Advisory Board
H. Lynn Page
Lynn Page served as President and Vice Chairman of Synovus Financial Corp before his retirement in 1991. He had been instrumental in the founding of Total Systems Services, Inc., now an international leader in electronic payment systems.
He continues to serve as a Member of the Board of Synovus Financial Corp., and Total Systems Services, Inc.
Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE: "SNV") is a Synovus (NYSE: SNV) is the respected family of banks and financial firms with more than $33 billion in assets that offers integrated financial services including banking, financial management, insurance, mortgage, leasing and electronic payments processing through an 81-percent stake in TSYS, a global payments and transaction processor.
H. Donald Ratliff, Ph.D
Dr. Ratliff is Executive Director - Supply Chain & Logistics Institute and is Regents and UPS Professor of Logistics - School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Ratliff is a supply chain and logistics expert with more than 30 years of experience as an educator, researcher, consultant, and technology business executive. He provides leadership for the largest research program in the world devoted to the study of supply chains and logistics. As co-founder and President of the software company CAPS Logistics, he helped pioneer the development of interactive software tools to design supply chain networks and optimize logistics processes. He worked with a wide range of companies and government organizations to recognize and evaluate opportunities for supply chain synchronization and logistics optimization, to develop strategies for exploiting these opportunities, and to develop the processes and technologies necessary to execute on these strategies. Dr. Ratliff’s research into new logistics concepts and optimization algorithms has resulted in the publication of more than fifty refereed journal articles. He has given more than a hundred invited presentations at national and international meetings. He serves on a variety of boards where he helps to develop strategies for designing, building and bringing to market new logistics technologies and services.
Dr. Ratliff is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Johns Hopkins University. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Operations Research and has supervised the thesis research for more than twenty Ph.D. students, many of which currently hold faculty appointments in major universities. He was awarded the 1991 “Outstanding Research Award” of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for his work in logistics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a Fellow of INFORMS. Dr. Ratliff was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his work in developing network optimization methodology for use in the design and operation of logistics systems.
Bahram Yusefzadeh
Mr. Yusefzadeh currently serves on an advisory board to Capital Appreciation Partners, a venture fund investing in stage II technology companies in the US. He is also chairman of the board of trustees for the International Center for Automated Information Research, a capital fund sponsored by the University of Florida College of Law and the Warrington Graduate School of Business. He has participated with other boards including Towne Services, Inc. (now merged with Private Business, Inc).
Bahram has more than 30 years experience in managing, advising and building successful technology-focused enterprises. He was founder and managing director of V2R, LLC. V2R is a strategic, multi-faceted consulting firm that assists both US and international organizations with increasing value and accelerating growth through capital investments.
Mr. Yusefzadeh co-founded in 1969 a banking software company, Nu-Comp Systems, Inc., and developed the Liberty Banking System, marketed by IBM from 1981 through 1985. He was Nu-Comp’s CEO through Broadway & Seymour, Inc.’s acquisition of the company in 1986. From 1986 to 1992, he served the Kirchman Corporation as president of both the independent banking and the outsourcing groups.
In 1993, he founded Phoenix International, a provider of integrated, client/server based software applications for the global financial services industry. Mr. Yusefzadeh served as their chairman and CEO and was instrumental in Phoenix’s successful IPO in 1996, secondary offering in 1997 and acquisition by London Bridge Software Holdings plc in 2001.