William Seippel, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman

Will is the perfect example of someone who has turned a passion into a career. He’s been an avid collector since childhood, beginning with baseball cards and continuing into adulthood with Kentucky Long Rifles. Will combined this passion for collecting with his multi-faceted background in business to establish WorthPoint®, the leading online resource for collectors, in 2007.

Will has more than 25 years of financial and operational experience, serving as CFO of MIVA; VP and CFO for Airgate PCS; CFO and COO for Digital Commerce Corporation; CFO for Global Telesystems Groups and CFO for Landmark Graphics Corporation. During his career, he has negotiated more than 20 acquisitions and played a leading role in structuring complex transactions that raised $5 billion in capital. Two of those ventures received the prestigious Institutional Investor Deal of the Year Award.

Will has also served as a consultant to various boards of directors on mergers and acquisitions as well as strategic business and financial planning. He has a bachelor’s of science from George Mason University, where he serves as chairman of the advisory board for the School of Management, and a master’s in business administration from American University.

Will continues to collect baseball cards and Kentucky Long Rifles, in addition to Lionel Trains and Colt 45s.

Michael Sapienza, VP, Marketing & Sales

From square hamburgers to the first electronic bill-paying service, Michael has played a leading role in marketing programs, business development, new product introductions and business start-ups for the past 25 years. He has directed market research projects, product launches and support programs in the United States, Europe and the Pacific Rim.

Michael spent a decade at Wendy’s, where he held several leadership positions in both domestic and international marketing. Later he joined CheckFree to help introduce the CheckFree Electronic Payment Service, which led to a successful IPO and market capitalization of $1.4 billion. Michael has a bachelor’s of science from Northwestern University and a master’s in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management.

Michael collects sports memorabilia.

William N. McAtee, Chief Financial Officer

Neal has been immersed in the financial world for 25 years. Before joining WorthPoint, he served as portfolio manager at Reliant Investment Management, LLC. Earlier in his career, he was a founder and managing member of Red Rock Partners, LLC, as well as GP and investment manager for Red Rock Fund, LP. Neal was a managing director at Morgan Keegan, working as an equity analyst, when he was recognized five times as a Wall Street Journal All-Star Analyst for his stock-picking ability.

Neal earned a bachelor’s in mathematics and economics from Rhodes College and a master’s in business administration with a concentration in finance and accounting from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He has held the Chartered Financial Analyst professional designation from the CFA Institute since 1992.

Neal collects neckties.

Jeff Schultz, Chief Product Officer

An educator through and through, Jeff believes in creating “smart content” that is truly informative and useful. His goal is to help WorthPoint users convert the data and information they find on the web site into knowledge that empowers and improves their collecting experiences. Prior to joining WorthPoint, Jeff served as vice president of Learning Solutions at McGraw-Hill Higher Education, where he was responsible for custom publishing, online learning and smart content. He also served as director of solutions for Pearson Education.

In addition to authoring more than one dozen reference works, Jeff has been a faculty member at White Pines College, Ashland University and Colorado College. He holds advanced degrees from both Claremont Graduate University and Georgetown University and is working on a doctorate in business. He also serves on the Software Information and Industry Association Postsecondary Board.

Nearly 30 years ago, in his first job, Jeff caught the collecting bug while working for an auctioneer. A serial collector, he collected coins and stamps in his youth and is now interested in tobacciana, mantle clocks and fine art.

Garrett Suhm, Chief Technology Officer

Before joining WorthPoint Corporation as CTO, Suhm served as CTO for LIFT/Retail Marketing Technology, where he developed products that delivered powerful point-of-sale merchandising solutions for retail customers.

Prior to working at LIFT, Suhm was senior vice president of product development and operations at Silverpop, a provider of Web-based solutions for customer and prospect messaging. At Silverpop, he quickly built a 150-person organization to create and deliver all aspects of the company’s products.

Before that, Suhm was an assistant vice president at Equifax, where he developed and implemented various consumer credit products and led global enterprise application architecture initiatives. He also served as a product manager and consultant with Stonebridge Technologies, where he worked on successful projects at MCI, UPS and other companies throughout the Southeastern United States.

Suhm graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor’s of science in computer engineering.