TSYS today announced that the performance of Troy Woods, the company’s chairman, president and chief executive officer, has been ranked in the top 10 percent of BuyingSellingSignals (BSS) News Bites’ NYSE Performers for the past year. Woods’ performance for TSYS placed 74th out of 2,425 ranked executives – the 96th percentile.

In the past seven years, TSYS’ market capitalization has increased by $5.7 billion from $2.9 billion to $8.7 billion (at the time of the ranking, early October 2010). This increase comprises cumulative retained earnings of $1.2 billion and created market value of $4.4 billion.

Woods was elected to serve as chief executive officer and president of TSYS effective July 31, 2014 by the company’s board of directors. He was then elected as chairman of the board effective April 28, 2015. This honor recognizes his role in guiding the company’s diversification strategy into faster-growing areas of payments as TSYS moved beyond its roots as a third-party processor for bank issuers and merchant acquirers. This included the company's entry into direct merchant acquiring serving hundreds of thousands of businesses, and becoming a leading prepaid services provider supporting millions of underserved consumers who do not have access to traditional financial services.