We believe Mr. Bergeron’s extensive experience in the payments industry and his background in finance provide the requisite qualifications, skills, perspectives, and experiences to serve on our Board of Directors.
Douglas L. Braunstein. Age 60 and a director since April 2020. Mr. Braunstein has 35 years of leadership in banking and finance, currently serving as a Managing Partner and Founder of Hudson Executive Capital LP. During his tenure at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mr. Braunstein served as CFO, Vice Chairman, a member of the Operating Committee, and Head of Americas Investment Banking and Global M&A, among other roles. Mr. Braunstein currently serves as Chairman of Talkspace, Inc. (TALK) and previously served as a director of Cardtronics, Eagle Pharmaceuticals, and Corindus Vascular Robotics. Mr. Braunstein is a trustee of Cornell University, Chair of the Finance Committee and a member of Cornell’s Investment Committee. He received his B.S. from Cornell University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
We believe Mr. Braunstein’s experience and thought leadership in financial services provide the requisite qualifications, skills, perspectives, and experiences to serve on our Board of Directors.
Sean Feeney. Age 63 and a director since May 2020. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Feeney was CEO of DefenseStorm, Inc., a cybersecurity management platform providing cloud-based and compliance-automated solutions to financial institutions. Previously, he served as CEO of GT Nexus, a cloud-based privately-owned supply chain platform, which was acquired by Infor. Prior to that, he was as an Operating Partner at Golden Gate Capital (GGC), a San Francisco-based private equity firm. While there, he advised on software-focused acquisitions, and also stepped in as Interim CEO for Critigen, a GGC portfolio company providing GPS consulting and data management IT services. He was also CEO at Inovis, until its sale to GXS in 2010 (OpenText), and earlier in his career held senior management positions at CheckFree which was acquired by Fiserv.
We believe Mr. Feeney’s strong track record of leadership in high-growth technology and payments companies, his extensive background in sales, and his unique understanding of our operations, opportunities and challenges provide the requisite qualifications, skills, perspectives, and experiences to serve on our Board of Directors.
Jacob Lamm. Age 56 and a director since April 2020. Mr. Lamm serves as the Chief Operating Officer of InVisionApp Inc., a digital product design platform. Mr. Lamm is founder and president of Enterik Advisory LLC, providing executive and board level consulting services with a focus on organic and inorganic growth strategies. He previously served as Executive Vice President of CA Technologies, a provider of information technology management software and solutions, from 2009 to 2019, where he was responsible for corporate strategy, M&A, venture investing, strategic alliances, and new business incubation. Prior to joining CA Technologies, he co-founded and served as CTO of Professional Help Desk, a provider of Service Management software that was acquired by CA Technologies. Additionally, Mr. Lamm has served as a director of both private and non-profit organizations, serving as a director for the Long Island High Technology Incubator, the New York State Smart Grid Consortium and Watermark Medical Inc., a medical technology company focused on remote diagnostic testing, therapy and patient follow-up, the latter from 2010 to 2018. Mr. Lamm earned a B.S. in computer information science from the City University of New York - Brooklyn College.
We believe Mr. Lamm’s extensive experience in high-growth technology companies provide the requisite qualifications, skills, perspectives, and experiences to serve on our Board of Directors.
Michael K. Passilla. Age 54 and a director since April 2020. Mr. Passilla served as Vice Chairman at Chase Merchant Services, the global payment processing division of JPMorgan Chase & Co, from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Chase Merchant Services from 2013 to 2016. Mr. Passilla was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Elavon, Inc., a global payments processing firm, from 2010 to 2013. Mr. Passilla has been a member of the Board of Directors of Priority Technology Holdings, Inc., an IT service management company, since 2019, the CEO of Posillipo Ventures, Inc., an investment and advisory services business, since 2018, a member of the Board of Directors of Bridge2 Solutions, LLC, a SaaS platform technology company, since 2020, and a member of the Board of Directors of P97 Networks, Inc., a mobile commerce and digital marketing platform, since 2019. Mr. Passilla earned a BBA from the University of Notre Dame and earned an MBA from The J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
We believe Mr. Passilla’s leadership experience and extensive knowledge of the payments industry provide the requisite qualifications, skills, perspectives, and experiences to serve on our Board of Directors.
Ellen Richey. Age 72 and a director since April 2020. Ms. Richey served as Vice Chairman of Risk and Public Policy of Visa Inc. (Visa), a global payments technology company, from 2014 to 2019, and as Chief Risk Officer from 2017