Paychex appoints Theresa Payton to Board of Directors

Paychex’s Board of Directors has voted to expand to 12 members from 11 members. The Board has also appointed Theresa Payton to fill the new position. Payton is the founder and CEO of Fortalice Solutions, a firm advising Fortune 150 Boards, C-Suite, and regulators on secured technology innovation and transformation efforts regarding customer delivery and privacy. Before overseeing IT operations as CIO for the White House from 2006 to 2008, she held executive roles in banking technology for two of the country’s top financial institutions. In 2008, she founded Fortalice Solutions. She has served on the Federal Advisory Board of CyberArk, a publicly traded cybersecurity product company, and as a member of the Transformation Innovation Advisory Board of UniCredit S.p.A. Payton’s appointment to the Paychex Board of Directors is effective immediately.