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Joe Lynam is a proven technology CEO, entrepreneur, and innovator with more than 25 years of experience building and scaling category-defining companies across fintech, payments, digital identity, authentication, and mobile commerce. Throughout his career, he has identified emerging technology shifts early, transforming innovative ideas into market-leading businesses and successful exits.
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As a founder and CEO, Joe has built companies that served customers globally, processed billions of dollars in transaction volume, and pioneered new approaches to digital commerce, payments, and identity. His work has consistently focused on solving complex trust, security, and customer experience challenges in highly regulated industries.

Joe is a recognized product innovator and co-author of more than 11 U.S. and international patents spanning digital identity, authentication, mobile payments, digital commerce, data analytics, and mobile wallet technologies. He is also an Inc. 500-recognized entrepreneur and has held leadership, board, and advisory roles across multiple technology ventures.

Joe is Chief Operating Officer of Veridocs. He joined the company in 2010 and has overseen its global growth providing identity management solutions in the gaming sector. Joe has also led Veridocs’ diversification—offering integrators the company’s technologies for ID authentication, facial matching and watch list management; while integrating those same technologies into Veridocs’ Evolution platform.

Joe is an expert speaker and writer on the topic of ID authentication and how organizations can be certain in the identities of their visitors and patrons. He is a member of the Forbes Business Council and has more than 20 years’ experience with Know Your Customer (KYC)-related services, including identity & technical solutions, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) consulting & training, and audit services for the gaming industry. Prior to that, Joe spent almost 20 years as a CPA with a national accounting firm providing external audit and other business services

Joe hails from Brooklyn and Old Bethpage, New York, and currently lives in Victoria, Minnesota, with his wife Andrea. They have four children along with four wonderful granddaughters. He has been a volunteer with various organizations and is currently the Chairman of the State-wide organization and president and captain with a local chapter of Let’s Go Fishing, a Minnesota not-for-profit that works with seniors, youth, veterans and the disabled.

Chad Coker is the Chief Technology Officer of Veridocs and is responsible for providing strategic and technical direction for Veridocs’ software product offerings. Since 2006, he has overseen software development as the company has grown from a single customer to servicing many of the world’s largest gaming venues.

Chad brings a wide array of technology industry experience including positions in technical support, recruiting, software development, technical project management, and team management. Prior to joining Veridocs, he played a key role in improving and streamlining Tempur-Pedic’s technology systems as the company rapidly grew to a billion-dollar corporation. During this time, Chad created and implemented the IT governance and compliance program in preparation for Tempur-Pedic’s initial public offering.

Chad is a native of Clovis, NM and currently resides with his wife and daughter in Lexington, KY. Chad holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science. In addition, Chad is one of the chairs of the Secure Technology Alliance mDL Technical Integrations Working Groups.

Sam Shelton is the Chief Product Officer for Veridocs and is responsible for providing strategic and customer-focused direction for Veridocs’ product offerings, along with providing the best in industry support for our customers.

Sam joined Veridocs in 2008 as Vice President of Technical Support and is responsible for the quality control, implementation and support of the Veridocs applications. Sam works closely with the business development and software development teams to ensure customer acceptance and satisfaction of the Veridocs product line.

The Shreveport, LA native and Lexington, KY resident graduated from Louisiana State University-Shreveport with a B.S. degree in computer science and a minor in mathematics. Prior to joining Veridocs, Sam began his career in software development and was instrumental in the development of McKinnie Systems’ Track Manager® product line used at Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse Racetracks. In 2001, when McKinnie Systems rebranded as InCompass Solutions, he became Vice President of Product Development and was responsible for transforming the operation into an application service provider. During his tenure, Sam oversaw the implementation of the application into Asia, Latin America and every major racetrack in the United States and Canada, solidifying it as the standard for racetrack management software.

Andrea is the Chief Financial Officer of Veridocs, where she oversees all aspects of the company’s financial operations. She has been working with Veridocs since 2010. Her focus is on the development of policies and procedures that improve performance and productivity and provide meaningful financial management information.

She has over 30 years of broad-based accounting, consulting, audit, and business experience. As a CPA she spent nearly 20 years in public accounting as an auditor working for a large national accounting firm in Dallas and New York, as well as regional and local accounting firms in the Chicago area. She also spent time as a controller for a private company and as a controller/CFO for hire.
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Andrea has volunteered her time over the years by serving as the treasurer of Girl Scout Councils and is currently serving as the treasurer for Let’s Go Fishing, a not for profit organization that serves seniors, disabled, veterans and youth.

Usama Mostafa is Chief Commercial Officer at Veridocs, where he leads the company's growth strategy, partnerships, product commercialization and expansion into new markets. He works closely with customers, technology providers and industry partners to help organizations strengthen identity trust across high-consequence customer interactions.

Prior to Veridocs, Usama held senior leadership roles spanning digital transformation, strategy, operations and investment management, leading initiatives focused on technology-enabled growth, operational performance and enterprise value creation. He has worked at the intersection of operators, investors and technology companies, helping organizations scale, modernize and navigate complex business challenges.

At Veridocs, his focus is on helping regulated and mission-critical industries establish trusted identity before access is granted or a transaction occurs—reducing fraud and friction while enabling faster, more confident decisions at the moments that matter most.