Billtrust Announces Appointment of Juli Spottiswood to its Board of Directors

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – December 16, 2020 – Billtrust, a B2B accounts receivable automation and integrated B2B payments leader, has announced that Juli Spottiswood has joined its Board of Directors.

Juli is Chairman and CEO of Syncapay, Inc., a holding company formed in 2017 in conjunction with the acquisition of daVinci Payments by Bain Capital Ventures and Silversmith Capital Partners. In December, 2020, daVinci merged with North Lane Technologies via a new majority equity investment from funds advised by Centerbridge Partners, L.P.

"Juli’s appointment strengthens an already world-class group of directors, and I’m excited to welcome her and leverage her many years of fintech leadership experience,” said Flint Lane, Billtrust Founder & CEO. 

Prior to forming Syncapay, Juli was the President & CEO of Parago, Inc., a tech-enabled marketing services and payments company that she co-founded in 1999 that worked with some of the nation’s largest brands and retailers in the US and UK. The company was sold to Blackhawk Network Holdings, Inc. in 2014. During Juli’s tenure at Parago, she pioneered the use of open loop prepaid cards in the corporate incentives space and was a founding board member of the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association.

"I am excited and honored to join the Billtrust Board of Directors,” said Spottiswood. “I’m looking forward to joining my fellow Board members and Billtrust management to advance our accounts receivables automation and integrated payments leadership and innovation.”

Juli has been recognized as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, holds a patent, and has won several awards including the Stevie Award for Women in Business. Juli has served as Audit Chairman and board member at Cardtronics PLC, the world’s largest retail ATM provider, since 2011 and is a member of YPO.

About Billtrust 

Billtrust is a leading provider of cloud-based software and integrated payment processing solutions that simplify and automate B2B commerce. Accounts receivable is broken and relies on conventional processes that are outdated, inefficient, manual and largely paper based. Billtrust is at the forefront of the digital transformation of AR, providing mission-critical solutions that span credit decisioning and monitoring, online ordering, invoice delivery, payments and remittance capture, invoicing, cash application and collections. For more information, visit Billtrust.com.

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