NIC Inc. Announces Changes to the Company’s Board of Directors
June 07 2018 - 4:30PM
Business Wire
NIC Inc. (Nasdaq: EGOV), the nation’s leading provider of
digital government solutions and secure payment processing, is
announcing changes to its Board of Directors. Effective
immediately, Ross Hartley retired as a member of the Company’s
Board. Mr. Hartley is a founder of the Company and has served on
the board of directors since the Company’s beginning.
“There are few words that seem sufficient in expressing all that
Ross Hartley has done for NIC,” said Harry Herington, NIC’s Chief
Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. “He is one of the two
original founders of this Company, and has been a driving force of
our success. His wisdom and guidance will be missed, and we
sincerely thank him for all of his many years of service to
NIC.”
In addition, today, NIC’s Board of Directors increased the size
of the Board from nine to 10 members, and appointed Jayaprakash
“Jay” Vijayan and Tony Scott as the Company’s newest Board
members.
Mr. Vijayan is the former CIO of Tesla Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA), and
is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tekion, an
innovative startup technology company serving the automotive retail
industry. He served at Tesla from 2012-2016, and was responsible
for the company’s information systems, including applications,
infrastructure, network, operations, and corporate and product
security. Prior to Tesla, Mr. Vijayan led the IT Business
Applications organization for VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), and led
product development teams for Oracle (NYSE: ORCL).
Mr. Vijayan holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master’s
degree in geology from the University of Madras in Chennai, Tamil
Nadu, India.
Tony Scott is currently a senior data privacy and cybersecurity
advisor with the global law firm of Squire Patton Boggs,
headquartered in Cleveland. Mr. Scott formerly served as the third
Chief Information Officer of the United States, under President
Barack Obama. In addition, he has led the global information
technology group at VMware, and served as CIO at Microsoft (Nasdaq:
MSFT) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), and was the first
Chief Technology Officer of Information Systems & Services at
General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM).
Mr. Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Systems
from the University of San Francisco and a Juris Doctor degree with
a concentration in intellectual property from Santa Clara
University.
“I am thrilled to welcome Jay Vijayan and Tony Scott to NIC’s
Board of Directors,” said Mr. Herington. “These gentlemen bring a
wealth of IT experience to our Board, and they both understand the
importance of continuing to innovate and evolve as technology
evolves – some of the mainstays of our organization since the
beginning.”
About NIC
NIC Inc. (Nasdaq: EGOV) is the nation’s premier provider of
innovative digital government solutions and secure payment
processing, which help make government interactions more accessible
for everyone through technology. The family of NIC companies has
developed a library of more than 13,000 digital government services
for more than 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies.
Among these solutions is the ground-breaking personal assistant for
government, Gov2Go, delivering citizens personalized reminders and
a single access point for government interactions. More information
is available at www.egov.com.
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