Board of Directors

Lisa Stanton

Lisa has more than 20 years of experience in banking and payments, and most recently served as the President of the Americas for Monitise, a global leader in the provision of mobile money services to banks, credit unions, processors, payment networks, MNO’s and retailers.  Prior to Monitise, Lisa spent 16 years at Citizens Financial Group, the 8th largest bank in the US, running the payments and channels divisions.

 

Benjamin Nye

Ben is the Co-Managing Partner and leads the technology and infrastructure software investing efforts for Bain Capital Ventures. He has been recognized in the past 4 consecutive years by Forbes’ Midas list as one of the top Venture Capital Investors in the US as well as by AON Venture Capital East Top 50. Past investments include Solarwinds (IPO, “SWI”), LinkedIn (IPO “LNKD”), Network Intelligence (sold to EMC), Archer Technologies (sold to RSA/EMC), dynaTrace (sold to Compuware) and AppAssure Software (sold to DELL Computer) and StackDriver (sold to Google).

 

Mike Patterson

Mike brings a decade of experience in mobile and security startups. In 2002, he founded SMobile Systems, a global provider of mobile security solutions to wireless operators and large institutional clients. Mike co-invented several patented items in the cross-platform device and network security software space. Juniper Networks (JNPR) acquired Smobile in July 2010.

 

Paul Garrett

Paul Garrett, an expert in cross-organization information sharing, joined The Ashcroft Group as its Chief Technology Officer in January 2009.

Garrett’s 18-year management and technology consulting background includes fifteen years in the private sector designing and deploying case management, financial management and intelligence systems. For the past eight years, he has focused primarily on intelligence and law enforcement solutions and knows that with better access to data, local, state, and federal governments can keep our streets safer. Garrett is well known in the law enforcement and homeland security communities for his work connecting criminal intelligence systems and advocating for open standards.