Mr. Tavares was appointed to the Board in May 2020. Since 2013, he has served as President of the board of directors and CEO of The CardLinx Association, a leading global trade association for the payments and digital advertising industries. Prior to that, Mr. Tavares was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Information Products at Visa, Inc., and before that was with First Data Corp. (now part of Fiserv) from 2006-2012, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of Global Information and Analytics and also held other senior finance roles. He holds a J.D. degree from the Boston University School of Law; an M.B.A. degree from the Boston College Carroll School of Management; and a B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Tufts University.