Board of Directors
Members
Joseph E. Reece, Board Chairman of NCR Corporation and Co-Founder and Managing Partner, SilverBox Capital LLC
Michael Hayford, Chief Executive Officer, NCR Corporation
Mark Begor, Chief Executive Officer, Equifax
Gregory Blank, Managing Director, Blackstone
Catherine L. Burke, Founder and Principal of Fall Creek Advisors and Senior Advisor, DJE Holdings
Deborah Farrington,, Founder and President of StarVest Management, Inc.
Georgette Kiser, Independent Advisor and Operating Executive, The Carlyle Group
Kirk Larsen, President and Chief Financial Officer, Black Knight
Martin Mucci, Chairman, Paychex, Inc.
Laura J. Sen, Former Non-Executive Chairman and Former Chief Executive Officer BJ’s Wholesale Club
Glenn W. Welling, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Engaged Capital, LLC
Member Bios
Joseph E. Reece
Joseph E. Reece has been a Managing Partner of SilverBox Capital LLC, and its predecessors, (“SilverBox”), since 2015. SilverBox is an alternative investment manager operating across multiple platforms. Mr. Reece also served as a consultant to BDT & Company form October 2019 to November 2021 He previously served as Executive Vice Chairman and Head of UBS Securities, LLC’s (“UBS”) Investment Bank for the Americas from 2017 to 2018 and was also Co-Head of Risk. Prior to working at UBS, Mr. Reece worked at Credit Suisse from 1997 to 2015, in roles of increasing responsibility, including serving as Global Head of Equity Capital Markets and Co-Head of Credit Risk. Joe’s prior experience includes practicing as an attorney for ten years, including at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and at the United States Securities Exchange Commission, where he ultimately served as Special Counsel to the Division of Corporation Finance. Mr. Reece currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Compass Minerals Inc., where he serves as its Chairman, and on the Board of Directors of Quotient Technology Inc. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of SilverBox Engaged Merger Corp I., UBS Securities, LLC, Atlas Technical Consultants, Inc. and its predecessor company, Boxwood Merger Corp., Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group, Inc., RumbleOn, Inc, CST Brands, Inc., and LSB Industries, Inc. Mr. Reece became a director of NCR on November 4, 2022. He served as independent Lead Director from November 4, 2022 to May 2, 2023. He was appointed as Chairman on May 2, 2023.
Michael D. Hayford
Michael D. Hayford is Chief Executive Officer of NCR, a position he has held since April 2018. Mr. Hayford was most recently Founding Partner of Motive Partners, an investment firm focused on technology-enabled companies that power the financial services industry. From 2009 until his retirement in 2013, Mr. Hayford served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (“FIS”), a financial services technology company. Prior to joining FIS, Mr. Hayford was with Metavante Technologies, Inc. (“Metavante”), a bank technology processing company, from 1992 to 2009. He served as the Chief Operating Officer at Metavante from 2006 to 2009 and as the President from 2008 to 2009. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Hayford also served on the Board of Directors of Metavante. Mr. Hayford was a member of the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee of Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. from 2013 to 2019, and was a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of West Bend Mutual Insurance Company from 2007 to 2018. Mr. Hayford became a director of NCR on April 30, 2018.
Mark W. Begor
Mark W. Begor is Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Equifax, Inc. (“Equifax”), a consumer credit reporting agency, a position he has held since April 2018. Prior to that he served as a Managing Director in the Industrial and Business services group at Warburg Pincus LLC (“Warburg Pincus”), a private equity firm, from 2016 to 2018. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Begor spent 35 years at General Electric Company (“GE”), most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE’s energy management business from 2014 to 2016. Mr. Begor also served as Senior Vice President and a member of GE’s 30-person Corporate Executive Council and the GE Capital Board, and as a GE Officer for 19 years. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Fair Isaac Corporation from 2016 to 2018. Mr. Begor became a director of NCR on February 26, 2020 and served as independent Lead Director of NCR from April 20, 2021 to November 4, 2022.
Gregory Blank
Gregory Blank is a Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group, Inc. (“Blackstone”), an American multi-national private equity, alternative asset management and financial services firm based in New York where he focuses on investments in the digital infrastructure sector. Since joining Blackstone in 2009, Mr. Blank has been involved in the execution of many of Blackstone’s investments, including most recently in Kronos, Blue Yonder, Paysafe, Ipreo, Optiv, Signature Aviation, QTS Realty Trust, and Hotwire Communications. He previously served as a director of Kronos, Travelport Worldwide Limited (“Travelport”), Ipreo, Optiv and The Weather Company. Mr. Blank is a member of the Board of Directors of Signature Aviation, Hotwire Communications and QTS Realty Trust. Mr. Blank became a director of NCR on December 4, 2015.
Catherine L. Burke
Catherine L. Burke is the Founder and Principal of Fall Creek Advisors. She is also a Senior Advisor at Daniel J. Edelman Holdings, Inc. (“DJE Holdings”), a portfolio of companies and divisions that provide public affairs, government affairs, strategic communications, data and analytics, brand marketing and advisory services across a variety of sectors and geographies. Mrs. Burke served as Vice Chairman at Edelman, a division of DJE Holding, from 2018 to 2023. From 2008 to 2015, Mrs. Burke served in a variety of executive roles at Edelman including Chief Corporate Strategy Officer, Global Chairman of Public Affairs and Global President of Practices and Sectors. Mrs. Burke previously served as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Nielsen where she was a member of the Executive Committee and founded and managed a communications firm, Katie Burke Communications, until she returned to Edelman in 2018. She currently serves as a director of Black Knight, Inc. Mrs. Burke became a director of NCR on September 23, 2019.
Deborah A. Farrington
Deborah A. Farrington is a founder and President of StarVest Management, Inc., the management company for StarVest Partners, L.P., and since 1999 has been a general partner of StarVest Partners, L.P. (“StarVest Partners”), a venture capital fund that invests primarily in technology enabled business services and emerging software companies. From 1993 to 1997, Ms. Farrington was President and Chief Executive Officer of Victory Ventures, LLC, a New York-based private equity investment firm (“Victory Ventures”). Also, during that period, she was a founding investor and Chairman of the Board of Staffing Resources, Inc., a diversified staffing company. Prior to 1993, Ms. Farrington held management positions with Asian Oceanic Group in Hong Kong and New York, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in Hong Kong and New York, and the Chase Manhattan Bank. Ms. Farrington was Lead Director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee of NetSuite, Inc. (“NetSuite”), a NYSE-listed company, until its sale to Oracle Corporation in November 2016 for $9.4 billion. She previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of Collectors Universe, Inc. from 2003 to 2020; and RedBall Acquisition Corp from 2020 to 2022. Ms. Farrington is a member of the Board of Directors of Ceridian HCM Holding Inc., where she is Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee; and Cumulus Media, Inc., where she a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Farrington became a director of NCR on November 27, 2017.
Georgette D. Kiser
Georgette D. Kiser is an independent advisor who helps lead due diligence and technical strategies across various private equity and venture capital firms. Since May 2019, she has served as an Operating Executive at The Carlyle Group (“Carlyle”), an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation. From January 2015 to May 2019, Ms. Kiser served as a Managing Director and the Chief Information Officer for Carlyle. From 1996 to 2015, Ms. Kiser served as Vice President of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (“T. Rowe Price”), an American publicly owned global asset management firm that offers funds, advisory services, account management, and retirement plans and serves for individuals, institutions, and financial intermediaries. Prior to T. Rowe Price, Ms. Kiser worked for General Electric Company (“GE”) within their Aerospace Unit. Ms. Kiser is a member of the Board of Directors of Aflac Incorporated, Adtalem Global Education Inc., and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Ms. Kiser became a director of NCR on February 7, 2020.
Kirk T. Larsen
Kirk T. Larsen is the President and Chief Financial Officer of Black Knight, Inc. (“Black Knight”), a provider of software, data and analytics to the mortgage and consumer loan, real estate and capital markets verticals, a position he has held since May 2022. From January 2014 to May 2022, Mr. Larsen was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Black Knight, Inc. From January 2014 to April 2015 also served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ServiceLink, a national provider of loan transaction services to the mortgage industry. From July 2013 to December 2013, Mr. Larsen served as Corporate Executive Vice President, Finance and Treasurer, and from October 2009 to July 2013, served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (“FIS”), a financial services technology company. He has also held senior leadership positions in finance, investor relations and financial planning and analysis in the fintech, payments and information technology industries at FIS, as well as with companies like Rockwell Automation, Inc., and Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Larsen became a director of NCR on September 23, 2019.
Martin Mucci
Martin Mucci is Chairman of Paychex, Inc. (“Paychex”), a provider of integrated human capital management solutions for human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance services for small-to medium-sized businesses. He was appointed Chairman of Paychex on December 1, 2021 and served as Chief Executive Officer from September 2010 to October 14, 2022. He served as President of Paychex from September 2010 to December 2021. Mr. Mucci joined Paychex in 2002 as Senior Vice President, Operations. Prior to joining Paychex, he held senior level positions with Frontier Communications, a telecommunications company, including President of Telephone Operations and Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Telephone of Rochester. Mr. Mucci was a member of the Board of Directors of Cbeyond, Inc. until it was purchased by Birch Communications, Inc. in July 2014. He is a member of an advisory team for Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, a leading private equity investment firm based in Chicago. Mr. Mucci became a director of NCR on April 20, 2021.
Laura J. Sen
Laura J. Sen most recently served as the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. (“BJ’s”), a membership-only warehouse chain, from January 2016 to April 2018 and was Chief Executive Officer of BJ’s from 2009 to 2016. Ms. Sen served as BJ’s Chief Operating Officer from 2008 to 2009 and served as BJ’s Executive Vice President of Merchandising and Logistics from 2007 to 2008. From 2003 to 2006, Ms. Sen was the Principal of Sen Retail Consulting, advising companies in the retail sector in the areas of merchandising and logistics. Ms. Sen is a member of the Board of Directors of Burlington Stores, Inc., where she serves on the Audit Committee. Ms. Sen is also a member of the Board of Directors of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, a privately held company. Ms. Sen previously served as a director of EMC Corporation, rue21, inc., Abington Savings Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Ms. Sen became a director of NCR on May 2, 2022.
Glenn W. Welling
Glenn W. Welling is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Engaged Capital, LLC (“Engaged Capital”), an investment company he founded in 2012. From 2008 to 2012, Mr. Welling was a Principal and Managing Director at Relational Investors (“Relational”), an investment fund, where he was responsible for managing the fund’s consumer, healthcare and utility investments. From 2002 to 2008, Mr. Welling was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse Group, AG, a leading global financial services company, where he was the Global Head of the Investment Banking Department’s Advisory Businesses, which included the Buy-Side Insights (“HOLT”) Group, Financial Strategy Group and Ratings Advisory Group. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Welling served as Partner and Managing Director of HOLT Value Associates, L.P., a then-leading provider of independent research and valuation services to asset managers. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Valuad U.S., a financial software and advisory company, and senior manager at A.T. Kearney, one of the world’s largest global consulting firms. Mr. Welling currently serves as a director of BRC, Inc. He previously served as director of The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., Medifast, Inc., Jamba, Inc., TiVo Corporation and has chaired or served on a variety of public company committees, including Audit, Compensation, Nominating & Governance and Strategy. Mr. Welling was recognized by The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as one of the 100 most influential directors in corporate boardrooms in 2018. From 2017 to 2019 he also served on the Corporate Governance Advisory Council of the Council of Institutional Investors. Mr. Welling became a director of NCR on May 2, 2022.