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Kris A. Canekeratne, one of our co-founders, has served as chairman of our board of directors from our inception and chief executive officer from 1996 to 1997 and from 2000 to the present. As Chief Executive Officer, he plays a key role in defining the company strategy and using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership in the industry. In 1997, Kris Canekeratne co-founded eDocs, Inc., a provider of electronic account management and customer care, later acquired by Oracle Corporation. In 1989, Kris Canekeratne was one of the founding team members of INSCI Corporation, a supplier of digital document repositories and integrated output management products and services and served as its senior vice president from 1992 to 1996. Canekeratne obtained his B.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University.

Chris Baker is a Chief Executive Officer at SoftServe and Member of Board of Directors at SoftServe and is based in Annapolis, Maryland. He has worked as President at 360insights, Senior Executive at Public Media Apps, and President at Pitney Bowes. Christopher studied at Purdue University between 1984 and 1988.

As President and CEO of Paciolan, Kim manages the direction and vision for the entire company, including client satisfaction, retention and direction of all products, services and solutions. She has cultivated an inclusive and supportive corporate culture at Paciolan, encouraging employee growth and development. Kim is also the liaison to our parent company, Learfield, and is charged with being more integrated with the Extended Business Lines within the Learfield family. Before she was named President, Kim was managing most of the company in her role as COO, and developed many of the teams within the company that exist today. Before Paciolan, she has also served in leadership positions at Tickets.com, Buy.com and Paramount Studios. In 2017, Venues Today recognized Kim as a Woman of Influence, honoring female leaders in the sports and entertainment industry. Kim earned her bachelor’s degree in Communications and Sports Studies from University of Southern California.

Founded, built and/or financed 10 private companies since 2000 (4 acquired by public companies, 3 trade publicly and 3 formerly traded publicly). Assisted structuring, financing and/or building multiple other private companies, including 2 funds.2017 Owler Top Rated CEOs in the World Award (#26 Overall / #12 in Technology / #1 in Austin, Texas), 2017 KPMG / University of Michigan QuantumShift Top Entrepreneurs in America Award, 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist (Central Texas Region) and 2014 USA Today National Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist.Phunware, the pioneer of Mobile as a Service (MaaS) and the owner of PhunCoin, trades publicly on NASDAQ as "PHUN" (Co-Founder & CEO). Vovida Networks, a communications networking software company, sold to Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) in November 2000 (Co-Founder, President & CEO). vCIS, an anti-virus and security software company, sold to Internet Security Systems (NASDAQ: ISSX) in October 2002, and subsequently acquired by IBM (NYSE: IBM) in August 2006 (Investor & Director). Telverse Communications, a wholesale communications ASP, sold to Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) in July 2003 (Co-Founder, Investor & Director).Edgewater Networks, a networking equipment company, sold to Ribbon Communications (NASDAQ: RBBN) in August 2018 (Investor & Advisor).Angel investor in RingCentral (NYSE: RNG), Vonage (NYSE: VG), Bazaarvoice (formerly NASDAQ: BV), MetaSaaS (acquired by Flexera Software), SunBasket, PureBrands, Bold Metrics and Carepoynt.Curo Capital, "Manager" for the Curo Capital Appreciation Fund I, a diversified investment vehicle for accredited investors interested in public equities, private equities and virtual assets.Cane Capital, a holding company, acts as a strategic corporate advisor and investment vehicle for physical, financial and virtual investments.Windspring, a private data miniaturization software company (Investor & Director).