Cybersource CEO and leadership

Michael Walsh is a Board Member at Forter and CEO, Cybersource Corporation at Cybersource and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Advisor at Control. Michael studied at University of California Irvine between 1986 and 1991.

Senior leader focused on positioning a company's technology as a competitive advantage, enabling business goals to be achieved by defining IT strategy and plans, developing and implementing initiatives, and leading technology development, delivery and operational organizations. Expertise in operating and extending mission-critical, high-availability, high-volume global payment processing platforms. Demonstrated leadership and technical skills include:

Enterprise architecture strategy

Mergers/Acquisitions/Due Diligence

Budget management

Business Process Outsourcing

Transaction-based technologies

Technology compliance

Global development/support model

Organizational development

Employee development

• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY THOUGHT LEADERSHIP- Provide comprehensive technology architecture and application solutions to achieve business strategic and tactical objectives. Evaluate options to improve cost and service through internal adjustments, vendor negotiation, contract negotiation, and partner sourcing alternatives.

• RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - Maintain communication with senior-most executives, board members and stakeholders to understand key initiatives for technology strategies and collaboration. Strong presentation skills at all levels. Continuously help business units meet and exceed goals and objectives with technology solutions aligned with business drivers.

• PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Lead project management teams. Map progress ensuring company projects are delivered as planned while managing all project resources. Develop and maintain best practices, processes and procedures to meet and exceed service level agreements between technology delivery organization and clients.

• VALUE MANAGEMENT - Formalize processes and procedures needed to bring fiscal discipline to the IT organization. Reshape technology organizations to align with corporate goals and strategies. Reduce non-strategic spending to increase funding for value-creative initiatives.

David W. Truetzel has approximately 20 years of experience in the financial services and technology industries in both a consultative and operating capacity. He is a General Partner of Augury Capital Partners, which he co-founded in 2006. He was a General Partner of Hela Capital Partners, a partnership focused on leveraged buyouts in the financial services industry, from 2001 through 2005. In addition, Mr. Truetzel was a Managing Director of Gryphon Investments II, a technology focused venture capital firm, from 2000 through June of 2004. Prior to the sale of Kinexus Corporation, a Gryphon portfolio company, to Advent Software, Mr. Truetzel served as the Acting Chief Financial Officer of Kinexus Corporation. From 1985 to 1995, Mr. Truetzel worked in the Corporate Finance Division of A.G. Edwards & Sons, with the last five years of his tenure serving as Managing Director with responsibilities for new business development. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Paymentech, a New York Stock Exchange listed subsidiary of First USA. Mr. Truetzel managed the financial function and successfully assisted Paymentech in its initial public offering and secondary offering and orchestrated approximately 22 acquisitions over a two-year period. In 1998, Mr. Truetzel joined Llama Holdings, a merchant-banking firm, where he executed numerous merger and advisory assignments and participated as principal on several buyouts. In 1999, he joined Paylinx Corporation as Chief Financial Officer and was responsible for all financial functions, including a successful $30 million private equity financing and sale to CyberSource Corp. Mr. Truetzel sits on the Board of Directors of Enterprise Bank, Inc, Verifi Inc., Clearent, LLC and Paranet, LLC. Mr. Truetzel holds a B.S. in Accounting from Saint Louis University, an MBA from The Wharton School and is a certified public accountant. He and his wife Stephanie have been married for 27 years and have three adult children.

I have been writing software professionally since 1978. Since joining CyberSource in 1998, my primary focus has been on high performance, high availability transaction processing platforms. I am passionate about quality, performance and scalability in roughly that order.

I just accepted a position (11/2017) as Chief Solutions Architect which I expect to give me broader influence over the direction we take with technology.

Experienced Chief Executive Officer, Board Director and Advisor with demonstrated successes over 25+ years in the Fintech industry. Skilled in Electronic Payments/Merchant Acquiring, Enterprise Software (SaaS/PaaS), E-commerce, and partnering with Private Equity Growth Capital investors. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) focused in Marketing and Finance from University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Proven financial executive with experience building and supporting global businesses operating in complex industries, including oversight of the strategic/financial planning process. Experience accelerating growth organically and through acquisition. Start-up experience, including raising capital. Public company experience, including filing for an IPO and maintaining regulatory compliance. Experience presenting to and communicating with the investment community and Boards of Directors.