ABOUT US
Access. Connections. Insights. Growth.
As a fintech firm delivering technology solutions for financial institutions and specialty banking customers, Green Check Verified, Inc. is at the forefront of an evolving industry of commerce, providing software solutions and data insights to enable modern financial services.
Our Mission
Our mission is to support U.S. financial institutions and their specialty business customers with the compliance and growth solutions they need to succeed.
In a dynamically changing regulatory environment, Green Check is committed to staying at the forefront of industry change and providing our customers with forward-looking solutions designed for growth in specialty markets.


At its core, Green Check is about connection. We connect financial institutions and service providers with new customers, and we give them the tools necessary to confidently and compliantly grow their business relationships.
We do this through modern software, a vast network of normalized data, and expert guidance on scaling specialty financial services. Our goal is expanding new opportunities for financial institutions and the businesses they serve.
MEET OUR
Leadership Team

Kevin Hart
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Mike Kennedy
Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer

Mukesh Kshatriya
Chief Financial Officer

Stacy Litke
VP, Banking Programs

Cherie LaFlamme
VP of Product
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Kevin Hart
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Kevin Hart is the Founder & CEO of Green Check Verified. Kevin brings four decades of enterprise software experience as part of his founding vision for Green Check. He has worked in the C-Suite for a variety of software companies with global clients and partners, and he has led two companies to successful exits with publicly traded companies, as well as another to an IPO. With decades of experience at the helm of venture-backed companies, Kevin has brought together an unmatched team to help him lead Green Check to its leading position in the cannabis financial services market.

Mike Kennedy
Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer
Mike Kennedy is a Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Green Check Verified. Mike’s background is in helping community financial institutions leverage technology to better manage their compliance and risk functions, and he has helped hundreds of institutions develop and implement bespoke compliance programs. Prior to co-founding Green Check Verified, Mike helped scale Continuity, the first SaaS-based compliance management system for community financial institutions.

Mukesh Kshatriya
Chief Financial Officer
Mukesh is Chief Financial Officer at Green Check Verified. He is a highly entrepreneurial, seasoned Finance and Business Development professional with over 25 years of progressive experience in business management, finance, accounting, taxation and auditing at Ernst & Young in both public and private sectors. Mukesh has held several senior executive management and finance positions in Technology, Cannabis, Financial Services, Real Estate Development and Distribution sectors. He has been actively involved in structuring transactions and raising capital in both private debt and equity. His education includes a Bachelor of Commerce & Finance from the University of Toronto and a Chartered Accountant Designation from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Stacy Litke
VP, Banking Programs
Stacy Litke is VP of Banking Programs at Green Check Verified with decades of experience in the financial services industry. Time spent in retail, lending, operations, and technology — and from the seats of a community banker, fintech executive, and consultant — has provided Stacy with a comprehensive view of the industry. Prior to joining Green Check, Stacy was SVP of Operations for a Massachusetts-based, $900 million institution. Today, she uses her collective experience to help financial institutions with compliant cannabis banking programs.

Cherie LaFlamme
VP of Product
Cherie is the Vice President of Product at Green Check, where she leads the strategy and development of software that helps financial institutions and service providers manage compliance in specialty financial services. Cherie has extensive experience building products for highly-regulated industries and focuses on turning complex compliance requirements into practical, scalable solutions.
Board of Directors

Kevin Hart
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Dan Goldfarb
Co-founder, Mendon Venture Partners

Andre Haroche
Co-founder Silverleaf Venture Partners

Eric Lomas
President Of HT Capital Advisors

Joe Proto
Founding Partner, Windham Ventures

Kevin Hart
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Kevin Hart is the Founder & CEO of Green Check Verified. Kevin brings four decades of enterprise software experience as part of his founding vision for Green Check. He has worked in the C-Suite for a variety of software companies with global clients and partners, and he has led two companies to successful exits with publicly traded companies, as well as another to an IPO. With decades of experience at the helm of venture-backed companies, Kevin has brought together an unmatched team to help him lead Green Check to its leading position in the cannabis financial services market.

Dan Goldfarb
Co-founder, Mendon Venture Partners
Dan Goldfarb is a Co-Founder of Mendon Venture Partners, a venture investments and strategic advisory firm focused on financial technology companies and incumbent banks. Additionally, Mr. Goldfarb holds the position of Portfolio Manager at Mendon Capital Advisors Corporation, a long/short event-driven financial-sector fund. Prior to joining Mendon in 2020, Mr. Goldfarb was lead portfolio manager at Alpha One Capital and OFII where he managed a micro-cap long-only equity product primarily for institutional clients. From 1991-2005, Mr. Goldfarb was a senior analyst at Babson Capital Management following financial service companies at Mass Mutual and Wilmington Trust. Mr. Goldfarb began his career on Wall Street at Drexel Burnham Lambert and Smith Barney.
Mr. Goldfarb holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hobart College and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. Additionally, he is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Andre Haroche
Co-founder Silverleaf Venture Partners
Andre Haroche co-founded Silverleaf Venture Partners with Douglas Hannah to pursue Cannabis-focused venture capital, initially for their own accounts and later expanded to outside investors as well. At Silverleaf, Mr. Haroche oversees partnership operations, investment due diligence, and valuation. His previous corporate / business operations experience coupled with his investment background provides perspective that benefits both portfolio company CEOs as well as Silverleaf Venture Partners.
Mr. Haroche has over 15 years of experience as principal investor in private equity and real estate for his family office. Prior to founding Silverleaf, Mr. Haroche was an executive in his family company, Liberty Travel, for 12 years where he began as travel agent and eventually ran the firm’s 100-person technology division as Chief Information Officer. Prior to exiting, Liberty Travel had annual sales of $2bn and 288 wholesale and retail offices nationwide.
Mr. Haroche received his B.S. & MBA from NYU Stern School of Business in ’93 & 2000 with a concentration in Finance, Valuation and Operations Management (Cum Laude). He served on Stern/NYU’s Board of Overseers until 2018.

Eric Lomas
President Of HT Capital Advisors
Eric Lomas is the President of HT Capital Advisors, responsible for the strategic direction and business development for the firm. Prior to founding HT Capital Advisors in 1997, Mr. Lomas led the acquisition of its predecessor firm Hill Thompson Magid and Co. in 1987. Prior to that, Mr. Lomas was a Managing Director and co-head of investment banking at Gruntal & Co. where he created the M&A and Bankruptcy departments of the firm. Before his affiliation with Gruntal, Mr. Lomas spent nine years with Deloitte where he ran international M&A consulting. Mr. Lomas began his career on Wall Street with Troster, Singer & Co. where he was involved in various facets of corporate finance and securities trading.
During his career, Mr. Lomas has initiated and orchestrated hundreds of successful investment banking assignments and held many key roles. In 1994, he was elected Executive Chairman of Rexel, Inc. a Fortune 1000 company and one of the oldest companies on the NYSE, and served until it was taken private by Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, S.A. (now known as French Luxury Group Kering). Additionally, Mr. Lomas has served on several public and private Boards, including Guaranty Bank, GoodMark Foods, Precision Optical Systems, Certron and Cellotape Label. He currently serves on the board of Waltron, Bull & Roberts, LLC, a market leader in water and steam quality monitoring instruments.
Mr. Lomas holds a B.S. Cum Laude in Business from Long Island University, an M.B.A. from the New York University Stern School of Business Administration and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He has completed several advanced management study programs including Harvard’s AMP on Corporate Governance. Mr. Lomas was in the United States Navy and is a Vietnam Veteran.

Joe Proto
Founding Partner, Windham Ventures
Joe Proto has four decades in the financial technology and banking industries as a senior executive and serial entrepreneur. Joe built Transactis into a leading payments company serving 25 of the largest 50 banks which was acquired by Mastercard in 2019. He launched REMITCO, a payments company acquired in 2000 by First Data, now part of Fiserv. He co-founded Financial Telesis (CashFlex) which was acquired in 1992 by CoreStates, now part of Wells Fargo. He served as chairman of DadeSystems (B2B integrated receivables) which was acquired in 2022 by Versapay, a Great Hill payments company. Joe also co-founded Windham Ventures (an innovation leader in med tech) and is an advisor and limited partner to several leading venture capital firms.
In addition to being a board director at Green Check, Joe serves as chairman at Finexio (automated AP technology); is a board director at LendKey (lending technology with over three hundred credit unions and community banks); board director at ActiveWorx (AP technology for multinational enterprise companies); board director at Identifee (CRM for financial institutions); and is also an executive advisor to Google Cloud and Photon Commerce. Joe is a member of various financial services organizations including the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP); he serves on the advisory board at the National Automated Clearinghouse Association (NACHA); and is a frequent speaker at conferences in the financial technology industry. He and his wife, Smita, are avid travelers and they serve on the World Wildlife National Council.
Board Observers

Anton Schutz Jr
Principal, Mendon Venture Partners

Tamara Totah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Flatiron Venture Partners

Anton Schutz Jr
Principal, Mendon Venture Partners
Anton Schutz, Jr. is a Principal at Mendon Venture Partners, a venture investments and strategic advisory firm focused on financial technology companies and incumbent banks. In addition to his position at Mendon Venture Partners, Mr. Schutz is a Senior Analyst at Mendon Capital Advisors Corporation, a long/short event-driven financial-sector fund founded in 1996. Prior to that, Mr. Schutz spent several years as an investment banking analyst in the financial institutions group at Stephens Inc., where he worked on depository M&A and capital issuances. He also has experience in financial services-focused equity research at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods and private equity at Patriot Financial Partners, L.P. He currently serves as a Board Observer for Neural Payments and Green Check.
Mr. Schutz graduated from Furman University, Cum Laude, with a BA in Business Administration and holds an MBA from NYU Stern, where he specialized in FinTech, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and Corporate Finance. He lives in New York City.

Tamara Totah
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Flatiron Venture Partners
Tamara is the Founder and CEO of Flatiron Venture Partners, a New York and Denver-based venture capital firm focused on investments in seed-stage technology businesses. She brings years of entrepreneurial experience and financial knowledge to successfully identify companies providing the infrastructure and the technology to new, nascent industries. After graduating from The Wharton School of Business, Tamara began her career as a private equity investment professional at Goldman Sachs & Co. Prior to founding Flatiron Venture Partners, Tamara was the CEO of The Flatiron Group, an executive recruiting firm focused on finding investment professionals for global private equity firms and hedge funds.
After going through so many challenges just to get our cannabis license, it’s nice to be Green Check Verified. Their system and process was quick and unbelievably easy. Once we got verified there was no red tape getting a bank account and PIN debit terminal from their marketplace.
BlazeXpress
Our partnership with Green Check allows us to operate an effective, efficient and transparent line of business that is unique to our bank, and this new set of features gives us amazing insights into our program as it grows along with this rapidly expanding industry.
Keri Cain
Director of Special Programs, Regent Bank
Green Check has been so easy to use. They worked with my POS system to build a custom integration for us, and now recording deposits takes less than 5 minutes.
Dana Sullinger
Missouri Joint Ventures
We're happy to have you as a partner to help us navigate the requirements and reduce any anxiety because we want to maintain our banking relationship!
Catherine Young
5 Leaf Lab
I have been impressed with Green Check Verified’s commitment to excellence. It’s very collaborative and a very low-pressure process. The process was very much custom designed to what we wanted in our program.
Josh Herman
Enterprise Risk Manager of Frankenmuth Credit Union
Green Check has provided us with the support and structure we needed to be successful. They are quick to respond to our inquiries and have offered valuable advice on how to be more successful in serving our clients.
Chris Hartman
EVP, Chief Deposit Officer of Cogent Bank
As for Green Check, I have to say you guys are great to work with. You have been very receptive to our challenges and ideas for solutions which helps us ensure we get you the data you and the bank require in a timely and well-presented manner.
Urban Empire
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