Our Team

Our Team is made up of founders, like you. Every member of the BSIP operating team has held an executive role at a software company that has integrated payments. We have operators across various functional domains that will work alongside you to take your business through its next phase of growth.

BSIP

Founders

Rob Wechsler

Rob Wechsler

Founder / Managing Partner

Rob is a serial entrepreneur with a track record that includes four exits, an IPO, and running the largest payments business in the world, Chase Merchant Services. Most recently, Rob was the Founder and CEO of Blue Star Sports, a leading  provider of sports technology globally. In less than a year, Rob completed 20 acquisitions and returned over 3x to all shareholders in a transaction valued in excess of $300M. Prior to Blue Star Sports, Rob founded, built, and exited two payments businesses – Century Payment Advisors and Century Payments to Bain Capital and Worldpay, respectively. Rob began his career practicing law for Morgan, Lewis & Bockius before starting his first company, Link2Gov. After exiting Link2Gov, Rob was EVP of Global Sales for Convergent Group through its IPO and subsequent sale to Schlumberger. He was then recruited to run the payments business for JPMorgan Chase.

Dan Wechsler

Dan Wechsler

 CEO / Managing Partner

  • CEO of Melinta Therapeutics, through IPO: NASDAQ (MLNT)
  • CEO of SmileBrands, a Welsh Carson Portfolio Company with over 600MM revenue, through sale to Gryphon Investors
  • Global President of Bausch and Lomb, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, through sale to Valeant Pharmaceuticals for $8.7B
  • Head of Commercial Strategy for Merck Pharmaceuticals
  • SVP of Global Operations for Schering-Plough
  • Head of Specialty for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
  • Over 25 years experience in Senior Commercial roles
  • Multiple Executive Chairman roles and board seats (both public and private) over the last 10 years

“When Rob asked me to come run BSIP after my last CEO role, I was excited to work with a team of operators, helping other founders realize the true potential of integrated payments in their companies. Working alongside full time operators, as well as our investment team, is exactly what excites me about being at our Firm.”

Operating

Team

John Durrett

John Durrett

Partner

 

  • Built payments P&L at Storable from $3.5MM to >$60MM EBITDA via integrated payments strategy, M&A, and revamped new & cross-sell GTM
  • Co-founder / GM Payments at Storable, sold to EQT for $2B
  • Co-founder / Head of Demand, COO, Head of Product at SpareFoot, sold to Cove Hill Partners for $339MM
  • VP Sales at CreditCards.com, sold to BankRate for $145MM

 “With BSIP’s help at my last company, Storable, we created almost $1B in incremental value off payments alone in just 3 years. BSIP’s knowledge, playbook, and access in the payments world is unmatched – it was like someone gave us the cheat codes. When offered the opportunity to join the BSIP team and help other founders transform their businesses, I jumped at it.

Jeff Gardner

Jeff Gardner

Partner

 

  • COO / Board Member of Government Brands, completed over 30 acquisitions in 3.5 years, recapitalization to PSG and TPG for > $1B
  • Founder / CEO of Value Payment Systems (processed over $4B in payments annually), sold to Government Brands
  • EVP of Link2Gov, sold to Metavante
  • 19 years managing software / payments for the Internal Revenue Service

I chose to work for BSIP because the team is comprised of honest, high integrity founders and operators with experience in software / payments. I like working for BSIP because I get the opportunity to work with founders to accelerate growth, monetize payments, and create software and payments company for the market they serve.”

Cameron Barragan

Cameron Barragan

Partner

 

  • Head of Commercial Strategy at Storable where he oversaw go-to-market integration and optimization of 12 acquisitions, deployed embedded payments, and achieved a successful recapitalization with EQT
  • 10 years of experience in go-to-market strategy and execution for a number of SaaS companies across both vertical and horizontal end-markets including retail, social media, real estate, and cyber security
  • Expertise include product lifecycle management, pricing strategy, competitive intelligence, product marketing, demand generation, sales enablement, revenue operations, and post-M&A commercial integration

 “I chose to join BSIP because of the team’s sophisticated, operator-centered approach to driving lasting growth. BSIP’s experienced team is able to deliver practical, real-world operational guidance to help founders and operators achieve their goals.

Patrick Mizer

Patrick Mizer

Partner

 

  • Built and scaled the Engineering & Product Organizations from 1 through 150+ FTEs supporting $200MM+ in revenue across 7 products
  • CTO (Product and Engineering) at Storable, sold to EQT
  • CTO at SpareFoot, sold to Cove Hill Partners for $339M+
  • Lead Developer / Architect at CreditCards.com, sold to BankRate for $145M

 “I had an opportunity to work with BSIP during my time as CTO Storable. I saw first hand how ‘been there, done that’ expertise can accelerate growth.  Now as a BSIP Partner I get a chance to help portfolio leaders accelerate value creation by applying real world patterns and best practices across the product and engineering organizations.

Teresa Mackintosh

Teresa Mackintosh

Partner

 

  • CEO of Trintech, PE backed global enterprise SaaS company, tripled revenue to > $150MM
  • Corporate Director, AvidXchange, NASDAQ (AVDX)
  • CEO of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Acctg US, > $500MM revenue
  • Managing Director, Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting, responsibilities included Property Tax, Trust Tax and Indirect Tax business units
  • General Manager, Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting, headed up Professional Software business unit
  • Recognized as one of the “Most Powerful Business Leaders in Dallas-Fort Worth” in CEO’s Dallas 500 (2018 – 2021) as well as an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 award winner in the Southwest region

 “I was excited to join Rob, Dan and the whole BSIP team after a career as a PE-backed and public company operator. It is incredibly humbling and rewarding to work with founders and senior leaders to help them achieve their dreams and drive outstanding business outcomes.”

Conor Stokes

Conor Stokes

Partner

 

  • VP at Payrix, where he was responsible for go-to-market implementation and execution, leading enterprise and new revenue teams to $60m+ in revenue before successfully exiting to FIS
  • Head of GTM at LegitScript, where he oversaw the creation of the go-to-market motion from the ground up, which scaled revenue to $35m+ before a successful recap with The Jordan Company
  • Head of GTM at applied sports science software platform CoachMePlus
  • Experienced in building scalable go-to-market execution through foundational building blocks and strategy, including honing in on the right to win and differentiation within competitive landscapes and finding exponential value and revenue drivers

“As a former vertical SaaS and payments company operator, I returned to BSIP to transition back to the other side of the table of helping founders build growing companies. I’m looking forward to working with companies to achieve similar growth that BSIP has created at several portfolio companies.”

Investment

Professionals

Firm

Operations

Statements of certain current employees of BSIP (“Employees”) regarding their experiences working for BSIP are included herein. No quoted Employee is a current advisory client; however, certain Employees are investors in certain BSIP-advised entities. No Employee has received or will receive any cash or non-cash compensation for providing these statements. The Employees have potential and actual conflicts of interest as a result of such individuals’ employment, business activities and relationships with BSIP. Specifically, current Employees receive their salaries and other economic benefits from BSIP. In addition, current and former executives have other financial relationships with BSIP, including investments in BSIP funds.