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.

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.

Bill Ryan

As the Vice President of Global Sales, Bill is responsible for global sales strategy and execution. In this role, Bill leads the enterprise sales, partnerships, and solution consulting organizations. He also focuses on delivering exceptional customer experiences and ROI.
Bill is an enterprise SaaS veteran with nearly 20 years of experience leading sales groups at both start-ups and public companies including SAP and Salesforce. He also serves as a board advisor at Lessonface, an online music learning platform that virtually connects teachers and students. Bill is a graduate of the College of Charleston and has been involved in Big Brother Big Sister.

Daniel Scagnelli

As the Vice President of Services and Success, Daniel is responsible for Spreedly’s post-sale customer lifecycle functions including implementation, customer success, professional services, customer engineering, and support engineering. In this role, he is focused on building the vision and strategy for scaling delivery and ensuring world class service that accelerates customer time to value, speeds and scales the adoption and use of Spreedly, and serves to delight Spreedly customers along the way.
Daniel has over 10 years of leadership experience, building and scaling services and success organizations across multiple industry domains spanning local government, healthcare, and insurtech. Prior to Spreedly, Daniel was VP of service delivery and success for Sureify, a leading insurtech SaaS provider catering to the needs of blue-chip life carriers in the US. He also served as director of services and success for Validic, an enterprise healthcare market leader for secure, scalable, agnostic access to healthcare device data and remote patient monitoring solutions. Daniel has a degree in Business Administration from Elon University and a Masters from Appalachian State University.
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