Payments Enablement
PCI Level 1 vault and tokenization, plus the world’s deepest ecosystem of hundreds payment services.
Payments Optimization
Smart routing and optimization technology built on the expertise of over a billion transactions per year.
Payments Orchestration
Get to market faster globally with higher authorization rates, more flexibility, and no vendor lock-in.
Our Leadership
Justin Benson
Justin joined Spreedly as CEO in 2011. He has driven Spreedly’s dramatic expansion through a successful pivot and evolution of the company’s go-to-market strategy. He led the company's fundraising of $75 million from Spectrum Ventures to accelerate Spreedly's growth strategy. He combines a technical background with expertise in sales and customer experience.
Justin began his career in the Bay Area and joined an early stage startup as their first technical support employee. During his tenure, the company grew from 40 to 400 in three years, went public, and was acquired. He was steadily promoted through business development, direct sales, and then onto the senior management team before a successful exit. He subsequently joined SafeNet as VP of Sales for the Americas prior to moving to NC. He lives in the Triangle with his wife and two daughters and can be frequently seen speeding down roads and trails on his bike.
Peter Dougherty
As President, Peter leads all go-to-market initiatives for Spreedly including marketing, sales, partnerships, customer success and support. He works across all levels of the P&L to drive growth and deliver innovation to our customers and partners.
Peter joined Spreedly from Lightspeed Commerce, a platform powering omnichannel experiences for 168,000 independent merchants around the world. An early employee, he held multiple roles in go-to-market, serving as GM & EVP of one of two major operating divisions. He has extensive experience leading and scaling global teams to drive new revenue and product innovation.
Peter is a prodigious tinkerer, in his off-work time he enjoys working with his hands, and especially working on projects with his kids. He loves the outdoors and values the power the outdoors has on health and wellbeing. Beyond enjoying time with his family, Peter is an avid foodie with a love for restaurants and the opportunities they create for people to connect.
Dana Calder
As Senior Vice President of People, Dana is responsible for leading all People Operations functions, including employee relations, talent acquisition, compensation, benefits, performance coaching, compliance, employee engagement, policy implementation, and training and development.
Dana's tenure at Spreedly has included work as an account manager on the new customer acquisition team and the customer success team, where she was responsible for engagement with customers through trials, testing, and onboarding. Prior to Spreedly, Dana found her passion for the Triangle’s technical community after joining The Iron Yard Durham, an immersive computer programming boot camp. As Director, she supported over 150 developers with career support to acquire local tech jobs by building a robust Triangle-focused employer advisory board. Dana has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Salem College, NC.
She lives in the Triangle with her wife and son and spends time exploring plant-based cuisine.
Christopher Hudel
Christopher serves as Spreedly’s Chief Technology Officer with responsibilities for architecture, application engineering, infrastructure, and information security. His primary focus in this role is ensuring that Spreedly’s applications and systems remain secure, stable and scale up (both in capacity and capability) as customer demand grows and new products are introduced.
Christopher’s 30 year career spans a range of industries: professional consulting, global industrial manufacturing, financial services, and “dot-com” enterprises. In addition to holding executive roles at several organizations, he also developed and delivered undergraduate and graduate courses within the University of North Carolina system as an adjunct professor. Christopher earned his honours Bachelor's degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Nellie Vail
Serving as Chief Financial Officer, Nellie’s role is to implement the overall financial strategy and determine the financial health of the business. This requires execution of the operating plan and making certain that strategic and tactical decisions are data driven. Nellie is responsible for accounting, finance, legal and business operations, which encompasses financial reporting and audit, revenue, cost and cash forecasting, corporate legal compliance, as well as company capitalization strategy to ensure funding for Spreedly’s growth.
Nellie started her career in investment banking and quickly moved into the technology sector. She supported several SaaS businesses as head of finance in various industries including sports television, banking software, and sales enablement before joining payments at Spreedly in 2017. Nellie has more than 15 years of experience as a finance professional, with 10+ in the SaaS world. When not at Spreedly, Nellie assists her partner with the business side of their Durham-based bar (Annexe), while making sure she has the time to travel, keep up with the latest design and fashion trends and spend time with family.
Jennifer Rosario
As the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Spreedly, Jennifer is responsible for leading and driving Spreedly’s information security, compliance, and information technology strategy. In this role, she is focused on the CIA (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) of customer, employee, and Spreedly proprietary data.
Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in IT operations, IT service management, and information security (IS). She has a proven background in delivering expert-level cyber security guidance, developing, implementing and maturing IS programs. Her passion comes from bringing people, process and technology together to deliver value to the business. Jennifer’s certifications include CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control), and ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) Foundation. Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a BS degree in Information Science. In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys spending time with her family and running/walking.
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Featured news
Spreedly Welcomes Experienced Payments Leader Peter Dougherty as President
Dougherty Brings Expertise in Building Highly Effective, Go-to-Market Teams
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Offering the next evolution in payment method optimization
Simplifying the Fraud Equation: Spreedly x Forter
Our exciting new partnership with Forter enables Spreedly customers to take advantage of Forter’s Trust Platform