Ingram's April 2024

CLASS of 2024

JACK CAFFREY There’s something to be said for being in the right place at the right time on your career arc. In Jack Caffrey’s case,

for career and personal success. She’s the product and technology leader at TreviPay, a B2B payments platform that processes $7 billion in transactions per year across 32 countries. For the past five years, she’s managed and grown a portfolio of solutions to more than $100 million and increased user adop tion by more than 200 percent—per year—while leading the product, user experience and design teams. But the work doesn’t stop there. “I also lead the women’s vertical for TreviPay’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commit tee, developing training for employee growth, mentoring early career leaders and regularly speaking at Women in STEM events across the community,” she says. That includes gigs for Burns & it was right place, right time—and right skills. He leveraged all three to become a key part of one of this region’s biggest entrepreneurial success stories at Rx Savings Solutions. The youngest member of this year’s class, 33-year-old Caffrey came on board as financial analyst in 2017, as the pharmacy-solutions platform’s growth was rocketing. Within five years, he was vice president of finance, managing finances for a firm with 1,500 percent revenue growth. Navigating the diligence process central to acquisitions yielded the 2022 sale to McKesson Corp. for $875 million, “one of the most significant exits in the history of Kansas City,” he beams. Now, he continues to work with senior executives at McKesson, one of the

McDonnell STEM, Ad Astra Technology Summit, Pipeline Entrepreneurs events for startups, and MINK-WIC (Missouri Illinois Nebraska Kansas Women in Computing). At home, where she and Ryan have children 9, 6 and 3, she tries to lead by example with her own volun teer efforts to inspire the next genera tion of leaders: Girl Scout leader for two years and a youth sports coach for six. She’s a consultant to business startups, she’s also author of the business how-to book “Solving Problems in Two Hours,” and was a 2022 Women in IT Summit & Award Series Finalist for Advocate of the Year and was last year’s honor ary co-chair for the Midwest Leadership Summit. A KU English/journalism grad uate, she holds a pair of master's degrees. nation’s biggest companies. “Such rapid progression in my career has demanded a considerable commitment of time, balancing professional responsibilities with the joys of raising my young family,” Caffrey says. His son Louis was born in early 2020, and daughter Charlotte arrived in 2022, just six days after the acquisition by McKesson was finalized. “Outside of work, I cherish every moment spent with my wife and children,” he says. From his time at Rockhurst High School and as an Eagle Scout, he developed a commitment to service that showed up when he became a founding member of the Rx Gives Back Committee, which has supported local charities with gifts of donations and volunteer hours.

TERESA CAIN Fintech executive, business consul tant, entrepreneur, wife, mother of three: Teresa Cain checks all the boxes

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