WEX Announces the Election of Three New Directors to the Board
June 07 2021 - 6:45AM
Business Wire
WEX (NYSE: WEX), a leading financial technology service
provider, today announced the election of three new directors to
the Company’s Board, effective June 4, 2021.
Nancy Altobello, Bhavana Bartholf, and Derrick Roman will be
joining the Board. Altobello will serve on the Audit and Leadership
Development and Compensation Committees, Bartholf will serve on the
Audit and Technology Committees, and Roman will serve on the Audit
and Finance Committees. These individuals represent a diverse mix
of skills, qualifications, backgrounds, and experience.
“We are excited to welcome Nancy, Bhavana, and Derrick to our
Board. They bring decades of experience and leadership in areas
that are critical to our future including talent acquisition, risk
management, governance, and technology,” said Melissa Smith, Chair
and Chief Executive Officer of WEX.
About Nancy Altobello Altobello was most recently the
Global Vice Chair, Talent of Ernst & Young (“EY”), where she
was responsible for the firm’s global talent and people strategy
from July 2014 to June 2018. Prior to that, she held a number of
senior positions at EY, including the Americas Vice Chair, Talent,
the Managing Partner, Northeast Region Audit and Advisory
Practices, and the Managing Partner, North American Audit Practice.
During this time, Altobello also served as an audit partner for a
number of leading global organizations. She is a Certified Public
Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants. Altobello currently serves as a board member of
MarketAxess, an international financial technology company, and
Cornerstone on Demand, a global leader in people development
solutions. She was previously on the board of CA Technologies
before it was acquired by Broadcom in 2018 and the board of MTS
Systems before it was acquired by Amphenol in April 2021.
About Bhavana Bartholf Bartholf recently became the
Global Head of Strategy for Sales and Business Development for
Microsoft Solutions at Microsoft Corporation, an American
multinational, technology company, a position she transitioned to
in April 2021. During her career at Microsoft, Bartholf has held
positions of progressively increasing levels of seniority and
importance. From April 2019 to April 2021, Bartholf was the US
Chief Transformation Officer, from September 2017 to April 2019,
Bartholf was a Customer Success Leader, and from September 2016 to
September 2017, she was an Americas Service Leader (Business
Productivity and Modern Workplace). From July 2014 to October 2016,
she was an Americas Service Leader (Services & Sales), and from
September 2000 to July 2014, she served in various other leadership
roles with responsibility leading technical teams across Customer
Success and Professional Services. She currently serves on the
Board of Directors of Gift of Adoption.
About Derrick Roman From 1997 until his retirement in
September 2020, Roman served as an audit, consulting and senior
client relationship partner for the international accounting and
consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”). As an external
audit partner/practitioner, Roman led independent financial
statement audits of publicly traded and privately held enterprises.
He has extensive experience in financial accounting, SEC reporting,
internal controls, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity
offerings, initial public and secondary offerings, asset-backed
financings, and the implementation of accounting and auditing
standards. As an advisory partner, he focused on evaluating and
improving internal controls, enterprise risk management, internal
auditing, and compliance programs for a diverse group of publicly
traded companies. Roman led his PwC teams and clients through
digital transformation, automation, and shared delivery center
initiatives. He also held several significant governance, line of
business, diversity and inclusion and corporate responsibility
leadership roles at PwC, including serving on its CEO Nominating
Committee and its Foundation board. Roman is a Certified Public
Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the
National Association of Black Accountants, Inc., where he is a
member of its Corporate Advisory Board. He currently serves on the
board of directors of CommScope Holding Company, Inc., a global
provider of infrastructure solutions for communication and
entertainment networks.
About WEX Powered by the belief that complex payment
systems can be made simple, WEX (NYSE: WEX) is a leading financial
technology service provider across a wide spectrum of sectors,
including fleet, corporate payments, travel and health. WEX has
offices in more than 10 countries and employs more than 5,200
associates around the world. WEX fleet cards offer approximately 16
million vehicles exceptional payment security and control; purchase
volume in travel and corporate solutions was $20.9 billion in 2020
and was processed in over 20 currencies; our health division
provides consumer-directed healthcare technology and services, and
reached an estimated 34.3 million U.S. consumers as of March 31,
2021. For more information, visit www.wexinc.com.
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