Adam Malinowski has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2019. Mr. Malinowski has served as an investment professional at AKKR since August 2010, and currently serves on the board of several of AKKR’s private portfolio companies. Mr. Malinowski holds a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Arun Oberoi has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2023. Mr. Oberoi is the former executive vice president, global sales and services, of Red Hat, a provider of enterprise open source software solutions, where he served from 2012 to 2021. Prior to Red Hat, Mr. Oberoi was chief executive officer of Viridity Software from 2010 to 2012 and chief executive officer of Aveksa from 2008 to 2010. He served as an executive vice president of global sales and technical services of Micromuse (acquired by IBM in 2006) from 2004 to 2008. Prior to joining Micromuse, Mr. Oberoi held a series of senior executive positions at Hewlett-Packard, including vice president and general manager, worldwide corporate accounts and industries and as vice president and general manager, worldwide software sales and marketing. Mr. Oberoi serves on the board of directors and the audit committee of Schrodinger, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed software company enabling the discovery of therapeutics and materials. He also serves as Senior Adviser to EQT Partners and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of their portfolio company SUSE S.A., a provider of cloud infrastructure open source software. Mr. Oberoi received his bachelor’s degree from Delhi University and has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Dushyant Sharma, our Founder, has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors since our inception, and is also currently serving as our Chairman. Before founding Paymentus, Mr. Sharma cofounded Derivion Corporation, a SaaS-based electronic billing company, in 1998. Derivion was acquired in 2001 by Metavante Corporation, a banking and payment technologies provider. Mr. Sharma continued employment with Metavante from May 2001 to November 2004. Mr. Sharma holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Marathwada University, India.
Gary Trainor has served as a member of our Board of Directors since September 2011, and served as our Executive Chairman from September 2011 to September 2013. Mr. Trainor has served as Executive Chairman of PeopleGuru, an HCM software and services company, since April 2022, EasyWorkforce, a workforce management software company, since September 2020, Mindmarker Corporation, a learning software platform company, since August 2020, and Flores & Associates, a national benefits administrator, since April 2020, as well as Chief Executive Officer of CFH Strategic Investment I, LLC, a family office, since March 2018. Mr. Trainor previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Viventium Software from December 2014 to March 2018 and Infinisource (now iSolved Benefit Services) from September 2011 to January 2014, both SaaS-based human capital management software providers. Earlier in his career, Mr. Trainor served as Division President at First Data and ADP. Mr. Trainor holds an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a B.A. in Business Administration from Rutgers University.
Jason Klein has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2011. Mr. Klein is a Senior Advisor at AKKR and Co-CEO of Red Iron Group, an investment firm. He was previously a Managing Director at AKKR and joined the firm during its inaugural fund in May 2005. He has served on the boards of many private companies and currently serves on the boards of several of AKKR’s and Red Iron Group’s private portfolio companies. Mr. Klein holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Strategic Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from The Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Klein is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Jody Davids has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2022. She served as senior vice president and global chief information officer of PepsiCo, Inc., a NYSE-listed company that has a global portfolio of food and beverage brands, from April 2016 to October 2019. Prior to that role, she served as chief information officer of Agrium, Inc., a NYSE-listed and Toronto Stock Exchange-listed company that is a global producer and marketer of nutrients for agricultural and industrial markets, from April 2014 to April 2016. Ms. Davids served in various executive and consulting roles with Agrium, Best Buy, Inc., a NYSE-listed company, and Cardinal Health, Inc., a NYSE-listed company, from 2000 to 2014. She served as a director of Premier, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed technology-driven healthcare improvement company, from 2015 to 2025. Ms. Davids holds a B.A. in Human Resources Management and Business and an M.B.A. from San Jose State University.
Robert Palumbo has served as a member of our Board of Directors since September 2011 and as Lead Independent Director since May 2021. Mr. Palumbo has served as Managing Director and Founding Partner of AKKR since November 2004, and currently serves on the board of several of AKKR’s private portfolio companies. Mr. Palumbo holds an A.B. from Princeton University.
William Ingram has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2021. Mr. Ingram served from December 2015 to March 2020 as the chief financial officer and treasurer of Avalara, Inc., a provider of software for automated tax compliance that was listed on the NYSE. Prior to joining Avalara, Mr. Ingram served as interim chief financial officer of Khan Academy, a provider of online learning resources, from April 2015 to December 2015. Mr. Ingram also held various executive roles at Leap Wireless International, Inc., the parent company of Cricket Wireless, a wireless telecommunications provider, including executive vice president and chief of strategy, from August 2007 to March 2014, and with the acquiring company, AT&T, from March 2014 to January 2015. Mr. Ingram currently serves on the board of directors and as chair of the audit committee and member of the human capital and compensation committee of CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc., a Nasdaq-listed provider of technologies and applications for the property and casualty insurance industry. Mr. Ingram holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.