Top Gun

Brian brings 15+ years' experience leading high performing, entrepreneurial teams in launching new businesses and validating powerful economic, service and technology models. In his current role at CashStar Inc., a venture backed digital currency and payments company, Brian is helping set the strategy to lead this company to extraordinary growth, negotiating and securing agreements with North America’s top 50 retailers, the United States largest issuing bank, and several of the top 10 leading B2B customers. For Wright Express (NYSE: WXS), Brian led the development of a cutting edge payments solution for the North American construction market. He’s secured commitments for profitable agreements with key “Lighthouse” customers and channel partners, including a $2.5 billion agreement with North America's largest plumbing/building materials distributor and the second largest US manufacturer of compact industrial construction equipment. While leading Wright Express' entry into Canada, Brian secured beachhead agreements with fuel merchants, as well as domestic and international regulatory approval to establish a new Canadian bank.

Brian is also the Founder and CEO of BlueTarp Financial, Inc., an innovative information and payments company for which he successfully raised $22 million and led from concept through revenue generation. Now ten years old, the company still leads the market. Prior to BlueTarp, Brian held a variety of sales, marketing and financial roles for several organizations, including Fleet National Bank where he underwrote credit facilities ranging up to $50 million. Brian holds a BA from Colby College and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He lives in Portland with his wife, Mary, and three children.