Leadership

Alex W. "Pete" Hart

Former CEO, Mastercard

Pete Hart is currently Chairman of the Board of the Silicon Valley Bank, and is a director of Fair Isaac Corporation, Global Payments, Inc., VeriFone Holdings, Inc. and eHarmony.com. Until 1997, Pete Hart served as Chief Executive Officer of Advanta Corporation, a diversified financial services company. From 1988 to 1994, Pete was President and Chief Executive Officer of MasterCard International, the worldwide payment service provider. Concurrently he also served as Chairman of the Board of Maestro International, the global debit system, and was a member of the board of directors of Europay International.

Christopher D Thom

Former Chief Risk Officer, MasterCard

Chris Thom retired from MasterCard in 2006 where he was Chief Risk Officer, Senior Executive Vice President of the Global Development Group and a member of the Executive Management Group. Prior to joining MasterCard in 1995, Mr. Thom served in a variety of positions at HSBC Group in the United Kingdom, including as general manager, Strategic Development and general manager, Retail. In the latter position, Mr. Thom was responsible for the core banking services and products delivered through HSBC's branch network, as well as HSBC's card service, private banking and other businesses.

Brian M. Barefoot

Former CEO PaineWebber International
President Emeritus, Babson College

Brian M. Barefoot is President Emeritus of Babson College where he served as president from 2001 until 2008, and served as Chair of the Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2001. Prior to this, Mr. Barefoot's career in financial services has spanned more than three decades. At PaineWebber, Inc. he served as Executive Vice President and Director of Investment Banking, a member of its Board of Directors, and President and Chief Executive Officer of its subsidiary, PaineWebber International. During twenty-five years at Merrill Lynch & Co., he held various senior management positions, retiring as Senior Vice President and Managing Director. He has also held senior management, director and trustee positions at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the Kent Place School and other leading companies.

Gary Briggs

Former CMO, eBay
VP Consumer Marketing, Google

Gary Briggs is currently the VP of Consumer Marketing at Google. Prior to this, Gary served as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at eBay. He was responsible for eBay's branding and marketing activities in North America, including advertising, Internet marketing, direct marketing, onsite merchandising, partner relationships, and core category initiatives. In his six-year career at eBay, Gary held other positions including VP of Consumer Marketing for eBay U.S., VP of Global Marketing for PayPal, and General Manager for eBay Canada.

John Furjanic

Former EVP, North American Consumer Risk, Citigroup

John Furjanic is the Founder and CEO of ROI Solutions. Prior to founding ROI Solutions John had a 20-year career at Citigroup where during his tenure he held numerous senior executive positions in risk management and served as a Senior Credit Officer and Global Credit Director for Citigroup's Global Consumer Bank. Serving as Citigroup's Senior Vice President of North American Consumer Risk Management, John lead a team responsible for credit policy and risk management for Diner's Club North America. In this role, he reduced bankruptcies by more than 25% by significantly advancing the usage of third party data resources and increased collection recovery rates on small business card portfolios by more than 500%.

Soul Htite

CEO, Scale Options

Soul Htite is the CEO of Scale Options, a financial services technology company based in Hong Kong.

Soul was a Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Lending Club until late 2010. During his tenure at Lending Club, Soul led technical development and operations, ensuring that our online capabilities were both state of the art and fully secure.

Soul has spent most of his professional career building enterprise-level software with Oracle Corporation. He has focused on real-time online services and system design for high availability. Soul held a senior product development position in the Oracle core server technologies team, and lead research projects focusing on diagnosability and online system management services. Soul also led a global early product adoption initiative for Oracle's real-time collaboration products.

Soul received both his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Networking and Software Engineering from the University of Montreal.