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Chris Wassenaar

Versapay
Chief Risk Officer & General Council

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Responsible for the 50+ person global Risk, Compliance, Payment Processing and Legal functions and operations located in Atlanta, GA, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Bucharest, Romania and Columbus, OH. Responsibilities include customer portfolio health, underwriting, transaction monitoring, regulatory compliance (OFAC, KYC / AML, FCPA, EU PSD), sales negotiations, contract management, intellectual property, litigation, Board administration, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions and global corporate governance.

Additional General Counsel & Executive Leadership Experience: Most recently, General Counsel at PowerPlan, Inc. (acquired by Thoma Bravo, LLC). Executive Vice President for Corporate Development, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of the Board at a global data integration and management company as well as the Chief Legal Officer, Secretary of the Board and Head of Human Resources for a software as a service (SaaS platform) Software and Outsourcing Company.

Strategic Project Manager Reporting directly to the CEO and CAO of SunTrust Bank, developed and led several high-profile efficiency and productivity projects focused upon enterprise-wide procurement policies and procedures as well as reducing annual management consulting expenditures by over $30 MM

Senior Corporate Counsel Lead negotiator on numerous telecommunications, software licensing, technology and consulting agreements including a $150 MM enterprise master telecommunications services agreement

Corporate and Employment Litigator Lead trial counsel appearing in State and Superior Courts throughout Georgia involving corporate matters as well as second chair counsel in Federal Courts involving employment matters

Nita Robinson Scholar, Dual Major M.B.A. in International Business and Information Technology Evening M.B.A. student at Georgia State who has studied abroad in India, maintained a cumulative 3.85 grade point average, who graduated in May, 2008; completing the program in less than two years

About Us: Versapay is focused on changing the way companies do business together by offering Customer-Centric AR Automation and Order-to-Cash solutions for mid-market and enterprise businesses. We help our clients to offer a superior customer experience, enabling CFOs to accelerate cash conversion, collaborate online, and eliminate paper, checks and manual business processes. Based in Toronto with five offices across the US, Versapay is owned by Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based technology investment firm.