Jim Parkinson

Jim Parkinson is the chief experience officer of North American Bancard Holdings, LLC. (NAB). Parkinson is responsible for the company's IT operations and the engineering of its world-class payment solutions.

Parkinson has extensive experience with digital projects and strategies and in leading IT teams. In his most recent position at Valassis, Parkinson was the chief technical officer, chief digital officer, and executive vice president of digital advertising. He was responsible for the oversight of the company's technology directions and development, as well as the implementation of the digital media strategy. Before joining Valassis, Parkinson spent more than two decades at Sun Microsystems in a variety of positions, including senior vice president of cloud computing engineering and led the software development products division. While there, he was part of the team that built the world's first utility computing platform that led to the introduction of cloud technology.

Parkinson graduated with honors from Walden University with a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems.