Gary Cramer & Steve Hoffmeister

Gary Cramer

Gary is a graduate of the University of North Texas with a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing. He is happily married to his wife; Kimberley and they have a wonderful daughter named Audrey. They are covenant members of the Village Church where they serve as Home Group Coaches. Together they enjoy the outdoors, swimming, playing with their black Lab, Dwarf Nigerian goats and Tabby cat, and spending time with family and friends. Gary began his career in the payment processing industry eighteen years ago. He started as a Sales Representative for Cardservice International. He later became an Independent Sales Agent at Ignite Payments and in 2013 he co-founded National Payment Systems, which has now become Cornerstone North America. Gary has always been an entrepreneur and owns several other businesses in addition to Cornerstone N.A. His business philosophy is simple; Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Gary’s desire is to build relationships with organizations that share his mission of furthering the gospel. His hope for Cornerstone N.A.is to support churches, church members and ministries by providing secure and efficient payment services so they can maximize their efforts in taking the gospel to all nations.

Steve Hoffmeister

Stephen Hoffmeister is a graduate of The University of Texas at Dallas with a degree in Business and Public Administration. Stephen and his wife of 30 years are the proud parents of one daughter who graduated from Oklahoma City University with a degree in Dance Management. Since graduation he has been employed in sales and sales management including four years with John Hancock Life Insurance Company and the past 32 years in the Payments industry.  Starting in 1985 with MBank/MNet and the early introduction of electronic draft capture in the Dallas marketplace, Stephen has worked with a variety of industries including Restaurant, Retail, Petroleum and Healthcare. The past 25 years Stephen has been in a variety of Sales Leadership roles with First Data Corporation including Area Sales Director, Territory Manager, Regional Vice President, Regional Sales Director and Regional Business Director covering territories of as great as 12 states. He has extensive experience developing Sales Representatives, Agent Offices and Referral Partnerships. Stephen believes being engaged with his clients in a close personal relationship allows the best of both parties to emerge and that collaboration produces success. In recent years a desire to further the work of Christian Charitable Foundations, Non-Profits and Missionary efforts through secure and efficient payment technologies has become a motivator for Stephen. Furthering the reach of those who are seeking to expand Christ’s Kingdom is a way to make his experience count for more and develop a legacy of passing the Good News on to all who are open to the salvation Christ offers.