CREW Advisors

Eric Frankovic is President, Wex Payments Inc. In this role Eric is responsible for all areas of the WEX Corporate Payments business including Direct to Corporate, Embedded Payments, Travel Payments, Financial Institutions and the Bill Pay business. He is a dynamic and highly motivated leader across payments, technology, merchant processing, and working capital management strategies. He joined WEX in September of 2021 and served as Senior Vice President in Corporate Payments focused on building a direct-to-corporate sales organization before taking on his current role.

Prior to WEX Eric was Senior Vice President; General Manager of the American Express Global Client Group, managing 150 of the largest corporate payment relationships for American Express. In this role Eric was responsible for a team of over 250 people globally, goaled to retain and grow these top relationships while focusing on developing next generation, integrated, business to business tools. Apple, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Deloitte, Pfizer and many other Fortune 100 companies were among his customers.

Before American Express, Eric was the Head of Global Sales at Taulia Inc., a Financial Tech company based in California, where he had P&L responsibility for the global sales organization selling to Fortune 1000 companies headquartered all over the world. With an employee base deployed in 9 countries encompassing sales, pre-sales, sales operations, and sales training, his team was focused on selling working capital management solutions, working primarily with the CFO’s and Treasurers of enterprise size companies. Rio Tinto, Nissan, Toyota, Coke, and Alliance were among the Taulia customer base that Eric’s team closed during his time there.

Prior to Taulia, Eric spent 18 years with American Express. His time was divided between running Corporate Payment sales and account development teams and Merchant Services teams.

Eric joined American Express in 1997 coming over from Black & Decker.  Eric has a strong track record of transforming and coaching underperforming teams and rebuilding them to deliver to their highest potential. 

Originally from Baltimore, MD, Eric has a BA from Towson University and an MBA from The University of Phoenix.  He resides in New Jersey with his wife and three children.

John is the President of B2B Payments at Deluxe where he is responsible for responsible for managing the $300M+ P&L of this growth business. Overseeing the entire product life cycle for B2B Payments solutions, including overall GTM strategy, product design, customer experience, pricing and sales. The business solutions are remote deposit capture, lockbox, integrated disbursements and receivables, cash management and digital accounts receivable and payables platforms. The portfolio processes over $3Trillion in receivables and supports customers of all sizes, including nearly 75% of the top 300 Financial Institutions.

John has spent over 20 years in Payments and in the financial services industry. Prior to Deluxe, John was the Senior Vice President/General Manager and led SMB, Commercial Middle Market and Strategic Segments at Fiserv, where he owned the ~$1.4B P&L for these 3 merchant services segments part of the Global Business Solutions group. He provided executive leadership in overseeing over 75 Bank referral partners, over 200,000 existing merchants, sales, relationship management and servicing.

Prior to joining Fiserv, John was Senior Vice President and Head of the Commercial Segment at Bank of America Merchant Services. There he led their Middle Market segment, which serviced clients from $50M - $2B in revenue.  Prior to BAMS, John spent 5 years at Citizens Bank as Senior Vice President and National Head of Treasury Sales for Business Banking and Commercial Enterprise Banking where he led 3 national sales organizations across Citizens Financial Group covering treasury and commercial card. John spent 11 years at American Express starting in 2000, in a variety of senior leadership roles in large corporate & middle market Relationship Management and Sales. John also spent 5 years at Ernst & Young in Change Management Consulting and 5 years at Nabisco in Customer Relations. He graduated from Montclair State University and has a master’s degree in Corporate Communications from Seton Hall University.

More than 20 years of experience in Travel and Technology Industries, described as visionary and innovative, she has successfully led commercial teams through transformation and crisis management while driving revenue growth and global expansion.

Currently, Erika, is the President of World Travel Incorporated, a travel management company specializing in small and medium corporate travel, and specialized VIP leisure trips. Her role is tasked with leading World Travel Inc, on taking on its journey of governance transformation and digitization for the next era of travel management. E

rika most recently served as Chief Officer Travel Supply at TravelX, an early-stage company using breakthrough blockchain technology to unlock the era of dynamic inventory for airlines. Previously she was the VP and RGM for North America at SABRE, Travel Solutions. She successfully helped the organization reposition its commercial approach towards distribution and technology solutions for airlines. Prior to that, she was the VP for Travelport in the US and Latin America, responsible for transforming customer engagement models, product adoption and defining bespoke technology solutions.

Her career began at Aeromexico where she held multiple roles spanning from, network planning, revenue management, alliances and eventually resulting in her transition to commercial as SVP of International Sales and Alliances.

I am passionate about helping founders launch and scale their businesses. Helping growth stage entrepreneurs is the most gratifying aspect of my day-to-day work.

For the past several years, I have worked as CFO - either full time or as an independent strategy and finance consultant focused on early stage fundraising, forecasting, and general operations (legal, HR, accounting, vendor management, etc.)

Prior to launching my consulting business, I was the general manager for the global client acquisition business unit at Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). My team was charged with building relationships with the most promising early stage companies in SVB's largest markets and helping ensure their success.

My strengths lie at the intersection of business development, analytics, operations and finance. I excel at breaking down complex strategic problems, laying out an execution plan, and mobilizing teams that deliver measurable results.

I’m an avid traveler: I have lived and worked in Chile, and spend time in Mexico whenever I have the chance. On weekends, I can be found riding bikes, building forts, and exploring the swimming holes of Austin with my family.

I received an MBA and Master of Science in International Development from Tulane University in New Orleans and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia.

Jehan is the CEO on Banyan, an item-level receipt data platform powering commerce innovation. Their unique data infrastructure enables merchants and financial services partners to securely unlock and activate enriched SKU-level transaction data faster and easier to power permissioned commercial and consumer applications.

Jehan is a multidisciplinary professional with a strong background in health data, AI, ML, IT analytics and corporate R&D complemented by diverse organizational experiences, from startups and developing institutions to well- established corporate environments. A trusted advisor to executives and senior managers, skilled in technology strategy, planning, production management, budgeting, culinary excellence and nutrition.

He is a proven leader with a strong executive presence, capable of blending big-picture viewpoints with tactical considerations to inspire, build trust, and achieve organizational objectives. Recognized for collaborative leadership style, proactive approach, and keen ability to effectively translate complex operational concepts into tangible action plans. A dedicated humanitarian committed to improving the longevity and health of our population.