About Us

Gene Pranger, President & CEO

Gene Pranger has over 24 years of experience in working with Financial Institutions to develop smarter branches. After earning his Master's in Integrated Marketing from Northwestern University he was recruited by Campbell-Mithun and then BBDO Advertising Agencies in Minneapolis, MN. Gene founded Gene Pranger-Creating Smarter Branches in 1995. Since that time he has designed over 400 branch applications, authored a book entitled "Affinity Retail Marketing", and invented the uGenius Personal Teller System.

Jed Taylor, Executive Vice President/COO

Jed joined uGenius in the spring of 2007 and led the uGenius team to achieve a successful national launch of the uGenius Personal Teller System in the fall of 2007. In his role he is responsible for product management, engineering, manufacturing and customer support.

Jed joined uGenius after having worked in multiple positions with international responsibilities at NCR Corp. He was the global software product manager for NCR's advanced ATM software and held other global engineering management and professional services roles at NCR. Taylor has a B.S. degree in Manufacturing Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Jeff Stott, Vice President Sales & Marketing

Jeff Stott is responsible for managing all uGenius Technology client relationships. Jeff is a seasoned sales and marketing executive with over 20 years of experience managing teams and working with clients in a variety of retail and professional services markets.

Jeff has worked with a variety of technology based start-up firms and has also worked with large multi-national technology firms such as 3Com and U.S. Robotics. Prior to joining uGenius, Jeff was a Managing Director for FranklinCovey a leading organizational consulting firm. Jeff's consulting clients at FranklinCovey included Visa International where he worked with them to improve the sales capabilities of member banks.

Jeff's consultative approach to client relationships is refreshing and is a great asset to our clients leading them to make better decisions.

Jeff has a B.A. degree in Marketing and an MBA from Brigham Young University.