Dharma Merchant Services

Jeff Marcous

Co-Founder and President of Dharma Merchant
Services, Jeff started in the acquiring industry over
15 years ago in Portland, Maine. Due to
consolidation and other opportunities, Jeff
eventually moved to Portland, Oregon to become
northwest regional manager for Cardservice
International – the largest independent MSP in the
country. In 1998, as SVP of Sales and Marketing,
he became the driving force behind building the
Authorize.Net payment gateway, which today is the
largest and most successful Internet payment
gateway provider in the country. The past few years
have found him co-directing the efforts of Vision
Bankcard, a rapidly-growing MSP based in Utah.

From Jeff: “What I really want to do while I’m here is
to unravel all the mysteries of the universe, but while
that is going on, I get to provide a greatly needed
service to our merchant friends. At the same time, I
can offer a financial means of support to non profit
organizations that are contributing to the health and
well being of the people and places in need. That’s
the philosophy behind Dharma Merchant Services.”

The manager's business
is humanity's business,
and businesses become
schools of
transformation. Sacred
Commerce managers are
actively transforming life.
They are activists. They
make a stand for a
sustainable world
committed to love and
fulfillment awakening in
the hearts of all
humankind.
- Sacred Commerce

Alexia Marcous

Alexia is Co-Founder and Vice President of Dharma Merchant Services and is Jeff’s daughter.
Alexia holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the State University of New York
at Stony Brook and an M.B.A. from Drexel University. Alexia was a computer programmer and
systems architect consultant for 12 years, serving companies and non-profits in the financial,
insurance, pharmaceutical, energy and technology industries. She currently sits on the board of
the Green Chamber of Commerce as Vice President and serves on the Political Action
Committee.

An avid martial artist, aspiring sailor and life-long spiritual seeker, Alexia is grateful to have
Dharma Merchant Services as a vehicle on the career path to enlightenment. Operating under
the banner of “right action, right livelihood” allows her to use her daily work to engage in the
practice of balancing the spiritual and material, strengthening the mind through innovation and
technological understanding, and expressing compassion for our environment and for each
other. Working in the merchant services industry does wonders for her sense of humor.