Governance, Ethics and Compliance

A visionary leader known by Q2 team members and customers alike for his authentic, engaging, and quick-witted communication style, Matt is committed to Q2's mission to build stronger communities by strengthening their financial institutions. He values direct engagement with customers and prospects and leverages his inquisitive nature to uncover innovative ways to improve the Q2 organization.  

Matt has made significant contributions to Q2's growth, strategic direction, and mission-driven culture. He was instrumental in driving Q2's growth from a startup to a publicly traded company with a global workforce, more than a thousand financial institutions across the globe, and a market capitalization exceeding $4 billion. 

He is a veteran of the financial services industry with more than 25 years of professional experience, 19 of those years with Q2. In addition to his role as CEO, Matt also serves as the Chairman of the Board.

A graduate of Baylor University, Matt is a recipient of the esteemed EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award and was also recognized as a National Finalist. He is currently the Chair of Dell Children's Hospital Board of Trustees and serves on the Board of Directors of payment solutions company AffiniPay. 

R. Lynn Atchison has served as a member of the Q2 Board of Directors since March 2017. Ms. Atchison currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Spredfast, Inc., a social marketing software provider she joined in February 2017. Ms. Atchison also served as the chief financial officer of HomeAway, Inc., a provider of online vacation rental services, and was chief financial officer of Infoglide Software Corporation, an enterprise software provider. Ms. Atchison has also served as a business consultant for Range Online Media, an Internet marketing firm; chief financial officer and vice president of finance and administration of Hoover’s, Inc., a provider of online business information; and chief financial officer of Travelogix, Inc., a provider of travel ticketing systems software. Before these roles, Ms. Atchison worked as a consultant providing controller functions for software, technology, and non-profit organizations, including Trilogy Development, a provider of sales automation software, and Austin American Technology.

Ms. Atchison holds a B.B.A. in accounting from Stephen F. Austin State University. Her extensive experience managing technology and software companies, and her financial expertise, make her a valuable member of the Q2 Board of Directors.

As a partner with Adams Street, Jeffrey Diehl invests in venture and growth-oriented companies in the software, IT-enabled business services, and consumer internet and media sectors.

Adams Street Partners is one of the largest managers of private equity for institutional investors. They are an employee-owned private equity firm with the goal of generating exceptional investment returns. Adams Street Partners operates as one cohesive global team, integrating expertise in three disciplines: primary, secondary, and direct investments managing over $22 billion in committed capital for institutional investors.

In addition to serving on the Q2 Board of Directors, Mr. Diehl serves on the boards of directors of ArrowEye Solutions, Paylocity, Peerless Network, SnagAJob, Thought Equity Motion, and WhiteFence. He is a board observer at Spiceworks, Dolex, and MagicJack. Mr. Diehl also a former board member at MxLogic (bought by McAfee) and Stratavia (bought by Hewlett-Packard). He has been involved with Adams Street’s investments in Adams Harris, American Wholesale Insurance, Ancestry.com, BirdsEye, CBeyond, FiftyOne, Gevity HR,Kappa Smurfit, KPG Ventures, Setanta, Scientific Protein Labs, and TicketsNow (bought by Ticketmaster).

Before joining Adams Street in 2000, Mr. Diehl served as a principal for The Parthenon Group, a Boston-based strategy, consulting, and principal investing firm with Bain Consulting roots and worked with Brinson Partners/UBS Global Asset Management.

Jeffrey holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BS from Cornell State University.

Stephen C. Hooley joined the Q2 Board of Directors in August 2020. Mr. Hooley serves as a director of Stericycle, Inc., a provider of solutions for regulated medical waste management, secure information destruction, compliance, customer contact, and brand protection. Mr. Hooley previously served as chief executive officer and president of DST Systems, Inc., a service-as-a-solution technology company. Prior to this, he served as chairman of a joint venture between DST Systems and State Street Corporation. Previously, Mr. Hooley served in several executive leadership roles at State Street Corporation. He began his career as an engineer with Texas Instruments. Mr. Hooley recently served on the board of directors for Legg Mason until its recent acquisition by Franklin Templeton and also previously served as director of DST Systems and Boston Financial Data Services. Mr. Hooley holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

With more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry serving in progressive CXO positions, Jim Offerdahl has a strong record of scaling companies, maximizing revenue growth, driving profitability and strengthening marketplace leadership.

Mr. Offerdahl has an extensive record of leading emerging and innovative companies through periods of high growth. He served as chief financial officer at Convio Inc., where he guided the company through three acquisitions and an initial public offering. During his tenure, the company grew from $9 million in revenue in 2004 to more than $80 million in revenue in 2011, leading to Convio’s acquisition in May 2012 by Blackbaud Inc. Prior to Convio, Mr. Offerdahl was president and chief executive officer of Traq-Wireless, Inc., which followed his roles as chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Pervasive Software, Inc. He also served as chief financial officer and vice president of Administration of Tivoli Systems, Inc., which was acquired by International Business Machines in March 1996.

In addition to serving on the Q2 Board of Directors, Mr. Offerdahl currently serves on the Board of Community New Start, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the transformation of communities by addressing the economic, social, physical, and spiritual needs of individuals and families – one city block at a time. He has also served on the board for the Texas American Cancer Society and was chairman of the board for the Texas chapter of AeA (formerly known as the American Electronics Association).

Mr. Offerdahl has an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin and a BS from Illinois State University.

Margaret L. “Peggy” Taylor joined the Q2 Board of Directors in June 2020. Ms. Taylor serves as a director of Rimini Street, Inc., a provider of enterprise software products and services. Since January 2005, Ms. Taylor has served as a private investor and advisor. Before this, she served as president of PeopleSoft Investments, Inc., an investment management and advisory services company and subsidiary of PeopleSoft, Inc., an enterprise software company acquired by Oracle Corporation. While at PeopleSoft, Ms. Taylor also served in the role of senior vice president of corporate operations. Ms. Taylor’s financial services experience includes positions as vice president of trust and investment management at Hibernia Bank and as vice president of organization, planning, and development at Bank of California.

Ms. Taylor has served on the boards of directors for numerous publicly traded corporations, including FICO, formerly Fair Isaac Corporation, a decision analytics company. She has also served and continues to serve as a member of the board of directors of various private companies. Ms. Taylor holds a Bachelor of Arts in communications and psychology from Lone Mountain College of California. She has also completed the Corporate Governance Program at Stanford Business School and the Compensation Committees Program at Harvard Business School.

Ms. Taylor’s extensive experience in the enterprise software and financial services industries and service on boards of directors of various technology companies brings valuable insight to the Q2 Board of Directors and its compensation committee and nominating and corporate governance committee.

Lynn Antipas Tyson joined the Q2 Board of Directors in April 2021. Ms. Tyson serves as the executive director, Investor Relations, Ford Motor Company. In this role, she is responsible for leading all of Ford’s investor relations initiatives, including representing the company to equity and fixed income investors and rating agencies and providing strategic counsel to support value creation and risk mitigation. Ms. Tyson is also a member of the company’s Enterprise Leadership Team.

Ms. Tyson’s career spans over three decades of leadership roles in treasury, international corporate finance, corporate communications and investor relations, serving in senior-level positions at Ford, PepsiCo, Dell and other leading companies. Ms. Tyson’s career includes 14 years of finance and strategic communications experience with PepsiCo, where she ultimately served as senior vice president, Investor Relations, and ten years at Dell, where she led Investor Relations and Global Corporate Communications. Prior to Dell, Ms. Tyson led Investor Relations for YUM! Brands, where she was involved in its spin-off from PepsiCo in 1997.

Ms. Tyson holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the City College of New York and an MBA in finance and international business from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Ms. Tyson is a long-standing member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), serving as a board member from 2004-2008.

Ms. Tyson brings valuable insight to the Q2 Board of Directors with her extensive experience in corporate finance, strategy, investor relations and strategic communications, including financial disclosures, for companies in a broad range of industries.