Board of Directors

Ms. Smith has served as WEX's Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board since January 2014, and as Chair of the Board since September 2019. She has also served as the Company’s President since May 2013. Previously, Ms. Smith served at the Company as President, 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 the Company's 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. Ms. Smith has also served on the board of directors of Equifax Inc., a global data, analytics, and technology company, since November 2020.

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.

Ms. Altobello assumed a seat on the Board in 2021. 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 through her retirement in 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, chairs their Compensation and Talent Committee, and sits on their Nominating and Governance Committee. Ms. Altobello also serves as a board member of Amphenol Corporation, a major producer of electronic and fiber optic connectors, cable, and interconnect systems such as coaxial cables, and is the chair of their Audit Committee and sits on their Compensation Committee. She previously served 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 in 2021.

Mr. Callahan assumed a seat on the board in 2019. Mr. Callahan was an officer of Citigroup, an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation, prior to his retirement in December 2018. 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 is the Chief Executive Officer of Callahan Advisors, LLC, advising global companies with their digital transformation and technology start-ups with differentiated growth strategies and has served as Executive Partner at Bridge Growth Partners, a technology investment firm, since July 2019. Mr. Callahan currently serves as a director of Scotiabank, a leading bank in the Americas listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and sits on their Technology and Risk Committees and Innodata, a Nasdaq-listed global data-engineering company, where he sits on their Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. Callahan also serves on the Board of Trustees at Columbia University’s Teachers College as well as on the boards of several private companies. Previously, Mr. Callahan served as a Director of Tata Consultancy Services.

Ms. Cardwell assumed a seat on the board in 2023. Since May 2023, Ms. Cardwell has been consulting as a contract 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.

Mr. Foss assumed a seat on the Board in November 2025. Mr. Foss is Chair of Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (Jack Henry), a leading provider of technology solutions to the financial services industry. Mr. Foss served as President of Jack Henry from 2014 to 2022 and as Chief Executive Officer from 2016 until his retirement from that role in July 2024. He was elected to the Jack Henry Board of Directors in 2017, served as Chair from 2021 to 2024, and became Executive Chair in July 2024 for one year before becoming Chair in 2025. Mr. Foss joined Jack Henry in 1999 when he arranged the sale of BancTec’s financial solutions division to Jack Henry and subsequently served as President of Jack Henry’s Open Systems Group and General Manager of the Complementary Solutions Group. He was named General Manager of Jack Henry’s ProfitStars division in 2006 and as its President in 2009. Mr. Foss previously served as President and a board member of the Association for Financial Technology from 2007 to 2012. Before joining Jack Henry, he held a variety of positions in the financial services industry, including senior operations management, sales management, and supervisory roles at BancTec, Advanced Computer Systems, and NCR. Mr. Foss also serves as a director of CNO Financial Group, Inc., a nationwide life and health insurer and financial services provider, and sits on its Governance and Nominating and Human Resources and Compensation Committees, and geniant, LLC, a private technology and design consulting firm.

Mr. Ghosh assumed a seat on the Board in 2005. 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.

Mr. Groch assumed a seat on the Board in 2020. Mr. Groch served in a variety of C-suite executive roles at CBRE Group, Inc. (“CBRE”), a global commercial real estate services and investment management firm with over 100,000 employees in over 100 countries and $100 billion of assets under investment management, from 2009 to June 2020. In his roles as CBRE’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 the company’s extensive balance sheet and executing corporate M&A (completing over 90 acquisitions) and strategic initiatives, as well as investments via the company’s Trammell Crow Company subsidiary. In addition to his Finance and Corporate Development responsibilities, Mr. Groch led the development of two significant software platforms that are still core to CBRE today, and the acquisition of two SaaS companies. Since leaving CBRE in 2020, Mr. Groch has advised CEOs of public and private companies through his role as Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Ethos Development, LLC. Prior to CBRE, from 1991 to 2009, Mr. Groch held numerous senior executive roles at Trammell Crow Company, a NYSE company from 1997, which was sold to CBRE in 2006. These roles included Global President of Funds and Investment Management, Global 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.

Mr. Neary assumed a seat on the Board in 2016. 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.

Mr. Roman assumed a seat on the Board in 2021. 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. Mr. Roman currently serves on the board of directors of Vistance Networks, Inc. (formerly CommScope Holding Company, Inc.), a global provider of essential infrastructure solutions for wireless, business enterprise, and residential broadband networks, chairing their Audit Committee and serving on their Nominating and Governance Committee. He also serves as a Public Governor at FINRA, a private American corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization that regulates member broker-dealer firms.

Mr. Smith assumed a seat on the Board in 2019. Mr. Smith is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of L.L.Bean, a privately held omnichannel consumer lifestyle brand and retail company, a role he held from January 2016 to February 2026. 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, helping to integrate e-commerce into the core business and resulting in improved sales growth. Prior to joining Walmart, from 2003 to 2011 Mr. Smith held various leadership positions in the United States and Belgium at subsidiaries of Delhaize Group (now Ahold Delhaize), a Belgium-based international food retailer. Mr. Smith is also a former member of the board of directors for RILA (Retail Industry Leaders Association), an industry organization that represents all major national retailers in Washington, DC. Mr. Smith served on the board of directors of Appalachian Mountain Club, a not-for-profit environmental conservation and recreation organization, from 2016 to 2022. Mr. Smith also serves on the Board of Trustees for Dickinson College, a private liberal arts college in Carlisle, PA. 

Ms. Sobbott assumed a seat on the Board in 2018. Ms. Sobbott was an officer at the American Express Company (AMEX), a globally integrated payments company, prior to her retirement in 2018. At AMEX, Ms. Sobbott served as the President of Global Commercial Services, the multibillion-dollar B2B issuing business of the company serving all business customers globally, from December 2015 to February 2018. Prior to that, she was President of Global Corporate Payments from 2014 through 2015 and the President and General Manager of American Express OPEN, a multibillion-dollar business unit within AMEX serving small businesses, from 2004-2014. Ms. Sobbott serves on the advisory board of Kargo, a leading marketing technology firm, the board of ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral economic consultancy, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. She is also a strategic advisor to a range of fintech and enterprise financial services firms as well as female-founded fintech venture funds, including Women’s Venture Capital Fund, Avid Ventures, and Vesey Ventures. Ms. Sobbott has also served on various other boards, including the board of Next Insurance, an AI-based technology provider of tailored business insurance to small businesses, Bambee, a private AI-based HR software and services provider to small and medium size businesses from 2022 through 2025, and The Children’s Place, the largest public children’s apparel retailer in North America, from 2014 to 2019.