Larry Thornton

Larry Thornton is a self-made entrepreneur who has founded two software companies, Software Earnings (SEI) and First Touch Payment Solutions (FTPS), with significant market share in check processing, atm deposit processing, retail payments, merchant services, and check cashing / money center markets. Larry serves as founder, president, and CEO of Software Earnings and First Touch Payment Solutions.

Over the years, Larry has developed strong Business Relationships with large public companies, such as IBM, Unisys, Glory Global Solutions, ARCA, Card Connect, and NCR Corporation to leverage their hardware platforms, software platforms, and customer relationships to open doors to develop a suite of mission-critical software applications for the payments industry.

The following is a partial list of customers that have licensed software from SEI and FTPS: Bank of America, CitiBank, Wells Fargo, Key Bank, JP Morgan Chase, BB&T Bank, Regions Bank, SunTrust Bank, First Tennessee Bank, Citizens Bank, Barclays Bank, The Federal Reserve Bank, many community banks, Dodges, Sapp Brothers, Goodwill, and Laguna Development Corporation.

As payment methods continue to change, Larry has been instrumental in embracing all payment types; therefore, giving all businesses (Large and Small) solutions to enhance their businesses by either cost reduction, performance efficiencies, and revenue generation. His companies have developed a new suite of software applications specifically for managing cash, check and credit and debit card transaction activity. The new suite is called Red Carpet Software (RCS) and provides executives, management, and clerical staff with dashboards to monitor payment activities and events within their businesses.