Thomas H. Lee Partners Appoints Fintech Veteran Mark Forbis as Executive Partner

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thomas H. Lee Partners ("THL"), a premier private equity firm investing in middle-market growth companies, today announced the appointment of Mark Forbis as Executive Partner. In his new role, Forbis, a 40-year veteran of financial technology and services, will support the firm’s efforts in identifying, sourcing, and growing investment opportunities across the bank technology sector.

Prior to joining THL, Forbis spent over 30 years as an executive at Jack Henry & Associates, one of the nation's leading fintech providers where he most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. During his time at Jack Henry, Forbis led the company’s national technology strategy and the development of numerous transformational banking technologies.

“We are very pleased to welcome Mark to our team,” said Brian Radic, Director at THL. “He brings deep expertise across the bank technology spectrum, including core systems, lending solutions, digital banking, and payments. Equally important, Mark’s strong track record as a technology leader, and his broad industry network, will be instrumental as we continue to pursue promising investments and add value to our portfolio companies in the financial technology and services vertical.”

“THL’s talented financial technology and services team partners with exceptional companies in the bank technology sector,” said Forbis. “I’m excited to work with these firms and to help advance the team’s core fintech strategy.”

Forbis remains actively engaged across many sectors of the fintech ecosystem and currently serves on the boards of IncredibleBank, Citizens Bank, Teslar Software, Digital Check Corp., InvestorKeep, and Allied Payment Network.

To date, THL’s Financial Technology and Services team has deployed $10.3 billion of fund and co-investment capital and partnered with 32 companies. Information about these companies can be viewed here.

About Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P.

Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (“THL”) is a premier private equity firm investing in middle-market growth companies exclusively within three sectors: Healthcare, Financial Technology & Services, and Technology & Business Solutions. THL couples deep sector expertise through an Identified Sector Opportunity (“ISO”) process with dedicated internal operating resources from its Strategic Resource Group (“SRG”) to transform and build great companies of lasting value in partnership with management. The Firm’s domain expertise and resources help to build great companies with an aim to accelerate growth, improve operations and drive long-term sustainable value. Since 1974, THL has raised more than $34 billion of equity capital, invested in over 160 companies and completed more than 500 add-on acquisitions representing an aggregate enterprise value at acquisition of over $210 billion.