About

Executive Management

Nathan Egan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Nathan Egan founded PeopleLinx in early 2009 and is responsible for overseeing the company’s overall strategic direction, planning and execution. Prior to PeopleLinx, Nathan was an early employee at LinkedIn where he helped create and execute the sales process for their corporate solutions. Nathan has also held sales leadership positions with Autonomy and ECOLAB, where he was promoted to increasingly challenging positions as a result of exceeding sales quotas and other performance metrics.

Nathan is a frequent speaker on social business at industry events and has been featured in BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur magazine and Forbes.com. Nathan enjoys spending time with his wife and two children. He is also an avid runner and biker, completing several marathons and duathlons. Nathan graduated from Cornell with a BS in Hotel Administration and received his MBA from Villanova University.

Rick Genzer, Chief Operating Officer 

Richard (Rick) Genzer is responsible for technology, operations and product management. Other responsibilities include strategic planning, finance and vendor management.

Rick brings over twenty five years of experience and expertise to the company. While operating a successful management consulting practice since 2000, he completed projects in e- commerce, corporate and technical due diligence, business planning and strategy, product and project management, software architecture, and technology strategy.

Prior to his consulting practice, Rick held leadership roles in multiple start-ups.  At InteliHealth, he was a member of the original management team that established establish key partnerships with leading health organizations, including Johns Hopkins. Rick also held various leadership roles at Reality Online, which sold to Reuters in 1998, one of the earliest providers of online stock trading and equity research. Rick earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1986.

Patrick Baynes, Senior Vice President, Social Business Solutions 

Patrick joined PeopleLinx in 2009 as a Co-Founder and is responsible for all client facing services, social business strategy, and support. Patrick’s client deliverables and support focus on the innovative and strategic ways to employ PeopleLinx solutions to leverage LinkedIn and other social business networks. In addition to his role helping our clients, Patrick’s expertise with APIs makes him a key player on our product development team. He is most recognized for high impact client engagements and across the board customer satisfaction.

Patrick was an early LinkedIn employee where he pioneered the company’s product support and internal training, and scaled customer operations. Patrick is also a frequent speaker on social business at industry events. Patrick graduated from Alfred University with a BSBA in Marketing and studied abroad at Bond University in Gold Coast, Australia.

Rick Eastland, Chief Financial Officer 

Rick is responsible for finance, accounting and assists with general management and operations. He brings over 12 years of experience in finance and financial services to the company. Prior to PeopleLinx, Rick served as a Director and Chief Financial Officer at J Heck Investments LLC.  At J Heck, Rick rapidly built the company from its initial startup phase.

Prior to J Heck, Rick managed operational and compliance projects at The Royce Funds, as company assets grew from $8 to $20 Billion in three years. While working in the R&D division of Southern California Edison (SCE), Rick was a key contributor to the company’s Strategy and Roadmap Document as well as the State of California’s Smart Grid Roadmap to 2020, both of which detail a multi-year, multi-billion dollar deployment of industry leading technologies onto the US electric grid.

Rick earned a BA from Trinity College and an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Board of Directors

Nathan Egan, Chairman of the Board

Rick Eastland, Board Member

Andy Newcomb, Strategic Advisor, Board Member 

Andy is a financial services and technology executive and advisor with a history of start-up innovation, successful team leadership, and financial achievement. Most recently, he co-founded Relay Network, a mobile communications company. Prior to Relay, Andy was a pioneer in the prepaid card industry. He spent 10 years creating and executing strategies that propelled Ecount and Citi to industry leading positions. After Ecount’s acquisition by Citi, Andy was the Group Head of Sales and Corporate Development for Citi Prepaid Services. During his tenure at Citi Prepaid, annual revenue increased over three-fold, from $30 to $100 Million. At Ecount, Andy was a founding team member, instrumental in developing a strategy, team and sales effort that enabled the company to grow revenue from $0 to $30 Million and establish a client base of almost 2,000, including 70 of the Fortune 100. Andy was a key member of the teams responsible for the $18 million capital raise and the eventual sale of the company to Citi, which represented an eight times return on investment. Preceding Ecount, Andy spent eight years in investment management, most recently with Chartwell Investments Partners. He joined start-up Chartwell at its inception as a Portfolio Manager and was responsible for the co-management of over $2 Billion of institutional funds.

He is as an advisory board member of Renovus Capital Partners; a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association (NBPCA); a past member of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Labor and Industry Task Force; the Financial Analysts of Philadelphia; and the Association of Investment Management and Research. Andy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and lives in Philadelphia.

Matthew Kaye, Strategic Advisor, Board Member 

Matthew Kaye is an Associate Partner with Monitor Group in New York, and focuses on growth strategy in the B2B services and data & information sectors. He advises c-level clients on corporate strategy, organizational strategy, and marketing strategy. Prior to joining Monitor Group in 2007, Matthew spent five years at GE Capital where he held various commercial finance roles in the U.S. and Asia. Matthew has an undergraduate degree in economics from Cornell University, and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stouffer Egan, Strategic Advisor, Board Member 

Stouffer Egan is currently Chief Executive Officer of Autonomy, Inc. – U.S. Stouffer joined Autonomy in March 2001 as Director of Global Accounts. He has served as Chief Executive Officer, Autonomy Inc., since 2002. Prior to joining Autonomy, from February 2000 through to March 2001, Mr. Egan was Vice President of Corporate Development for LeadingSide Inc. From January 1995 through February 2000, Mr Egan held various positions with Dataware Technologies, most recently as Vice President, Corporate Development. Mr. Egan holds a BA in economics from Trinity College, CT.