{"id":122082,"date":"2026-01-14T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/122082\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:28:11","slug":"informativ-names-former-surgical-notes-exec-as-its-new-cfo-dallas-innovates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/122082\/","title":{"rendered":"Informativ Names Former Surgical Notes Exec as\u00a0Its New\u00a0CFO \u00bb Dallas Innovates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img width=\"970\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Informativ_NickBrignola-970.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"featured-caption\">Informativ CFO Nick Brignola [Photo: Informativ]<\/p>\n<p>Informativ\u2014a Frisco-based provider of fraud prevention, compliance, credit, and payments technology for the automotive and consumer finance industries\u2014has hired Dominic (Nick) Brignola as the company\u2019s chief financial officer.<\/p>\n<p>Informativ is backed by Capstreet, a Houston-based lower middle market private equity firm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">Most recently, Brignola was CFO at Hallmark Health Care Solutions, a nationwide provider of technology for health systems and provider groups. Previously, he was CFO at Surgical Notes; SVP Finance, Operations at R1 RCM; VP of Finance at Solera Holdings; and VP, Finance and Treasury, at Caris Life Sciences. He holds a B.S. in Business Logistics from Penn State University and an MBA from Louisiana State University.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">Informativ CEO David Carner said Brignola\u2019s experience managing financial operations for data-driven companies \u201caligns with our focus on innovation and service, and we believe his disciplined approach and financial perspective will be key assets as we continue to scale our operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">\u201cI look forward to working closely with him as we build on our current platform and serve the needs of our clients at the crossroads of automotive and consumer finance,\u201d Carner added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Brignola addressed what drew him to join Informativ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout my career, I\u2019ve been drawn to organizations that solve complex problems through data and technology,\u201d Brignola said, \u201cand I look forward to supporting the Informativ team as they seek to elevate their fraud prevention, compliance, credit solutions, and payments technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rick Pleczko, CEO, operating executive group at Capstreet and executive chair at Informativ, said he looks forward to working with Brignola.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNick\u2019s contributions to Surgical Notes, a former portfolio company, were impressive, and I believe he will be a tremendous asset to the Informativ team,\u201d Pleczko said.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Informativ acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/dallasinnovates.com\/friscos-informativ-acquires-carmatic-and-its-payments-as-a-service-platform\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deerfield, Illinois-based Carmatic<\/a>, an intelligent payment-as-a-service platform built to deliver real-time, transaction-ready loan and lease payments.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss what\u2019s next. Subscribe\u00a0to\u00a0Dallas\u00a0Innovates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\">Track Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s business and innovation landscape with our curated news in your inbox Tuesday-Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tR E A D\u00a0\u00a0 N E X T\t<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Worth oncology company tapped former Salarius Pharmaceuticals CEO David Arthur to lead its push toward commercialization, including a planned IND for a rare pediatric brain cancer program.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/dallasinnovates.com\/friscos-informativ-acquires-carmatic-and-its-payments-as-a-service-platform\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Informativ_DavidCarner-970.jpg\" class=\"attachment-rp4wp-thumbnail-post size-rp4wp-thumbnail-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greenvale, New York-based Carmatic&#8217;s intelligent payment-as-a-service platform is built to deliver real-time, transaction-ready loan and lease payments, said Infomativ, a provider of fraud prevention, compliance, and credit technology for the automotive and consumer finance industries.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/dallasinnovates.com\/north-texas-based-fossil-partners-with-nick-jonas-on-new-watch-collection\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fossil_x_Nick_Jonas_Campaign-970.jpg\" class=\"attachment-rp4wp-thumbnail-post size-rp4wp-thumbnail-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jonas&#8217; first watch was a Fossil. Now he&#8217;s a leading face of the brand. Each timepiece in the new collection blends Jonas&#8217; passion for watch collecting, his personal style, and Fossil&#8217;s decades-long design heritage to deliver styles that are both &#8220;timeless and distinctly modern,&#8221; the Richardson-based company said.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/dallasinnovates.com\/island-names-former-project44-exec-as-its-new-cfo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Island_TimMacCarrick-970.jpg\" class=\"attachment-rp4wp-thumbnail-post size-rp4wp-thumbnail-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim MacCarrick brings more than 25 years of financial and operational leadership across high-growth software and technology organizations, including both public companies and private equity-backed firms.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/dallasinnovates.com\/ati-promotes-longtime-leader-to-cfo-and-svp-of-finance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ATI_Rob_Foster_970.jpg\" class=\"attachment-rp4wp-thumbnail-post size-rp4wp-thumbnail-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Robert &#8220;Rob&#8221; Foster brings both operational expertise and financial discipline to the CFO role, the company said. He most recently served as president of ATI&#8217;s specialty alloys &amp; components business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Informativ CFO Nick Brignola [Photo: Informativ] Informativ\u2014a Frisco-based provider of fraud prevention, compliance, credit, and payments technology for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[53031,53032,53033,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-122082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-capstreet","tag-informativ","tag-nick-brignola","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}