Powerlytics' Board of Directors

Jose is a former assistant professor of accounting, finance, and strategic management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He has been using the same datasets around which Powerlytics has been founded for academic research purposes and in consulting work to various government agencies and the private sector for 10 years.

Kevin is a former audit and advisory partner at KPMG and was a financial services specialist earlier in his career. Significant milestones include the development of a global risk assessment tool used for bank audits, an information-based internet joint venture focused on financial services, and building KPMG’s global knowledge management group as well as leading KPMG’s regional risk management practice. Kevin was also a VP & Managing Partner of Global Business Operations at Unisys and ran his own consulting business.

Peter retired from Safeguard Scientifics in 2013 after 7+ years as the Company’s CEO. Just before joining Safeguard, he served as an operating partner at Advent International, a leading global private equity firm and a top-quartile performer managing over $20 billion. Over a 22-year period as CEO of several technology companies (public, private, IPO), his firms were listed among the Inc. 500 five times, the Software 100 three times, and the Fast 50 and the Fortune 1000 twice. Earlier, he held Fortune 500 executive assignments in sales, marketing, and general management. He was twice recognized in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year competition, most recently as Master Entrepreneur in Philadelphia.

Ken is the president and CEO of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), a position he has held since May 2007. As head of the nation’s largest member-based organization for board directors, Daly is a recognized expert on corporate governance and board transformation. Under his leadership, NACD has grown in size and in scope, more than quadrupling its revenue and increasing membership by nearly 100 percent. Prior to joining the organization, Daly was an audit partner at KPMG, where he also served as the partner-in-charge of the national risk management practice. Retiring in 2005 from the firm, he assumed the role of executive director of KPMG’s Audit Committee Institute. He has extensive experience as an auditor and consultant with companies in the banking and insurance industries. He is especially knowledgeable about the financial services industry. Daly is a frequent speaker and writer on many timely issues confronting today’s corporate board, including executive compensation. He regularly appears in media and has recently been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Reuters, AP Radio and Fox News Radio, among others.

Bob is Co-Founder and CEO of TL Ventures, a venture capital firm with over $1.5 billion under management since 1988. Prior to TL Ventures, Bob had a 22-year career at Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia, a leading regional commercial financial institution. He left the bank in the late 80’s to become a venture capitalist, at which time he was Vice Chairman responsible for most of the bank’s commercial lending and non-banking subsidiaries. He oversaw significant growth and market expansion during his tenure as well as entry into new service markets such as investment banking. He’s been recognized as a distinguished alumnus by Temple University School of Law in 2004. Bob served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association from 2000 to 2004. He served as Chairman of the Board of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. for 10 years. He also was on the board of Internet Capital Group, Inc. where he served as its Chairman.

Mark G. Fields is a 14-year veteran of CME Group (Nasdaq: CME). Mark has served in a variety of finance, business development and strategy roles during a time of dramatic change in the global derivatives business. During his tenure at CME, Mark led and/or participated in the execution of over $20B in acquisitions here in the U.S. and abroad, and several strategic joint venture and partner efforts. Mark has over 30 years of professional finance, strategy, banking, and M&A experience. Prior to CME Group, he has worked at Ernst and Young Capital Advisors, Toronto-Dominion Securities, and Union Bank of California. Mark has an MBA from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. He currently serves on the boards of CME Group portfolio companies and on the advisory board of the Brennan School of Business at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.