CORE LEADERSHIP
CORE’s Leadership Team
Our forward-looking leadership team is made up of dedicated, focused and experienced executives. Working with each other and with our employees, their knowledge and experience come together to make a difference for all our stakeholders – customers, employees, investors and communities.
Meet our Leaders
MIKE DUFFY
Chief Executive Officer
Mike Duffy, a seasoned CEO with extensive govtech experience, has spent years driving organizational success and innovation by emphasizing transparency and collaboration, encouraging teams to explore creative solutions and ambitious objectives, which have contributed to notable growth and market reach. With a dedication for building purpose-driven organizations, Mike strives to guide CORE towards continued success, in navigating the dynamic govtech landscape.
RAJ LAKHANI
Chief Financial Officer
With a tremendous record of establishing cross-functional partnerships to drive optimal results at technology/software/SaaS/Services companies, Raj now oversees the accounting, financial planning and analysis, HR, treasury, IT, audit, legal, and tax functions at CORE. Prior to joining CORE, Raj spent his career at IBM, Microsoft and Wolters Kluwer and at Private Equity backed enterprises – in both finance and software engineering functions.
ALAN PYRZ
Chief Innovation Officer
Alan has more than twenty-five years of experience leading engineering teams in the design, development, and support of enterprise software for the government, healthcare, and fintech industries. Alan has a passion for leveraging process and technology to improve individuals’ lives – both for clients as well as for internal teams at CORE. Prior to CORE, Alan co-founded eGov Strategies LLC.
CHRIS LEWIS
Chief Operating Officer
As CORE’s COO Chris leverages years of government software experience as the VP Strategic Growth for Paymentus where his team more than doubled the MidMarket growth rate year over year while establishing a best in industry partner program. Head of MidMarket for SEW where his team secured multi-million dollar growth and partnerships that changed the trajectory of the company. EVP of Harris Utilities SmartWorks where they took the MeterSense product and built it into Harris Utilities fastest growing company building out ARR of over $10m. Chris has also built successful growth organizations at ENMAX, Direct Energy and was COO of one of Canada’s fastest growing companies Attabotics. He has led over $4.5B in growth for companies and investors typically while generating excellent margins. He takes pride in demonstrating that companies can harness a growth culture while still working towards sustainability in operations.
HIREN DESAI
Vice President, Client Operations
With over 25 years in Professional Services, Customer Support, and Development, Hiren has been passionate about taking care of customers and ensuring their satisfaction by delivering proven services, outstanding customer support, and well-tested products that allow for maximum productivity. At CORE, Hiren has successfully led Professional Services, Support, and Implementations teams and built successful vendor relationships. Prior to joining CORE, Hiren spent his career at SunGard and Superion.
SHASH CATES
Vice President, Marketing
Focused on CORE’s strategic brand management and marketing strategies, Shash brings with her decades of full-funnel marketing expertise. From brand management, messaging and positioning, partner and direct marketing and sales enablement, Shash oversees the Marketing team at CORE. Hyper focused on strengthening CORE’s market position and brand awareness, Shash drives the marketing strategies to achieve desired business goals. Prior to CORE, Shash spent her career at Cigna, BidSync, Dell/EMC, Workfront, and Instructure.
Our Payments Practice Executives
DAN SLOAN
President, AMS Division
With over 30 years of entrepreneurial success and strategic vision in public and private sector payment solutions, Dan has a stellar history of implementing and directing the organizations operational and fiscal performance. With CORE, he is now specifically focused on expanding existing strategic partnerships and new sales initiatives with CORE’s products. As the founder of Automated Merchant Systems, Inc. (AMS), Dan will leverage his expertise to analyze and make recommendations on the impact of long-range growth initiatives, planning, and introduction of new strategies and regulatory actions.
JOHN THARPE
Executive Vice President | Payment Business Development & Strategic Partnerships
With over 30 years of experience in banking and payments, John’s diverse background ranges from accounting & banking platform integrations, strategic payment consulting, PayFac acquisition & aggregation models (PSP/PF), mobile payments & wallets, eCommerce ecosystems, payment gateways, SaaS POS and terminal manufacturing to developing nascent payment solutions & software. Prior to joining CORE, John spent his career at Sage, IntelliPay, Bank of America, and Spindle.
BRIAN VOIGT
Executive Vice President | Payment Risk, Compliance & Operations
With over 30 years of payments and financial services related experience, Brian’s background spans multiple areas such as developing and managing teams in Risk, Operations, Program Management, Product Strategy, Product Management, Strategic Business Development and Sales. At CORE, Brian leverages his experience to manage risk and compliance efforts while leading a talented Payments Operations organization. Prior to joining CORE, Brian spent his career at MerchantE, FIS -Worldpay, First Data (Fiserv) and Bank of America.
