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Chief Executive Officer

David Dobson joined Digital River in 2013 as the company’s CEO. David is accountable for leading Digital River in its mission to help companies find new and better ways to build and grow profitable global online businesses. Today, Digital River powers ecommerce  for thousands of companies, including leaders like Microsoft, Adobe, Kaspersky, Lenovo, and Samsung.

David joined Digital River from CA Technologies where he was executive vice president and group executive for the company’s Global Lines of Business. David’s team played a key role in repositioning CA as a market leader in cloud enablement solutions, as well as driving increased revenue, market share and profitability. Prior to CA Technologies, David served as president of Pitney Bowes Management Services, as well as executive vice president and chief strategy and innovation officer for Pitney Bowes, responsible for led the development of the company’s long-term strategy and increased the company’s focus on innovation.

Before Pitney Bowes, David was CEO of Corel Corporation. While at Corel, the company grew revenue 20 percent year-over-year, and increased profits by more than 30 percent each year. In 2006, he was instrumental in leading the company’s successful IPO. Prior to Corel, David spent 19 years at IBM in several senior management positions. David began serving on the board of directors of John Wiley and Sons Inc. in 2017.

Chief Operating Officer

Adam Coyle has spent over 25 years in the financial technology industry in a wide range of executive roles. Adam joined the management team at Digital River after spending three years at Siris Capital, where he is an executive partner and member of the Digital River board. Before joining Siris he was executive vice president of strategy and corporate development for Vantiv (now WorldPay), a role he assumed after serving as the president of one of Vantiv’s major subsidiaries, National Processing Company.

Adam’s prior experience includes three years as operating partner at Advent International, a leading global private equity firm, and a variety of senior leadership roles at First Data Corporation, including president of First Data’s Integrated Payment Systems group and general counsel for Western Union North America. He is a current director of Transaction Network Services and Intralinks, and a former director of FirstBank, Paymentech, NYCE and First Financial Bank.

Chief Financial Officer

As Digital River’s Chief Financial Officer, Matthew Reck oversees global accounting, finance, treasury, tax, corporate development and enterprise operations activities. He is responsible for helping the company build on its ecommerce successes while accelerating Digital River’s expansion into new markets and geographies.

Prior to joining Digital River in 2014, Matthew held positions in investment banking and private equity at Tonka Bay Equity Partners, Harris Williams & Co. and Hillcrest Capital Partners. He has over 10 years of experience in finance, investments and corporate development, and holds degrees in marketing and finance from the University of Minnesota – Carlson School of Management.

General Counsel and Chief Human Resource Officer

KT Schmidt is Digital River’s general counsel and chief human resources officer. He directs all activities related to building the international workforce that drives Digital River’s success. This includes developing talent management and organizational enablement strategies that support the company’s growth initiatives, as well as attracting and retaining some of the top experts in the ecommerce industry.

KT brings to Digital River more than 15 years of operational and organizational experience, working with Legal, Human Resources and IT teams, and managing global Human Resources and corporate operating practices. This includes compensation and compliance programs, mergers and acquisitions, and technology contract negotiations.

Prior to joining Digital River, KT served as general counsel and vice president of human resources and information security at International Decision Systems, a global market leader and B2B software provider in the financial services space. There, he had responsibility for building the Legal, Human Resources and IT departments to drive efficiency; in addition to managing complex domestic and international business challenges.

Senior Vice President, Client Success and Enterprise Operations

Stewart Sagastume is responsible for managing and improving client satisfaction for all of Digital River’s clients globally. Charged with driving flawless execution and innovation, his commerce operations and delivery organizations work together to deliver world-class ecommerce shopper experiences on a global basis.

Stewart brings more than 25 years of experience in service operations and strategy consulting, and significant large-scale, complex IT program management execution experience to manage high-performing, cross-functional teams to support Digital River’s most recognized clients. He also leads the MyCommerce self-service ecommerce business as well as the MarketForce digital agency.

Stewart has been with Digital River since 2007. Prior to joining Digital River, he has been a leader driving strategy, emerging technologies, and client relationships at FICO, Zamba Solutions and Racotek.

Senior Vice President, Int. Sales and Account Management

Marco Vergani joined Digital River as the general manager and vice president of EMEA in 2014. A 25-year veteran of pan-European sales operations, Marco leads the company’s global expansion strategy in the region and manages operations across Digital River Offices in the UK, Austria, England, Germany, Ireland and Russia.

Before joining Digital River, Marco held numerous senior executive roles at IBM, including vice president of European sales for the company’s Global Process Services division. There, he optimized resources and managed expansions across the marketplace, generating more than $1 billion in sales.

Prior to leading EMEA sales for IBM’s Global Process Services business unit, Marco managed IBM’s Retail Store Solutions division in EMEA, where he built distribution channels and partnerships across the region and led high-profile, point-of-sale solutions development initiatives. His IBM career also includes other significant leadership roles in Italy and the United Kingdom.

Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Account Management

David Woolenberg is responsible for Digital River’s client lifecycle from acquisition through ongoing account management, growth and client satisfaction for the company’s software and branded manufacturing clients in the Americas. He also oversees new sales, sales operations and sales engineering teams in North America. David has played an instrumental role in establishing and extending relationships with some of Digital River’s most well-known and longest-serving clients.

Since joining Digital River in 2003, David’s responsibilities have encompassed account management and sales for the company’s digital enterprise customers, including some of the world’s most recognized technology organizations. He has over 20 years of strategic sales experience, including a successful track record selling to software and publishing companies for Metatec Inc., which Digital River acquired technology from in 2003.

Vice President, Chief Information Officer

In his role as Digital River’s chief information officer, Ryan Douglas leads the company’s information technology (IT) organization. Ryan is charged with transforming Digital River’s global enterprise IT architecture and advancing the company’s cloud infrastructure. He and his international team of engineers oversee a technology and security strategy that positively impacts the operations of tens of thousands of ecommerce stores worldwide. Digital River’s triple redundant systems serve 60 million web pages and handle more than 300,000 orders on a daily basis.

Ryan joined Digital River in 2005 and has held numerous positions in software development, database operations, cloud engineering and IT. Prior to Digital River, he served at several startup technology companies focused in the legal discovery and content delivery space. In all, Ryan has over 22 years of experience in software development and engineering.

Vice President, Chief Product Officer

James Gagliardi, Digital River’s chief product officer, draws on his unparalleled knowledge about the ecommerce industry and Digital River’s cloud commerce products and solutions as he leads the company’s global product strategy and management organization. He is responsible for directing Digital River’s ecommerce product vision and strategy, expanding its suite of cloud commerce solutions, introducing more flexible and innovative features into its products, and meeting, exceeding and anticipating the needs of ecommerce clients around the world.

With more than 20 years of experience in the ecommerce industry, James regularly works with the industry analyst community and comments in the media. He has published a number of articles in high-tech media outlets, such as MediaPost, BizReport, ReadWrite, TWICE, Multichannel Merchant, Total Retail and others.

Vice President, Global Delivery and Commerce Operations

Laura Mays leads Digital River’s delivery and commerce operations organizations, which partner closely with the company’s global client base to launch storefronts and manage ecommerce operations ranging from standard to custom projects.

Her teams solution, scope, build, test and support the day-to-day operations of clients’ ecommerce businesses and ensure that Digital River’s ecommerce platform, fraud screening and fulfillment solutions are being used in optimized ways. The organizations under Laura’s leadership are relentlessly focused on driving client satisfaction.

Prior to Digital River, Laura was a manager at Accenture, focusing on systems implementations for property and casualty insurance companies. All told, Laura has more than 17 years of experience consulting, building and running SaaS businesses.

Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications

Jason Nyhus started at Digital River in 2000 holding virtually every role in sales and marketing. He has owned relationships with some of the company’s most dynamic and fast paced clients like MLB.com, Canon, Microsoft and EA. He was also responsible for driving our marketing innovation through our ecosystem expansion and strategy development of our MarketForce practice leaders. He is currently responsible for our global demand generation, product marketing, communications, strategy, analyst relations, and branding across our Commerce, Payments and marketing business units as Vice President of Global Marketing and Communications.

Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Oleg Ryaboy leads a global team of software engineers and developers tasked with delivering innovative ecommerce technology solutions. They build and support scalable, high-performing ecommerce technologies and features that power the global online businesses for Digital River’s world-class clients. Oleg is responsible for managing and advancing the company’s SaaS cloud ecommerce platforms, which operate on a massively distributed architecture.

Prior to joining Digital River in 2010, Oleg served as a leader in software development and IT research and development at CVS MinuteClinic, CVS Health, Target and several software startup companies.

Vice President, Enterprise Operations

Kathy Tompt has more than 30 years of experience in leading operational functions across financial, direct marketing and ecommerce industries. She brings a wealth of knowledge in service excellence, cost efficiency and process improvement to Digital River. As the company’s corporate business operations leader, she manages operational excellence, strategy operationalization and various operational teams.  Kathy also has responsibility for managing the operations of Digital River’s partner program, which includes launching, supporting and growing new and existing partner relationships.

Prior to joining Digital River in 2008, Kathy worked at Bluestem Brands as vice president of operations, managing all onshore and offshore sales and service operations, back office operations and compliance programs. Prior to Bluestem Brands, Kathy held executive leadership roles with Metris Companies, CPP North America and U.S. Bank, where she managed and developed several operational, service and sales areas in support of B2B and B2C customers.