THOMAS MEREDITH
Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerMr. Meredith has significant Internet, financial services and telecommunications experience. He started his computer career with Digital Equipment Corporation when the first 32-bit architecture was introduced. He was one of the original team of the first Apple clone manufacturer, Franklin Computers, managing 11 Western states and over 800 retailers. He was the Federal Systems Director for Lisp Machine, a leading artificial intelligence company.
Mr. Meredith was the founder of VoxLink and led the company to become the leading innovator of voice mail and e-mail integration. He founded one of the first game companies on the Internet, Internet Gaming; responsible for processing the first significant volume of credit cards internationally on the Internet. Mr. Meredith has years of experience consulting to the financial services industry, primarily in automation of mortgage and credit/debit card processing.
Mr. Meredith is a graduate of the Harvard Business School specializing in Entrepreneurial studies and the Stanford University School of Engineering where he graduated in three years on Academic Scholarship. He has a working knowledge of French and Spanish.
KERN LEWIS
Vice President, MarketingMr. Lewis is a veteran marketing professional with 25 years of experience in financial services. Prior to joining P2P Cash, he spent eight years in the mortgage business directing marketing programming for World Savings and CMG Mortgage. At World Savings he led efforts that doubled customer retention rates in the face of intense competitive pressures during the refinancing boom. At CMG he directed the introduction of the Home Ownership Accelerator loan product, which created a profitable new niche in the mortgage industry. To support the product launch, he led recruitment efforts that attracted and trained over 10,000 loan agents in a two-year period.
Mr. Lewis began his career with American Express in their merchant services division, tasked with deepening merchant acceptance through the attraction of new merchants and by developing programming to retain and expand existing merchant relationships. He left AmEx to manage credit card marketing for Great Western Bank before dedicating two years to serve as a business educator and small business advisor in Ukraine and Albania with the United States Peace Corps. Mr. Lewis has an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics from Stanford University.
DONALD CHAPMAN
Vice President, Global Business DevelopmentMr. Chapman is a financial services technology and payments professional with over 12 years of experience in IT, consulting and business development. Prior to joining P2P Cash he helped establish and launch a real-time global payments network (PayNet) for Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), a Fortune 500 financial technology firm. He also spent eight years in corporate consulting, working with clients like Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Prudential Financial, Discovery Communications and Ocean Spray Cranberries.
Mr. Chapman graduated from Providence College where he was a Division 1 NCAA lacrosse player and member of the Dean’s List. He earned his MBA with an Investments concentration from Babson College’s F.W. Olin School of Business; ranked #1 in Entrepreneurship by U.S. News and World Report in 2014 for the twenty-first consecutive year.