David Watson is the President and CEO of The Clearing House.

David has an international career spanning more than 20 years in the financial services industry. Prior TCH David was with Swift, the Global Financial Messaging provider, where he held roles as Chief Product Officer, responsible for the company’s product engineering, development, and innovation and prior to that as Chief Strategy Officer, where he had responsibility for market and competitive intelligence, strategic planning, thought leadership, and execution on key strategic initiatives for the company. Prior to Swift, David spent nearly 17 years with Deutsche Bank where he served in commercial, product and leadership roles, including Global Head of Product, Global Transaction Banking, and as Head of Cash Management Americas. While at Deutsche Bank, David served as a director on TCH’s Payments Company Board for several years and was on the board of Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware.

David holds a degree in Business from Edinburgh University in his native Scotland and has lived in Germany, the UK and US.

David Cadman is the Chief Auditor for The Clearing House and is responsible for directing and coordinating audit assurance activities across the entire company.

David has over 25 years’ of global financial services experience. Prior to joining The Clearing House, he held several senior positions at Citigroup, most recently as the Managing Director and Chief Auditor for the Operations & Technology functions within the Institutional Clients Group which encompassed Capital Markets, Transaction Services, Investment Banking and Private Banking.

Prior to joining Citigroup, David worked in various risk & technology roles for HSBC, Standard Chartered and Salomon Brothers based in London.

Elena Casal is Chief Client Officer at The Clearing House, responsible for creating and managing the holistic experience for its customers and partners. This role includes growing the RTP^® network across U.S. financial institutions, evolving the customer engagement model for all TCH payments networks and promoting the company’s work to its diverse target segments.

Elena has deep experience with product and customers in the payments industry.  Prior to joining The Clearing House, Elena held regional and global product management positions at FIS, Clear2Pay and Fiserv where she was focused on building products and services across the global enterprise payments landscape.  These roles included managing R&D across ACH, Wires, Swift, ISO 20022 and real-time payments. She also worked at the Federal Reserve Bank within the Retail Product Office and Monetary Policy Divisions with a focus on cross-border activities and economic policy in Latin America.

Elena holds a B.A. in Economics and International Affairs from Denison University and an M.S. in International Affairs from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Greg Cavanagh is general counsel and corporate secretary for The Clearing House, where he oversees the team responsible for providing legal advice for the company and for advancing the organization’s advocacy efforts.

Prior to joining The Clearing House, Greg was an attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for more than 17 years, eventually serving as deputy general counsel and senior vice president of the legal group. In that role, he led a team of attorneys responsible for providing the New York Fed with legal support relating to accounts and financial services, technology projects and intellectual property matters, and contracting and procurement.

Before joining the New York Fed, Greg was an associate at White & Case LLP in New York, where he worked in the firm’s banking and securities practices. Prior to law school, he was employed in the mortgage-banking division of a large superregional bank in Minneapolis. He also previously worked as a risk management analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Greg has served as chair of the payments subcommittee of the Uniform Commercial Code committee of the American Bar Association’s business law section. He is also a former member of the committee on commercial law and uniform state laws of the New York City Bar.

Greg received his B.A. in 1996 from the University of Minnesota, where he majored in international relations, and his J.D. in 2003 from the Columbia University School of Law. He was admitted to the New York bar in 2004

Mr. Alexander is the Chief Information Officer for The Clearing House and is responsible for directing and coordinating all technology and operations across the Company.

Prior to joining The Clearing House, Mr. Alexander was Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and Head of the Technology Group at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, where he also served on the Bank’s Management Committee. Prior to being named Head of the Technology Group and CIO, Mr. Alexander led the Bank’s application development efforts, and was instrumental in the development of a Bank and System-wide architecture and for the development and completion of the Fedwire modernization.

Mr. Alexander has more than 25 years of international management and development experience with premier firms in the technology and financial services industry including Oracle and AXA Equitable. Mr. Alexander holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and an M.B.A. from the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

Pat Antonacci is the Chief Product Officer of The Clearing House and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. In his role, Pat is responsible for guiding product development for TCH’s payments networks and services, including the RTP® network, CHIPS® network, EPN® network, and check-image exchange.  

Sal Karakaplan is Chief Strategy Officer at The Clearing House, responsible for working across the industry to enhance and execute TCH’s strategic vision to shape the payments landscape of the future. Sal’s responsibilities include market strategy and growth plans, strategic partnerships, and exploration, incubation and innovation.

Sal is a banking and payments executive with over 25 years of experience who joined The Clearing House from Truist Financial, where he was Executive Vice President for the Enterprise Payments Group, in charge of enterprise payments strategy. Prior to joining Truist, Sal was an Executive Director in Integrated Payments Strategy team and Corporate Development team at JPMorgan Chase. Earlier in his career he spent a decade at Mastercard holding various roles in corporate strategy, corporate development, M&A, and digital payments product roles.

Sal holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Houston and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from Penn State University.

Sheffali Welch is the Chief Operating Officer of The Clearing House where she is responsible for Human Resources, Finance, and Board management. As a member of the company’s leadership team, Sheffali supports critical strategic, operational, and administrative initiatives. She brings a wealth of experience to this role at The Clearing House, with a progression of assignments leading strategic and transformational initiatives, planning and analysis, and financial functions for several major financial institutions.

Most recently, at BNY Mellon, Sheffali was the COO of Global Finance and led an enterprise-wide client strategy initiative. In her eight years at Deutsche Bank, she was Managing Director and COO of Wealth Management Americas, COO and Head of Regional Strategy for the Global Transaction Bank in the Americas, and Head of Global Client Strategy and Analytics for Fixed Income Sales and Trading. At Citi, she was Head of Global Strategy for the Citi Private Bank and Chief of Staff to the CFO of Citigroup during the financial crisis. While at Citi, she was also Head of Business Planning and Analysis for Citi Alternative Investments, and Financial Execution in the Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions group.

She began her career at Booz Allen Hamilton and GE Capital in various financial, operational, and analytics positions.

Sheffali received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an MBA with honors from the University of Rochester, Simon School of Business.

Simeon Fishman is the Chief Risk Officer for The Clearing House.  In this role, Mr. Fishman is responsible for the oversight of the Company's identification, measurement, and management of its risks such that it operates prudently and within its risk appetite.

Mr. Fishman joined The Clearing House in 2020 as Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Risk Management, and was elevated to his current Chief Risk Officer position in March 2022. 

Mr. Fishman has more than 20 years of experience in risk management at top tier financial institutions, including sell-side, buy-side, and FinTech firms.  Prior to joining The Clearing House, he has held various senior risk management positions at JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and AQR Capital Management, in which he was responsible for establishing risk management frameworks, and building out risk assessment, control, and risk analytics initiatives.

Mr. Fishman holds a B.Sc. in Physics and an M.Sc. in Information Technology both from the University of London in England, and holds certification as a Financial Risk Manager with the Global Association of Risk Professionals.