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  • Melissa Forman

    President

    Melissa Forman is the President of TriumphPay. She is responsible for providing overall leadership in setting and executing TriumphPay’s strategic vision. Prior to this role, Forman served as SVP, Chief Strategy Officer for TriumphPay, where she focused on developing and driving corporate initiatives that improved TriumphPay’s go-to-market product fit, business development, operational efficiencies, and customer experience.

    With 25 years of experience across multiple freight technology companies, Forman’s leadership has been instrumental in accelerating TriumphPay’s expansion to serving shippers, brokers, factors, and carriers. Before joining TriumphPay, Forman spent nearly a decade leading sales and strategic partnerships for eCapital, LLC, a leading transportation factor. She has held various leadership roles in the transportation technologies and finance industries. In these roles, she gained a deep understanding of technology solutions, financing needs, and the pain points for large and small trucking companies, logistics providers, and factoring companies.

    Forman received a Master of Business Administration in International Business from California State University, Dominquez Hills, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Phoenix.

  • Michael Niessner

    Chief Technology Officer

    Michael Niessner is the Chief Technology Officer for TriumphPay, where he leads the development and dissemination of advanced technologies that improve and increase business for our customers and TriumphPay. Before this role, Michael served as Principal Engineer at TriumphPay, overseeing the research, development, and design of engineering projects.

    Prior to TriumphPay, Michael was the Principal Engineer at HubTran (acquired by TriumphPay in 2021) and was responsible for designing and building key elements of Hubtran’s technical stack, along with helping the engineering team grow by a factor of 10. Before joining the HubTran team, Michael worked as a software consultant and helped launch several software companies as a partner and software developer for Elevated Code.

    Michael is fluent in numerous programming languages and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Garrett Wolfe

    Chief Strategy Officer

    Garrett Wolfe is the Chief Strategy Officer at TriumphPay where he leads the Product Management and User Experience teams focused on creating the payments network for trucking. Under his leadership, the TriumphPay product team is reimagining how brokers, carriers, shippers and factors transact more efficiently and transparently across the payments journey.

    Prior to joining TriumphPay, Garrett has led product development teams across a number of industries and companies, including real estate at Door.com and financial services at Capital One. Garrett also was part of the Innovation & Development practice at PwC where he helped clients innovate at scale.

    Garrett received his Masters of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

  • Dan Curtis

    EVP, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Relationship Management Officer

    Dan Curtis joined TriumphPay as  Executive Vice President, Chief Relationship Management Officer in October 2022. He is responsible for providing strategic leadership for TriumphPay’s client relationship team, working in partnership with customers across the network to understand their key business drivers thoroughly and interpret and guide decisions relating to their business demands.

    Mr. Curtis joined TriumphPay with more than 25 years of experience in the logistics and financial sectors, bringing a successful track record of driving transformation by cultivating people and technology in innovative ways to our TriumphPay team. Most recently, he served as President of BNSF Logistics, LLC, a US-based, multi-modal, cross-border transportation leader in OTR, rail, and complex logistics spaces. Before taking over the role of President of BNSF Logistics in 2018, he served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for BNSF Logistics for seven years. Mr. Curtis previously held various senior financial leadership positions at Greatwide Logistics Services and key roles at Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and Ernst & Young.

    Mr. Curtis earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Baylor University.

  • Josh Bouk

    EVP, Chief Partnership Officer

    Josh Bouk is the Chief Partnership Officer at TriumphPay, where he leads our shipper vertical.

    Josh is joining our team with over 20 years of experience as a proven executive leader in providing freight audit and payments solutions at the global enterprise level. He joined Trax in 2020 as its Chief Revenue Officer and was named president in 2022.

    Before that, Josh was the Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing for the Expense Management Division of Cass Information Systems.

  • Haley Evans

    SVP, Broker and 3PL Services

    Haley Evans is the Vice President of Broker Services for TriumphPay where she leads a business development team focused on growing marketing share and delivering exceptional service and value to brokers. Haley works with freight brokers and 3PLs to understand industry pain points and collaborates with product solutions to drive efficiency and revenue.

    Prior to joining TriumphPay, she worked in healthcare and reinsurance designing programs to reduce institutional risk and improve safety.

    Haley received a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin and Bachelor of Science from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.

  • Nate Gilmore

    VP, Payor Integrations and Services

    Nate Gilmore is the Vice President of Integrations and Client Services for TriumphPay and is responsible for leading the technology implementation and services team, which is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the seamless integration of our clients’ systems with the TriumphPay network, and managing the health of the client relationship thereafter.

    Working with start-up and Fortune 100 companies alike, Nate has spent his career directing technology implementation processes and leading technology product management journeys, predominantly in the trucking and logistics space. Nate focuses on adding value through scalable system and process integrations and developing teams to do the same.

    Prior joining TriumphPay, Nate served in several leadership and management roles leading technology engineering teams to implement and build technologies that help increase operational efficiencies for clients of The Refinery, Pegasus TransTech, and Affiliated Computer Services. He currently serves as a Colorado Air National Guardsman leading teams of munitions specialists to achieve mission goals.

    Nate attended The University of Colorado at Denver and Colorado Christian University, where he studied Business Administration and Management and is a Cisco Certified Network Associate.