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Board Member, Audit Committee
Feb 2025
ZenBusiness is a company that empowers entrepreneurs to start, run, grow, and stay compliant—all in one place. As a leader in business formations and compliance, ZenBusiness blends AI with award-winning human support to simplify and accelerate small business success. The company’s platform is designed to reduce complexity and provide a worry-free experience for entrepreneurs navigating the legal and operational requirements of business ownership.
ZenBusiness supports small business owners in protecting their personal assets by guiding them through entity formation and providing tools that ensure ongoing compliance. These services include LLC formation, registered agent services, operating agreements, EIN acquisition, and automated reminders for state and federal filing deadlines.
At the core of the ZenBusiness offering is an intuitive, all-in-one platform that consolidates essential tools for compliance management, document access, business insights, and more. This platform acts as a centralized hub where users can manage their business confidently and efficiently, whether they’re just starting out or scaling operations.
By integrating artificial intelligence with expert customer service, ZenBusiness offers a unique hybrid model that delivers smart automation without sacrificing the personal touch. This commitment to both innovation and support has made ZenBusiness a trusted partner for millions of small business owners.
ZenBusiness has been named a 2024 Silver Stevie® Award winner for Sales & Customer Service in the Front-Line Customer Service Team category, a finalist for the Greater Austin Business Awards 2024, and ranked as the #4 fastest-growing Longhorn business in 2024.
ZenBusiness believes that everyone should have the opportunity to pursue business ownership. With a mission to champion the dreams of entrepreneurs, we enable small business owners to achieve success on their own terms by doing what they love.
Board Member
May 2021
The Postage® is a people-first fintech offering a comprehensive life planning and succession software platform for families and small businesses that connects banks with the tech-savvy generation that will inherit $72.6 trillion over the next 25 years. The Postage helps banks, credit unions, and partners across the US build multi-generational relationships with retail and small business customers while increasing deposits, new accounts, and non-interest income.
We are not your typical fintech; we prioritize relationships over transactions. The Postage is a relationship-driven software platform thats about fostering meaningful connections and preserving both the tangible (like wills) and intangible (like family memories) aspects of life and business.
We built our product with love from our headquarters in Texas.
Since 2020, we have helped thousands of families secure their plans and memories, and were just getting started.
Board Member
Oct 2018
Convey is now project44! Acquired by project44 in September, 2021 our last mile and delivery management solutions combine real-time visibility, post-purchase experiences, and advanced insights and analytics to create a solution uniquely capable of perfecting last mile delivery.
With delivery expectations skyrocketing, brands cannot leave the critical last mile to chance. Convey’s Delivery Experience Management platform combines real-time visibility, post-purchase experiences, and advanced insights and analytics to create a solution uniquely capable of perfecting last mile delivery.
Supply chain and customer experience leaders including Neiman Marcus, Jet.com, and Eddie Bauer rely on Convey’s software and expertise to take action to ensure shoppers get their orders how and when they want, resulting in happier, loyal customers and a lower cost to serve.
Founded in 2013, Convey is backed by Silverton Partners, Techstars Venture Group, RPM Ventures and based in Austin, Texas.
Board Member, Audit Committee, Risk and Compliance Committee
Mar 2017
Q2 is a financial experience company dedicated to providing digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions, alternative finance, and fintech companies in the U.S. and internationally. With comprehensive end-to-end solution sets, Q2 enables its partners to provide cohesive, secure, data-driven experiences to every account holder – from consumer to small business and corporate. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Q2 has offices throughout the world and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the stock symbol QTWO. To learn more, please visit Q2.com.
Interested in working for Q2? We are hiring! Visit our careers page here: https://www.q2.com/careers.
Board Member
Sep 2015
RealMassive is commercial real estate’s real-time data company that provides comprehensive, up-to-date and accurate technology solutions to inform the industry. The company’s software products empower anyone with an interest in commercial real estate to make better, faster business decisions.
RealMassive’s Marketplace is the industry's most up-to-date online destination for discovering commercial properties for lease, sale and sub-lease. The company’s data visualization platform, RealMassive DataQu, provides the industry with access to up-to-date information on over 30 million on and off-market properties to assist in analyzing market trends and behaviors.
Board Member, Audit Committee
Oct 2013
Speed Commerce empowers merchants to grow their businesses and scale by handling their ecommerce fulfillment and call center needs. With over 500,000 sq ft of centrally located space, Speed Commerce picks, packs, and ships orders quickly and accurately, delighting customers daily. Their 250-seat contact center provides expert customer service to support busy online stores, freeing the retailer to focus on their business rather than providing customer service.
For additional information, please visit the company’s website at www.SpeedCommerce.com.
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2025
Board Member, Audit Committee
Feb 2025
ZenBusiness is a company that empowers entrepreneurs to start, run, grow, and stay compliant—all in one place. As a leader in business formations and compliance, ZenBusiness blends AI with award-winning human support to simplify and accelerate small business success. The company’s platform is designed to reduce complexity and provide a worry-free experience for entrepreneurs navigating the legal and operational requirements of business ownership.
ZenBusiness supports small business owners in protecting their personal assets by guiding them through entity formation and providing tools that ensure ongoing compliance. These services include LLC formation, registered agent services, operating agreements, EIN acquisition, and automated reminders for state and federal filing deadlines.
At the core of the ZenBusiness offering is an intuitive, all-in-one platform that consolidates essential tools for compliance management, document access, business insights, and more. This platform acts as a centralized hub where users can manage their business confidently and efficiently, whether they’re just starting out or scaling operations.
By integrating artificial intelligence with expert customer service, ZenBusiness offers a unique hybrid model that delivers smart automation without sacrificing the personal touch. This commitment to both innovation and support has made ZenBusiness a trusted partner for millions of small business owners.
ZenBusiness has been named a 2024 Silver Stevie® Award winner for Sales & Customer Service in the Front-Line Customer Service Team category, a finalist for the Greater Austin Business Awards 2024, and ranked as the #4 fastest-growing Longhorn business in 2024.
ZenBusiness believes that everyone should have the opportunity to pursue business ownership. With a mission to champion the dreams of entrepreneurs, we enable small business owners to achieve success on their own terms by doing what they love.
2021
Board Member
May 2021
The Postage® is a people-first fintech offering a comprehensive life planning and succession software platform for families and small businesses that connects banks with the tech-savvy generation that will inherit $72.6 trillion over the next 25 years. The Postage helps banks, credit unions, and partners across the US build multi-generational relationships with retail and small business customers while increasing deposits, new accounts, and non-interest income.
We are not your typical fintech; we prioritize relationships over transactions. The Postage is a relationship-driven software platform thats about fostering meaningful connections and preserving both the tangible (like wills) and intangible (like family memories) aspects of life and business.
We built our product with love from our headquarters in Texas.
Since 2020, we have helped thousands of families secure their plans and memories, and were just getting started.
2020
Austin Advisory Board Member
Aug 2020
Since our founding in 1998, Texas Capital remains impassioned by the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation. Our reputation as a respected financial institution is embodied by who we are and how we do business. Our team is comprised of experienced and groundbreaking thinkers, empowered to focus on what matters. We are consistent in our commitment to building trusted relationships and producing exceptional outcomes as Texas’s premier full-service financial firm. We stay a step ahead by generating and embracing great ideas. We merge financial expertise and distinct experience to think creatively, which enables us to identify opportunities and craft market-leading products designed to enhance your portfolio.
Our client-centric culture thrives because we attract, develop and engage the most experienced and diverse experts in their fields. Over the years, weve developed a supportive culture that values collaboration, rewards performance and respects the well-being of its team members. We know our people are our greatest asset, so we give them the resources and support they need to be successful. Our personal approach has enabled us to deliver exceptional value for our clients for more than two decades — an achievement we’re proud to continue.
Explore a career at Texas Capital Bank: https://www.texascapitalbank.com/who-we-are/careers
Texas Capital is the collective brand name for Texas Capital Bank and its separate, non-bank affiliates and wholly owned subsidiaries. Please visit texascapital.com to learn more about Texas Capital, its products and services, and the respective entities that offer each. For deposit products, Member FDIC.
Texas Capital and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected trait including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, or veteran status. https://www.texascapitalbank.com/equal-employment-opportunity-policy
Advisory Partner
Feb 2020
LiveOak Venture Partners is an Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs who use disruptive technologies and business models to challenge the status quo. While many of their investments begin at the seed stage, LiveOak is a full life-cycle investor focused on technology and technology-driven service companies primary based in Texas. For over a decade, the Founders of LiveOak have helped entrepreneurs create industry-leading companies, such as Spatial Wireless (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), Navini Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), LifeSize Technologies (acquired by Logitech) and Mavenir Systems (NYSE:MVNR). Visit liveoakvp.com for more information.
2018
Board Member
Oct 2018
Convey is now project44! Acquired by project44 in September, 2021 our last mile and delivery management solutions combine real-time visibility, post-purchase experiences, and advanced insights and analytics to create a solution uniquely capable of perfecting last mile delivery.
With delivery expectations skyrocketing, brands cannot leave the critical last mile to chance. Convey’s Delivery Experience Management platform combines real-time visibility, post-purchase experiences, and advanced insights and analytics to create a solution uniquely capable of perfecting last mile delivery.
Supply chain and customer experience leaders including Neiman Marcus, Jet.com, and Eddie Bauer rely on Convey’s software and expertise to take action to ensure shoppers get their orders how and when they want, resulting in happier, loyal customers and a lower cost to serve.
Founded in 2013, Convey is backed by Silverton Partners, Techstars Venture Group, RPM Ventures and based in Austin, Texas.
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