LOWELL, Mass., October 21, 2008–Litle & Co. (www.litle.com) today announced the executive appointments of two payments industry and direct commerce veterans.   Longtime payments and consumer-direct retail executive Lisa Tennant has joined Litle & Co. as director of relationship management—charged to lead the company’s portfolio of client relationships.  Direct commerce veteran executive Jonathan Ellman has joined Litle & Co. as general counsel.

Tennant joined Litle from America’s Collectibles Network Inc., where she served as vice president, consumer protection and cash management for Jewelry Television (http://www.jtv.com) and its companion web site JTV.com.  Previously she had served as national account manager at Paymentech and senior relationship manager with Chase Merchant Services.   Her consumer-direct leadership assignments include those with Nordstrom.com and Victoria’s Secret Catalogue. 

Ellman joined Litle from ChaCha Search Inc, where he was vice president of academic, government and enterprise alliances.    He joined ChaCha from OrderMotion where he served as chief operations officer.   His range of legal, operations and technology executive assignments include those with OrderMotion, Inc., CommercialWare, Inc., Epsilon and Chadwicks of Boston.   Ellman was a key figure in the establishment and growth of CommercialWare, which today is MICROS-Retail.

 “Lisa and Jonathan share Litle’s single-mindedness in serving the needs of direct-to-consumer merchants,” said Tom Litle, president and CEO, Litle & Co.  “Their experiences across a range of payments and direct commerce leadership positions enrich the Litle & Co. commitment to service excellence that benefits direct merchants.”

About Litle & Co. (www.litle.com)

Litle & Co. is a leading payments platform for merchants who sell goods and services directly to consumers.    Providing transaction processing and consultative merchant services for card-not-present and alternative payments, the Litle & Co. payments platform is engineered specifically to meet the needs of companies in Direct Response (DRTV, radio, print), Multichannel Retail (including catalogs), Internet Retail, and Online Services.  Founded in 2001, and based in Lowell, Massachusetts, Litle & Co.’s growth has been acknowledged by a No.1 Inc. 500 ranking (2006) and a No.8 Entrepreneur Hot 100 ranking (2008).