Management

Dan Henry has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President since March 2020. Dan Henry previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Netspend, a leading provider of prepaid debit cards for personal and commercial use, from 2008 to 2014. In 2010, Mr. Henry led Netspend through its initial public offering, and in July 2013 completed an all cash sale of the company to TSYS Corporation valued at $1.4 billion USD. Prior to Netspend, Mr. Henry co-founded Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ: EEFT), a leader in secure electronic financial transaction processing. Mr. Henry served as President and Chief Operations Officer at Euronet until the end of 2006, and remained on its Board until 2008. Mr. Henry has been Chairman of Paysign Inc (NASDAQ: PAYS) - a vertically integrated provider of innovative prepaid card programs, digital banking and processing services for corporate, consumer and government application - since 2018. He also has been a director of The Brink’s Company (NYSE:BCO) - the global leader in total cash management, route-based secure logistics and payment solutions - since 2017.

Jess Unruh has served as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer since May 2015 and as our interim Chief Financial Officer since January 2020. From October 2016 to December 2019, he served as Operational Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Unruh served as Vice President, Financial Reporting, from July 2013 to May 2015, as the Company’s Director, Accounting Projects, from July 2009 to June 2013. Prior to joining Green Dot, Mr. Unruh served in the audit practice at Ernst & Young LLP, an accounting firm, from 2003 to April 2009. Mr. Unruh holds B.S. degrees in accounting and business administration from the University of Southern California.

Mr. Bibelheimer has served as our Chief Human Resources Officer since September 2017. Prior to joining Green Dot, he served in a number of positions at Western Digital, a computer hardware and data storage company, from June 2007 to September 2017, most recently as Vice President, HR Operations from June 2010 to September 2017. Mr. Bibelheimer holds a B.S. in business management from Pepperdine University.

Over the last decade, Daniel Eckert has served as a senior executive leader at Walmart Inc. Most recently, Daniel served as the senior vice president, Walmart Services & Digital Acceleration, where he was a key member of the senior executive leadership team responsible for Walmart’s retail- and omni-channel transformation from 2014 - 2020. In this role, Daniel’s responsibilities included Walmart’s financial, retail, automated, and in-store pickup service lines as well as its Omnichannel shopping tools and Omni product catalog services, spanning 4,700 stores, 64,000 automated kiosks, and all of Walmart’s digital platforms.

Daniel joined Walmart in January 2010 as vice president of Financial Services before transitioning to lead all of Walmart Services in 2013. During his tenure with Services, Daniel nearly tripled the size of the business through organic innovation and growth,
while building Walmart’s financial services practice into the 3rd largest money services business in the U.S. Daniel was also responsible for the conceptualization, implementation, and growth of market-disruptive fintech innovations such as:

1. Walmart’s fintech point-of-sale platform;
2. Walmart2Walmart / Walmart2World Money Transfer services;
3. Bluebird by American Express;
4. Go Bank & Prize Savings by Green Dot;
5. Mobile Express Money Services; and,
6. Earned Wage Access with Even and PayActiv.

 

Each of these innovations has served to democratize access and improve the financial well-being for underserved communities throughout the U.S.

In 2015, Daniel’s responsibilities broadened to include Walmart’s Digital Relationship activities, where he conceived and implemented Walmart’s highly successful mobile wallet innovation, Walmart Pay, which became the most used retail mobile wallet in the U.S. For these efforts, Daniel received in 2017 the company’s highest honor – The Sam M. Walton Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Later in 2017, Daniel’s role further expanded when the company tapped him to lead Walmart’s Digital Acceleration efforts. There, he led the conceptualization, development, and deployment of over a dozen industry-leading Omnichannel shopping tools that moved the Walmart App from 685th to 2nd in popularity in iOS the App Store, with a sustained 4.7 star rating.

Before Walmart, Daniel served as senior vice president of card and retail services for HSBC, where he founded and led HSBC’s venture development and payment products group. He also previously held positions at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Accenture, and was an entrepreneur and president of an early-stage investment banking company. Daniel is a proud military veteran, having served as a Logistics Officer in the United States Marine Corps.
Daniel holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Michigan (Class Honors) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from University of Chicago Booth School of Business (High Honors).

Brandon Thompson is Green Dot’s Executive Vice President of Retail, Tax and PayCard. He is a member of the executive management team and reports to Green Dot President and Chief Executive Officer, Dan Henry. In this role, Brandon is responsible for developing and delivering product strategy and growth across the company’s retail, tax and paycard divisions. Mr. Thompson brings over 15 years of executive payments industry experience to Green Dot. Most recently, he served as Chief Commercial Officer at EML, a leading global payments solutions provider operating in 28 countries around the world. In this role, he was responsible for the global P&L of the business, global business development, product strategy and technology. Prior to EML, Mr. Thompson served as senior vice president of retail at Netspend Corporation, a subsidiary of Total Systems Limited (TSYS). While at the company, he led the expansion of sales and load locations from 8K to more than 90K, established key partnerships with PayPal and Western Union, and developed a number of General Purpose Reloadable retailer white label programs. Before joining Netspend, he served as the global product director at Euronet Worldwide where he led the prepaid division’s product strategy and development for the US, Europe and Australia.

Kristina Lockwood has served as our General Counsel since July 2020. Prior to joining Green Dot in 2004 as Associate General Counsel, Ms. Lockwood was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP. Ms. Lockwood earned her J.D. from the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California with B.A. degrees in International Relations and Philosophy.