Joseph A. Staples has served as a director of ACCESS Newswire since 2024 and is Chairperson of the Compensation Committee. He is an independent marketing consultant who, since September 2020, has provided marketing advisory and consulting services to technology companies in the U.S. and Europe, and he has been an adjunct professor of marketing at Utah Valley University since August 2023. He was Chief Marketing Officer of Motivosity Inc. from February 2018 to August 2020, of Workfront (sold to Adobe) from August 2014 to December 2017, and of Interactive Intelligence (sold to Genesys) from January 2005 to July 2014. He has served on the board of directors of Screen Dragon since February 2024 and previously served on the boards of Sharpen (2019-2022) and Textel (2020-2022). Mr. Staples brings more than 40 years of technology-business experience, including 22 years as a CMO/SVP of Marketing at both private and public companies.