agent bank marketing. He was also the recognized direct marketing expert for an ability to leverage analytics with marketing. Using sophisticated analytical techniques used during his Naval service, Frank developed a business intelligence infrastructure that ensured his direct marketing efforts had incremental improvement. As a result, his market segment programs lead the company's direction marketing results 4 of 5 years.

A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Frank served onboard a nuclear powered submarine, received his Naval Nuclear Engineer certification and later was an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Contact Frank by phone: (804) 323-6868 or email at Frank@TransactCapital.com