Textura Construction Payment Management
Executive Team

+ Patrick J. Allin, CEO & Co-Founder

Mr. Allin is a widely regarded executive in the consulting and technology industries.
Before helping to found Textura, he was COO & CFO of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Consulting Practice, a $6B business. He was also the Global Relationship Partner for General Motors. Prior to PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr. Allin was President/CFO/Treasurer of Moore Business Forms North America, a Fortune 500 company.

Mr. Allin has had great success throughout his career in establishing new customer relationships, hiring top-performing individuals and creating customer-oriented organizations that have consistently grown faster than competitors. Mr. Allin has negotiated numerous acquisitions as well as strategic and business alliances.

 

+ William H. Eichhorn, President & COO International & Co-Founder

Prior to helping found Textura, Mr. Eichhorn was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he served in a number of roles, including North American e-Business and Midwest Strategy Practices Leader. He was the US Relationship Partner for Union Pacific and Tellabs. Mr. Eichhorn spent nearly five years with McKinsey & Company, where he gained extensive international business experience, working with leading organizations throughout Europe. He was a Senior Strategy Partner and Midwest Strategy Practice Leader at Computer Sciences Corporation, and served as Systems Engineering Manager at IBM. During his career Mr. Eichhorn has also helped build two highly successful startup organizations, establishing new customer relationships and developing services to meet market needs.

 

+ Jeffrey K. Wagner, Evp & Chief Technology Officer

As Vice President of Systems Development at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Mr. Wagner managed a staff of over 100 employees and ran multi-system support and development for one of the largest futures exchange and clearing house in the world. He served as Chief Software Architect at Mortgagebot, where he oversaw software application development.  Mr. Wagner was Chief Technology Officer of HyperFeed Technologies, Inc. and Chief Information Officer of Equitec Group LLC, designing and implementing technology infrastructure for their global offices.

 

+ Christopher E. George, Chief Human Resource Officer

Mr. George is a global Human Resources executive with a record of attracting, developing, and retaining top talent in companies around the world. As Chief HR Officer for Textura Corporation, he is responsible for building a team to bring the power of the internet to the global construction industry. Prior to joining Textura, Mr. George held a number of senior HR roles with Abbott Laboratories, a Fortune 100 corporation.  As Vice President for Abbott International, he identified and moved high potentials into key leadership roles around the world, including Abbott’s first expatriates into China, Vietnam, and the United Arab Emirates.

 

+ Geoffrey A. Gitelson, EVP Sales North America

Mr. Gitelson brings significant sales and business operations experience to Textura, having held several senior management roles in the data and document management industry successfully growing businesses and delivering software and service solutions.

Prior to joining Textura, Mr. Gitelson was EVP of an early stage analytics software company, Revcast, LLC.  He led the go to market strategy for Revcast, establishing a brand and cornerstone business. Previously, Mr. Gitelson served in division and region management roles with Lason, Image Conversion Systems and Anacomp, including responsibility, as SVP, for establishing and leading Lason’s software-as-a-service division featuring a document management platform.

 

+ Herbert W. Brownett CCIFP, SVP Sales & Industry Solutions

Mr. Brownett was Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration at The Norwood Company, an ENR 400 Construction Manager & Design Builder. Before Norwood, he worked as Vice President of Finance for The George Hyman Construction Company (Clark Construction, a Top 12 U.S. General Contractor) in Bethesda, MD. A past National Chairman of the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA), Mr. Brownett is currently active with the organization’s Philadelphia Chapter. Mr. Brownett has more than 30 years of experience as a construction financial professional, and was a driving force behind the establishment of the Institute of Certified Construction Industry Financial Professionals (ICCIFP). He is a frequent speaker at construction industry association and conference meetings. 

 

+ Sandy Brown, SVP Operations

Ms. Brown has over 16 years of experience helping customers successfully implement change in their organizations. She served as Senior Principal Consultant of the Strategic Change Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and worked as a Consulting Manager for Siebel Systems, in their Business Analytics division. She has worked for Fortune 500 companies in the automotive, consumer products, and healthcare industries. Ms. Brown is an expert in process redesign, technology implementation, and customer support.