Garreth Gafke

BIO

Garrett Gafke is a successful entrepreneur and Fortune 500 Executive, blending early stage action with public company knowledge. Prior to founding IdentityMind Global, Garrett Gafke served as President & CEO of Paymate, an innovative provider of payment and risk management services which was acquired by Flexigroup(FLX). Prior to Paymate,Garrett Gafke worked as advisor/Interim-CEO for several top tier venture firms and private equity firms. Garrett Gafke has served as President and CEO for SteelEye which was acquired by SIOS a public Japanese company, and was a member of the senior executive team that built and took CyberSource(CYBS) and Trintech(TTPA) public, the former of which Visa acquired in 2010 for $2 billion. He helped build VeriFone's Internet Commerce Division(PAY) which was later acquired by Hewlett Packard(HQP) for $1.2 billion, and served as the Group Vice President and General Manager for Cardinal Health's(CAH) technology division A serial entrepreneur, Garrett has a proven track record of founding and growing great technology companies, having completed five M&A transactions, and two successful IPO's. Garrett Gafke is an active angel investor and Board Member of early stage companies around Silicon Valley.