As Vice Chairman of Fiserv, Inc., Pete Kight lends his expertise to driving innovation and integration opportunities that have resulted from the combination of CheckFree Corporation and Fiserv. Kight founded CheckFree in 1981 and served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until the company was acquired by Fiserv in 2007. Fiserv is a Brookfield, Wis.-based provider of information management and electronic commerce systems and services to the financial and insurance industries.

Kight’s initial vision for CheckFree was to provide electronic funds transfer services to make it easier for consumers to pay their monthly bills. That vision expanded to include services and technology infrastructures that enable and simplify the electronic movement and management of personal and business finances. By 2007, CheckFree was providing financial electronic commerce services and products, with a focus on electronic billing and payment, to more than 5,000 financial service organizations around the globe.

Under Kight's leadership, CheckFree progressively expanded its scope as the financial electronic commerce market moved forward, building and managing complementary infrastructures – bill payment, electronic funds transfer, electronic banking, investment services, compliance services, payment processing software, electronic billing software, reconciliation and exception management capabilities – through internal development and acquisitions.

In 2007, he was named the first recipient of the Peter Kight Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Bank Technology News.

Kight is a member of the Board of Directors of Fiserv, Inc.; Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Manhattan Associates, Inc.; and USA Track & Field Foundation.