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Dennis R. Sheehan
Dennis R. Sheehan is a senior advisor
to Financial Technology Ventures and
an adjunct professor at the graduate
school of Adelphi University. Till
January 2004, Dennis served as the
President and CEO as well as a member
of the Board of Directors of The BISYS
Group, Inc. Dennis also held other
leadership positions at BISYS including
Senior Vice President of Finance,
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer, President and Chief Operating
Officer since the time he joined them
in 1995. While CEO at the BISYS Group,
he also served on the Listed Company
Advisory Committee to the New York
Stock Exchange. Prior to working with
BISYS Dennis was Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer for Concord
Holding Corporation. During that time,
he played a major role in taking Concord
public and arranging its sale to The
BISYS Group. He has also held several
leadership positions with The Equitable
Life Assurance Corporation including
President and Chief Executive Officer
with Equico Securities and as Chief
Financial Officer for the Asset Management
Group for PaineWebber. Previously
Dennis has worked with SCM Corporation
and KPMG Peat Marwick.
Dennis holds an MBA from New York
University and a bachelor degree from
Iona College.
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ALLEN J. GULA,
JR.
 Al
is an accomplished financial services professional,
having accumulated over 30 years experience
in the US and global financial services
industry. He has held executive positions
in e-commerce, payments, technology, operations,
strategic business planning, and mergers
and acquisitions integration.
Most recently Al is a senior executive at
Greater Bay Bancorp, one of the Bay area’s
largest independent bank holding companies,
as well as a consultant and board member
to several privately held companies where
he assists with strategic development, operational
scalability and financing.
Prior to Greater Bay Bancorp, Al was Co-President
at Franklin Resources, a $650 billion+ global
asset management company, Executive VP at
KeyCorp, Chairman and CEO of Key Services
Corporation, and a board member at KeyBank
N.A., KeyBank USA, Electronic Payment Services,
Inktomi and MasterCard USA.
Together with his late wife, Lynn, Al founded
The Marilyn B. Gula Mountains of Hope Foundation
(www.mountainsofhopefoundation.org),
a non-profit Foundation dedicated to funding
the diagnosis and treatment of advanced
breast cancer research.
Al received an MBA in Management from Case-Western
Reserve University.
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David McMillan
– Chief Operating Officer, Norwich Union
Insurance
 David
joined Norwich Union Insurance (NUI) in November
2002 as Director of Partnerships (Banking).
David was appointed Partnerships Director
in August 2004 and had full responsibility
for the Partnerships distribution channel
generating in excess of £2bn premium
income. In 2006 he joined the NUI Executive
as Customer Service Director responsible for
NUI’s Claims and Customer Service Operations
including Supply Chain. In November 2007,
David was appointed Chief Operating Officer
with responsibility for delivering end to
end customer operations for NUI and RAC. In
addition, he is chairman of Solus Norwich
Union and bluecycle.com businesses and is
a Non-Executive Director of Norwich Union
Healthcare.
Prior to this he spent 12 years as Director
of Management Consultancy with PWC. The role
involved leading projects spanning mergers
and acquisitions, retail banking, organisational
strategy and change. In 1998 he was seconded
from PWC to Barclays Bank as Finance Director
of Wealth Management during the formation
of this £1 billion turnover business.
David was born in Arbroath, Scotland and completed
his under-graduate degree in Finance and Computer
Science at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.
After graduating, he spent his early career
in Finance at Hewlett-Packard. He holds an
MBA from the University of Chicago and is
an Associate of the Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants.
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Dave Gubbay
Dave Gubbay is a partner of Falconhead
Capital LLC, New York, a private equity
investment firm. He is also a director
of ExlService.com (India) Ltd. He
has served in various capacities with
Whitehall Insurance Group between
1982 and 1996, as Chairman & CEO
(since 1989), and as President of
Life Partners Group (since 1995)—a
NYSE listed company with assets over
$5.5 billion which was sold to Conseco
Inc in 1996 in a transaction valued
at over $900 million. During 1997-98,
he led the corporate development and
mergers & acquisitions of Fortis
Inc., sourcing over $14 billion of
transactions and completing over $4
billion of public and private transactions.
In 1999, he joined Norwegian Cruise
Lines and spearheaded company’s
expansion plans and lead the shore-side
operations. NCL was sold in a hostile
takeover in 2000 in a transaction
valued at $1.9 billion. Beginning
in 2000, Gubbay acquired and built
the business of Digital Seas International
Inc, an internet-services provider
serving the maritime and cruise industry.
DSI was sold to Maritime Telecommunications
Networks, Inc in a private transaction.
In early 2001, he was recruited to
Conseco Inc. by Gary C. Wendt, ex
Chairman and C.E.O. of G.E.C.C, as
Executive Vice President, Corporate
and Strategic Business Development
as a key senior executive.
He has served on the boards of various
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Joel Friedman
Joel Friedman was President of Accenture’s
Business Process Outsourcing organization
until his retirement in August 2005.
He was responsible for overseeing
Accenture’s portfolio of BPO
businesses as well as fueling new
innovation and growth in BPO. He was
a member of Accenture’s Board
of Directors until February 2005 and
also served on the company’s
Executive Committee and Global Leadership
Council.
Over the course of his 34-year career
with Accenture, Friedman held a variety
of senior leadership roles. He was
a partner in Accenture’s Corporate
Development organization, served as
managing general partner of the company’s
former venture capital business, Accenture
Technology Ventures, led Accenture’s
banking and capital markets program,
and was instrumental in founding and
managing Accenture’s strategy
consulting practice.
Joel is a member of the Board of Directors
of SVB Financial Group (and Silicon
Valley Bank), NeuStar, Endeca Technologies,
and the Advisory Boards of FT Ventures,
Corefino and EXL Service. He also
serves on the boards of directors
of Junior Achievement of the Bay Area
and Community Gatepath, a Northern
California non-profit agency serving
adults and children with disabilities.
Joel holds a bachelor’s degree
in Economics from Yale University
and a master’s degree in Business
Administration from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business. |
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