Board of Directors

Avi Zeevi has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Payoneer since 2008. Mr. Zeevi is a FinTech entrepreneur and investor. He is Co-founder of the Viola group — a private equity investment group with over $3B of assets under management, and co-founder and General Partner of Viola Ventures, a venture capital firm. Mr. Zeevi is also a co-founder and the Chairman of the investment committee of Viola FinTech. Mr. Zeevi has more than 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur, executive and investor. Mr. Zeevi has experience in the global financial industry through his involvement in several FinTech companies including: MINT Systems, Decalog and Actimize, where he served as an active Chairman from 2001 and until it was sold to NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE). Mr. Zeevi is also a board member of a number of private companies. Mr. Zeevi is a Board Member at The Center for Educational Technology (CET) which is dedicated to the advancement of the education system in Israel, in the Jewish world and around the globe. He is also a Member of the Board of Governors of the Technion — the Israel Institute of Technology. Mr. Zeevi has a BSc in Industrial Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Scott Galit is the CEO and a Director of Payoneer. With extensive experience in emerging payments, Scott is heading Payoneer to be a leading all-in-one solution provider for sending and receiving global payments. Under Scott’s leadership, Payoneer announced new partnerships with Mastercard and eBay. Payoneer was also included in the Forbes Fintech 50: The Most Innovative Fintech Companies in 2020.

Previously, as Global Head of Prepaid for MasterCard, Scott developed MasterCard's global prepaid strategy and oversaw its global debit and prepaid business. Scott was the founder and CEO of Solspark; SVP/General Manager of First Data Prepaid; and EVP at Meta Payment Systems.

Earlier in his career Scott was an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Scott was also a founding board member of the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association (NPBCA)—an advocacy organization on behalf of prepaid debit card providers. Mr. Galit holds a B.A. with distinction from the honors program at the University of Virginia.

Amir Goldman has been a member of Payoneer’s board of directors since 2014. Since 2006, Mr. Goldman has served as the founder and Managing Director of Susquehanna Growth Equity LLC, a private equity firm focused on investing in growing companies in the software and payments sectors. From 2002-2006, he was a Principal at TL Ventures, a venture capital firm and he previously served Principal at BRM Capital, a venture capital firm focused on internet infrastructure and software companies between 1999 and 2002. Mr. Goldman has served on the boards of multiple private companies, including iCIMS, HighRadius, HMP Global, CashEdge (acquired by Fiserv), and Macropoint (acquired by Descartes). Mr. Goldman earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1999 and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in 1994.

Christopher (Woody) Marshall has been a member of Payoneer’s board of directors since 2017. In addition to his role on Payoneer’s board of directors, Mr. Marshall currently serves the lead independent director on the board of directors of Spotify, and as a director in a number of private companies. Since 2008, Mr. Marshall has served as a general partner of TCV, a private equity firm. Mr. Marshall has been active in the venture capital industry since 1995, having spent 12 years at Trident Capital, a venture capital and private equity firm with a primary investment focus on the payments, internet and mobile industries. Mr. Marshall holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Hamilton College and a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

John C. (Hans) Morris has been a member of Payoneer’s board of directors since 2014. Mr. Morris is the managing partner of Nyca Partners, a venture capital firm exclusively focused on applying innovation into the global financial system, a role he has served in since founding Nyca Partners in 2014. Mr. Morris also serves as a director of Lending Club, AvidXchange, Fidel, Propel, SigFig, and Pay Range. He has previously served as Managing Director of General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, from 2010 until founding Nyca in 2014. From 2007-2009, he served as President of Visa during the time in which it completed its reorganization and initial public offering. From 1980 to 2007 he served in various roles at Citigroup and its predecessors, including Chief Financial Officer of the institutional businesses, Chief Operating Officer of the investment bank, and head of the financial services group. Mr. Morris serves as a trustee of the Public Theater in New York, and chairman of the board of The Berkshire Eagle. He was previously chairman of the board of MASS MoCA and the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College. Mr. Morris has a B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Heather Tookes has been a member of Payoneer’s board of directors since 2021. Ms. Tookes currently serves as a finance professor at the Yale School of Management and has been on the faculty of the Yale School of Management since 2004, a leader in business education. Ms. Tookes also currently serves on the board of Ariel Investments (2017-present) and has served on the board of KCG Holdings (2017). Ms. Tookes holds a B.A. in Economics from Brown University (1996) and a Ph.D. in Finance from Cornell University (2004).

Rich Williams has been a member of Payoneer’s board of directors since 2021. Since 2020, Mr. Williams has served as CEO and board member of Alkuri Global Acquisition Corp. (Alkuri; NASDAQ: KURI), a special purpose acquisition corporation favoring next-generation technology businesses led by visionary founders and teams leveraging data and artificial intelligence in the areas of Consumer Internet and Marketplaces, Healthtech, Fintech and Mobility. Mr. Williams also serves as Principal and CEO of The Value Studio, LLC, which he founded in 2020 to provide strategic consulting and advisory services for leading private equity and venture capital firms and their portfolio companies. Prior to his roles at Alkuri and The Value Studio, from 2011 to 2020, Mr. Williams served in a variety of executive roles at Groupon, a small business services and products online marketplace, including serving as CEO from 2015 to 2020. From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Williams ran a variety of global Marketing and Advertising teams and technologies at Amazon. Prior to joining Amazon, Mr. Williams spent over 7 years developing marketing programs and technologies in a variety of leadership roles at Experian, a leading global data, analytics and financial services company. Mr. Williams also served on the board of Groupon (2015 – 2020) and Kontoor Brands (2019 – 2020). Mr. Williams studied Aerospace Engineering and Political Science at the University of Southern California from 1992 – 1996.