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I’m a senior global leader who drives transformational value creation in the financial, fintech, telecom and consumer goods sectors. During a 30+ year career, I’ve set strategy and led growth acceleration involving retail and digital transformations, organic expansion, turnarounds and the acquisition and integration of new businesses. My track record covers multiple continents and countries. The importance I place on integrity, accountability and diversity has helped me navigate different cultures and markets around the globe. On March, 2020, I was appointed President, Chief Executive Officer, and member of the board of directors of ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW), a global leading provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions to leading banks, financial institutions and corporations around the world. From 2019 to February 2020, I was an Operating Partner at Advent International, one of the world’s largest private equity funds with $54.3B in assets under management across 41 countries. Prior to it, with a 17 years tenure at the Western Union Corporation (WU), the global leader in cross-border and cross-currency money movement, I advanced through increasingly significant general management roles. In my last position, as President Western Union Global Money Transfer, I led Western Union’s $5B global consumer retail and digital business across 200+ countries and territories. My experience at Western Union includes profitable growth acceleration of the global consumer business, transformational growth in Latin America through organic expansion and successful M&A and short-term turnarounds to restore growth across markets in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, Africa, Mexico and the Caribbean. It also includes leading digital transformation which established Western Union as the global digital leader in cross-border consumer money transfer. I am also a member of the board of directors of Millicom International (NASDAQ:TIGO), a $6B international provider of cable and mobile services to 50M+ consumers in Latin America and Africa. A native of Brazil, I’ve lived and worked in cities in the U.S., Canada and Brazil. I am fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese. SPECIALTIES: Global Chief Executive Officer | Board Director | Value Creation | Turnarounds | M&A | Digital Transformation | Business Transformation | Strategy Design | Operational Discipline | Business Integrations | Developed and Emerging Markets | Corporate Culture | Consumer Insights |Corporate Governance | Regulatory & Compliance | Ethics

Jay Challa is the Chairman and CEO of Ace Info Solutions, Inc. a company based out of Reston, Virginia. He has over 20 years of experience in operations, business development, project management, and technical management. Since he co-founded AceInfo in 2000, he has watched the company grow into a thriving, high quality Federal IT contractor recognized as a leader in the field. Under his leadership and management capabilities, AceInfo has grown from a 2-person, $50,000 revenue company in 2001 to a mid-size company serving the Federal Government market space. The company has won many awards from Federal Government agencies, including the Small Business Contractor of the Year from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Directors Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Mr. Challa received Fifty Influential Minorities in Business award from Minority Business Enterprise Network in 2006 and was on the cover of the Minority Enterprise Advocate magazine in 2009. Mr. Challa lives in Herndon with his wife Kavita and his daughter and son, Shivani and Varun. Mr. Challa is a PMI-certified PMP and a certified Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, State of Maryland, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. Prior to AceInfo, he worked at consulting companies such as KPMG, BearingPoint, EarthTech (Tyco International Company), and Ed Zublin AG. Mr. Challa began his career as a staff engineer working on military family housing projects in Germany and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in less than two years, he became the project manager on that account.

Thom Sutherland is the Chief Financial Officer at Southeastern Data Cooperative and attended The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2002.