Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization
Global Pari-Mutuel Services
Gender Male
JAMES A. EGIDE is a founder of Global Pari-Mutuel Services and has served as a director and Chairman of the Board and since inception and CEO since 2005. Mr. Egide has been an owner of thoroughbreds since 1980, and his horses have won the William P. Kyne Handicap, California Derby and Bay Meadows Derby.
From 1990 until 2000, Mr. Egide served as
a director of Digital Courier Technologies, Inc., an Internet payment processor, and from April 1998 to July 2000 Mr. Egide served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of that company. During this period, he also helped structure the MasterCard and Visa acquiring programs at St. Kitts National Bank.
From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Egide was actively involved in managing his personal investments in several national and international businesses. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Carme, Inc., a publicly traded company engaged in the manufacture and distribution of hair and skin care products, which he founded in 1978. Carme, Inc. was sold in 1989.
