John S. Matthews
Chairman

Chairman of GES from its inception in 2015, where he has supervised the development of elections software and hardware applications covering registration, tabulation and reporting. Currently, Mr. Matthews is directing the 2024 GES application to complete certification by the US Election Assistance Commission new Voluntary Voting Guideline 2.0, which will provide GES the opportunity to enter the US Government municipal marketplace. Mr. Matthews is also directing GES into developing election software for the future utilizing the digital decentralized ledger system commonly known as the Blockchain and negotiated GES 30% equity ownership of True Vote Inc. Since the 1980’s, Mr. Matthews grew up in and around the election administration business with his father, John W. Matthews III, who was the Chairman of Election Services Solutions, an election company whose assets GES is currently acquiring. Mr. Matthews has been involved in US Politics since the 1980’s, having worked for numerous Republican and Democratic Statewide, Congressional and Presidential elections. He worked with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on his 1988 campaign for the NY U.S. Senate race, where concurrently, he served as Senator Moynihan’s Director of the NY Office, acting as the Senator’s Senior Ombudsman, and responsible for all constituent services and legislative initiatives.

Maralin Falik
CEO

Since March 15, 1981, more than forty-three years, Maralin Falik has successfully supervised and monitored more than 8,800 elections for International Labor Unions, Local Labor Unions as well as International Associations.  Her perfect record reflects the quality of her work when defending challenged elections before the Department of Labor, Judicial Review Boards, and the Courts. Ms. Falik has also testified as an “election expert” to the courts and various oversight groups.   Not one election has been overturned during her tenure.

 Maralin’s professional career (1981-2000) started at the Honest Ballot Association, a not-for-profit organization founded by Theodore Roosevelt, where she was Executive Director. Maralin was brought up by a family whose father only hired union employees and her grandfather was the President of a Local Union in New York City. Because of her background, she was able to implement new protocols to safeguard all elections and provide all candidates with shared information throughout the process, whether in person, mail ballot or electronic. 

In 2000 Maralin and her staff joined election.com/Election Services Solutions where her reputation of fair and honest elections created a nationwide growth from clients around the country, some of whom have been clients for more than twenty-five years.  In order to grow even larger, Global Election Services {GES} was formed in 2015 with the help of John Matthews and Kathryn Weisbeck and Global Arena Holdings.

Maralin is considered to be an expert in mail ballot voting and many organizations have asked for her guidance including Public and Private Sectors throughout the United States. Defense of every election is always included in every Global Election Services contract agreement.

Because of her extensive experience in providing complete election management solutions to key private sector clients, including labor unions, associations, Maralin has also been asked to handle post-election hearings with exceptional success.

Kathryn Weisbeck
President

President of GES since the formation of the company in 2015. Ms. Weisbeck works in many facets of the company including design of all election materials including custom ballots and envelopes; coordinating with and directing printer/mail houses; employee training and management; helpline setup design and training, management and supervision; working with clients on the entire election process including; voter list management, eligibility and configuration; registration and supervision of in-person elections, ballot tabulation and auditing oversight. Ms. Weisbeck manages and trains GES staff, temporary workers and works closely with IT personnel and vendors on the development and management of GES' proprietary registration and scanning/tabulation software systems. She negotiated, planned and executed the election plan for the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Presidential Primary in 2020. This involved coordinating and training staff, securing materials and setup of technology hardware and software, ballot design and printer coordination and call center setup and management prior to the election. Then setting up all locations and successfully organizing all of the moving pieces on the day and finally, tabulation and distribution of the results. Ms. Weisbeck earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.

James Daprile
Election Auditing & Compliance

Earned his BS in Accounting from St John’s University while working in financial services. His career included roles as CFO, along with legal, product and investment banking controllerships, with diverse corporate structures varying from small US broker-dealers to global investment banks. James has led and supported the implementation of various information systems which included trading, settlement, management reporting along with general and securities ledger systems as well as database development for regulatory reporting. James also has experience as a securities regulator with FINRA. His role included monitoring and risk analysis within member firms by reviewing submitted data, business activities and externally gathered information to ensure compliance with FINRA and SEC rules and regulations.