Concur's Board of Directors Provide Wisdom and Experience

Our Board of Directors includes business leaders with a variety of viewpoints and one driving goal – to help Concur succeed.


Steve Singh

Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer

Steve Singh currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Singh has served as Chief Executive Officer since February 1996, and was appointed to Chairman of the Board of Directors in October 1999. Prior to joining Concur Technologies, Mr. Singh was General Manager of the Contact Management Division at Symantec Corporation.

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Robert T. Abele

President of Corporate Payment Systems, U.S. Bancorp

Mr. Abele currently serves as president of Corporate Payment Systems for U.S. Bancorp, a global leader in Corporate, Government, Purchasing, Fleet, and Aviation cards, as well as business-to-business payment services. Prior to Mr. Abele's service with U.S. Bancorp, he held the positions of Director of Sales - Citicorp Diners Club in Fairfax, Virginia; Assistant Vice President - Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Manager of Administration – Certainteed Corporation in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Finance from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1977, he began his career with Industrial Valley Bank & Trust Company - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Abele serves as Chairman of the Board for Global Payment Commercial Solutions (GCPS) a U.K. limited liability corporation of which U.S. Bank is a founding and equity member with six other large financial institutions and Visa International. He is also a board member of Visa Canada. In addition, he serves as a mentor in the Menttium 100 organization which serves the role of advancing the careers of female professionals.


William W. Canfield

Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of TALX Corporation

Bill Canfield has served the company's board of directors since October 2003. Mr. Canfield is currently President of TALX Corporation, and has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1988. Mr. Canfield has been an entrepreneur since 1968. After working seven years at IBM, he has started or purchased an interest in several computer-related companies. Mr. Canfield was one of the founders of Financial Data Systems, Inc., which was started in 1968. In 1980, Citicorp purchased the company, which provided services and turnkey systems to banks. In 1983 Mr. Canfield founded and was President of Intech Group Inc., a computer-related venture capital firm. He then founded and was Chairman of Noetic Technologies Corporation, an engineering software company that was purchased by MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation in 1989. He served as a director of Jefferson Savings Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: JSBA) from 1990 until February 2001. Mr. Canfield holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA degree from Washington University (1962). Mr. Canfield also serves on the Board of the The Magic House, a children's museum ranked in the top 5 in the U.S., and serves on the Board of Optiframe, a private software development company.


Gordon Eubanks

Gordon Eubanks was formerly president and CEO of Oblix Inc., a leading provider of enterprise identity management solutions. Since 1999, he had managed the company's rapid growth while establishing its position as an industry leader.

After founding C&E Software – which was acquired by Symantec Corporation in 1984 – Gordon served as president and chief executive officer of Symantec from 1984 to 1999. During his leadership, Symantec evolved into one of the world's most prominent software companies. In 1975, Gordon founded Compiler Systems, Inc., authoring the company's products which included CBASIC, one of the first successful languages for personal computers. The company was acquired by Digital Research in August 1981, where Gordon served as a senior executive responsible for commercial system software development and marketing.

Holder of an Electrical Engineering degree from Oklahoma State University and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, Gordon served in the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarine force as a commissioned officer from 1970 to 1979. Gordon currently serves on the boards of Oblix, Genuity Estate, Applied Minds and M7 and is an active member of industry trade associations, including a past tenure as chairman and president of the Software Publishers Association.


Michael Hilton

Chief Technology Officer

Michael Hilton co-founded Concur Technologies in August 1993, and served as CEO until 1996. As Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Hilton oversees all product development for Concur Technologies. Mr. Hilton has over 20 years of software development and senior management experience. His background includes leadership of the initial development efforts for ACT! for Windows as well as MacWrite Pro for the Macintosh. Mr. Hilton holds a B.A. in Computer and Information Sciences and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Jeff McCabe

Chief Executive Officer, Tri-Pen Travelmaster Technologies, LLC

Jeff McCabe joined the Concur Board of Directors on January 21, 2005. Since March 2004, he has been involved in a wide range of entrepreneurial activities, including strategic consulting for businesses developing new products and services. From 1994 to March 2004, he served in various executive positions at American Express, including Senior Vice President and General Manager for the United States and Canadian large-market commercial card business of American Express Corporate Services, a global provider of business travel, corporate card, and purchasing card programs for businesses. Prior to that, Mr. McCabe held executive positions at Labinal S.A. and General Motors, where he worked in Europe and Asia with a focus on developing new business relationships.


Jeffrey T. Seely

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ShareBuilder Corporation

Mr. Seely founded ShareBuilder Securities in 1999 and currently serves as chairman and chief executive officer of ShareBuilder Corporation and ShareBuilder Securities Corporation. Prior to ShareBuilder, Mr. Seely served as a senior investment banker at Robertson Stephens & Co., a global securities and investment banking firm and held senior banking positions at Dean Witter Reynolds and Smith Barney.

Mr. Seely holds a BA degree in economics from St. Lawrence University and a MBA in finance from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is a Trustee on the Washington State Investment Board, which oversees the management of over $60 billion of retirement assets for state employees, and is a member of the Private Markets Committee there. Mr. Seely is also Board President of the UW World Series for the Performing Arts (Meany Hall, University of Washington) and a Board member of the National Association of Corporate Directors NW. He is a former Trustee and Vice President, Executive Committee of The Seattle Opera.


Randall H. Talbot

“The addition of Randy to Concur’s board ensures the company will continue to benefit from a diversity of knowledge and expertise in both financial and software industry markets,” said Concur chairman and CEO Steve Singh. “Randy is a skilled leader with deep expertise in delivering innovative business services. His experience and insight will help Concur to continue to build upon its leadership position in the Employee Spend Management market.”

Currently, Talbot serves as chief executive officer and president of Symetra Financial Corporation, a Bellevue, Wash., based company, and brings more than 33 years of financial management experience to the board. Symetra Financial provides retirement plans, employee benefits, life insurance and annuities to more than 1.7 million customers nationally. Prior to joining Symetra in 1998, Talbot spent 23 years at Talbot Financial Corp., marketing a broad spectrum of insurance and investment products. Talbot was one of the first in the industry to bring together insurance companies and financial institutions for the purpose of selling insurance products.

In addition to being on the board of Symetra Financial Corp., Talbot is on the board of the Performing Arts Center Eastside and the Washington Roundtable, a nonprofit public policy organization affecting positive change on critical policy issues in Washington state. Talbot also serves on the Directors Council for the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) and is a member of the Initiative for Global Development, a national network of corporate leaders with a business approach to abject poverty.

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