David Feller

  • Founder
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Chair
  • Director

David Feller founded Mogo in 2003 and currently serves as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chair of our Board. Over the past 19 years, Mr. Feller has grown Mogo into Canada's leading digital wallet and payments company with over 2 million members, annual revenues exceeding $57 million and more than 300 team members including Carta. During that time, he led the Company through equity and debt financings totaling more than $500 million, securing two credit facilities with a leading global investment firm, the Company's IPO on the TSX and subsequent public offerings. Mr. Feller is passionate about using technology and design to deliver innovative digital solutions that help consumers improve their financial health. He is a former member of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO) of Canada and is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Mr. Feller’s experience leading the business along with his responsibilities for the strategic direction, product innovation and management of Mogo’s day to day operations, bring broad industry and specific institutional knowledge and experience to the Board.

Gregory Feller

  • President
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Director

Gregory Feller is a co-founder of Mogo and has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since August 2011, and has served as a member of our Board of Directors and President of the Company since April 2015. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Feller was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Technology Investment Banking Group at Citadel Securities, a financial services group. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Feller was a Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank, a global financial institution. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Feller was a Managing Director with Lehman Brothers where he worked from 2001 to 2008 and a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co. from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Feller has a Bachelor of Administrative and Commercial Studies from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he graduated Beta Gamma Sigma.

Michael Wekerle

  • Director

Mr. Wekerle was a co-founder and partner of Griffiths McBurney & Partners’ sales and trading operations in 1995. He served as Vice Chairman of Institutional Trading at GMP Securities L.P. until August 2011 where he was widely considered a leading investment advisor in Canada. During his time, he helped establish the firm’s hedge fund and institutional trading desk and developed a reputation for assisting clients in profiting from large-scale transactions. Prior to his tenure at GMP, Mr. Wekerle was head of institutional trading at First Marathon Securities Ltd.

Christopher Payne

Christopher Payne has deep experience in M&A and private equity with a strong focus on the technology sector. He is the Managing Partner and Founder of Hawthorn Equity Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm launched in 2005. Previously, Mr. Payne was a Managing Director within the Merchant Banking Group of CIBC. Prior to CIBC, he was an entrepreneur working with a group of investors and executives in Silicon Valley on the formation of a business that ultimately became PayPal. Mr. Payne also worked at BMO Nesbitt Burns in M&A and later helped start BMO Nesbitt Burns Equity Partners, a North American mid-market focused merchant bank. He holds an Honour’s Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Queen’s University and an MBA from The Wharton School.

  • Audit Committee
  • Corporate Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee

Kristin McAlister

Kristin McAlister is the founder, CEO and Head of School at Centennial Montessori School in San Mateo, California. Ms. McAlister began her career in both human development as a researcher in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and in finance as an analyst at Lehman Brothers. She received a dual honors undergraduate degree from Brown University in Biomedical Ethics and Behavioral Neuroscience. She also holds a masters in Urban Education from Kings College, University of London and holds the AMI Primary diploma from the Maria Montessori Institute in London. Kristin has published articles in Montessori journals in the 27 US, Australia, India, and the UK. Her philanthropic interests lie in opening educational and financial services to populations that do not typically have equitable access.

  • Corporate Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee
  • Audit Committee

Kees Van Winters

  • Director

Kees Van Winters has been active in the telecom and technology industries since 1986. Mr. Van Winters was Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for Nationwide Cellular Service in New York from 1986 to 1992 and was a consultant to several major telecom companies in Canada and the USA from 1992 to 1996. Since then he has acted as a consultant to a number of small technology companies. Mr. Van Winters previously served on Mogo Inc.’s board of directors between June 2019 and June 2021.

  • Audit Committee
  • Corporate Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee