MANAGEMENT BOARDS
Senior Management
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, President
Kelly Purcell
Kelly Purcell is a co-founder and has been the company's President since its
incorporation. Ms. Purcell came from GE Capital where she had fifteen years
experience serving in various capacities in the mortgage origination and insurance
industries. At GE Capital during the last five years she held the position of
Business Development Manager. Ms. Purcell was directly responsible for a territory
with an annual sales budget of $800 million. This included the sales, risk dispersion
and loss ratio of insurance portfolio associated with her territory. Previous
positions at GE Capital included sales management/marketing, product development
and risk management. Ms. Purcell's region was the leader in "boundary-less selling"
by bringing the services of five GE components together to meet key customer
needs, a move which resulted in gross sales of $60 million and a $4.3 million
profit. Ms. Purcell graduated from Moorhead State University of Minnesota
with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management.
Acting Chief Financial
Officer
Mark Hassman
Mark Hassman became Acting Chief Financial Officer effective July 2000. Mr.
Hassman brings 25 years of financial expertise to SignOnline. His previous experience
includes his position as CFO with Clayton Engineering, Inc. Mr. Hassman also
was the CFO for L.H. Cranston & Sons, Inc. for a period of seven years. Mr.
Hassman's education includes a Master in Business Administration from Harvard
University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting, Management Science and
Economics from Duke University.
Co-founder, Chief
Information Officer
Nancy Alley
Nancy Alley is a co-founder and has been the company's Chief Information Officer
since its incorporation. Ms. Alley came from GE Capital where she spent 8 years
developing the skills she brought to Signonline, Inc. Ms. Alley was a Business
Development Manager for 4 years. At GE Capital, she represented Contract Service
Channel to Top Tier and key Western Region accounts. She marketed service to
outsource customer-underwriting functions via compliance and automated underwriting
products. Ms. Alley was also the Product Manager for GE Capital's first mortgage
scoring application. She managed the full product development cycle from design
to implementation, which was completed in 30 weeks. Ms. Alley graduated from
the University of Michigan Business School with a Bachelor of Business Administration,
where she majored in finance with broad business curriculum including Marketing,
Accounting, and Economics.
Senior Vice President
of Sales
Victoria Clement
Victoria Clement is currently the Senior Vice President of Sales. Prior to SignOnline,
Ms. Clement worked for GE Capital for seven years where she was Regional Vice
President/Manager for the Capital Markets Mortgage Sales Division (buy side).
She managed a sales force of over 20 account executives, and mortgage assets
of over $2 billion. Responsibilities included the management of all mortgage
related e-commerce partners on the West Coast. Prior to joining GE Capital,
she served as Vice President of Conduit Sales for Shearson Lehman Mortgage,
and has held senior positions with Security Pacific's Capital Markets and Technology
Groups. Ms. Clement has also served as Legislative Aid to the Executive Director
of the Joint Economic Committee of the U. S. Congress. Ms. Clement is a graduate
of the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics
and holds an Advanced Degree in Real Estate from the University of California,
Irvine.
Board of Directors
Chairman
Bennett R. Katz
Mr. Katz retired from Visa in January 2000 after 27 years of service. He was
the group executive vice president, General Counsel and Secretary of Visa International,
overseeing all legal functions for the worldwide Visa payment system. He also
serves on Visa's Management Executive Committee.
Prior to joining Visa, he served for five years as Chief Counsel to Avco Financial
Services in Newport Beach, California, and was general counsel for three years
to the Home Credit Company in Worcester, Massachusetts. Katz holds a Bachelor
of Arts degree from Hobart College in New York, and a JD degree from the University
of Chicago Law School.
Director
Barbara Roberts
While serving as Governor of Oregon from 1991-1995, Ms. Roberts was recognized
as a strong advocate for environmental management, a state and national leader
for human and civil rights, and one of America's foremost "re-inventors" of
effective government. Prior to being elected Governor, she was Oregon's Secretary
of State from 1985-1991, and had been a member of the state House of Representatives,
serving as majority leader in 1983 and 1984.
Co-founder,
Chief Executive Officer, President
Kelly Purcell
Kelly Purcell is a co-founder and has been the company's President since its
incorporation. Ms. Purcell came from GE Capital where she had fifteen years
experience serving in various capacities in the mortgage origination and insurance
industries. At GE Capital during the last five years she held the position of
Business Development Manager. Ms. Purcell was directly responsible for a territory
with an annual sales budget of $800 million. This included the sales, risk dispersion
and loss ratio of insurance portfolio associated with her territory. Previous
positions at GE Capital included sales management/marketing, product development
and risk management. Ms. Purcell's region was the leader in "boundary-less selling"
by bringing the services of five GE components together to meet key customer
needs, a move which resulted in gross sales of $60 million and a $4.3 million
profit. Ms. Purcell graduated from Moorhead State University of Minnesota
with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management.
Co-founder, Chief
Information Officer
Nancy Alley
Nancy Alley is a co-founder and has been the company's Chief Information Officer
since its incorporation. Ms. Alley came from GE Capital where she spent 8 years
developing the skills she brought to SignOnline, Inc. Ms. Alley was a Business
Development Manager for 4 years. At GE Capital, she represented Contract Service
Channel to Top Tier and key Western Region accounts. She marketed service to
outsource customer-underwriting functions via compliance and automated underwriting
products. Ms. Alley was also the Product Manager for GE Capital's first mortgage
scoring application. She managed the full product development cycle from design
to implementation, which was completed in 30 weeks. Ms. Alley graduated
from the University of Michigan Business School with a Bachelor of Business
Administration, where she majored in finance with broad business curriculum
including Marketing, Accounting, and Economics.
Advisory Council
Advisory Council Member
Admiral Robert Inman
Admiral Robert Inman is a member of the Advisory Council for SignOnline. Mr.
Inman is the founder and former CEO of MCC, a consortium of computer software
and hardware makers created in 1982. He is a former Director of the National
Security Agency and a former deputy director for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Advisory Council Member
Dudley Brown
Dudley Brown is the Managing Director for BridgeGate, focusing on executive-level
searches for venture-backed, pre-IPO firms and recently public software and
Internet clients. As Managing Director, he also oversees BridgeGates's planning,
marketing and strategy.
Advisory Council
Member
Keith Chiaro
Keith Chiaro has over 17 years of computer engineering and design experience.
Mr. Chiaro founded Keystone Engineering in 1990 which designed and built equipment
used by a number of semiconductor businesses including Altera, Xilinx, Hewlett
Packard, IBM, Honeywell, LSI Logic, IDT and others.
Advisory Council
Member
Andrew Crookston
Andrew Crookston is Project Manager, Emerging Markets for 3GI International,
which specializes in developing cryptograph products. Mr. Crookston has financial
industry experience and technical skills from Andersen Consulting, where he
consulted with some of the largest financial institutions in the U.S. including
VISA.
Advisory
Council Member
Darrin Ginsberg
Darrin Ginsberg is the founder and CEO of E-Commerce Exchange, a leading Internet
payment service provider that specializes in electronic processing of merchant
accounts catering to small to medium size businesses.
Advisory Council
Member
Joel Hackney
Joel Hackney is Vice President of Operations at GE Lighting Europe, where he
is responsible for customer service, supply chain, transportation and warehousing.
Advisory Council
Member
Bob Lashbrook
Bob Lashbrook has 33 years of financial experience at Rockwell International,
where he held executive level positions at many divisions and group levels throughout
the company.
Advisory Council
Member
Maxine Matteo
Maxine Matteo brings years of executive level experience in strategic consumer
marketing, capital markets, and mortgage banking. Most recently, she was SVP/Managing
Director of Strategic Marketing for Bank of America.
Advisory Council
Member
Jeff Tarte
Jeff Tarte is a Senior Vice President and member of Certus Corp Management Operations
Committee and leads the Informatics Group National Practice. Mr. Tarte has provided
information technology consulting services to the health care industry for over
20 years.
Advisory Council
Member
Barry Wilder
Barry Wilder served for eight years as a partner in an international executive
search firm located in New York City. There he completed assignments in major
financial markets in the United States and abroad, principally New York, Los
Angeles and London.
Advisory Council
Member
Andrew Konstantaras
Andrew Konstantaras brings expertise in the e-commerce field specializing in
strategic and tactical counseling for early stage Internet commerce startups.
He has assisted in the development of several business and revenue models including
definition of products and services, and identification of target markets.