Hypercom Appoints Stuart Taylor Vice President, Global Marketing

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan 07, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
HYC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) 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.

Hypercom is a registered trademark of Hypercom Corporation. All other
products or services mentioned in this document are trademarks, service
marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks of their
respective owners. This press release includes statements that may
constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding
the qualifications of the Company's new Vice President, Global
Marketing; the Company's expected future performance; market acceptance
of new products; product capability and performance; product
competitiveness and market share; and product sales, revenues and
profits. These forward-looking statements are based on management's
current expectations and beliefs and are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those described in the forward-looking statements. In particular,
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
in forward-looking statements include, the ability to attract and retain
qualified executives; industry, competitive and technological changes;
the loss of, and failure to replace any significant customers; the
composition, timing and size of orders from and shipments to major
customers; inventory obsolescence; market acceptance of new products and
services; compliance with industry standards, certifications and
government regulations; the performance of suppliers and subcontractors;
our ability to improve our cost structure, including reducing our
product and operating costs; our ability to successfully manage our
transition to a contract manufacturing model, including the impact on
inventories; our ability to allocate research and development resources
to new product and service offerings; our ability to increase market
share and our competitive strength; our future financial performance and
financial condition; risks associated with international operations and
foreign currency fluctuations; the state of the U.S. and global
economies in general and other risks detailed in our filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's most recent
10-K and subsequent 10-Qs and 8-Ks. Forward-looking statements speak
only as of the date made and are not guarantees of future performance.
We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements. HYCP

SOURCE: Hypercom Corporation

Hypercom Corporation
Pete Schuddekopf, 480-642-5383
pschuddekopf@hypercom.com

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