Gerrard Schmid
Gerrard Schmid has served on our Board since August 2021. Mr. Schmid has more than 20 years of leadership experience in banking, payments, and financial technology. Mr. Schmid currently serves on the board of directors of Ingenico, an Apollo private equity portfolio company that is a global leader in payments point of sale terminals and associated software and services, where he also served as interim co-CEO from January 2023 to April 2023. Previously Mr. Schmid served as Chief Executive Officer of Diebold Nixdorf Inc. (NYSE: DBD), a multinational company that produces, installs and services hardware and software systems for the banking, retail and electric vehicle infrastructure sectors, from February 2018 to March 2022. From 2012 to 2017, Mr. Schmid served as Chief Executive Officer of D+H Corporation (“D+H”), a global fintech company based in Canada, where he was Chief Operating Officer from 2009 to 2012. In addition, Mr. Schmid was President and Chief Executive Officer of D+H’s Filogix business unit, a mortgage and real estate technology service provider, from 2007 to 2009. Prior to that, he held senior executive roles in banking in the UK and Canada and spent several years at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, where he focused on financial services and technology. Mr. Schmid has served on the board of directors of Computershare Limited (ASX: CPU), an Australian publicly traded company and global leader in transfer agency, employee equity plans, mortgage servicing, proxy solicitation, stakeholder communications, and other diversified financial and governance services, since 2024. Mr. Schmid also previously served on the board of ISACA, an international professional association focused on IT governance, and cybersecurity certification and training. Mr. Schmid holds a BSc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a MASc in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto. Because of his experience as a chief executive officer and his global perspective, Mr. Schmid is well qualified to serve on our Board.