Board of Directors

Derek Dubner has served as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of red violet since its formation in August 2017 and continuing through its March 2018 spin-off from information and digital performance marketing solutions provider, cogint. Mr. Dubner was appointed as Interim Chairman of the Board of Directors in September 2018 and as Chairman of the Board in April 2020.  Mr. Dubner has over 20 years of experience in the data and analytics industry, building leading information management companies.

Mr. Dubner served as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of cogint from March 2016 until the March 2018 spin-off, and previously as Co-Chief Executive Officer from March 2015.  Prior to cogint, Mr. Dubner served as General Counsel of TransUnion after it acquired substantially all of the assets of TLO, an information solutions provider, in December of 2013.  Mr. Dubner was the General Counsel of TLO from inception to sale. Prior roles include Vice President and Associate Group Counsel at Equifax, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Naviant (internet marketing company acquired by Equifax), and Corporate Counsel at Seisint (information solutions provider acquired by RELX’s LexisNexis). Mr. Dubner holds a B.S. in Economics/Finance from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from Florida State University College of Law.

Lisa Stanton has served as a director since August 2021. Ms. Stanton currently serves on the Board of Directors of Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc., the parent company of The Washington Trust Company, the oldest community bank in the United States and largest state-chartered bank headquartered in Rhode Island. Ms. Stanton previously served on the Board of Directors of Trulioo, a global identity verification provider based in Vancouver, Canada, from January 2020 until July 2021. Additionally, Ms. Stanton served as a member of the Venture Investments Board and as an advisor to the IT Resilience and Strategy Committee of the Board of Directors of Nationwide Building Society, a financial institution in London, England from September 2016 through December 2019. Ms. Stanton has more than 25 years of financial services, technology and data security experience, most recently serving as General Manager, Enterprise Strategy for American Express from December 2018 through her retirement in April 2020. From 2014 through 2016, Ms. Stanton served as Chief Executive Officer for InAuth, a digital security solutions provider to global financial institutions. Following the acquisition of InAuth by American Express in 2016, Ms. Stanton continued serving as InAuth’s President through 2018. Ms. Stanton was the founder of the U.S. division of Monitise, a mobile banking and payments platform for financial institutions, where Ms. Stanton served as Chief Executive Officer from 2007 to 2009, General Manager of the London-based Monitise Group from 2009 to 2013 and President, Americas from 2013 to 2014. Ms. Stanton also served as a Senior Vice President for Citizens Financial Group from 1996 to 2007 and First New Hampshire Bank from 1991 to 1996, holding leadership roles in real estate; venture capital; retail distribution; digital, mobile and online channels; and card and payments products. She began her career as a commercial real estate broker, attaining the designation of Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM).

Steven Rubin has served as a director since the March 2018 spin-off of red violet from information and digital performance marketing solutions provider, cogint.  Mr. Rubin served as a director of cogint (and its predecessor companies) from October 2009 until March 2018. Mr. Rubin has served as the Executive Vice President of OPKO since May 2007 and a director of OPKO since February 2007. Mr. Rubin currently serves on the board of directors of ChromaDex Corp., an innovator of proprietary health, wellness and nutritional ingredients that creates science-based solutions for dietary supplement, food and beverage, skin care, sports nutrition, and pharmaceutical products, since March 2017, VBI Vaccines, Inc., a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical which develops, produces and markets biological products for human healthcare, since October 2012, Kidville, Inc., which operates large, upscale facilities, catering to newborns through five-year-old children and their families and offers a wide range of developmental classes for newborns to five-year-olds, since August 2008, Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems, Inc., a medical device company, since 2008, Cocrystal Pharma, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing new treatments for viral diseases, since January 2014, Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel RNA modulating drug candidates that are designed to treat rare and ultra-rare premature stop codon diseases since May 2014, Castle Brands, Inc., a developer and marketer of premium brand spirits, since January 2009. Mr. Rubin previously served as a director of Dreams, Inc., a vertically integrated sports licensing and products company, from 2006 to 2012, Ideation, Safestitch Medical, Inc. from September 2007 until its merger with TransEnterix, Inc. in September 2013, Tiger X Medical, Inc. from September 2008 until its merger with BioCardia, Inc. in October 2016, and PROLOR Biotech, Inc., from February 2008 until its acquisition by OPKO in August 2013. Mr. Rubin served as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of IVAX from August 2001 until September 2006. Mr. Rubin served as the Secretary of Ideation from June 2007 to October 2009.

Peter Benz has served as a director since the March 2018 spin-off of red violet from information and digital performance marketing solutions provider, cogint.  Mr. Benz has served as a director of cogint since March 2015. Mr. Benz is the Chief Executive Officer of Viking Asset Management, LLC, an asset and investment management company which he founded in 2001. Since June 2016, Mr. Benz has served as a director of Lilis Energy Inc., an onshore oil and natural gas exploration and production company. From January 2012 until its merger with Lilis Energy Inc. in June 2016, Mr. Benz served as a director of Brushy Resources, Inc. (formerly known as Starboard Resources, Inc.), an onshore oil and natural gas exploration and production company, and became its Chairman on November 24, 2015. Mr. Benz also serves as a director of Usell.com, a technology based online market place, since October 2014. Mr. Benz served as a director and Chairman of the Board of Optex Systems Holdings, Inc., a manufacturer of optical systems for the defense industry from November 2014 until August 2017.

Robert Swayman has served as a director since the March 2018 spin-off of red violet from information and digital performance marketing solutions provider, cogint.  Mr. Swayman served as a director of cogint from June 2015 until March 2018. From 1998 to 2014, Mr. Swayman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of National Alarm Systems, Inc., a company he founded in 1998, prior to its sale in January 2014. From January 2014 through February 2015, Mr. Swayman served as General Manager of ASG Security, which acquired National Alarm Systems. Mr. Swayman served as a director of Vapor Corp., a U.S.-based distributor and retailer of vaporizers, e-liquids and electronic cigarettes, from March 4, 2015 to April 17, 2015, and as an employee of Vapor Corp. since April 17, 2015 providing financial and business advice. Mr. Swayman is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. degree in accounting from the State University of New York at Buffalo.