Company Executives

Bo Holland, Founder and CEO

Bo Holland is a start-up veteran who has been delivering innovative technology solutions to financial institutions for over fifteen years. In 2004, Holland founded Debix and currently serves as CEO.

Holland was previously founder and CEO of Works, Inc., which was acquired by Bank of America in 2005. Works develops commercial payment solutions for large organizations and distributes the product via Bank of America, Wells Fargo, PNC Bank, Sun Trust and Commerce Bank. Holland invented the patent-pending technology that enables large organizations to approve and control payments for operating expenses via credit cards.

Prior to Works, Holland served as Director Product and Marketing for Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW), and was instrumental in turning the company around and taking it public in September 1997. Prior to Pervasive, Holland joined Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) as employee 32 and was instrumental in developing the product strategy and distribution that laid the foundation for the company revenue growth to over $750 million in 2004.

Richard Brown, Chief Technology Officer

Richard Brown has twenty years of experience in building large transaction systems for the payment and banking industry. As CTO of Debix, Brown is responsible for building the infrastructure capable of handling millions of transactions each day. He is also major contributor to standard initiatives, and the author of several position papers and patents in the field of electronic commerce and settlement of commercial transactions.

Brown previously worked with Inovant and developed the credit card authorization system successfully used in France today. Brown was also Founder, President and CTO of Kedemon. Kedemon brings consumer solutions to the converging market of personal mobile appliances, open network technology, and wireless communication. Prior to Kedemon, he worked with Polycom, the leading provider of converged voice, video, web, and data solutions for emerging broadband networks.

Alex Davis, Vice President of Engineering

Alex Davis is Vice President of Engineering of Debix, where he is responsible for defining engineering processes, providing technical vision, and leading the engineering department to build and deliver the company's products and services for more than 800,000 consumers nationwide.

Davis is an accomplished leader in the rapid delivery of quality software using Agile engineering principles and brings over 14 years of experience in high-tech software development focused primarily on fraud detection and prevention. Prior to joining Debix in 2005, Davis served at RenewData, architecting solutions to quickly sift through terabytes of data to discover and deliver information critical to forensic e-discovery. Previous to that Davis worked at ClearCommerce, developing tools to process high volume real-time card payments as well as detecting, predicting, and preventing fraudulent charges. Davis has also worked at Globeset, partnering with Visa and Mastercard to enhance security of online payments.

Jim Duster, Vice President of Sales

Jim Duster has 19 years of technology business and sales experience. As Vice President of Sales at Debix, Duster is responsible for developing strategic relationships and growing revenue from enterprises, consumers and partners.

Prior to Debix, Duster was VP of Sales Operations at NetQoS, a $50M annual revenue network performance software company located in Austin, Texas that was acquired by CA for $200M. Duster relocated back to Austin in 2006 from Dubuque, Iowa where he was COO of Cartegraph, a business that sells software technology to government entities, and where he drove sales revenue to records for the company and established its first international partner. Prior to Cartegraph, Duster was COO of IT Masters, a Belgian owned software company which sold to BMC Software for $42M in 2003. He sourced and then closed the 12M Euro 2nd round of financing for IT Masters in August 2001. Duster began his technology company career with Software Spectrum which went from $10 million revenue to $1B during his tenure, and had two public offerings and multiple acquisitions. One position Duster held was Director of Operations for the multilingual multicultural pan-European business unit he ran while living in Dublin, Ireland.

Jamie May, Chief Investigator, AllClear ID

Jamie May joined Debix in 2007. During this time, she has managed the implementation and execution of over 600 data breaches, including the two largest healthcare breaches since the creation of HITECH in 2009. Additionally, May is responsible for overseeing the operations of multiple call center facilities, support and fraud investigation teams, and phone and customer resource management systems. Under May’s direction, the Debix Customer Service organization has distinguished itself with exemplary service by consistently maintaining a high customer satisfaction rating and adhering to industry standard service levels. May has over 10 years of customer service experience.

Gary Goldman, Vice President of Operations

Gary Goldman has 22 years of experience in technology, business operations, and customer service. As VP of Business Operations at Debix, Goldman has cross-discipline responsibilities. His key areas of focus include corporate compliance and continuous improvements to infrastructure and systems critical in delivering expanding product lines and services.

Prior to Debix, Goldman was VP of Platform Operations for Barfly Interactive Networks (acquired by TouchTunes in 2008), creating an industry leader in social networking via digital signage across the United States. Previously Goldman was Director of Support and QA with Permeo, Inc. (acquired by BlueCoat Systems in 2006) producing the standard for on-demand SSL VPN products. In the early portion of Goldman's career, he held senior global customer support and services leadership positions in startups and early stage software companies including Vignette (1998 IPO), Deja.com, and UniSQL.

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