About Us
Our Team
Carol Coye Benson
Carol is a founding partner of Glenbrook. Carol offers clients over 25 years of experience in product, marketing, and strategy development with leading financial services providers in both wholesale and retail banking.
Bryan Derman
Bryan brings an unusually comprehensive perspective to his consulting practice, having worked as a senior executive, security analyst, and strategy consultant during his 20-year career in financial services.
Lello Gebisa
Lello has over a decade of experience helping organizations address complex global operational challenges. With diverse procurement experience, she brings a unique perspective to the Glenbrook team.
Beth Horowitz Steel
Beth brings her clients, and Glenbrook, a unique combination of financial technology, marketing, and execution skills. Over her twenty-five year career in financial services, Beth has developed new products, driven technology and marketing innovations, and created successful business partnerships.
Russ Jones
Russ brings clients over 30 years of experience as an executive, analyst, and consultant. He is an industry pioneer in the commercial use of Internet technologies, and brings a strong background in payments industry analysis, strategy development, and product conceptualization.
Sam Levitt
Sam Levitt, Glenbrook’s first Associate, brings a fresh perspective to the team as well as his excitement, energy, and an endless curiosity and desire to learn about all things payments.
Erin McCune
Erin has nearly 20 yrs consulting experience focusing on business payments, cross-border transactions, bill payment, and the intersection of corporate finance, banking, and ERP/accounting. She is an advocate for enterprise, SMB, biller, and gov’t users of payments.
Elizabeth McQuerry
Elizabeth has over a decade of experience in developing global payments services. She has worked extensively in retail payments focusing on international remittances, person-to-person, business, and government payments.
Cici Northup
Cici Northup brings significant management and analytical experience related to national payments infrastructures to her work with Glenbrook clients.
George Peabody
George brings 15 years in payments technology and 30 years in IT and entrepreneurship to help clients with payments strategy and market development.
Rebecca Rasis
Rebecca has over 6 years of research and analysis experience. Most recently, Rebecca worked on the Consumer Practices team at American Express, where she leveraged quantitative analysis to create and enhance compliance and regulatory processes.
Emily Simone
Emily Simone joins Glenbrook as an associate, with six years of experience in project and program management, research, and strategy development.
Allen Weinberg
Allen's analysis work is informed by more than 30 years of experience as a consultant and executive at leading financial services and Internet companies. Before founding Glenbrook, he worked in new product development, channel strategies, and pricing in the point-of-sale, eCommerce, mobile commerce, and money transfer markets.
Sean Werkema
Sean Werkema comes to Glenbrook with a background in economic research, a passion for working with clients, and interests in the ever-evolving payments industry.
Scott Loftesness
Scott is a founding partner of Glenbrook. He retired in October 2016 and remains an important advisor and friend to Glenbrook Partners.