Management Team

Mark P. Jacobsen, President & CEO;
Co-Founder

Mark P. Jacobsen is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Promontory Interfinancial Network. Prior to co-founding Promontory Interfinancial Network, Mr. Jacobsen served as the Chief of Staff at both the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the OCC. He also served as a managing director for Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank and as an associate at Covington & Burling.

Mr. Jacobsen received his J.D. from Harvard University Law School and his B.S. in Physics from Wheaton College of Illinois.

H.D. Barkett - Managing Director

H.D. Barkett is a Managing Director at Promontory Interfinancial Network. H.D. has been involved in banking and financial services for the last twenty-five years, working with financial institutions on issues involving asset/liability management, liquidity management, risk assessment and management, and portfolio hedging. Formerly, he served five years as Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Director of New Initiatives with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines. Prior to that, H.D. was Vice President of institutional fixed income sales with both Shay Financial Services and Paine Webber. For twelve years, H.D. held various management positions at Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas in its Investments group, Financial Strategies group, and Sales and Marketing department.

Phil Battey - VP, External Affairs

Phil Battey is the Vice President of External Affairs at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, he was the Director of Public Affairs at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Prior to that, he was a public affairs advisor to FDIC Chairmen and to Comptrollers of the Currency. Earlier in his career, he was director of editorial services at the American Bankers Association and Washington correspondent for the American Banker.

Mr. Battey earned degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Anthony R. Carlino - Managing Director

Anthony Carlino is a Managing Director at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, he was the CTO at the Merrill Lynch Bank & Trust Company where he was responsible for the implementation of the deposit sweep program and the associated investment and trading systems. Prior to that, Mr. Carlino held various positions within the Private Client group of Merrill Lynch & Company.

Mr. Carlino earned an M.B.A. degree in Finance from Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business and a B.S. degree in Management from St. Peter’s College.

John Couric - Chief Financial Officer

John Couric is the Chief Financial Officer at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, he was the Vice President Corporate Finance at PSINet, Incorporated. Prior to that, he was the Manager of Corporate Finance for Bell Atlantic Corporation. Earlier in his career, he was a Securities Compliance Examiner for the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr. Couric earned his M.B.A. from George Washington University and his B.S. degree from the University of Virginia.

Don Daily - VP, Product Management

Don Daily is the Vice President of Product Management at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, he was the Vice President, Fixed Income STP at TLX Trading Network, Incorporated and Director, Fixed Income Exchange design at EPit, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Daily helped build one of the first Internet corporate bond trading exchanges as Vice President, System Design at BondNet, Inc., later a Division of The Bank of New York. Earlier in his career, he was a Partner, Fixed Income brokerage at Brounoff, Claire & Co.; and a corporate bond trader and syndication manager at DuPont, Walston.

Mr. Daily attended the State University of New York College at Buffalo and Lehman College.

Susan Gayle - CAO

Susan Gayle is the Chief Administrative Officer at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, she was the Vice President of Human Resources for an aviation B-B business, Cordiem, LLC. Prior to that, she was the Director of Human Resources for a large law firm, Howrey, LLP. Earlier, Dr. Gayle worked as a consultant for a premier management consulting firm, Towers Perrin; Director of IS Strategy at Bell Atlantic (renamed Verizon); and was the Vice President of Corporate Resources at CASDE Corporation.

Dr. Gayle earned her degrees from George Washington University.

Ted Hamilton - Senior Managing Director

Ted Hamilton is a Senior Managing Director at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, he headed Debt Capital Markets Desk at PaineWebber, Inc. He was also responsible for underwriting debt and preferred stock deals for the global banks. Prior to that, Mr. Hamilton was Managing Director and head of Money Markets Origination at Smith Barney where his team designed and implemented a multi-bank deposit sweep program. At Smith Barney he also covered the largest U.S. regional and money center banks. Earlier, he was a Director in Merrill Lynch’s Money Markets Group where he worked on the first multi-bank deposit sweep program. He also oversaw large regional and money center banks for Merrill Lynch.

Mr. Hamilton earned a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Hyland - VP, Business Operations

Robert Hyland is the Vice President of Business Operations at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Cordiem, LLC. Prior to that Mr. Hyland was the Vice President of Technology at NetGrocer, and he was a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Toys R Us. Earlier in his career, Mr. Hyland held positions as Corporate Controller and Chief Financial Officer.

Mr. Hyland earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and holds two B.A. degrees from the State University of New York, University of Buffalo.

Steve Kinner - Sr. Managing Director, Sales

Steve Kinner is the Senior Managing Director at Promontory Interfinancial Network who is responsible for directing sales. He has more than 27 years of banking experience. Formerly, Mr. Kinner was a Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines. Prior to that, Mr. Kinner was the President, Financial Services Division at Oswald Financial, LLC. Earlier in his career, he was a Managing Director/Senior Vice President, Asset Management at KeyCorp.

Mr. Kinner earned an M.B.A. from Baldwin Wallace College and a B.S. from the University of Wyoming.

Stephanie Kuroda - Chief Marketing Officer

Stephanie Kuroda is the Chief Marketing Officer at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, she was the Vice President of Marketing at Collaborex, Incorporated, where she helped the company’s founders to launch their new venture and to gain significant funding and press coverage. Prior to that, Ms. Kuroda managed the Strategy & Marketing Department at Howrey, LLP.; there she helped the firm to garner broad, third-party recognition as the nation’s premier provider of IP litigation services and as a market leader for its breakthrough advertising. Earlier, she managed a cross-functional new products team at General Mills and helped launch marketing initiatives for Honey Nut Cheerios and Trix cereal. Ms. Kuroda also has “large corporate” commercial lending experience (for clients with revenues ranging from $250MM to $3BN) and an asset recovery background with Bank of Boston.

She has authored Upholding the Brand While Motivating and Captivating Your Customer, which is part of the book, Leveraging Effective Brand Engagement Strategies (copyright 2011, Thompson Reuters/Aspatore), written by leading marketing professionals.

Ms. Kuroda earned her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and her B.A. from Wellesley College.

Charles “Duffy” Mees - Chief Information Officer

Mr. Mees is the Chief Information Officer at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, he was the Chief Information Officer at JetBlue Airways. Earlier, he was the Chief Information Officer at Independence Air. He has more than 20 years experience in information technology.

Douglas E. Phillips - VP & General Counsel

Doug Phillips is Vice President and General Counsel at Promontory Interfinancial Network. He is also the author of The Software License Unveiled (Oxford University Press, 2009). Formerly, he practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. Earlier, he served as the first President of the Business Software Alliance.

Mr. Phillips received his A.B. magna cum laude from Princeton University and his J.D. from New York University Law School, which he attended as a Root-Tilden Scholar. He was an editor of the law review and, after law school, a law clerk to Judge Eugene Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Beth Pile - Chief Risk Officer

Beth Pile is the Chief Risk Officer at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, she was the Deputy to the Chief of Staff at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Earlier, she was a Field Manager and a Bank Examiner with OCC.

Ms. Pile received her B.A. from Drury College.

Arun Shastri – Chief Strategy Officer

Arun Shastri is the Chief Strategy Officer at Promontory Interfinancial Network. Formerly, he was Managing Principal at ZS Associates, Inc. He was responsible for providing to companies across industries his deep expertise in designing, implementing, and managing sales and marketing objectives, from the strategic to the tactical.

Mr. Shastri earned his M.S. in Mathematics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Decisions Sciences from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.