Joe Grano Lends Expertise To Ethoca
Popular Wall Street personality and Centurion Holdings LLC Chairman and CEO Joseph “Joe” Grano, Jr., was appointed to the board of directors of Ethoca early in 2008.
In an article that came out last March 11, 2008 on SecuritySoftwareZone.com, Ethoca’s president and CEO Andre Edelbrock expressed his belief that Centurion’s big man will be able to lend Ethoca his vast treasure of knowledge and leadership experience in security and financial services. Grano’s entrance at Ethoca will give the company more depth and business acumen.
For his part, Joe Grano expressed delight in being given the chance to help point Ethoca into the right direction — the one that ultimately leads to positive growth especially in terms of creating a safe and secure way of shopping via e-commerce.
Ethoca is a trusted name in collaborative fraud management. Its vision is to eliminate losses caused by fraud and other types of transactions not certified by the customer.
Before becoming the big man of Centurion Holdings LLC, Grano was UBS Financial Services Inc.’s chairman. He served the company from 2001 to 2004. In 2002, Grano was appointed by President George W. Bush as the Homeland Security Advisory Council chairman.
Grano was also with Merrill Lynch where he held a variety of senior management positions, the most prominent of which was his job as the Director of National Sales.
It’s easy to see that this prominent individual is an achiever; Joe Grano is a holder of an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree (Pepperdine University) and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the City University of New York’s Queens College. He also achieved the rank of captain when he became a member of the Green Berets (U.S. Special Forces). He was one of the youngest officers of the Army.
Apart from his daily responsibilities at Centurion Holdings LLC and his duties as Ethoca’s board member, Grano busies himself with several educational and philanthropic undertakings. He is also an active member of the Council for the United States and Italy; of Lenox Hill Hospital’s board of directors; and the City University of New York’s Business Leadership Council.
Joe Grano is a credible and well-respected man in both the private and public sectors.