Our Team
Lior Tal
CEO & Chairman of the Board
Previously: Director of international growth and partnerships at Facebook, co-founder and VP of business development at Snaptu (acquired by Facebook), partner at Barzam, Tal, Lerer Attorneys at Law and Patent Attorneys. Held leadership roles at Actimize (acquired by NICE), DiskSites (acquired by EMC), Odigo (acquired by Comverse).
Don Alvarez
CFO
Previously: VP of Finance of the International Council of Shopping Centers, VP of Finance of QuVa Pharma, Inc., National managing partner, COO and CFO of Tatum, a Randstad Company. Has held several other senior financial and operational roles in both private and public companies.
Marc Brown
VP of Human Resources
Previously: Chief People Officer of Zovio, Head of HR, Communications and Facilities at Provide Commerce. Has held various VP- and Director-level roles at PETCO, Encore Capital, UnitedHealthcare, and Best Buy.
Ben Landen
VP of Business Development
Previously: Head of Product & BD at DeepScale (acquired by Tesla), managed $100M automotive semiconductor product line as Senior Business Manager of Maxim Integrated. MBA at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and BS Electrical Engineering at California Polytechnic University SLO.
Chris Wright
Head of Sales
Previously: VP of Sales at Brain Corp, a robotic AI software company, resulting in the sale of thousands of autonomous robots over his 5 years and securing partnerships with major retailers. He also worked as Senior Directr of Sales at Kärcher North America, helping the company grow its revenue from $2m to $15m during his tenure.
Board Members
Karen Macleod
Independent Director
Currently: Market Leader Interim Solutions of Korn Ferry. Previously: CEO of the Arete Group. Board member FWA of New York, member and chair of Track Group Inc.'s audit committee. President of Tatum, Randstand Holdings NV Company, president of Resources Connection, Inc. North America. BOD member Resources Connection, Inc., audit committee of FWA.
Colleen Cunningham
Independent Director
Previously: Member of board of AICPA, SVP Controller of Zoetis, Inc., Global Managing Director RGP, CEO of Financial Executives International, CFO Havas Advertising, Chief Accounting Officer AT&T. Prior member of FASB Advisory Committee (FASAC) and IASB Advisory Committee (IASC).
James McDonnell
Independent Director
Currently: SVP of Sales & Marketing at Vispero. Previously: VP of ventas excellence HSM and Commercial Excellence for HSF at Honeywell, SVP Global Sales & Marketing at Intermec, and held several senior roles at Hewlett-Packard over more
than 26 years. Prior member of Astek's board.
Lior Tal
CEO & Chairman of the Board
Previously: Director of international growth and partnerships at Facebook, co-founder and VP of business development at Snaptu (acquired by Facebook), partner at Barzam, Tal, Lerer Attorneys at Law and Patent Attorneys. Held leadership roles at Actimize (acquired by NICE), DiskSites (acquired by EMC), Odigo (acquired by Comverse).
Don Alvarez
CFO
Previously: VP of Finance of the International Council of Shopping Centers, VP of Finance of QuVa Pharma, Inc., National managing partner, COO and CFO of Tatum, a Randstad Company. Has held several other senior financial and operational roles in both private and public companies.
Serving Multiple Industries
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