Jeff Yabuki

Jeff

Yabuki

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Chairman and Founding Partner

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Leadership

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2019

Jeff Yabuki is Chairman and Founding Partner of Motive Partners and serves as Chairman and CEO of InvestCloud.

At Motive, Jeff works alongside the leadership team to deliver on the existing investment strategy, while supporting the scaling and institutionalization of Motive's integrated operating model. As a member of the Motive leadership team, he is also Chair of the firm’s Growth & Buyout Investment Committee.

Jeff brings a wealth of experience in scaling the world's most renowned financial technology business, including a career of extensive mergers and acquisitions, complex integrations, organizational design and talent acquisition, product innovation, cost-saving programs, and capital allocation. Jeff is Chairman of the Board at Sportradar and is a Board member of Royal Bank of Canada and Nasdaq.

Prior to joining Motive, Jeff was the Chairman and CEO of Fiserv, Inc. (NYSE:FI), a global leader in financial services and payments technology. Jeff served as the fintech leader’s Chairman from July 2019 to December 2020; and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Fiserv Board of Directors from 2005 through June 2020. Under his leadership, the company transformed from a traditional holding company into an integrated operating company focused on driving purposeful innovation to deliver best-in-class financial and payments software, services and solutions that enable financial services and payments experiences at the point of thought. A member of the FORTUNE 200, Fiserv had $14.4 billion in revenue in 2019, and was recognized in 2020 among FORTUNE® World's Most Admired Companies for its eighth consecutive year. Under Jeff’s leadership, the company nearly tripled revenue through the end of 2019 and achieved a total shareholder return of 969%. Since 2005, the company has grown through a combination of internal investments and strategic acquisitions and Jeff led the $22 billion acquisition of First Data in 2019, expanding the company’s ability to deliver differentiated value to its clients through market-leading financial technology and payments solutions for financial institutions, merchants, businesses and consumers. Fiserv has a market cap of more than $120 billion today.

Prior to joining Fiserv, Jeff was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at H&R Block for more than six years. Before H&R Block, he held a progression of operating and M&A leadership positions during 12 years at American Express culminating in serving as CEO of American Express Tax and Business Services. Prior to that, he spent several years in public accounting and is a CPA.

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