Relay Network CEO and leadership

Paul Raden serves as the Chief Performance Officer at Relay Network. For more than 20 years, Paul has worked as a marketing executive and entrepreneur. Most recently, he served as Chief Marketing Officer for Ecount, Inc., a business he co-founded with Matt Gillin in 1997. In 2007, after Citi acquired Ecount, Paul served two years as a Managing Director and CMO for Citi Prepaid Services. Upon his departure in 2009, Citi Prepaid Services was recognized as the global leader in corporate prepaid solutions.

Experienced executive product & technology leader. Converts product concepts to revenue. Team player with lasting professional relationships. Structured. Thorough. Radically Candid. Empathic. LinkedIn endorsements tell the story.

Specialties:

Scaling B2B/B2B2C SaaS companies, company/product turnarounds, and creating an "unfair advantage"​ for my customers. Accomplished product coach and team builder. M&A.

Career Highlights:

• Strategic exit - Billtrust via SPAC IPO at 10x revenue multiple ($1.3B)

• Launched 30+ profitable, multi-million dollar SaaS products in the last 10 years

• Co-founded software company, grew it into a multi-million dollar business (StratosWare)

• Increased revenue from $12M- $85M while increasing profit margin (Fiberlink)

• 20% sales growth for a $600M/yr. solution portfolio (Unisys)

• 25% sales growth for a $270M/yr. SaaS portfolio (IBM - Kenexa)

• 20% annual organic growth for a $100M/yr. Fintech SaaS portfolio

• Four Product of the Year Awards (Sungard Availability Services)

• Consistent Achievement of "Leader"​ placement in Gartner Magic Quadrant

• Three Product Patents

• Scaled Relay Network solution to 60M+ consumers

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Jay Lavin is a Chief Revenue Officer at Relay Network and is based in Greater Philadelphia Area. He works or has worked as Principal at JL VENTURES LTD.

Steven Higgins is a twenty five year veteran of architecting and deploying advanced enterprise mobility solutions and products. Mr. Higgins began his career in the 1980's by helping Fortune 500 companies automate their Sales, Service, Delivery and Merchandising functions for the first time. Mr. Higgins brought innovative new technologies for mobility to the enterprise, including advanced middleware products, mobile work flow engines, rule engines and cross platform frameworks. These products enabled organizations to expand the use of mobility and a new generation of devices, as well as applications. Mr. Higgins currently serves as CTO of Service Power. Prior Mr. Higgins served as Chief Technology Architect at Stratix Corporation from 2008 to 2012, VP Software Engineering at Apacheta Corporation from 2003 to 2008, Sr. Director of Mobile Computing at Cotelligent 2001-2003, co-Founder/Owner and CTO of JAS Concepts Inc. from 1992-2001 and Lead Software Developer at Sales Technologies.

Paul Raden serves as the Chief Performance Officer at Relay Network. For more than 20 years, Paul has worked as a marketing executive and entrepreneur. Most recently, he served as Chief Marketing Officer for Ecount, Inc., a business he co-founded with Matt Gillin in 1997. In 2007, after Citi acquired Ecount, Paul served two years as a Managing Director and CMO for Citi Prepaid Services. Upon his departure in 2009, Citi Prepaid Services was recognized as the global leader in corporate prepaid solutions.

Paul Raden serves as the Chief Performance Officer at Relay Network. For more than 20 years, Paul has worked as a marketing executive and entrepreneur. Most recently, he served as Chief Marketing Officer for Ecount, Inc., a business he co-founded with Matt Gillin in 1997. In 2007, after Citi acquired Ecount, Paul served two years as a Managing Director and CMO for Citi Prepaid Services. Upon his departure in 2009, Citi Prepaid Services was recognized as the global leader in corporate prepaid solutions.