Hypercom Appoints Stuart Taylor Vice President, Global Marketing

Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) today announced the appointment of Stuart Taylor as Vice President, Global Marketing. Mr. Taylor is responsible for all aspects of the Company’s marketing activities, Hypercom’s Global Solutions business unit and global strategic relationships. He reports to Philippe Tartavull, Chief Executive Officer and President. His appointment is effective immediately.

"Stuart is a highly accomplished and highly regarded marketing and business development leader with exceptional knowledge of the U.S. and international high security digital transaction business,” said Mr. Tartavull. "His extensive global industry experience and keen understanding will help us strengthen Hypercom’s globally recognized brand and continue to gain market share.”

Mr. Taylor brings to Hypercom more than 20 years of international marketing and business development experience in the electronic payment and ATM industries. For the past four years Mr. Taylor has provided general management, business development, marketing and product strategy consulting services to a wide range of Fortune 500 companies and payment and security technology start-ups and has provided payment industry analysis to many Wall Street investment firms.

Mr. Taylor served at VeriFone Inc. from 1996 to 2004 in leadership roles including Vice President and General Manager, Global Marketing; Director, Emerging Markets and Business Development; and Director, Product Management and Marketing. Prior to VeriFone, Mr. Taylor held marketing and sales positions in Australia, Europe and the U.S. for innovative Australian POS system vendor Intellect Australia Pty Ltd.

Mr. Taylor also held positions with Storage Technology Inc and NCR Corporation.

Mr. Taylor holds a Masters in Business Administration from Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Graduate School of Business.

About Hypercom (www.hypercom.com)

Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation delivers a full suite of high security, end-to-end electronic payment products and services. The company’s solutions address the high security electronic transaction needs of banks and other financial institutions, processors, large scale retailers, smaller merchants, quick service restaurants, and users in the transportation, healthcare, prepaid, unattended and many other markets. Hypercom solutions enable businesses in more than 100 countries to securely expand their revenues and profits. With its acquisition of Thales e-Transactions business in 2008, Hypercom became the second largest provider of electronic payment solutions and services in Western Europe, and solidified its position as the third largest provider globally.

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