Board of Directors

Bradley Seaman has served on our board of directors since 2007. Mr. Seaman has been employed since August 1999, by Parallel49 Equity (formerly Tricor Pacific Capital), a private equity firm that makes investments in lower middle market companies in the United States and Canada. From 1999 through December 2011, Mr. Seaman was Parallel49’s Managing Director and leader of its U.S. operations, and, since January 2012, has served as its Managing Partner, responsible for leading overall firm operations, strategy, funding and investments. Prior to joining Parallel49, and from 1990 through July 1999, Mr. Seaman was employed by GE Capital Corporation where he held a number of increasingly senior positions in GE’s Transportation & Industrial Funding and Commercial Finance units, ultimately being promoted to head GE Capital’s transactions origination teams in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri. In 1994, Mr. Seaman was selected to be part of a new group that was established to focus GE Capital’s debt and equity products on the emerging private equity market, and, in that capacity, headed GE’s offices in New York and Chicago. Mr. Seaman is also a member of the board of directors of Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ: STLD). Mr. Seaman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from the University of Dallas. He brings to the board a comprehensive understanding and experience in the capital markets, management experience, and both operational and corporate governance experience drawn from his involvement in the management and oversight of Parallel49’s portfolio companies.

Valerie Soranno Keating has served on our Board of Directors since May 2018. Ms. Soranno Keating has been senior advisor to a number of private equity firms in the U.S. and Europe since 2017. From November 2009 through May 2015 she was the Chief Executive Officer of Barclaycard, the global payments division of Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS), with $60 billion in assets and over 30 million customers throughout the U.S., Europe and South Africa. Before joining Barclays, Ms. Soranno Keating held a variety of executive positions at American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) from May 1993 through May 2009 including President, Travelers Cheques & Prepaid Services, Executive Vice President Global Commercial Services, Executive Vice President Global Merchant Services, Emerging Global Businesses & Network Expansion, and Vice President Corporate Strategic Planning. Ms. Soranno Keating holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Lehigh University. She brings to the Board over 20 years of experience in both executive and board roles across a broad spectrum of payments and related businesses. Ms. Soranno Keating brings to the Board over 25 years of experience in the payments industry. Ms. Soranno Keating also serves on the board of directors of One Main Financial (NYSE: OMF), a consumer lending business.

Nicholas Peters has served on our board of directors since 2007. Mr. Peters is a Managing Director at Parallel49 Equity, (formerly Tricor Pacific Capital), a private equity firm that makes investments in lower middle market companies in the United States and Canada, which he joined in 2002 and also began serving as Parallel49’s Chief Financial Officer in 2012. Prior to joining Parallel49, Mr. Peters was a Senior Manager at Arthur Andersen LLP in Chicago. Mr. Peters is the Chairman of BFG Supply Company LLC and Certified Recycling and has served on the board of several other Parallel49 investment companies. Mr. Peters holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Dayton in Ohio. He is a Certified Public Accountant and is affiliated with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Ohio Society of CPAs. Mr. Peters brings to the board strong finance and accounting skills, as well as valuable experience from his oversight of the management and operations of several of Parallel49’s portfolio companies.

Marc Sheinbaum has served on our Board of Directors since 2019. Since 2017, Mr. Sheinbaum has been an advisor to venture capital and private equity firms. From 2014 to 2016, he was the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Higher One Holdings, Inc., a payments technology provider for higher education. From 2007 through 2013, Mr. Sheinbaum was the Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Auto and Education Finance at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). Earlier in his career, Mr. Sheinbaum held positions at GE Capital Corporation and American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), as well as Coopers & Lybrand Management Consulting. Mr. Sheinbaum holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Science from State University of New York at Albany and a Masters in Business Administration from New York University. He brings over 30 years of experience in payments and consumer financial services, public company leadership and turnaround situations.

Scott Scheirman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CPI Card Group, has over 30 years of progressive and successful business leadership experience, primarily with financial services and technology enabled companies. He has extensive executive leadership, strategic financial, operations, international and governance expertise. Mr. Scheirman served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Western Union (NYSE:WU, a Fortune 500 Company) for seven years. Mr. Scheirman also held a variety of executive leadership and financial roles of increasing responsibility at First Data Corporation (NYSE: FDC) during his fourteen year tenure with the company. Prior to joining First Data Corporation, he was with EY for seven years. Most recently, Mr. Scheirman was the CEO of JKL Ventures LLC, a strategic advisory and private investment firm. He has served as a member of CPI Card Group’s Board of Directors since October 2016. Mr. Scheirman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with emphasis in Accounting from the University of Northern Colorado.

Thomas Furey currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sagetech Avionics, Inc., (“Sagetech”) a privately held aerospace electronics company. Sagetech was incorporated in 2019 after a divisional carve out from Sagetech Corporation, for which Mr. Furey held the position of Chief Operating Officer since 2015. From 2014 to 2015, Mr. Furey served as Vice President of manufacturing and engineering at Unitec, Inc., a point-of-sale payments equipment company, before which he ran his own operations consultancy firm from 2012-2013. From 2004 to 2012, Mr. Furey held various executive positions at Standard Register Company, including Vice President of manufacturing, Chief Supply Chain Officer and President of Standard Register’s industrial business. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Furey was in charge of North American operations for Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY), a label materials manufacturer. Mr. Furey also held positions of increasing responsibility in manufacturing leadership at AlliedSignal, Inc. (which acquired Honeywell Inc. in 1999 and took its name) from 1994 to 2001 and was selected as the AlliedSignal fellow to the “Leaders for Manufacturing” program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”) from 1997-1999. He began his career as a Naval Flight Officer in the U.S. Navy. Mr. Furey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering degree from California State University Northridge, as well as a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree and a Master of Business Administration degree from MIT. Mr. Furey brings to the Board extensive experience in high volume manufacturing, operations and executive leadership.