Bob Michelson
President/CEO
Bob Michelson has several decades of experience as an operator across both the private & public markets.
Bob’s career began at IBM in their Systems Engineering program. He was recognized as the president of his nation-wide training program and ranked as a top performer.
After four years at IBM, Bob left and joined a $10 million software company, Informatics. Over a span of four years, Bob served in several capacities, including in the President role. As President, Bob orchestrated the sale of the company to Wang Laboratories, then an early technology pioneer with $3 billion in revenues and 30,000 employees.
This experience launched Bob’s second career as a multi-time CEO / President. Over a span of 30 years, Bob operated eight companies, with five of them sold to strategics and two taken public. Recently, Bob was recognized as the EY Entrepreneur of the Year for the southwest U.S. Throughout Bob’s career, he has leveraged strong strategic, operational, and sales acumen to build and eventually generate meaningful liquidity via exits from businesses across sectors.
Bob has most recently operated companies in the Human Resource Management sector with an emphasis on employee engagement and financial services.
Bob’s deep experiences in creating, running and selling companies in the business services industry, ideally position him to lead PaySurge.
Scott Axonovitz
Chief Revenue Officer
Meet Scott, an accomplished B2B SaaS Commercial leader with a proven track record of success. With the prestigious title of Chief Revenue Officer, Scott has made significant contributions to three high-growth tech companies catering specifically to the food & beverage, retail, and healthcare industries.
Prior to his current role, Scott served as the Chief Revenue Officer at UPshow, a prominent B2B SaaS company in the Digital Signage industry. Under his guidance, UPshow underwent a remarkable transformation, evolving from a challenger brand to one of the leading companies in its category.
He also held the position of Chief Revenue Officer at Visibly, a renowned telemedicine company. In this role, he oversaw the entire customer lifecycle, ensuring seamless experiences for clients. Before joining Visibly, Scott spent nearly a decade at CareerBuilder, where he held various leadership positions and spearheaded the Global Key Customer Business Unit.
In addition to his corporate achievements, Scott is an entrepreneur at heart. He founded and successfully sold his own National Intramural Sports business, playing a pivotal role in driving its commercial success.
Throughout his career, Scott has consistently demonstrated an unwavering focus and dedication to adding value to his customers’ businesses. He possesses a deep understanding of enterprise clients and excels at aligning innovative technology with their mission-critical initiatives.
Scott is ideally suited to lead PaySurge’s sales organization and drive the company to rapidly engage and contract with thousands of customers in a relatively short period of time. Scott’s past successes are an excellent predictor of the future. Scott’s sales leadership skills, entrepreneurial-bend, and ability to recruit, motivate and maintain a sales organization are primary contributors to Scott’s success.
Tony Moyer
advisor
Tony is an accomplished operator, entrepreneur, and leader in the hospitality industry. Tony is the president of Roundhouse Inc., a Multi-Unit franchisee of Little Caesars Pizza Restaurants in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
Tony serves on the Board and is the Chairman of the IOLCF (an organization serving as the voice of Little Caesars franchisees who operate more than 4,000 Little Caesars restaurants nationwide, by providing input to Little Caesars corporate headquarters and advocating for franchisees).
Additionally, Tony is on the Board of the Coalition of Franchise Associations, (an organization like the IOLCF, but serves as an advocate for dozens of franchise brands, serving over 46,000 franchisees, 121,000 businesses and 2.6 million employees.
Tony’s restaurants have been recognized as some of the most profitable and well-run entities in the hospitality industry. Maintaining a focus on a winning, people first, culture and providing a great customer experience while having fun are what Tony considers keys to his success. Tony’s operational skills and vision are being leveraged by PaySurge in the development of the short and long-term plans for the company.
George Clopp
Technology Advisor
George is an entrepreneurial technology leader who has led large teams (250+ people), driving $300MM a year to smaller, elite teams that have built a product from 0 to $20MM revenue. George has a diverse range of skills from designing platforms, implementing algorithms across web and mobile to implementing infrastructure architecture at AWS. George’s has led teams producing solutions for employee engagement, data & analytics, and marketing-based engines. George’s motivational and high energy attributes have been key factors in developing leaders and in delivering major development efforts ahead of time and under budget. Additionally, George brings an entrepreneurial spirit full of grit and determination, operating at a high-performance level across multiple roles: chief software architect, technology sales, evangelist, lead software engineer, project delivery, client SOWs/Contracts. George has built and sold a SaaS company from $0 to 20MM revenue with a 5X valuation based on an award-winning product. George led the product engineering group for Epsilon’s flagship marketing products in CRM and Loyalty as well as providing leadership for implementation of the product across multiple client accounts. George’s entrepreneurial spirit, diversity of skills, proven track record of delivering complex data and app-based solutions and his intimate knowledge of the employee engagement industry, ideally position him to lead the technology team at PaySurge.