Harland Clarke CEO and leadership

Served startups, mid-size & mature fintech/martech companies in the financial services, payments, retail & energy industries. Successful record of exceeding financial goals & driving revenue growth for existing/new businesses. Expertise in building and leading world-class leadership teams to create & execute strategy for short and long-term value. Responsible for sustainable business model transformations; product development including building & buying tech; turnarounds; business development & strategic partnerships. Keen understanding of the future landscape, including the importance of environmental, sustainable governance & knowledge to invest in technology and other products to meet current and future digital consumer and market needs.As President & CEO of Harland Clarke (HC), protected the core business and built for the future by accelerating growth of a marketing services' business; led the strategic acquisition of QuickPivot, a CDP and MarTech platform (became its CEO in Sep2019). Stabilized HC’s mature product line (checks), improved the product operating margins and client retention. Expanded Marketing Services, doubling its growth in 3 years, driving HC’s transformation from a payments and printing company to a customer engagement company, with technology-enabled services driving growth.Before, as President & CEO at Ecova, preserved and improved the core business while expanding into new services & building for the future. Grew revenue, EBITDA, improved operating margins, strengthened Ecova’s market position.Joined Ecova as SVP & GM, directed sales, consulting, client management teams & operations; grew revenue.Previously, as SVP, Sales & Marketing, Harland Clarke, led $1B in revenue, was responsible for sales/mktg services. Built 500-person nat’l team & increased profitability.Earlier, as VP, Business Dev, increased company-wide cross-sell rate.BS cum laude from Colorado State,completed exec programs at Emory University’s Goizueta, Wharton & Harvard business schools.

John O’Malley is the Chief Executive Officer of Harland Clarke Holdings (HCH), where he is responsible for overseeing a portfolio of companies that optimize customer relationships through a broad variety of omni-channel solutions. Harland Clarke, Valassis, RetailMeNot, and Scantron are the major businesses delivering transformational solutions that connect more than 70,000 clients across all industry segments with hundreds of millions of consumers. In addition, he serves as Executive Vice President for MacAndrews and Forbes, Inc.

With more than 30 years successfully leading a number of large enterprises across multiple industries, John assumed the top leadership responsibilities at Harland Clarke Holdings in 2019. He has an extensive background in leading businesses through transformation and innovation focused on future growth in various industries including enterprise sales and fulfillment solutions, marketing services, digital imaging, global financial and payment services, data and analytics, as well as fraud and risk management.

John has served in multiple successful CEO and President roles including Digital Insight, Panini, Fiserv, and also Harland Financial Solutions, which was a company within the Harland Clarke Holdings portfolio.

Pete Fera was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in May 2007. He was Senior Vice President and CFO prior to his promotion to executive vice president. Pete was previously with Honeywell for seven years and held a variety of leadership positions in finance and marketing, including Chief Financial Officer for the Aircraft Landing Systems business, Director of Finance for Business Analysis and Planning, and Global Marketing Manager. Earlier in his career, he held operations and engineering roles at General Electric. Peter holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Arts degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree in management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Scott Hansen is a Chief Marketing Officer at Harland Clarke.

Steve Albright is the Executive Vice President & Chief of Staff of Harland Clarke Holdings (HCH) where he is responsible for providing operating advisory and execution assistance to the CEO and senior leadership team to drive strategic, market-driven transformation initiatives and commercial excellence. Steve’s professional strengths include strategy development, go-to-market formulation, building high-performance teams and complex problem solving. His broad general management experience drives proficiency in operating businesses and his extensive client interaction in sales, marketing and service validate his proven ability to grow businesses.

Steve returned to HCH after spending over a decade in various operating roles within private-equity sponsored businesses that included CEO of Critical Information Network, CRO Openlink Americas and CRO Onepath technology services. Additionally, Steve served as an Operating Partner overseeing numerous PE-based portfolio investments and established a Strategic Advisory Services practice with a reputable consulting firm.

Prior to that time, Steve spent nearly three decades at Harland Clarke, a wholly owned subsidiary of HCH, where he held a variety of senior level operating roles with direct P&L responsibility to include General Manager and EVP Marketing Services, President of Liberty Enterprises and SVP John H. Harland Company. In these roles, and others, Steve oversaw turnaround, start-up, organic growth, acquisition integration and restructuring situations.

Steve earned his Bachelor of Science in Marketing, cum laude, at Florida State University.

Dan Singleton serves as Senior Advisor to the CEO while helping drive the continued success and growth of the organization. He provides strategic leadership to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans and policies.

With more than 30 years of strategic and operational leadership at HCH, Dan most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Harland Clarke Holdings and CEO of Valassis. Prior to those roles, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Harland Clarke. He joined Harland Clarke in 1988 after holding positions at two Fortune 500 companies and was rapidly promoted through the sales organization. In 2000, Dan was recruited to lead sales, marketing, and international efforts of a $1.1 billion manufacturing sister company. After he successfully improved that company’s performance and revenue growth, he returned to Harland Clarke in 2006 as Executive Vice President, assuming responsibilities for all client-facing activities. Dan was named President and COO of Harland Clarke in 2008, with accountability for financial results, strategy, sales, marketing, manufacturing, delivery and execution. He became Harland Clarke’s President and CEO in 2012, leading the Harland Clarke Senior Leadership Team and team members in delivering operational excellence and intelligent solutions to more than 50 million consumers and 6 million small and medium sized businesses per year.

Dan was the founding sponsor of the Harland Clarke Diversity Council and has served on the board of directors for the Texas Diversity Council, Georgia Perimeter College, and Mission Team Inc. His commitment to diversity has been recognized by receiving the “Men Who Champion Women” award by the National Diversity Council and the “CEO Champions of Diversity Award” from the Texas Diversity & Leadership Conference.

Dan received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Florida.

Joe is an entrepreneurial, data driven, C-suite executive with 20 years of experience in leading profitable growth in the direct to consumer and e-commerce sectors, accelerating growth & building new businesses. His expertise includes product innovation, growth, strategy, design, development/execution, M&A, business optimization & transformation. Joe is equally comfortable building version 1.0 in startups and driving product innovation and transformation in multinational Fortune 500 companies.

Joe is currently Chief Business Officer for NEOU where he leads all growth, brand, engagement and social marketing, product development and technology.

Previously, he was Global Head of Product Development & Chief Digital Officer of Vericast, a wholly owned subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes, where he oversaw the product development and growth strategy for $4B in assets including Harland Clarke, Valassis, RetailMeNot and Scantron.

Recently, Joe was Chief Digital Officer and Global Head of Business Development at American Media Inc., where he had P&L responsibility for AMI's digital business and oversight of all business development activities. Prior to AMI, Bilman was acting Head of Product for Softcard, a pioneering joint venture between Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile in the mobile payments space. He was also Chief Product Officer for Fox Mobile Group, a division of Newscorp, where he ran product in 34 countries.

Joe's list of industry firsts:

- Shipped first particle physics engine for the web browser (Microsoft, Chromeeffects, DirectX 7)

- Ran the first online affiliate network (CDNOW)

- Created the first online landing pages for customer acquisition (Columbia House)

- Launched the first integrated (TV, Print and online) diet and fitness program (Biggest Loser, Rodale)

- Built the fastest growing mobile start-up in U.S. history (Thumbplay)

- Launched the first mobile tv and movie app with streaming and download in the US & Germany (Bitbop, Fox Mobile)

- Created the world's largest video library of fitness movement (Microsoft, American Media)

- Designed, built and launched the fastest growing digital wellness marketplace (NEOU)

Officer level roles in P&L operations, IT, and product innovation for Fortune 500 technology, financial services, healthcare, digital media, manufacturing companies and the Immigration Customs Enforcement Agency of Homeland Security. Depth growing revenue organically and through acquisition; delivering leading-edge cybersecurity, mobile enablement, data analytics, and Cloud technologies.

Lee Ann Stevenson is the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer for Harland Clarke Holdings. She is responsible for managing global legal affairs of the HCH businesses, including commercial, employment and compliance, in addition to government affairs, IT, Security and Human Resources. Lee Ann also serves as a Senior Vice President at HCH’s parent company, MacAndrews and Forbes Inc.

Prior to joining MacAndrews, Lee Ann was a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in New York, where she practiced for 15 years. Lee Ann has handled complex commercial matters for fortune 500 companies such as Verizon, General Motors, Honeywell and Sears, as well as financial institutions and privately held companies.

She earned her J.D. at New York University School of Law and her B.A., Summa Cum Laude, in Political Science and American Studies from Dickinson College.

Marissa Tarleton is the Chief Executive Officer of RetailMeNot, Inc. Marissa joined RetailMeNot in 2015 as chief marketing officer and helped deliver significant growth in consumer acquisition while also building new revenue streams for RetailMeNot. Marissa was named a top 50 CMO on the inaugural Forbes CMO Next list in 2018 due to her thought leadership in data-driven mobile marketing. Marissa was appointed to CEO in January of 2019.

Prior to RetailMeNot, Marissa led marketing for Dell Inc.’s North America Consumer and Small Business organization. Her responsibilities included driving new customer acquisition through marketing communications, media, partner programs, loyalty and CRM for both the Dell direct and retail businesses.

During her 13-year tenure at Dell she has served in multiple regional and global marketing leadership roles including product marketing, brand management, e-commerce and digital marketing as well as leadership of Dell’s global advertising team. Prior to Dell, Marissa worked in advertising in New York City for both Ogilvy & Mather and Foote Cone & Belding. She was responsible for account and media leadership for brands such as IBM, Nabisco, and the United States Postal Service.

Marissa holds a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.