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Mark R. Newcomer, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman, and Director. Mr. Newcomer serves as our Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, and has served in this capacity and as a director since March 2006. From February 2001 to present, Mr. Newcomer continues to serve as chairman and CEO of 3PEA Technologies, Inc., a payment solutions company he co-founded in 2001. Mr. Newcomer continues to be a driving force in guiding the Company's growth through technology investments, acquisitions, new product lines, and strategic partnerships. Mr. Newcomer attended Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo where he majored in Bio-Science.

Bruce A. Mina, Independent Director. Mr. Mina has served as a director since March 2018. Mr. Mina, MS-Taxation, CPA/ABV, CFF, CVA, BVAL is a co-founder and managing member of Mina Llano Higgins Group, LLP (founded 1974). Mr. Mina is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of New York for over 30 years. He is experienced in, and responsible for, litigation support and valuation assignments regarding business valuations, damage studies and appraisal engagements. Mr. Mina has been retained as a Business Appraiser, Expert Witness, Consultant, Forensic Examiner, Auditor, Accountant, and Tax Planner by business owners and corporate officers, attorneys, and municipalities to provide services in business appraisal and enterprise valuation, forensic examination, and litigation support. Mr. Mina has served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Coal Brick Oven Pizzeria, Inc., a Nevada corporation (Grimaldi's Pizzeria chain of restaurants), from 2011 to 2018, and currently serves as CFO for Academy of Aviation in Long Island, New York since 2009. These companies are not a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of Paysign. Mr. Mina earned his Bachelor of Arts from Hofstra University and his Master of Science-Taxation from Long Island University.

Daniel R. Henry, Independent Director. Mr. Henry has served as a director since May 2018. Mr. Henry has been a private investor and advisor since 2013 and previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Green Dot Corporation from 2020 to 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Henry served as Chief Executive Officer of NetSpend, a leading provider of prepaid debit cards for personal & commercial use, from 2008 to 2014. Prior to that, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Euronet, a global leader in processing secure electronic financial transactions from 1994 to 2006. He was also a co-founder of Euronet and served on its board until January 2008. These companies are not a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of Paysign. Mr. Henry currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Company and Dama Financial.

Jeffrey B. Newman, Independent Director. Mr. Newman has served as a director since December 2022. From 1997 to 2020, Mr. Newman served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (Euronet), a leading provider of payment solutions, including independent ATM networks, card issuance and acquiring, distribution of digital content over retail POS networks, and international money transfer networks for immigrant remittances and high dollar volume transfers. He was responsible for all legal affairs for Euronet, including the creation and establishment of new and highly innovative payment services in developing countries, in particular the countries of Central Europe as they privatized and transitioned to Western economies. During his time at Euronet, Mr. Newman also conducted major corporate and financing transactions, including Euronet's initial public offering, approximately 50 acquisitions (ranging up to $1.2 billion) in the United States and overseas, private placements, and other public offerings. Prior to joining Euronet, Mr. Newman was a partner of Arent Fox, a Washington D.C. based law firm, specializing in international M&A. Mr. Newman has worked across the payments landscape, including money transfer, merchant card acquiring and card issuance, ATM and POS networks, and distribution of digital content over networks. His experience also includes participation on and advising boards of private and public companies in multiple countries, including the United States, Europe, and Asia. These companies are not a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of Paysign. Mr. Newman holds a Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University, a DSU (equivalent to a master's degree) from the University of Paris II, and a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio University. He currently serves on the Board of Phan Time, Inc.

Dennis L. Triplett, Independent Director. Mr. Triplett has served as a director since May 2018. Mr. Triplett served as Chief Executive Officer (March 2004 to April 2015) and Chairman (April 2015 to March 2017) of Healthcare Services at UMB Bank, N.A. a leading provider of healthcare payment solutions including health savings accounts (HSAs), healthcare spending accounts, and payments technology. Mr. Triplett founded the division that is now the fifth largest HSA custodian in the nation with $2.6 billion in assets and accounts exceeding 1.25 million. Mr. Triplett developed the Bank's Medical Savings Account product in the late 1990's and grew that into a multipurpose card product supporting a variety of spending accounts, including HSAs, FSAs, and HRAs. Mr. Triplett has over 35 years of experience in the banking industry, including serving as the President and Chief Executive Officer of two banks in the Midwest and has extensive credit and debit card experience. These companies are not a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of Paysign, Inc. Mr. Triplett is a graduate of several banking schools and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Missouri. Mr. Triplett's industry leadership has included chairing the Employers Council on Flexible Compensation (ECFC) from 2007 to 2014, being a founding Board Member of the American Bankers Association's HSA Council, and chairing American Health Insurance Plan's (AHIP) HSA Leadership Council from 2009 to 2013. Civically, Mr. Triplett has served on the Board of the Greater Kansas City Crime Commission since 2011, as Chairperson for Community for Coaches since 2016, and as member of UMB Healthcare Services Strategic Advisory Council since 2016.

Michael Ngo joined Paysign in March 2025 following the company's acquisition of Gamma Innovation LLC, where he was Managing Director. Prior to Paysign, Ngo held senior technology leadership roles at IBM and Citibank's Software and Technology Services Group, where he led the delivery of enterprise solutions for Fortune 1000 clients. Over his career, he has developed more than 70 mobile and web applications across consumer, finance, and healthcare sectors. Ngo earned a Master's degree in Information Science and Technology from Drexel University, graduating summa cum laude. He is passionate about building technology that improves lives by making systems smarter, more efficient, and more accessible.

Matthew Turner joined Paysign in 2019. Prior to joining Paysign, Turner served as director of product management and patient affordability at TrialCard, a payments provider to the pharmaceutical industry. At Paysign, Turner is responsible for leading the company's patient affordability business activities and overseeing client services. Since joining the company, he has also penned a white paper titled Navigating the Insulin Affordability Act. Turner is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and is a member of the American Pharmacist Association.

Joan M. Herman, Executive Vice President, Director. Ms. Herman has served as our Executive Vice President since September 2017 and as a director since November 2018. Ms. Herman's experience in payments spans more than 30 years, holding various management positions in operations, product development, and sales and marketing on both the issuing and acquiring sides of the card business. Ms. Herman's previous employers and directorships include Sunrise Bank from June 2012 to August 2017, UMB Bank from 2010 to 2012, Heartland Bank from 2006 to 2010, and Heartland Payment Systems from 1997 to 2006. Ms. Herman is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Branded Prepaid Card Association (NBPCA) and serves as its Treasurer. These companies are not a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of Paysign. Ms. Herman earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in business and marketing from Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Robert P. Strobo, Esq., General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary. Mr. Strobo has served as our General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary since October 2018. Prior to joining Paysign, from 2005 to 2018, Mr. Strobo served as Deputy General Counsel and Vice President for Republic Bank & Trust Company, a state-charted financial institution based in Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Strobo specializes in prepaid card issuance and non-traditional banking, which includes small-dollar consumer lending, commercial lending, payments, and tax-related financial products. In addition, Mr. Strobo served as Chairman of the board of directors for Commonwealth Theatre Center, a non-profit youth conservatory and outreach program serving all of Kentucky and southern Indiana. Mr. Strobo received his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Kentucky and his Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois.

Matthew Lanford, Chief Payments Officer, and Director. Mr. Lanford has served as our Chief Payments Officer since January 2024 and as a director since August 2022. Mr. Lanford served as the Company's Chief Operating Officer and President from 2021 to 2024 and Chief Product Officer from 2019 to 2021. Prior to joining Paysign, Inc., Mr. Lanford served as senior vice president and general manager of the financial services division of InComm Payments (InComm) from 2016 to 2019, where he was responsible for the company's consumer-facing Vanilla suite of prepaid products. Prior to his tenure at InComm, Mr. Lanford was with Mastercard from 2006 to 2016, where he was a vice president with the global prepaid product and solutions group and the prepaid product lead for Europe, based in London. These companies are not a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of Paysign. Mr. Lanford had regional responsibility for innovation, product development, go-to-market strategy, and commercialization of the Mastercard prepaid portfolio of products, in addition to senior leadership roles in product management and investor relations. Mr. Lanford was twice awarded the prestigious top spot in Europe's Prepaid Power 10. Mr. Lanford earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Jeffery B. Baker, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Baker has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since February 2021. Prior to joining Paysign, Mr. Baker served as an executive vice president of mergers and acquisitions at InComm Payments from 2011 to 2021 and chief development and strategy officer at Global Payments Inc. from 2003 to 2011. During his career, Mr. Baker has also held various senior equity analyst positions at firms covering financial technologies and services, business-to-business (B2B), and personal computer and enterprise storage industries, at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, W.R. Hambrecht & Co., SunTrust Equitable Securities, and Principal Financial Securities. Mr. Baker is a graduate of Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas, where he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance.