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Russell Thomas has been a member of our board of directors since January 2015.Russell Thomas currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Availity LLC, a provider of health information exchange services to healthcare providers and health plans, where he previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer from January 2008 to March 2012. Prior to joining Availity, Thomas served as the CEO of Gold Standard, Inc., a health information technology company. Russell Thomas also serves on the board of directors of the eHealth Initiative, a non-profit, membership organization for the healthcare industry focused on information technology. Russell Thomas holds a B.A. from Virginia Tech and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. We believe that Russell Thomas significant experience in the healthcare industry and with health information companies makes him a valuable member of our board of directors.

Steve Vamos, Chief Executive Officer of Xero, leads the global growth and performance of the business. With more than 30 years’ experience in global technology and digital media, Steve has worked in leading international businesses, including Apple, IBM and Microsoft. Steve also led the growth of ninemsn, an online media business, from start-up to industry leader as company’s Chief Executive Officer. Steve holds a degree in Civil Engineering (with Honors) from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Mark Logan serves as LogRhythm’s Chief Executive Officer. With over 25 years of industry experience in enterprise software, Mr. Logan brings a track record of operational excellence to LogRhythm. His professional accomplishments include leading both Rivermine and Emptoris through their exits, with IBM purchasing the latter for over $500 million. Prior to joining LogRhythm, Mr. Logan was president of Attunity (formerly NASDAQ: ATTU), a leading provider of data integration and big data management software solutions and a division of Qlik. He also previously served in executive roles as CEO of WealthEngine, CEO of Rivermine, and COO of Emptoris. Mr. Logan began his career holding a variety of positions at Hewlett Packard, JD Edwards, and Peoplesoft. He has a B.S. degree in Engineering and Business Management from Providence College.

Danny Shader is the founder and CEO of PayNearMe, the world's only real-time electronic cash transaction network. PayNearMe is used by financial institutions, utilities companies, property managers and other businesses to digitize cash collections and eliminate the hassle of manual collection methods such as money orders. The service allows consumers who need to use or prefer cash, to easily make payments at over 17,000 retail locations including 7-Eleven and Family Dollar stores using cash. Danny has a long history of building innovative, high-growth companies. In 2000, he was tapped by Eric Hahn to lead Good Technology, a struggling company that made MP3 players that attached to PDAs. He scrapped the hardware plan, built a corporate messaging service to run on devices competing with BlackBerry, and by 2004, had Good’s software running on Palm Treo, RIM’s main competitor. Three years later, Motorola bought Good for $500 million. Before Good Technology, Danny co-founded Accept.com, the first consumer-to-consumer payment services company, which he sold to Amazon in 1999 for $175 million. Danny holds an engineering degree from University of California Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University. Follow him on Twitter at @dshader.