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Melissa Smith
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Chair
Ms. Smith has served as the Chair of the Board since September 2019. Ms. Smith assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of WEX and a seat on the Board in January 2014. She has served as the Company’s President since May 2013. Previously, Ms. Smith served as President of the Americas from April 2011 to April 2013 and as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Finance and Operations from November 2007 to April 2011. From September 2001 through November 2007, Ms. Smith served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer. From May 1997 to August 2001, Ms. Smith held various positions of increasing responsibility with the Company. Ms. Smith began her career at Ernst & Young.
Jack VanWoerkom
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Vice Chairman and Lead Director
Mr. VanWoerkom has served as the Vice Chairman and Lead Director of the Board since September 2019. Mr. VanWoerkom served as the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Porchlight Equity (formerly Highland Consumer Fund), a private equity firm specializing in lower middle market companies, from January 2017 until December 2018. Before serving as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Mr. VanWoerkom served as an Operating Partner at Porchlight Equity from June 2015 until January 2017. From June 2011 until June 2015, Mr. VanWoerkom was retired. From June 2007 until June 2011, Mr. VanWoerkom was employed by The Home Depot, Inc., a home improvement retailer, as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Mr. VanWoerkom served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Staples, Inc., an office supply retailer, from March 2004 to June 2007. From March 1999 to March 2004, Mr. VanWoerkom was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Staples.
Nancy Altobello
Ms. Altobello was most recently the Global Vice Chair, Talent of Ernst & Young (“EY”), where she was responsible for the firm’s global talent and people strategy from July 2014 to June 2018. Prior to that, she held a number of senior positions at EY, including the Americas Vice Chair, Talent, the Managing Partner, Northeast Region Audit and Advisory Practices, and the Managing Partner, North American Audit Practice. During this time, Ms. Altobello also served as an audit partner for a number of leading global organizations. Ms. Altobello is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Ms. Altobello currently serves as a board member of MarketAxess Holdings Inc., an international financial technology company, and sits on their Compensation and Talent and Nominating and Governance committees and serves as their Lead Director and Amphenol Corporation, a major producer of electronic and fiber optic connectors, cable, and interconnect systems such as coaxial cables, and sits on their Audit and Compensation Committees. She was previously on the boards of CA Technologies before it was acquired by Broadcom in 2018, MTS Systems before it was acquired by Amphenol in April 2021, and Cornerstone on Demand before it was acquired by Clearlake Capital Group.
Daniel (Don) Callahan
Prior to his retirement in December 2018, Mr. Callahan was an officer of Citigroup, an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation. At Citigroup, Mr. Callahan served from October 2007 to December 2018 as the Global Head of Operations and Technology. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Callahan held various leadership positions with Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and IBM. In addition, Mr. Callahan has served as the Non-Executive Chair of Time, a news publication, since April 2019 and Executive Partner at Bridge Growth Partners, a technology investment firm, since October 2019. Mr. Callahan also currently serves as a director of Scotiabank, a leading bank in the Americas listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and sits on their Corporate Governance and Risk Committees, and the Columbia University's Teachers College charity board as well as on the boards of several private companies. Mr. Callahan also served as a director of Tata Consultancy Services, an Indian Multinational Technology Company listed on the National Stock Exchange of India, and sat on their Audit and Risk Management Committees, from January 2019 to January 2024.
Aimee Cardwell
Ms. Cardwell assumed a seat on the board in December 2023. Since May 2023, Ms. Cardwell has been consulting as a virtual CISO and CIO for a variety of companies in the healthcare and financial services space. From June 2021 to May 2023, Ms. Cardwell served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, a multinational managed healthcare and insurance company, where she oversaw the global cybersecurity team. From January 2020 to June 2021, Ms. Cardwell was the Chief Information Officer of Optum Financial, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, helping to transform the organization through multiple acquisitions. From May 2015 to December 2019, she held multiple leadership positions at American Express Company, a multinational financial services company, including Chief Information Officer, Digital Payments, and as a Vice President of Engineering, where she led engineering teams in the areas of consumer product delivery, blockchain, digital wallets, online payments, tokenization, wearables, and conversation bots. Prior to joining American Express, Ms. Cardwell held management positions at various companies, including eBay Inc. and Expedia Group Inc. Ms. Cardwell also served on the Technology Advisory Board of Rent the Runway, Inc. from May 2016 to December 2019.
Shikhar Ghosh
Mr. Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He has been on the faculty since August 2008 and is Co-Chairman of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard University. Mr. Ghosh is also currently on the Board of Decision Resources Group, a leading provider of information services to the healthcare industry and Evidence Action, a non-profit organization that provides health services to over 200 million children across multiple countries. From June 2006 until December 2007, Mr. Ghosh was the Chief Executive Officer of Risk Syndication for the Kessler Group, where he enabled bank clients and their endorsing partners to market credit cards. From June 1999 to June 2004, Mr. Ghosh was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Verilytics Technologies, LLC, an analytical software company focused on the financial services industry. In 1993, Mr. Ghosh founded Open Market, Inc., an Internet commerce and information publishing software firm. From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Ghosh was the Chief Executive Officer of Appex Corp., a technology company that was sold to Electronic Data Systems Corporation in 1990. From 1980 until 1988, Mr. Ghosh served in various positions with The Boston Consulting Group, a management consulting firm, and was elected as a worldwide partner and a director of the firm in 1988.
James (Jim) Groch
Mr. Groch served as a C-Suite Executive at CBRE Group, Inc., a Fortune 150 multinational commercial real estate services and investment management firm with over 100,000 employees and $100 billion of assets under investment management, from 2009 to June 2020. In his roles as the Company’s Global Group President and Chief Investment Officer (from May 2019 to June 2020), Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer (from March 2014 to May 2019), and EVP Strategy and Corporate Finance & Chief Investment Officer (from January 2009 to March 2014), he was responsible for overseeing or directly executing the Company’s extensive balance sheet, M&A (over 90 acquisitions) and strategy activities, as well as investments via its Trammell Crow Company subsidiary. In addition to his Finance and Corporate Development activities, Mr. Groch has been active in technology, leading the development of two significant software platforms still core to CBRE today, and acquiring SaaS companies. Prior to CBRE, from 1991 to 2009, Mr. Groch held numerous senior executive roles at Trammell Crow Company, a NYSE company from 1997 until sold to CBRE in 2006. These roles included President of Funds and Investment Management, Head of Corporate Development, President of Development and Investments - Eastern U.S., and Managing Director of Trammell Crow Northeast. In 1988, Mr. Groch became a partner at Trammell Crow Company, three years after he joined the Company.
James Neary
Mr. Neary is a managing director of Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm, which he joined in 2000. Mr. Neary is a Managing Director, Co-head of U.S. Private Equity (since December 2020) and a member of the Executive Management Group. From 2013 to December 2020, Mr. Neary was head of the Industrials & Business Services team. From 2010 to June 2013, Mr. Neary led the firm’s late-stage efforts in the technology and business services sectors in the U.S. Prior to that, from 2004 to 2010, he was co-head of the technology, media and telecommunications investment efforts in the U.S. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Neary led the firm’s Capital Markets activities. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was a managing director at Chase Securities and prior to that, he was at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Neary is a director of Sotera Health, a provider of sterilization solutions and lab testing and advisory services, and is the chair of their Leadership Development and Compensation Committee. Also, Mr. Neary is a director of several private companies and a trustee of the Mount Sinai Health System. Mr. Neary has previously served on the boards of Endurance International Group, a web-presence solutions company; Fidelity National Information Services Inc., a bank technology processing company; Coyote Logistics, a truck brokerage business now owned by UPS; and Interactive Data Corporation, a firm providing financial market data and analytics and now owned by Intercontinental Exchange.
Derrick Roman
Mr. Roman served as an audit, consulting and senior client relationship partner for the international accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) from 1997 until his retirement in September 2020. As an external audit partner/practitioner, Mr. Roman led independent financial statement audits of publicly traded and privately held enterprises. He has extensive experience in financial accounting, SEC reporting, internal controls, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity offerings, initial public and secondary offerings, asset-backed financings, and the implementation of accounting and auditing standards. As an advisory partner, Mr. Roman focused on evaluating and improving internal controls, enterprise risk management, internal auditing, and compliance programs for a diverse group of publicly traded companies. Mr. Roman led his PwC teams and clients through digital transformation, automation, and shared delivery center initiatives. He also held several significant governance, line of business, diversity and inclusion and corporate responsibility leadership roles at PwC, including serving on its CEO Nominating Committee and its Foundation board. Mr. Roman is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Black Accountants, Inc., where he is a member of its Corporate Advisory Board. Mr. Roman currently serves on the board of directors of CommScope Holding Company, Inc., a global provider of infrastructure solutions for communication and entertainment networks, and sits on their Audit Committee.
Stephen (Steve) Smith
Mr. Smith is the President and Chief Executive Officer of L.L.Bean, a privately held omni-channel consumer lifestyle brand and retail company, a role he has held since January 2016. Mr. Smith serves on the board of directors of L.L.Bean and is on the board of directors for RILA (Retail Industry Leaders Association), an industry organization that represents all major national retailers in Washington DC. In January 2022, after six years, Mr. Smith stepped off the board of directors of Appalachian Mountain Club, a not-for-profit environmental conservation and recreation organization. Mr. Smith also serves on the Board of Trustees for Dickinson College, a private liberal arts college, in Carlisle, PA. From July 2011 to November 2015, Mr. Smith held various international positions at subsidiaries of Walmart, a multinational retail corporation, including senior executive roles in marketing, merchandising and e-commerce, in China and the UK. Prior to joining Walmart, from 2003 to 2011 Mr. Smith held various leadership positions in the United States and Belgium, at Delhaize Group subsidiaries, a Belgium-based international food retailer.
Susan Sobbott
Ms. Sobbott was an officer at the American Express Company, a globally integrated payments company, prior to her departure in February 2018. At the American Express Company, Ms. Sobbott served from December 2015 to February 2018 as the President of Global Commercial Services, the multibillion-dollar B2B issuing business of the company. Prior to that, she was President of Global Corporate Payments for 2014 and 2015, focused on serving global client's corporate payment needs. From 2004 to January 2014, she was President and General Manager of American Express OPEN, a multibillion-dollar business unit within American Express Company serving small businesses. Previously, Ms. Sobbott led product development, loyalty rewards, and partnerships for the Consumer Card business. Ms. Sobbott was a member of the Business Operating Committee which worked to develop strategic direction for the firm, and was a founding member of the Enterprise Risk Management Committee. Ms. Sobbott serves on the board of Bambee, a private HR software and services provider to small and medium size businesses, Ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral economic consultancy for social issues, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Ms. Sobbott served on the board of directors of The Children’s Place, the largest publicly-traded specialty retailer of children’s apparel in North America from June 2014 through May 2019. She also served on the board of Red Ventures, a privately held digital marketing provider for many of the world’s biggest consumer brands, from 2012 to 2020 and served on the board of Lola.com, a private company provider of corporate travel and expense management software, from 2020 to 2022. Ms. Sobbott is also an advisor to the Women's Venture Capital Fund focused on diverse founders, Avid Ventures, a female founded fintech venture fund, and One Love, a nonprofit focused on educating the youth on the development of healthy relationships.