Mr. Douglass is a Partner of Fulcrum Equity Partners and brings more than 25 years of operations management, strategic development and financial experience with high-growth financial services, marketing services and healthcare companies. Mr. Douglass was most recently CEO of Vesdia, a pioneer in loyalty and card-linked marketing for financial services, airline and hospitality companies, which merged with Cartera Commerce in January, 2011. Previous to Vesdia, he served as CEO for Atlanta-based Visionary Systems, Inc. (VSI), a provider of decision systems for credit providers and retailers that was sold to Trans Union in 2004.
Mr. Douglass began his career with KPMG in the Financial Services practice. He currently serves on the boards of Fattmerchant, Dropoff, SureFire Local, GoPivot and Synthio. Mr. Douglass also served on the board of Gro Banking, a leading provider of digital banking software recently sold to Q2ebanking, FactorTrust, the leading provider of alternative credit data which was recently sold to TransUnion, and Paymentus a leading provider of cloud-based billing and payment solutions sold to Accel-KKR. Jim also serves on the board of ACG (Association for Corporate Growth), Venture Atlanta, and graduated with a BBA in Accounting from Georgia State University