About Action

Pat Downing is a seasoned technology executive with over 30 years’ experience in both public and private companies. Prior to joining Action, Mr. Downing served as the CTO at FirstClose where he successfully implemented agile processes, establish a QA department and practice, stabilized the core product and guided the architecture and delivery of a lead gen product. Prior to FirstClose, Pat was the CTO at a mobile financial services company, Fintiv where he successfully launched Fintiv’s cloud infrastructure at Amazon, migrated away from traditional legacy datacenters, drove the agile development process to deliver on the next generation of mobile payment platform and merged acquired technologies and infrastructure. Pat also led Global Technology Operations which included product deployments in the US, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan. Prior to joining Fintiv in 2013, Pat served as VP of Technology Operations at companies like AllClearID where he delivered their SaaS infrastructure and Operations, Dunn and Bradstreet’s listing services companies (exp. Hoovers and Selectory) supporting an online transaction rate of more than three Million transactions per day and IBM / Tivoli Systems where he led the North American Technology Operations and Global Infrastructure groups. Pat finds joy in building things, is an avid racquetball player, enjoys fishing, friends and just being outdoors. Pat is excited about joining Action Title Research with the opportunity to grow the technology team, systems and service that will enable explosive growth at ATR.

Brandi joined Action Title Research in 2017 following the acquisition of her company, Central Property Search, where she was co-owner and President for 27 years. She brings extensive title search experience to her role, including deep knowledge of Pennsylvania land title search, insurance-related issues, and leading teams towards success. Brandi quickly assimilated into the Action team sharing her knowledge and expertise, collaborating to deliver better solutions while building relationship with clients and industry partners.

Wendy joined the Action team in April of 2021 as our Human Resources and Payroll Administrator. She comes to us with 9 years of HR knowledge, spending the bulk of that time working for Pearson, the largest education company in the world. Prior to joining ATR, she worked for Randa Apparel & Accessories as the corporate Sr. Merchandiser for the luggage division overseeing seasonal line planning.

Bob is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Strattam Capital. He serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee and as a member of a number of technology company boards. Previously, he worked at Oak Hill Capital Partners, GCC Investments, and Morgan Stanley. He earned his B.S.E., summa cum laude, at Princeton University and his MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also serves on the boards of AustinPBS and the University of Texas HMTF Center For Private Equity Finance. He lives in Austin.

Jonathan joined Strattam Capital in 2021 and currently is a Principal focused on deal-sourcing, new investment activity, and portfolio company oversight. Previously, Mr. Busch worked as a Principal at HighBar Partners, a Bay Area-based private equity firm, where he focused on operationally engaged enterprise and infrastructure software investments. Jonathan earned his A.B. cum laude in Economics from Harvard University and his M.B.A. with honors from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.