Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 20, 2009
MATTHEW PAUL LAWLOR is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Online Resources
Corporation. He co-founded Virginia-based Online Resources in 1989, and has
developed the firm into the largest outsourcer dedicated to online financial
services. The company provides bank and biller clients with Web and phone-based
financial services, electronic payments and marketing services to drive consumer
adoption. Online Resources is widely recognized for its innovation and as one of
the fastest growing US technology companies. Before founding Online Resources,
Mr. Lawlor served with Chemical Bank (now JPMorgan Chase). He started at the
bank with a small team reporting to the CEO, where he supported the asset and
liability management committee. He later managed a retail branch group in
Manhattan and headed Chemical International Finance Ltd., which was then
Chemical's principal offshore equity and merchant banking affiliate. In other
career experience, Mr. Lawlor has worked in venture capital, management
consulting and as a project engineer developing NASA's Earth Resources
Technology Satellite. He is active in the technology and entrepreneurial
communities. He was awarded two major US patents for financial technology. He
served on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Funds Transfer Association
and founded the eFinancial Enablers Council, a senior executive roundtable of
the major Internet banking and payments providers. He is also active in public
affairs, and served in 1980 for one year as a Presidential Exchange Executive in
the White House OMB under Presidents Carter and Reagan. Mr. Lawlor holds a BS in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 and an MBA
from Harvard University in 1973. Profile
overview of what the company is currently doing.
Mr. Lawlor: We are the largest dedicated online financial
