Board of Directors
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Mark Rossi has served as a director of our company since November 2010 and was appointed Chairman in November 2018. Mr. Rossi is a founder and Senior Managing Director of Cornerstone Equity Investors, L.L.C. (‘‘Cornerstone’’), a Connecticut-based private equity firm with a particular emphasis on technology and telecommunications, health care services and products and business services. Prior to the formation of Cornerstone in 1996, Mr. Rossi was President of Prudential Equity Investors, Inc., the private equity arm of Prudential Insurance Company of America. Mr. Rossi’s industry focus is on business services and technology companies. He is a member of the board of directors of several companies and previously served as Chair of the board of directors of Maxwell Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: MXWL) After graduating with highest honors from Saint Vincent College in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, Mr. Rossi earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Douglas L. Braunstein joined the board in June 2018. Mr. Braunstein has over 30 years of industry experience, currently serving as a Managing Partner and Founder of Hudson Executive Capital LP. During his career 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 a director of 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 in 1983 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986.
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Julie Gardner has served as a director of our company since October 2013. Ms. Gardner has over 25 years of marketing experience in the retail industry and was cited by Forbes in 2012 as the 11th most influential Chief Marketing Officer in the world. Ms. Gardner retired from her retail career in 2012, after most recently serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Kohl’s Department Stores. During her 14-year tenure at Kohl’s, 887 new stores were opened and 25 new brands were launched to the portfolio of private, exclusive and national brands. She has been credited for the successful launch of numerous exclusive brands including Simply Vera Wang, Elle, Food Network, Chaps, Dana Buchman, Candies, Lauren Conrad, Jennifer Lopez and Tony Hawk. While at Kohl’s, Ms. Gardner created the Kohl’s Cares program, the first philanthropic strategy for the company, which raised over $200 million between 2000 and 2012 for children’s health and educational programs, and lead the funding and development of the TED educational program with the TED organization. From 1985 to 1999, Ms. Gardner served in a number of positions for Eckerd Corporation, a retail drug store company operating over 3,000 stores in the Southeast and Southwest, serving as Chief Marketing Officer from 1994 to 1999. Prior to joining Eckerd Corporation, Ms. Gardner served in Account Management with two advertising firms and previously served as the North American Chair of the Bonial International Group’s Advisory Board as well as other not-for-profit boards. Her vast success has led to numerous awards, including 20 Addy Awards, 30 RACie awards and an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Ms. Gardner holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota.
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G. Patrick Phillips has served as a director of our company since February 2010. Mr. Phillips retired from Bank of America in 2008, after a 35-year career, most recently serving as President of Bank of America’s Premier Banking and Investments group from August 2005 to March 2008. During his tenure at Bank of America, Mr. Phillips led a variety of consumer, commercial, wealth management and technology businesses. Mr. Phillips also serves on the board of directors of USAA Federal Savings Bank (‘‘USAA FSB’’) where he served as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee and Chair of the Compensation Committee through March 2018 and now serves as Chair of the Risk Committee. He also is Chair of the board of Novant Health, a non-profit healthcare company operating in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. In addition, Mr. Phillips serves as an adviser to the financial services practice of Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm. Mr. Phillips previously served as a director of Visa USA and Visa International from 1990 to 2005 and 1995 to 2005, respectively. Mr. Phillips received a Master’s of Business Administration from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia in 1973 and graduated from Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina in 1971.
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Warren C. Jenson has served as a director of our Company since June 2018. Mr. Jenson currently serves as the President, CFO and Executive MD of International at LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Acxiom Holdings). He has served at LiveRamp since 2012. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Mr. Jenson served as COO at Silver Spring Networks. From 2002 to 2008 he was the CFO at Electronic Arts Inc. Mr. Jenson has more than 30 years of experience in strategy and operational finance as Chief Financial Officer of Amazon.com, NBC and Electronic Arts. Mr. Jenson also helped shape and successfully navigate digital transformations at NBC and Delta Air Lines. Mr. Jenson was twice designated one of the “Best CFOs in America” by Institutional Investor magazine, and he was also honored as Bay Area Venture CFO of the Year in 2010. Mr. Jenson’s board experience includes DigitalGlobe, Tapjoy, and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Mr. Jenson holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master of accountancy degree, both from Brigham Young University.
Mr. Jenson’s extensive experience as a CFO and in other executive positions of several successful public and private companies makes him well qualified to serve on our Board, our Compensation Committee and as Chair of our
Finance Committee.
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Juli C. Spottiswood has served as a director of our company since May 2011. From October 2014 to July 2015, Ms. Spottiswood served as Senior Vice President of Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: HAWK), a leading prepaid and payments network (‘‘Blackhawk’’), and General Manager of Blackhawk Engagement Solutions (‘‘BES’’), a division of Blackhawk. BES provides customized engagement and incentive programs for consumers, employees and sales channels. She was previously an Independent Advisor to Blackhawk. Ms. Spottiswood was also previously President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board at Parago, Inc., a marketing services company, which was sold in October 2014 to Blackhawk. Ms. Spottiswood co-founded Parago in 1999, originally serving as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Spottiswood also brings to our Board significant experience within the prepaid card industry; previously serving as a board member and treasurer of the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, a nonprofit association formed to promote the use of prepaid cards as an alternative payment vehicle. In October 2017, Ms. Spottiswood joined a newly formed private equity backed holding company—Syncapay, Inc. as Chair & CEO. Syncapay’s mission is to acquire and consolidate high-growth, leading edge payments companies. In 2009, Ms. Spottiswood was the recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Southwest region. Ms. Spottiswood holds a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Texas.
Ms. Spottiswood has expansive business and financial services experience, which includes experience as an accountant with Arthur Andersen.
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Rahul Gupta joined the board in March 2020. Mr. Gupta serves as a board member for several privately held payments and fintech companies and as an advisor to private equity funds and venture funds in the financial technology space. He served as Chief Executive Officer of RevSpring, a private company in the financial services and healthcare space, from 2017 to 2019. Mr. Gupta served as Executive Vice President and Group President at Fiserv, a public banking technology and payments company, from 2006 to 2017. Before that, he served in various executive positions with technology companies serving the financial services industry for 20 years. He received an MBA in Finance and Information Technology from Indiana University in 1986 and a Bachelor of Commerce from Delhi University in 1978.