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A visionary leader known by Q2 team members and customers alike for his authentic, engaging, and quick-witted communication style, Matt is committed to Q2's mission to build stronger communities by strengthening their financial institutions. He values direct engagement with customers and prospects and leverages his inquisitive nature to uncover innovative ways to improve the Q2 organization. 

Matt has made significant contributions to Q2's growth, strategic direction, and mission-driven culture. He was instrumental in driving Q2's growth from a startup to a publicly traded company with a global workforce, more than a thousand financial institutions across the globe, and a market capitalization exceeding $4 billion. 

He is a veteran of the financial services industry with more than 25 years of professional experience, 19 of those years with Q2. In addition to his role as CEO, Matt also serves as the Chairman of the Board. 

A graduate of Baylor University, Matt is a recipient of the esteemed EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award and was also recognized as a National Finalist. He is currently the Chair of Dell Children's Hospital Board of Trustees and serves on the Board of Directors of payment solutions company AffiniPay.

As President, Kirk Coleman leads day-to-day operations, including marketing, sales, customer success, product, engineering, and operations. He is responsible for executing on Q2’s strategy to meet increasing customer demand for Q2’s comprehensive digital banking and lending solutions.

Prior to joining Q2, Kirk founded Centerline Advisors in July 2020 with the mission of helping mid-sized financial institutions and fintechs develop actionable strategies. Previously, he served as a senior executive with Texas Capital Bank for five years, responsible for Service, Operations, Technology, and Strategic Planning. Coleman also had a successful 20-year career at Accenture, where he served as Managing Director (Partner), devoting the majority of his time to developing and managing banking clients. In addition to his client responsibilities, he worked across multiple specialties, including Core Banking and Front Office transformation (Marketing, Sales, and Service), holding several leadership roles within the North America Banking practice and the Dallas office.

Kirk earned a degree in Economics from Baylor University, where he served on the Advisory Board of the Hankamer School of Business and is an investor with the Baylor Angel Network. He also served on the Information Technology and Operations Management Advisory Board at Southern Methodist University and the advisory board for the Mid-Size Bank Coalition of America.

As Q2’s chief product officer, Katharine Briggs leads the strategic direction and design of Q2’s products and solutions to enable banks and credit unions to better onboard, grow and serve their consumer, small business, and corporate account holders.

Briggs brings nearly 30 years of experience in the financial services, advisory, and technology industries to the CPO role.  Most recently, she led Q2’s Customer Success organization, working closely with the Product teams to ensure Q2 solutions deliver measurable value and success to more than 1300 financial institution customers. During her career at Q2, she also served as General Manager of Q2 PrecisionLender, responsible for product, engineering, delivery, and go-to-market activities. 

Prior to joining Q2, Briggs was Chief Operating Officer of a Blackstone-owned specialty finance company, responsible for launching new products. She also spent nine years as a Managing Director on BlackRock Solutions’ Financial Markets Advisory team, providing advice and portfolio management services to banks, regulatory agencies, and official institutions. Briggs began her career as a Certified Public Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers before transitioning to commercial banking at Wells Fargo.  

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance & Accounting from Washington & Lee University.

His conviction that technology can and will change the lives of people, businesses, and financial institutions everywhere sets Adam apart from other chief technical officers. He pours himself into developing talented, curious, and creative self-starters willing to tackle technology in new ways. Adam works with our customers, partners and Q2 team members to drive the technology vision and strategy at Q2. 
 
Adam brings years of technology and software management expertise to Q2, including his management role at CipherTrust, the leading provider of enterprise-class email security solutions, where he was the vice president responsible for product development, customer support, and professional services. Adam also made distinct contributions to Q UP Systems and Servana.com as Vice President of Internet Operations and was the Chief Network Engineer for Harte-Hanks Response Management. 
 
Adam holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from Indiana University and has completed graduate work in computational economics at the University of Texas at Austin.  

Cybersecurity issues and the potential to disrupt resilient operations and brand trust is top priority for publicly traded companies and corporate boards. Risks, particularly cyber risks are accelerating and if not prepared, can undermine regulatory compliance, strategic growth and worse, weaken consumer loyalty. Navigating this environment, proactively responding to changes in regulatory expectations and managing fluctuating residual concerns requires knowledge and an understanding of proactive planning. 

At Q2, Beth-Anne is responsible for the company’s global information protection, product & application security (SSDLC), enterprise IT security, cyber defense, and data protection strategy and services. Our security program is designed to scale with changes across the digital and development landscape while enabling the organization to achieve growth and revenue targets. Beth-Anne is a member of Q2’s senior leadership team reporting to the president. 

With more than 30 years of experience directing disparate teams across application and product security, cyber security, risk management, information governance, IT compliance, IT training and sales, Beth-Anne has a proven expertise in connecting teams, people and leaders across the organization in solving operational challenges that require large scale transformation. 

Beth-Anne holds a Master of Science degree in management and leadership (MSLM) from the University of La Verne and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Rutgers University. She has worked with leading companies in data science, technology, consumer packaged goods, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and consulting sectors. Beth-Anne holds a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) designation and is a member of NTSC, National Technology Security Coalition, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that serves as the preeminent advocacy voice for CISOs working with public and private sector stakeholders. Her work there is to help advance policies that improve national cybersecurity standards and awareness. 

Beth-Anne is a board advisor to non-profit, the Forge Institute, she and her husband volunteer their time to assist resources in underserved communities as well as transitioning military members into the civilian workforce. 

In his 15+ years of experience in the design and technology industry, Anthony has developed a passion for innovation and user-centered problem-solving, while leading successful projects related to design, production, and product management. As a VP of Product Management with the Digital Banking team at Q2, he is currently responsible for driving strategies that enable customers to effectively engage users on the platform. 

Throughout his career, Anthony has demonstrated a track record of listening and delivering products that help enterprise customers grow their relationships. He has a deep  understanding of the importance of user experience, and he is focused on delivering solutions that are user-friendly and effective. 

Anthony holds a degree in Design from Colorado State.

Corey Gross is an award-winning entrepreneur and fintech leader, focused on leveraging AI to better serve financial institutions and the communities they serve. He was the founder and CEO of Sensibill, a provider of white-labelled spend management tools to financial institutions and fintechs around the world including: JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Freshbooks, TD Bank, and Natwest. Sensibill was acquired by Q2 Holdings Inc. (NYSE: QTWO) in October of 2022, where Corey now serves as VP & Head of AI & Data Solutions.

Greg is the Vice President of Platform Engineering at Q2.  Prior to re-joining the Engineering org, Greg lead Development and Operations for the Innovation Studio.  Greg has been at Q2 for over 14 years serving various Development and Engineering roles. 

Greg is married to his high-school sweetheart Jamie and they have three daughters: Macie 23, who is completing grad school at the University of Washington, studying Speech Pathology, Averie 21, who is at Baylor studying to be a Special Education Teacher, and Lindsie 19, who is at Baylor studying Nutrition.

Greg is on the board at Lifeworks and is passionate about supporting local charities.  Greg has been involved with rugby for over 30 years and was an assistant referee for Major League Rugby from 2019-2022. 

A pioneer of more than 25 years in the digital banking space, Hunter is passionate about technology empowering individuals and businesses in their financial journey. He has worked with hundreds of institutions operationally deploying digital platforms and spent the past 11 years developing Q2's Advisory Services group. This group focuses on assisting banks and credit unions derive value and scale from their platforms as well as execute growth strategies across all customer segments. As important, he and this team keep the individuals served by these solutions central to every engagement. 

 Hunter held previous operations/leadership roles with S1 and Coretrac, has owned multiple small businesses and serves an advisory role with educational AI company founding_up.

Jeff Scott is an Executive Leader and Board Member, having obtained experience in organizations ranging in revenue from $4M to $6B Fortune 500 businesses. Jeff values employee engagement and mission-driven organizations. Throughout his career, he has maintained a collaborative management style, attracting, recruiting, leading, and managing teams of up to 600, placing a high value on relationships with employees, constituents, customers, and functional executive leaders. His teams have consistently built the foundations necessary to accelerate performance, increase membership, retention, and revenue. 

Jeff serves as the VP of Fraud & Security Solutions at Q2, which spans solutions to Financial Institutions and Fintechs across the digital channel, dispute tracking, and check fraud. At Q2, he previously served as a VP of Corporate Strategy, as well as the General Manager of the Innovation Study, connecting an ecosystem of partnerships to better orchestrate solutions in financial services. 

Prior to Q2, Jeff spent his early career in several VP and leadership positions within KeyBank, primarily focused on payments and commercial banking. He was also CFO and CEO of several PE and VC-backed firms that had successful exits spanning both technology and industrial verticals. 

Mr. Scott earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana. He previously was a Certified Treasury Professional administered by the Association for Financial Professionals. 

Johnny Ola is Senior Vice President over Q2’s Innovation Studio, which is a portfolio of technologies and go to market programs that enable Financial Institutions and partners to develop and offer new solutions, integrations, and extensions to the Q2 Digital Banking platform.

Prior to Q2, he was the Vice President of Global Alliances and Business Development at FinancialForce, a leader in cloud-based ERP software on the Salesforce platform. Before FinancialForce, he was the Vice President of Corporate Business Development and a GM for emerging Cloud solutions at BMC Software, a leader in enterprise management. Prior to BMC, he was GM of Tenneco Energy’s software division.

Johnny also supports and volunteers with community & faith-based organizations.

As Q2's Senior Vice President of Technology; Jordan has the honor of leading the Technology Architecture, Engineering and Operations teams responsible for delivering financial services products to more than 23 million end users, across 1,400 financial institutions and fintechs globally. 

With more than 20 years of industry experience in Hosting and Software Delivery, Jordan is passionate about creating exceptional customer experiences across private and public cloud and prides himself on building high-performing teams. 

Jordan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Management of Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Montana and spent the first 10 years of his career in the utilities sector before joining Q2 in 2011. 

An engineer by trade and coach by passion, building skillful development and IT teams has been a trademark of Lou Senko’s career. Lou brings more than 30 years of experience leading architectural design, development, implementation and integration of enterprise-wide solutions to meet global business, financial and market demands to Q2. His organization is responsible for the Availability, Performance and Quality of the solutions being delivered, and the Security and Compliance of the environments they are delivered from. This team is comprised of roughly 200 individuals and represents over $100million in expense, with another $15million annually in capital. 

Melissa Haire is Senior Vice President of Customer Success at Q2, with over 28 years of experience in the financial services industry where she leads teams overseeing client engagement and success across 650 financial institutions, managing $365 million in revenue. She specializes in building and maintaining strong relationships with key executive decision-makers to drive client success. Known for her strategic acumen and attention to detail, Melissa excels in creating impactful change and aligning client goals with broader initiatives. Her expertise spans relationship management, account strategy, contract negotiations, team leadership, and mentorship delivering strong financial results and client satisfaction. Prior to Q2, she held senior roles at NCR, Intuit, Digital Insight, Thoma Bravo, and Harland Financial Services, focusing on key accounts and strategic partnerships.