Stephen Bohanon is co-founder, chief strategy and product officer of Alkami Technology, Inc.  Mr. Bohanon oversees the publicly-traded digital banking provider through product development and strategic acquisitions.

Mr. Bohanon’s extensive financial services background (with roles at Catalyst Consulting, FIS, ACI Worldwide and Advanced Financial Solutions) was the spark that led him to bring Alkami to life in 2009.

Mr. Bohanon forged Alkami from humble beginnings to today’s status as the fastest growing digital banking provider through entrepreneurial optimism, client-centric focus, and a fearless pursuit of excellence.  With his leadership, Alkami continues its mission to be the gold-standard, successfully future-proofing their clients and setting the direction for the financial industry to follow.

Matt Phipps is the chief marketing officer at Agent IQ. Mr. Phipps has over a 20 year career in global marketing and branding. Early in his career, he co-founded a brand marketing agency that served the Silicon Valley high tech startups and giants. Mr. Phipps took that experience to build a brand of his own and a franchise system that successfully expanded across California and Arizona. He then led digital marketing across Asia Pacific out of Melbourne, Australia for a multi-billion dollar life sciences company.

Mac Thompson is founder and president of White Clay. Mr. Thompson has more than 30 years of banking experience including leadership roles with Bank of America and Chase where he designed sales processes, created profitability platforms and ran consumer analytics and strategy. Mr. Thompson founded White Clay in 2006 to provide regional and community banks with many of the same banking tools which weren’t available to all but the largest banks.

Erika Bailey is a contributing author for Bank Director.