James (Jim) G. Kelly is the former Chief Executive Officer at EVO Payments, as well as a former member of the company’s Board of Directors before it was acquired by Global Payments in March 2023. Before joining EVO, Kelly held several leadership roles at Global Payments from 2001 to 2010, including serving as President and Chief Operating Officer and Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, Kelly served as a managing director of Alvarez & Marsal, a global professional services firm, and as a manager of Ernst & Young’s mergers and acquisitions and audit groups. Kelly is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.