Ingo Money CEO and leadership

Drew Edwards is the chief executive officer of Ingo Money, Inc., a venture backed fintech company he founded in 2001, which has become a leading provider of mobile-forward, instant account funding and payments services. He has raised over $100 million in institutional and public equity during his entrepreneurial career. Prior to his founding of Ingo Money, Drew founded and served as chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of Directors for Towne Services, Inc., a publicly traded e-commerce company providing solutions for over one thousand financial institutions. He previously held management positions with the Federal Reserve Bank and The Bankers Bank in Atlanta and served on the Board of Directors, Audit and Compliance Committees of Skylight Financial, Towne Services (NASDAQ: TWNE), and Ingo Money, Inc.

Steve Doctor is an EVP, Chief Financial Officer at Ingo Money Inc and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has worked as COO, CFO at CHEXAR NETWORKS, INC; Vice President, Finance, Consumer Imaging, Americas at EASTMAN KODAK CO; and CFO at Banuestra Financial Services. Steve attended Carnegie Mellon University between 1975 and 1979 and Tepper School of Business between 1979 and 1981.

Lisa McFarland is Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer for Ingo Money. In her role, she leads product strategy, customer experience and marketing for the company’s Ingo Money Network and Ingo Enterprise Solutions business lines. Lisa brings nearly two decades of expertise in product development, marketing and strategic sales support for B2B and B2C payment card programs. Most recently at Visa, Lisa served as head of Consumer Prepaid Products, where she conceived and executed the company’s product, channel and network development strategies for its consumer prepaid group. During her tenure, Lisa oversaw 309% growth in Visa’s consumer prepaid business and the emergence of prepaid programs offered by leading financial institutions, critical to mainstream adoption of prepaid products. Prior to Visa, Lisa most recently served at American Express as vice president of Prepaid Card Product Management in the company’s Global Payment Options division. In this role, she led a team responsible for consumer product design, development and implementation, growing the company’s fledgling Gift Card business into a more than $1 billion industry-leading card portfolio. Lisa’s prior roles at American Express in the Global Commercial Card Payments division included director of Corporate Card Product Management, where she was responsible for the design, development, marketing and end-user adoption of emerging, online servicing capabilities; director of Online Product Marketing, where she was responsible for the development and launch of the division’s marketing website and online sales channel; and director of Business Strategy and Communications, where she created sales strategies, product marketing content and sales support communications for the American Express commercial card product lines. Lisa attended the University of Florida where she earned a Bachelor of Political Science.

Rusty Pickering joined Chexar/Ingo Money in 2013 as General Counsel and Chief Compliance and Corporate Development Officer. Prior to joining Chexar/Ingo Money, Rusty was a senior partner in the Atlanta office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, where he spent over 15 years building a successful legal practice representing technology companies and private equity firms in the areas of public and private securities law, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and technology licensing. Rusty has always focused on financial technology companies, serving from 2000 – 2002 as the General Counsel of a Nasdaq-listed core banking system company. Rusty received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University and his JD cum laude from the University of Texas School of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, a former Director of the Business & Finance Section of the Atlanta Bar, a former Director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Southeast, President-Elect of the Tulane Alumni Association, an annual judge of the Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition, and an active member of the Association for Financial Technology. In 2011, Mr. Pickering served as pro bono General Counsel for the Quicken Loans Carrier Classic, an NCAA basketball game played on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego harbor.

Bill Roese joined Chexar/Ingo Money in 2013 as Chief Risk Officer. Prior to joining Chexar/Ingo Money, Bill held various positions with Certegy Payment Services, a division of FIS from 1996 to 2012. These positions included leading the efforts of risk and fraud management, data and analytics, research and development, business growth strategy, product development, product management, and business systems development. Most recently, he served as GM of the Retail and Fraud division from 2009 to 2012. Bill holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from the University of South Florida.

Drew Edwards is the chief executive officer of Ingo Money, Inc., a venture backed fintech company he founded in 2001, which has become a leading provider of mobile-forward, instant account funding and payments services. He has raised over $100 million in institutional and public equity during his entrepreneurial career. Prior to his founding of Ingo Money, Drew founded and served as chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of Directors for Towne Services, Inc., a publicly traded e-commerce company providing solutions for over one thousand financial institutions. He previously held management positions with the Federal Reserve Bank and The Bankers Bank in Atlanta and served on the Board of Directors, Audit and Compliance Committees of Skylight Financial, Towne Services (NASDAQ: TWNE), and Ingo Money, Inc.