Board of Directors

Ellen has served on our Board of Directors since April 2020. Ms. Richey brings over 40 years of legal and risk management experience, most recently serving as Visa’s vice chairman and chief risk officer and as a member of Visa’s executive committee. In those roles, Ms. Richey was responsible for driving the future of payment security at the company, serving as its voice with legislators, regulators and clients on payment security, and leading similar initiatives combining risk, business and policy issues of strategic importance to Visa. Before assuming the roles of vice chairman and chief risk officer at Visa, Richey served as the vice chairman of risk and public policy where she was responsible for public policy and all aspects of risk management. Prior to that role, Richey concurrently served as chief legal officer and chief risk officer. In those positions, she was responsible for the legal function as well as oversight of Visa’s compliance, audit and risk teams, including payment system risk, settlement risk and enterprise risk. Prior to joining Visa, she worked at Washington Mutual Inc. as senior vice president of enterprise risk management and executive vice president of card services, and served as vice chairman of Providian Financial Corporation, where she had responsibility for the enterprise risk management, legal, corporate governance, corporate relations, compliance and audit functions. Ms. Richey has also served on the board of directors of Cantaloupe, Inc. (formerly USA Technologies, Inc.) since May 2020. Ms. Richey holds a B.A. in linguistics and far eastern languages from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School

George T. Shaheen has served on our Board of Directors since September 2013, and as our Lead Independent Director from January 2020 to April 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Shaheen was the Chief Executive Officer and Global Managing Partner of Andersen Consulting, which later became Accenture, from 1988-1999 to April 2001, he served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Webvan Group, Inc. Mr. Shaheen was the Chief Executive Officer of Siebel Systems, Inc., a CRM software company, from April 2005 until the sale of the company in January 2006. From December 2006 until July 2009, he was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors of Entity Labs, a privately held technology company in the data collection, storage and analytics space. He serves on the boards of Marcus & Millichap, a commercial real estate brokerage company and [24]7.ai, a privately held venture backed customer service technology company. Mr. Shaheen received a B.S. degree in business and M.B.A. degree from Bradley University.

J. Chris Brewster served as our interim President from January 2020 through March 2020 and has served on our Board of Directors since April 2016. Prior to that, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Cardtronics, Inc., a provider of automated consumer financial services through ATMs and other devices, from 2004 until February 2016. Prior to joining Cardtronics, Mr. Brewster served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Imperial Sugar Company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Brewster served as a partner of Bellmeade Capital Partners, LLC; Chief Financial Officer of Sanifill, Inc.; and Chief Financial Officer of National Convenience Stores, Inc. He currently serves as non-executive Chairman and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the board of directors of R3, LLC, Chairman, and director for the Houston Area Parkinson Society. Mr. Brewster holds a B.S. degree in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.