Michele Shepard

Michele Shepard is chief commercial officer of Paya.

She focuses on developing and executing forward-thinking customer engagement strategies across sales, marketing and customer success. Shepard's previous experience includes leading high-growth sales and business development teams as well as implementing successful go-to-market strategies at high-growth vertical software companies Insurity and Vertafore. Shepard also served as a senior sales leader at Gartner, focusing on tailoring sales to targeted vertical end markets.