Michael Gokturk

Michael is VersaPay’s Founder & Chief Executive Officer and serves on the Board of Directors.

Michael’s full profile is available here.

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Jason Gurandiano
Chairman

One of the founding board members, Jason Gurandiano is the Managing Director in Deutsche Bank’s Financial Technology Group. Jason has a broad M&A and financing background in the financial services sector as well as other sectors. Amongst others, he has advised CBOT, NYSE, NYMEX, Deutsche Boerse, GFI Group, ICAP and Global Payments on a variety of M&A and capital-related transactions. His noteworthy transactions include: GFI’s acquisition of Trayport, Formation of ESX, Sale of Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, BGC’s reverse merger into eSpeed, Deutsche Boerse’s acquistion of ISE, BSE (5%), Deutsche Boerse’s sale of USFE, Advisory work for Karachi Stock Exchange, Initial Public Offering of GFI Group, Secondary Offering for NYMEX, Leveraged buyout of SunGard, Sale of American Stock Exchange.

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Wendy Porter

Wendy Porter is a payments industry expert responsible for the creation of Moneris Solutions, Canada’s largest credit card acquiring company. Her U.S. experience includes President, Vital Merchant Services (now TSYS Acquiring Solutions), and responsibility for the Harris Bank payment acquiring division in Chicago. Ms. Porter spent most of her career with Bank of Montreal in various executive roles in Corporate Marketing, Information Technology and Electronic Payments. As Senior Vice President, Merchant Acquiring, she managed the credit card and debit card acquiring business. In 2000, she conceived the strategy of a combined MasterCard and Visa payment solutions company, and was responsible for spinning off Bank of Montreal’s acquiring division and merging it with Royal Bank’s division to create Moneris Solutions. She has served on a variety of business and not for profit boards including payment industry boards and Global Committees for the Interac Association and MasterCard. Ms. Porter holds a BA from York University, and an MBA degree from the Schulich Business School at York University. She also holds the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.

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The Honourable David Peterson

A director of several public companies, including Rogers Communications Inc. and Shoppers Drug Mart, David Peterson practices corporate/commercial law at the Toronto law firm of Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. He is chancellor of the University of Toronto, a director of St. Michael’s Hospital, and is active with a number of charitable, educational and environmental organizations. Mr. Peterson has been appointed a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour of France, received the Ordre de la Pléiade from the International Assembly of French-Speaking Parliamentarians, and was inducted into the Order of Ontario in 2009.

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Brian Kyle

Brian Kyle is currently the Executive Vice President Finance of Davis and Henderson, Canada’s leading provider of check supply program, deposit program, and eSwitch, among other offerings. Prior to that, Mr. Kyle was with Teranet Inc. where he held the position of Vice President and CFO. While at Teranet, Mr. Kyle Successfully lead a $700M IPO ($2.3B enterprise value), the largest Canadian IPO in 2006. In 2008, he led the privatization of Teranet to Borealis Infrastructure for over $1.6B. Mr. Kyle brings over 20 years of financial management and leadership experience gained from holding various senior financial positions with Canadian public companies in the aerospace, consumer goods and ecommerce sectors. Mr. Kyle holds an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Assumption University (Windsor), a Masters in Business Administration from Queen’s University School of Business and is a Certified Management Accountant and member of the Society of Management Accountants of Ontario. He was recently nominated for CFO of the Year for 2009.