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Lisa Bonalle brings over 30 years of dynamic leadership and innovation to her role as CEO of GDS Link. With extensive experience spanning financial services, loyalty, fintech, and martech industries, Lisa’s career is marked by a commitment to excellence and strategic vision.

Before joining GDS Link, Lisa served as Group CEO and President of Verisk’s Financial and Marketing Solutions sector, where she oversaw multiple successful acquisitions and significant business growth. Her visionary leadership at the intersection of financial services, loyalty, and commerce has left an indelible mark on the industry.

Lisa is known for her collaborative approach, expert direction, and her ability to drive innovation. She is a fierce advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion and is deeply committed to philanthropy and volunteerism. Lisa holds an MBA with highest honors from New York University and a BA, summa cum laude, from Providence College.

As CEO of GDS Link, Lisa is dedicated to building upon the company’s legacy of delivering innovative real-time decisioning solutions and driving its continued success in the credit risk solutions and data analytics sector.

Yves’s responsibilities encompass the company’s software development and solutions architecture.

Yves spent 10 years prior to GDS Link at Experian-Scorex, working out of both the Dallas office and the company’s Monaco location. After serving as a developer in Monaco, he transferred to the U.S. to become Director of Architecture and Advanced Solutions. During his career, Yves has designed and implemented enterprise decision systems throughout the world for Fortune 100 companies that include Bank of America, Washington Mutual, and Dell.

Aarthi Muthukrishnan is passionate about leveraging technology and data science to drive innovation and elevate business performance. As Chief Product Officer at GDS Link, Aarthi combines her expertise in product development, partnership strategy, and team leadership to shape the company’s product vision, empowering modern lenders to thrive in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

Before joining GDS Link, Aarthi was a founding team member at PrimeFT, where she incubated solutions for SMB lending, blending cutting-edge technology with business acumen to meet market needs. Prior to that, she held leadership roles at Verisk Financial (now part of TransUnion), serving as President of Commerce Signals and Head of Media and Marketing Solutions. Aarthi drove the acquisition and integration of Commerce Signals, transforming the business from a consulting-driven model into a product-centric organization. She also led global teams of data scientists, engineers, analysts, and product managers to deliver data-driven insights and solutions.

Aarthi’s career began with notable achievements at Barclays Bank, where she standardized credit risk strategies across European retail portfolios, and at Argus Information & Advisory Services, where she gained deep expertise in analytics and advisory services. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Master’s in Computer Science from SUNY Binghamton, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Aarthi’s commitment to fostering innovation and building high-performing teams positions her as a leader who bridges technology and business strategy to deliver impactful solutions.

Antonio oversees the business strategy and operations of GDS Link Europe with full profit and loss account responsibility in the territory. The main goal of the team is to help customers leverage data to drive smarter decisions in an easy, holistic, and dynamic way. As an engineer from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and MBA from Instituto de Empresa, Antonio has more than 23 years of experience in design and implementation business strategy combined with people development.

With dynamic business development skills in the last 19 years, he has held executive leadership positions for different multinational companies heading from Operations, Sales, and Marketing to General Management. Antonio has served for more than nine years as Continental Europe General Manager in FICO (former Fair Isaac Corporation). Previously he held full P&L responsibility for the Banking and Insurance markets at Sopra/Steria (French multinational leader in digital transformation) and spent more than nine years heading Sales in Equifax Credit Bureau.

Along his career Antonio has advised business organizations in Europe and Latin-America on how to implement procedures and decisional technology to allow them to get new markets, accelerate growth, and boost profit.

Antonio serves as a member of the board in several companies and writes and speaks frequently in business and specialized magazines and media events.