Leadership

Keri Gohman

Chief Executive Officer

For more than two decades, Keri has spent her entire career reinventing financial services and helping established market-leading firms and disruptive new entrants solve global challenges. Keri’s expertise centers on the intersection of SaaS, platform-based business models, and fintech. She’s worked across several sectors including payments, workforce technology, and accounting.

Previously a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, Keri focused on their fintech and business SaaS portfolios. She most recently led Passport as interim President and currently sits on the boards of Passport, RelayFinancial, and Pleo. Prior to BCV, Keri was Chief Platform Business officer at Xero and Executive Vice President and General Manager of Capital One’s small business bank.

Keri has been recognized as one of Denver’s Most Admired CEOs and a Top 100 Accounting Influencer. Presently on the national board of Make-A-Wish Foundation, she is also involved with nonprofits such as Endeavor, Kiva, and Grameen America.

As a transplant to the Mile High City (Denver), Keri enjoys all outdoor sports (hiking, mountain biking, skiing) and spending time with her husband and three kids.

Jennifer Sherman

Chief Product & Experience Officer

Jennifer has over 20 years of extensive experience in the enterprise B2B software market, focused on ERP, supply chain, manufacturing, CRM, e-commerce, and payments product strategy and management.

Prior to joining AbacusNext, Jennifer was Chief Product and Experience Officer at NMI. She has also led the product teams at Kibo, NAVEX Global, and Aptean. She also serves on the Board of Directors for 3PL Central.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University. Jennifer is a TEDxspeaker, a glass artist, a bread baker, and a certified judge with the Kansas City Barbecue Society. She lives in Chicago with her partner and their 3 pets.

Mike Summers

Chief People Officer

Mike brings over 40 years of human resources experience to the company across several industries including private equity sponsored portfolio companies in manufacturing, consumer products, aerospace, chemicals, and technology.

Prior to joining AbacusNext, Mike worked as an executive advisor at Thomas H. Lee Partners where he held interim leadership roles across five different THL companies, including AbacusNext. Before that, he founded Avanti HR Group where he focused on CEO and C-Suite engagement, executive coaching, organizational diagnostics, and HR organizational support. Mike also served as the chief human resources officer for CHC Helicopters Canada, Inc. and Celanese Corporation and was vice president of human resources at Dell, Inc.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Fairmont State University and a Master of Science in human resources management and services from West Virginia University. He lives in Arizona with his wife and family, and enjoys golfing, hiking, weightlifting, cooking, traveling, and spending time with his granddaughter.

Arik Moav

Chief Financial Officer

Arik is the Chief Financial Officer at AbacusNext. In this role, Arik is responsible for the financial functions, corporate development, and strategy functions of AbacusNext. Arik joined our team from GoodRx, where he led strategic finance, FP&A, M&A modeling, and Investor Relations. Arik built the team at GoodRx and led the preparation and execution of the company’s IPO in 2020. Prior to that, Arik co-founded and was the CFO at EquityBee, a fintech platform that helps startup employees get the funding they need to exercise their stock options.

He was also the Head of Finance at RealtyMogul, an online marketplace for real estate investing. Additional prior roles include finance and strategy at Amgen and finance and business development for a family office in his first job in the U.S. Arik served in the military in Israel and has a double BA in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

Greg Reynolds

Chief Technology Officer

Greg is AbacusNext’s Chief Technology Officer. A technologist at heart, Greg brings over 25 years of experience engineering cloud solutions for the software industry. Greg’s career was spent building software products as services for the Insurance, Financial, Automotive, and Benefits industries, which included many monolithic conversions to modern cloud services. With previous CTO experience at Aplifi, CallTower, DealerSocket, and Businessolver, Greg is excited to continue his passion for turning great ideas into action at Abacus.

Fred Cohen

Chief Legal Strategy Officer / Chief Executive Officer Zola

Fred is the founder and Chief Executive Officer at Zola Suite. He is focused on developing state-of-the-art technology to enable law firms to massively scale their operations. He has been a leader, product visionary, and innovator in the legal technology space for over 10 years. In that role, he is the inventor of 2 patents with the USPTO. Fred has led the company from its founding to becoming one of the fastest-growing businesses in the U.S. two years in a row as recognized by Inc Magazine. He is also a former practicing attorney as a partner at a New York Trusts & Estates firm. His interests include anthropology, tennis, art, user experience design, and business process optimization.=

Fred holds both an Economics and a Political Science degree from Queens College of the City University of New York and a JD from Hofstra University School of Law.

Kevin Gallagher

General Manager, Payments

Kevin has 25+ years of experience in the payment industry and is an expert in building and scaling PE-backed payment and SaaS companies.

Prior to his role at AbacusNext, he was general manager of FrontStream Payments, a division of FrontStream. Prior to that, he was senior vice president at Transpay, a B2B/B2P cross-border payouts platform that was acquired by MasterCard in 2019. He served as senior vice president of global sales at Vesta Corporation, senior vice president of global business development at 2Checkout, and held other senior leadership and board positions within the electronic payments and e-commerce industry.

Kevin currently serves on the board of directors at TAG FinTech Steering Committee. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business, an MBA in marketing from Kennesaw State University and an MBA in e-commerce from Georgia State University. Kevin was honored as the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), Sales Leadership Executive of the Year.

Eric Hart

General Counsel

Eric joined the AbacusNext team as General Counsel in January 2015. Prior to that, he worked as a litigator, handling large contract disputes for a variety of companies, copyright and other intellectual property disputes, and employment law matters. Eric graduated from California Western School of Law in 2002. While in law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Richard Haden (Ret.) of the San Diego Superior Court.

James O’Connell-Cooper

SVP, Marketing

James leads marketing and partnership efforts at AbacusNext. For the last 18 years, James’s work has spanned across the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, and his home country, New Zealand. He cofounded a product and brand marketing agency that works with experience-led brands with a strong focus on customer driven experience and insights. Prior to this, James led marketing for Xero (SaaS accounting and practice management) in North America and Australia. James’s experience also spans direct to consumer, retail, wholesale, manufacturing, and hospitality brands.

Thomas “TJ” Schoessow

SVP, Technology & Business Systems

As SVP of Technology & Business Systems, TJ oversees the cloud and engineering teams to ensure high-availability for all cloud clients. With an expansive career in IT, TJ understands the evolving needs of virtual systems and creates pragmatic strategies and implementation designs that deliver maximum return on investment. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from UCSD, and a wide array of technical certifications. TJ’s specialties are virtualization, data protection, MS Exchange, and SAN tech administration.

Trey Watts

SVP, Sales

Serving as SVP of Sales, Trey is a strategist of data-driven solutions, continuous improvements, and programs that directly optimize performance, revenue, and productivity within the company. Prior to joining AbacusNext, Trey served as the Senior Vice President of Sales at TimeClock Plus. He has a strong coaching background, serving as the head basketball coach for multiple schools, many of which he taught at as well. Trey has a BS in Education, a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership as well as an MBA.

Jeff Allison

SVP, Customer Operations

As our SVP of Customer Operations, Jeff leads our Client Services and Professional Services teams and works with our leaders across those organizations to create excellent, scalable customer programs. Starting with his first customer service job as a Representative with Southwest Airlines while in college, Jeff recognized the enjoyment he receives in simply helping customers.

Throughout his career, Jeff has led organizations supporting customers, merchants, resellers, and partners at Authorize.net, Cybersource, Harland Clarke, The Black Tux, and Visa, Inc. As a leader, he has a passion for employee engagement, customer centricity, and reimagining organizational cultures. Jeff holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Management and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management.

Andy Burner

SVP, People Strategy

Andy comes to AbacusNext with broad HR, commercial, and leadership experience across multiple countries in IT and high-growth SaaS companies. Most recently he worked as COO for the Americas for Xero, a provider of accounting software for small businesses.

He started at Xero’s headquarters in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2014 and moved to Denver in 2017 to help establish the company’s Americas base. Xero scaled from 284,000 subscribers to 3.2 million subscribers and 750 employees to over 4,500 employees over his tenure. Prior to Xero, Burner held senior operational and leadership roles at various IT and telecommunications companies in New Zealand.

Outside of work, Andy serves as the New Zealand honorary consul in Colorado. He and his family enjoy spending time outside together mountain biking and snowboarding.

Stephanie Johnson

SVP, Business Transformation

Stephanie joins AbacusNext with over 15 years of experience growing and transforming organizations to achieve their operational, financial, and strategic goals. She brings experience leading change from strategy through implementation.

Most recently, she joins us from Wells Fargo where she led teams to optimize and mature processes across the commercial bank. Prior to that, in her role as consulting director, Stephanie led platform implementations, M&A program management, strategic planning, and process optimization across
multiple sectors, including financial services, technology, logistics, and nonprofit.

In her role as Business Transformation leader, Stephanie will use best practices across program and project management, process optimization, data analysis, and change management to improve and grow AbacusNext through transformative change.

In her spare time, Stephanie enjoys hiking through the Blue Ridge mountains, running, and exploring Charlotte’s developing food scene.

Vlad Katsovich

VP, Engineering

For nearly three decades Vlad has been empowering teams to consistently deliver industry-leading, mission critical enterprise-class software and platforms for Fortune 100 companies across multiple industries and spent the last two decades in the legal technology space.

Prior to AbacusNext, Vlad was Head of Global Technology Engineering at Wolters Kluwer where he led a global software engineering function with end-to-end responsibilities for development and maintenance of the company’s flagship SaaS platform for Corporate Legal and Insurance Claims Management customers.

As a technology leader at AbacusNext, Vlad is responsible for the Engineering function delivering product technology innovation.  With his strong technical implementation and people leadership background Vlad leads his teams to deliver outstanding quality products, establishing performance culture and developing and mentoring people.

Lisa Hasen

VP, Marketing

Lisa leads the company’s efforts in marketing, branding and communications. She has 18 years’ experience creating and delivering B2B brand and go to market strategies to exceed business growth objectives. Prior to joining AbacusNext, Lisa oversaw enterprise marketing at Daxko, a leader in B2B SaaS and integrated payments. She has a B.A. in International Studies and Spanish from Rhodes College. Lisa and her husband live in Birmingham, Alabama with their two sons and two rescue dogs. She devotes time outside of work and family to nonprofits dedicated to advancing women in leadership and solving homelessness in her community.

Karen Fleck

VP, Accounting

Karen joins the AbacusNext team as our VP of Accounting/Controller. Karen previously worked at Rented, where she led not only finance and accounting but also sales and marketing, customer support, legal, and HR. Prior to that, Karen was COO at RealtyMogul. Additional prior roles include CFO at a hedge fund and family office and public accounting experience at the fifth largest accounting firm. Karen has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Accounting from UConn and has her CPA.

Richard Ramey

VP, Revenue Operations

Richard joins the AbacusNext team as our VP of Revenue Operations. In this role, he manages Marketing Operations, Sales Operations, Client Success Operations, GTM Technology, and Business Intelligence. Richard previously worked at Brightly as their VP of Business Operations. He also has experience managing recruiting programs at Juno Therapeutics, Inc. and Amazon. Richard has a BS in Chemical Engineering and MBA in Finance/Marketing.