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Matthew T. Vettel
Great Hill Partners – Managing Partner

Matt Vettel is responsible for transaction origination, investment policy and the general management of Great Hill Partners. His investment experience covers a diverse group of industries including software, transaction processing, education and business services. He serves as a director of Accelerated Payment Technologies (fka CAM Commerce), Anthem Education Group, Freightquote.com, Passport Health Communications, PayChoice, Prommis Solutions, Inc., and Neumont University, LLC.

He has also served on the Board of Directors of SterilMed, Inc., BillMatrix, SmartMail, LLC, K-Solutions, Inc., Park City Solutions, Delite Outdoor, Lifecare Management and Trans Healthcare. Prior to Great Hill Partners, Matt was an associate at GTCR Golder Rauner, a $6 billion private equity investment firm, and served on the boards of companies in the technology, healthcare and media sectors. Previously he was a Senior Associate at Accenture and a founding member of PureSpeech, Inc., a speech recognition software company acquired by Voice Control Systems. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Management from North Dakota State University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Matt currently serves as Chairman of the MATCH School Foundation, a charter public high school that prepares inner-city Boston students to succeed in college.

Nicholas R. Cayer
Great Hill Partners – Vice President

Nick is responsible for originating and evaluating investment opportunities in the financial technology, business and consumer services, and software sectors. He is currently a director of Accelerated Payment Technologies (fka CAM Commerce) and Paychoice and a former director of FirstCall Healthcare and a former board observer of Custom House. Prior to joining Great Hill Partners, Nick was an Associate at CCP Equity Partners, a growth equity capital provider to financial services and healthcare services companies.

At CCP, his responsibilities included screening and evaluating potential investments, executing transactions and working with existing portfolio companies. Prior to CCP, Nick was an Associate at GE Commercial Finance’s National Restructuring and Retail Finance Group, where he was involved in executing and managing senior secured, second lien and distressed debt transactions. Nick received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Bentley College, where he graduated with honors.

Christopher M. Busby
Great Hill Partners – Principal

Chris Busby is responsible for originating and executing investment opportunities in the business and financial services sectors. He currently is a Director of Accelerated Payment Technologies (fka CAM Commerce), Anthem Education Group, Neumont University and an observer of Freightquote.com. He was formerly a Director of Horizon Telecom International, LLC, SmartMail, LLC, Palm Beach Broadcasting and Dame Broadcasting.

Chris originally joined Great Hill Partners in 2000 and returned to Great Hill after graduating from business school. Prior to joining Great Hill Partners, Chris was an analyst in the Investment Banking Division of JP Morgan and an associate at GCC Investments. Chris received a BA in Political Science and History from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Joseph P. Cohane
Veracity Payment Solutions – Chief Executive Officer

Among the company’s founding executives, Joseph P. Cohane has more than 22 years of global executive-level experience in the electronic payment industry and merchant acquisitions; including operational responsibilities with Citibank, Global Payment Systems, NOVA Information Systems and U.S. Bancorp. Cohane strategically participated in the development of two successful start-up companies; he joined NOVA in 1992, where he orchestrated the successful integration of the merchant-acquiring portfolios associated with Wachovia Bank, Regions Banks and MBNA. As Chief Operations Officer for euroConex Technologies, located in Dublin, Ireland, Cohane pioneered NOVA’s initial entry into European markets, securing its first joint venture outside of the United States with Bank of Ireland in 2000. euroConex Technologies was recognized as the best European Merchant Acquirer in 2005.

Cohane has also held executive positions in all business disciplines within the merchant-acquiring industry, including Portfolio Acquisitions and Conversions, Credit and Risk Management, Product Development, International Operations, New Business Development, Global Pricing and Profitability Strategies. Cohane has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, from St. Francis University of Pennsylvania.