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Leadership

Advisors

Leadership

Brian Brinkley

Chief Executive Officer

Jessica Pass

Chief Operating Officer

Doug Earp

Chief Technology Officer

Cary Strange

Chief Revenue Officer

David Grawemeyer

General Counsel

Peter O’Higgins

Chief Financial Officer

Department Heads – U.S.

Phil Martin

Chief Compliance Officer

Garrett Stanley

Chief Information Security Officer

Kevin Green

BSA/AML Officer

Linda Abbott

Head of Fraud Prevention

Karen Henricksen

Controller

Chris Huber

Head of Product Development

Mike O’Malley

Head of Data Services

James Troutman

Head of Infrastructure, Architecture, Development

Jason Britton

Head of DevOps

Scott Relf

Head of Marketing

Kelsey Castellano

Office Manager, Executive Assistant to the CEO

Department Heads – UK & Europe

Sharon Kirby

Senior Vice President

Nancy Lester

Head of Corporate Legal

Harriet Gill

Head of Partnerships

Emma-Rose Manase

Head of Marketing

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1855 Blake Street
Suite 201 
Denver, CO. 80202

Tollfree: + 1 877 573 3777
Telephone: + 1 720 990 5347
Fax: + 1 985 590 5009

London

Thomas House
84 Ecclestone Square
London SW1V 1PX

Telephone: +44 203 036 0270

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Brian Brinkley

Chief Executive Officer

Brian has over 30 years of experience in enterprise and start-ups. He is a leader in omnichannel commerce and digital payments technology. Brian founded Zave Networks which was acquired by Google in 2011 and became a key component of Google Wallet. Brian has held executive roles at Sprint PCS and Lucent Technologies. Brian joined QRails as CTO in 2019 and was asked to lead QRails growth strategy as CEO in 2021.

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Jessica Pass

Chief Operating Officer

Jessica has over 10 years of experience in leadership positions leading high-performance teams in prepaid technical implementations, software quality assurance, account management, and fraud analysis. Jessica has led the effort of building out the implementation, customer service, account management, and operational areas of QRails.

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Doug Earp

Chief Technology Officer

Doug oversees the company’s security and global information technology (IT) organization, with responsibility for the deployment of QRails products as well as other innovative technologies and programs. He has led Fortune 500 enterprise IT initiatives and several executive teams to success as a CTO for over 9 years. This includes building out international data centers on several continents and architected systems for the largest financial organizations. Doug has 25 years in financial services and was the Lead Systems Architect for DST Systems and a Vice President at Zurich, Scudder Investments, and Kemper Financial Services.

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Cary Strange

Chief Revenue Officer

Cary has been head of sales at a number of successful, early-stage businesses in payments as well as adjacencies like expense management and payroll. Previously, he was interim Chief Operating Officer at Brink’s Money. Prior roles include being SVP, Business Development at Pex Card; VP, Sales, and Marketing for ExpenseAble (acquired by Insperity); VP for Sales and Marketing at ExpenseWire (acquired by Rearden Commerce/Deem) and Director Business Development for VerticalOne (acquired by Yodlee).

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David Grawemeyer

General Counsel

David has over thirty years of experience as a lawyer. He has had senior legal positions at financial services, real estate, and technology companies. David began his career as a corporate and securities lawyer at a major law firm in Chicago.

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Peter O’Higgins

Chief Financial Officer

Peter has a background in finance, accounting and technology. He was CFO of one of Europe's fastest growing fintechs - Revolut. Prior to joining Revolut, Peter spent twelve years at JP Morgan, working both in London and New York.

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Phil Martin

Head of Compliance, BSA/AML

Phil is a multi-dimensional compliance professional with private sector and regulatory experience who leverages the capacity to self-serve and analyze data to enhance three lines of defense governance infrastructure. Prior to joining QRails, he performed anti-money laundering and regulatory compliance roles at Promontory Financial Group, Fintech unicorn WorldRemit, and Colorado’s Department of Revenue. He also founded a financial services compliance consultancy focused on high-risk industries, which was acquired in 2020.

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Garrett Stanley

Chief Information Security Officer

Bio coming soon.

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Kevin Green

BSA/AML Officer

Kevin Green heads the BSA/AML department at QRails. Kevin began his career working in the securities industry working transaction monitoring and conducting compliance reviews for unregistered securities. After working his way up and earning multiple FINRA licenses, Kevin transitioned to the banking industry. There he conducted quality control for BNP Paribas’ Corporate and Institutional Banking and developed compliance and AML policies at Bank of the West.

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Linda Abbott

Head of Fraud

Linda has nearly 20 years of retail and commercial banking experience, working her way up from teller to operations manager. Her passion for account fraud investigations and recovery led her to shift careers into financial fraud. Before joining QRails, Linda spent the last 8 years working in the fraud department for two financial institutions and a major card network.

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Karen Henricksen

Controller

Karen comes to QRails after being an independent business owner who has provided consulting, training, and other business financial services for Retailers, Non-Profits and Service Providers by developing and reorganizing their Finance/Accounting strategies and procedures. She has also worked for larger corporations in healthcare and the Oil and Gas industries.

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Chris Huber

Head of Product Development

Chris has over 15 years of experience in Enterprise and startups, focused on omnichannel commerce and digital payments technology. Chris co-founded Zave Networks which was acquired by Google in 2011 and became a key component of Google Wallet. Chris is a product expert and is responsible for the product direction of AnyDay.

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Mike O’Malley

Head of Data Services

Mike has over 30 years of experience designing high-performance analytic data solutions and leading teams to deliver them to clients. This includes building modern data warehouses and data lakes on most leading RDMS as well as AWS Cloud. He has worked with many of the large corporations in the Kansas City Area and has broad experience across numerous business domains. He has also worked for Brian Brinkley at Sprint, Zave Networks, Google, and now QRails.

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James Troutman

Head of Infrastructure, Architecture, Development

James is a leader in the engineering and architecture of multi-platform e-commerce systems. He has previously held leadership positions where he built systems that scaled to support billions of transactions.

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Jason Britton

Head of DevOps

Bio coming soon.

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Scott Relf

Head of Marketing

Scott is an innovation leader in hi-tech startups and hi-growth Fortune companies; specializing in game-changing strategies and commercializing new products and services. Scott was a co-founder of payments pioneer Zave Networks acquired by Google in 2011, and also PikMobile, a revolutionary social networking SaaS platform. Scott held executive positions in marketing and product development at Sprint PCS, Kellogg, and The Gallo Winery.

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Kelsey Castellano

Office Manager and Executive Assistant to the CEO

As QRail’s Office Manager and Executive Assistant to the CEO, Kelsey is responsible for all office procedures and human resources coordination. Kelsey received her degree in Hospitality Management and prior to joining the QRails team, she managed front office operations for Marriott Hotels.

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Sharon Kirby

Senior Vice President, UK & Europe

Sharon oversees operations in the U.K. and Europe responsible for driving the launch of the AnyDay platform internationally. She is an industry veteran with years of experience in managing enterprise sales and partner alliances. Most recently director of partnerships at U.K.-based Hastee, Sharon regularly leads webinars and speaks at events on the topic of financial wellness.

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Nancy Lester

Head of Finance, Administration, and Corporate Legal

Nancy was head of M&A and Strategy and on the Executive Committee of Bunzl plc for 14 years, following 6 years there as Legal Counsel. Prior to that, she was an attorney at Slaughter and May. Nancy also heads up our London office.

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Harriet Gill

Head of Partnerships

Harriet is a seasoned SaaS sales professional with over 20 years of experience working with enterprise clients and partners. Experienced in building successful alliances and account management, Harriet is a strategic thinker and passionate about partnership collaboration, delivering customer success and driving best value for money.

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Emma-Rose Manase

Head of Marketing

Bio coming soon.