Chesapeake Bank has added Stephanie Chaufournier to its board of directors.

Chaufournier is Managing Partner of Avenir Advisors, LLC, a consulting firm focused on the online payments industry and specializing in strategic planning, partnership development, product development and management, and project management.

Prior to founding Avenir Advisors, she was Executive Vice President and General Manager for Online Resources Corporation (ORCC since acquired by ACI) where she was responsible for ORCC’s Banking Payments division. Previously, she served as Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer of Inovix Imaging Technologies, a private equity backed start-up company focused on high resolution imaging technologies.

Earlier in her career, Chaufournier worked at American Express in New York as corporate Vice President and Assistant to the President.

“We are so fortunate to have Stephanie on our board.” Chesapeake Bank president and CEO Jeff Szyperski. “Her leadership, knowledge, and experience in the financial industry with a focus on payments will be a great wellspring for us as payments becomes an ever-growing and evolving part of banking. She will be a great advisor in this space.”

Chaufournier also sits on the bank’s Technology Advisory Board. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Denison University and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. She resides in Irvington and Alexandria, with her husband, J. Lance Franke.

Headquartered in Kilmarnock, Chesapeake Bank operates 16 community banks in the Middle Peninsula, Northern Neck, Williamsburg and Richmond region. For more information about Chesapeake Bank, visit chesbank.com.