MeridianLink leadership
Experience. Insight. Integrity. Shaping the future of digital lending.
Meet our Executive Management Team
Larry
Katz
Larry Katz has served as President of MeridianLink since August 2024 and CEO since October 2025. Prior to that, Mr. Katz served as the Company’s chief financial officer from April to August 2024. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Katz served as an independent consultant and senior advisor to various private equity firms since April 2023. Prior to that, Mr. Katz served as a partner at WestCap, a strategic operating and investing firm, from October 2021 to March 2023. From June 2020 to September 2021, Mr. Katz acted as chief financial officer at StubHub, a secondary marketplace for live event ticketing, and, from March to June 2020, acted as its treasurer. Mr. Katz served as chief financial officer of Genesys, a global cloud leader in AI-powered experience orchestration, from December 2016 to October 2019. Before joining Genesys, Mr. Katz held various executive leadership positions spanning across diverse business units and functions at JPMorgan Chase & Co. from 2001 and began his career at The Walt Disney Company in its Strategic Planning group. Mr. Katz previously served on the board of directors and as chair of the audit committee for Stratim Cloud Acquisition Corp. from March 2021 to May 2022.
Mr. Katz holds a B.A. in political science from Yale University and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.
Elias
Olmeta
Elias Olmeta has served as Chief Financial Officer of MeridianLink since August 2024. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Olmeta served as chief financial officer of Vistage Worldwide, a CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses, from August 2019 to January 2023. From March 2015 to August 2019, Mr. Olmeta served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Mitchell International, a technology and information provider for the property and casualty claims and collision repair industries. Before joining Mitchell, Mr. Olmeta served as an executive consultant at Carproof, preceded by chief financial and operating officer of North America and senior vice president, global head of corporate development positions at Solera Holdings. Earlier career experiences include positions at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Arthur D. Little International. Mr. Olmeta is currently a director of AutoCanada (TSE: ACQ).
Mr. Olmeta holds a B.A. in economics and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Rochester.
Strategy Officer
Troy
Coggiola
Troy Coggiola has served as Chief Strategy Officer since 2025 leading MeridianLink growth strategies, including build, buy and partner initiatives. Before joining MeridianLink Mr. Coggiola served as Senior Vice President of Product Management for Ellie Mae (now ICE Mortgage Technology) and was Chief Product Officer at Accela. He has nearly three decades of experience building enterprise software platforms that deliver durable business outcomes and delightful customer experiences across fintech and govtech industries.
Mr. Coggiola holds a Master of Business Administration in Technology Management and a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
Denise
Cox
Denise Cox has served as Chief Customer Officer since 2025, leading MeridianLink Services, Support and Customer Success teams. Before joining MeridianLink, Ms. Cox served as Chief Customer Officer at Olo, a leading SaaS restaurant technology platform, where she introduced new professional services offerings, enhanced customer onboarding, and helped drive broad product adoption. She also held senior executive roles at Omnicell, Cisco and NetApp, where she led global post-sale services and support functions.
Ms. Cox holds an M.S. in Information Systems from Pace University and a B.A. in Communication from the State University of New York at Albany.
Adam
Gray
Adam Gray is a seasoned fintech and payments executive recognized for his ability to scale organizations, optimize operations, and lead complex corporate transitions, with more than 20 M&A integrations across the financial technology sector.
Before coming to MeridianLink, he was Chief Transformation Officer at Stax Payments, where he pioneered practical “AI-first” frameworks that strengthened support operations during rapid scale. Prior to that, Gray was a key senior leader instrumental in building and launching the platform known today as Abrigo, consolidating established fintech brands— including Sageworks, Banker’s Toolbox, and MST—pairing these legacy integrations with new, proprietary technology builds.
Through these initiatives, he developed deep expertise in providing unified compliance, credit, and lending solutions to community financial institutions, helping local banks and credit unions navigate rapid growth while maintaining a steadfast focus on client success.
Based in Austin, Texas, Gray is an alumnus of the University of Georgia.
Alex
Kolar
Alex Kolar joined MeridianLink as General Counsel in 2026. Prior to joining MeridianLink, Mr. Kolar served as General Counsel at Picarro, a venture-backed provider of high-precision instruments and software solutions in the clean tech space. Before that, Mr. Kolar served as General Counsel of Cloud Software Group, formed through the combination of Citrix and TIBCO, and a leading provider of mission critical enterprise software at scale. At TIBCO, Mr. Kolar was the Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, where he spent 12 years helping grow the company as both a public and private company. Prior to TIBCO, he spent 11 years as an attorney at Wilson Sonsini, a premier technology law firm based in Silicon Valley. Mr. Kolar began his legal career as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Benjamin K. Miller with the Supreme Court of Illinois. Mr. Kolar holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Juris Doctor from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.
Raj
Patel
Raj Patel joined MeridianLink in 2025 as Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Patel is a highly accomplished technology leader with decades of experience scaling, transforming, and innovating global technology platforms in enterprise SaaS and tier-one consumer companies. As CTO, he will accelerate MeridianLink’s customer centric innovation, advancing AI-driven solutions and marketplace integrations that power credit unions and banks to grow, scale, and serve their communities. His career also includes senior technology roles at Permira, Genesys, Symantec, Pinterest, Salesforce, Cisco/Webex, and Yahoo.
Mr. Patel holds an MBA with Honors from the University of Southern California, a BS in Electrical Engineering with Honors from California State University Northridge, and completed the Director’s Consortium program at Stanford University.
Elizabeth
Rieveley
Elizabeth Rieveley has served as Chief People Officer of MeridianLink, Inc. since April 2022. Prior to that, she was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at SMS Assist. Ms. Rieveley brings more than 15 years of experience building human capital strategies to support and grow businesses across a variety of industries, including technology, manufacturing, biotechnology, and financial services. She is skilled at creating collaborative environments for in-person and remote teams while connecting individual divisions within larger companies under a united umbrella.
Ms. Rieveley holds a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Tampa.
John
Wiseman
John is an industry veteran with 30+ years in the trading and financial technology fields, with a focus on commercial and go-to-market strategy. He has held executive positions at Addepar, RCA (acquired by MSCI), FactSet, Instinet, and Bear Stearns.
Prior to joining MeridianLink, John served as CRO at Addepar, RCA, and FactSet, overseeing sales, account management, client success, implementations, product specialists, and marketing. He has operated at scale within large public companies and driven rapid growth at private firms, leading global expansion by bringing operational discipline to every part of the GTM organization.
John has advised various US fintech startups and was a longtime board member and advisor to SCRIPTS Asia Inc., which was sold to the Japan Exchange Group (JPX) in late 2022. He holds an MBA in Finance & Marketing from the University of Edinburgh and a B.A. in Political Science (African Studies) from Duke University.
Richard
Scheig
Richard Scheig has served as Chief Revenue Officer of MeridianLink, Inc. since October 2024. Prior to that, he held the role of Chief Sales Officer, also at MeridianLink. Before joining MeridianLink, Mr. Scheig was Chief Revenue Officer at Upland Software. Mr. Scheig’s career spans more than 20 years in various sales leadership roles. He has successfully built, scaled, and led world-class technology sales teams within the SaaS sector at both public and private companies.
Mr. Scheig holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Colorado State University.
Meet our Board Members
David
Murphy
David Murphy, Chairman of the Board, has over 35 years of operating experience and company leadership driving market adoption, disruptive growth and value creation – at scale. Over his career as an operating executive, he was instrumental in building Conga, Qlik, Blue Coat, Mercury Interactive and Tivoli Systems into market leaders. Murphy has spent the last decade leading private equity companies, often as Executive Chairman, and served as Senior Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo.
Larry
Katz
Larry Katz has served as President of MeridianLink since August 2024 and CEO since October 2025. Prior to that, Katz served as the Company’s chief financial officer from April to August 2024. Prior to joining the Company, Katz served as an independent consultant and senior advisor to various private equity firms since April 2023. Prior to that, Katz served as a partner at WestCap, a strategic operating and investing firm, from October 2021 to March 2023. From June 2020 to September 2021, Katz acted as chief financial officer at StubHub, a secondary marketplace for live event ticketing, and, from March to June 2020, acted as its treasurer. Katz served as chief financial officer of Genesys, a global cloud leader in AI-powered experience orchestration, from December 2016 to October 2019. Before joining Genesys, Katz held various executive leadership positions spanning across diverse business units and functions at JPMorgan Chase & Co. from 2001 and began his career at The Walt Disney Company in its Strategic Planning group. Katz previously served on the board of directors and as chair of the audit committee for Stratim Cloud Acquisition Corp. from March 2021 to May 2022.
Katz holds a B.A. in political science from Yale University and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.
Jared Hendricks
Jared Hendricks is a Senior Managing Director, Head of Technology investing at Centerbridge, which he joined in 2006. Prior to joining Centerbridge, he was an Associate at Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm specializing in technology and growth-oriented companies operating at scale. Previously, he was an Investment Banking Analyst in the Global Industrial and Services Group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Hendricks also serves on the boards of Acoustic, CSI, Netwrix, Precisely, and Speedcast.
Hendricks holds a B.S. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ben
Jaffe
Ben Jaffe is Managing Director at Centerbridge. He joined Centerbridge in 2013 and currently focuses on investments in the Technology sector. Prior to joining Centerbridge, Jaffe was an Analyst at the The Blackstone Group L.P.
Jaffe serves on the Board of Directors of CSI and Speedcast. Ben holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard.
Jonathan
Corr
Jonathan Corr, who retired as President and CEO of Ellie Mae (now ICE Mortgage Technology) in November 2020, has more than 35 years of experience in executive leadership, corporate strategy and acquisitions. During his 18-year tenure at Ellie Mae, including roles spanning COO, Chief Strategy Officer and senior product leadership, he helped grow the company through organic growth and acquisitions. He led the company’s privatization with Thoma Bravo in 2019 and subsequently oversaw its sale to Intercontinental Exchange in 2020. In early 2022, Corr founded Omniscient Owl Productions LLC to pursue commercial theatrical production, and he currently serves as an investor, board member and advisor to private technology companies.
Chuck
Fagan III
Charles E. (“Chuck”) Fagan III is President and Chief Executive Officer of Velera, the nation’s premier credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated fintech solutions provider. Prior to the combination of PSCU and Co-op Solutions which formed Velera in January 2024, he served as President and CEO of PSCU, where he drove significant revenue growth and major technology investments, including the launch of Lumin Digital. With more than 30 years in the credit union industry, Fagan also previously served as President and CEO of the Credit Union Executives Society (CUES) and held earlier positions at Electronic Data Systems and Virginia Credit Union. A recognized industry advocate and frequent speaker, he serves as chairman of the board for Lumin Digital, a member of the board of directors for Kinective, and co-chair of the FinTech Limited Partner Advisory Board for Black Dragon Capital. In March 2026, Fagan announced his planned retirement from Velera at the conclusion of the company’s current fiscal year on September 30, 2026.
Todd
MacLean
Todd MacLean is a Co-Founder of Silversmith Capital Partners, which he launched in 2015 to build long-term partnerships with exceptional entrepreneurs across the SaaS and information services sectors. He is guided by a thematic belief in the power of data as a defining competitive moat of the 21st century and in cloud-based models that democratize access to technology and create new markets. MacLean began his growth equity career more than 25 years ago, with experience spanning Summit Partners, Accel Partners, and Bain Capital.