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Ephesoft’s executive management team represent the industry’s most seasoned group of subject matter experts.
Apply today and take the next step toward becoming an Ephesoft game-changer.
Heather Dilley oversees all facets of human capital related activities at Ephesoft, including employee relations, recruiting, benefits and compensation. She has over 20 years of diversified human resource experience, with her most recent experience serving as the Director of Human Resources at Conexant where she saw them through a successful sale to Synaptics. Prior to that, Heather was Vice President of Human Resources at both Local Corporation, an online search engine, and Greenwave Systems. She has also served in senior human resource roles at a number of technology and online companies including Paciolan, Rainbow Technologies, Canon, New Horizons Computer Learning Centers and HNC Software Insurance Solutions. Heather holds a master’s degree in Human Resource Management and a B.A. in Sociology from Chapman University, Orange.
Stephen Boals develops new strategies, opportunities and promotes Ephesoft. His experience in digital transformation and content management spans 15 years, where he has managed transformation projects for Microsoft, Freeport McMoRan and other Fortune 1000 companies, as well as the States of California and Louisiana. His broad background includes “Big 4” consulting with Ernst & Young, IT and security management, running an award-winning solutions group and various positions in sales management. He is a proud veteran and served as a Naval Flight Officer for 8.5 years.
Stephen graduated from the US Naval Academy with a BS in Ocean Engineering and holds an MBA from National University.
Lynn Tanattanawin is the Head of Corporate Strategy and is responsible for the strategic direction of Ephesoft, including target market segments, funding, M&A, IP strategy and other corporate growth initiatives. She travels frequently to learn about the industry and new technologies, anticipating trends and providing guidance on how to take advantage of market shifts. With a background in corporate development and scaling companies, Lynn sets high standards for operational rigor and execution. Her influence spans across the organization with her hands in every department, making sure the team runs in lockstep towards company goals.
Lynn hails from a global background, attending different international schools as her family moved from Chicago to Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Pakistan and Thailand. She ultimately returned to the United States and received her degree from Purdue University.
Following University James made use of his degree in Economics to start a successful career in banking, insurance and management consultancy. After a few years he realised he needed a more dynamic vocation and joined his friend from college in an IT distribution business as part of a new
sales team armed only with a phone and a prospect list of potential partners. Finding quick success and an affinity for sales James was soon building and managing sales teams, over the years for both major vendors and smaller start-ups. James has built and led EMEA sales teams across a number of IT sectors including storage and virtualisation, email archiving, security and predominantly document and workflow and process automation solutions, where his early consultancy career offers useful insight process improvement and workflow optimisation. James lives in the UK with his wife and four children enjoying the Yorkshire Dales for hiking and outdoor pursuits.
Denise Bader is Senior Vice President of Sales of the Americas at Ephesoft and has direct responsibility for sales, sales engineering, sales operations and customer success in the region. She has spent most of her professional career in technology sales, dedicated to helping customers and employees reach new heights.
Denise is passionate about solving customer problems, building successful practices with partners and helping her team reach personal goals. She joins us from Teletrac Navman where, as VP Sales, she delivered an unprecedented amount of value, helping customers navigate the turbulent waters of new regulations, developing data-driven insights and simplifying operations. Previously, she spent 17 years at Quest Software, helping the company move from 100 employees as a Pre-IPO, to a publicly traded company, to a subsidiary of Dell. Over the years, Denise escalated through the organization to run over half the US sales team as well as the Latin American entities while maintaining a vigilant eye on continuous customer experience and satisfaction. Denise won many prestigious accolades and was a two-time recipient of the Michael Dell Award.
Denise received her education at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and an Emphasis in International Relations. She lives in Southern Orange County with her two high-school-age sons and Buddy, the dog at the center of the family.
Doug Lee is responsible for leading revenue generating field operations worldwide. He is focused on accelerating the company’s next phase of growth and shareholder value. Doug is a customer-centric leader and will oversee Ephesoft’s efforts to become the market leader in the Content Driven Productivity space.
Doug brings over 20 years of senior sales leadership experience to the position, having led a variety of early stage VC funded companies and large corporations such as Computer Associates and Quest Software, through various stages of growth. He also served as an Operating Partner at Toba Capital and has a passion and reputation for building high performing teams that deliver exceptional results and customer value.
Doug has a B.S. in Marketing, from the University of Utah.
Kevin Harbauer is the Chief Technology Officer at Ephesoft and brings 20 years of diverse software development, management, operations and implementation experience. He has proven success building and leading high-performing product development and IT organizations. Similarly, he has helped organizations adopt innovative technologies and practices, including DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Software-as-a-Service, cloud-based, cybersecurity initiatives and data-driven operations.
Previously, as the CTO and CISO for Healthwise, he delivered measurable growth and advanced Healthwise’s mission by aligning product and technology strategies with the company’s corporate vision. In addition, he provided thought leadership around the development, presentation and implementation of the Healthcare interoperability standards and was an early adopter of cloud-based infrastructure in the healthcare sector. Prior to his time at Healthwise, Kevin was Director of QNXT development at QCSI and TriZetto, where he led a large development organization and was responsible for delivering industry-leading products to the health care payer market. Kevin achieved a BS in Computer and Information Science at the University of Maryland College Park, a MBA from University of Phoenix and completed an executive education program from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Naren Goel is responsible for leading the global finance organization for Ephesoft. He is focused on driving the company’s next phase of growth including international expansion in a metrics driven, structured and fiscally responsible manner as Ephesoft continues to lead worldwide adoption of supervised machine learning document capture and analytics. Naren is operationally-driven finance leader and will oversee multiple departments, business processes and systems.
He brings nearly 20 years of senior finance leadership experience to the position, having led a broad range of startups to large corporations such as VMWare through various stages of growth. Goel has a strong background as a financial executive for a number of enterprise software and cloud computing organizations, including an understanding of Software-as-a-Service-model. He has also earned an ACMA (Chartered Management Accountant) designation in the U.K.
Ike Kavas is the founder and CEO, with 20 years of document capture, document management, workflow and systems engineer experience. His focus is to guide, innovate and expand the company’s mission of turning the world’s unstructured content into actionable data.
His previous role was Chief Technology Officer at Ephesoft and he holds a patent on supervised machine learning for document classification and extraction. He achieved the CDIA+ certification and has been involved with hundreds of projects using products from EMC-Captiva, Kofax, Readsoft, TIS, OpenText, Microsoft and Xerox.
He is a serial entrepreneur with three ventures and successful exits. He has not only the technical background by implementing several multi-million dollar projects for Fortune 100 companies but also has solid sales/business experience as he has achieved repeated financial and operational goals in his career.
Ike earned his BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and studied Computer Architecture at Anatolia University.
Stephen Lee runs Ephesoft’s sales organization in the Asia Pacific region. He has over 10 years’ experience managing enterprise clients, resellers and distributors across multiple industries, including banking, insurance, shipping, logistics and media, among others. He also has a wealth of knowledge consulting organizations around process optimization and how best to utilize technology solutions and wrap it around their unique business requirements specifically related to intelligent document capture and workflow solutions both on-premises and in the cloud. Stephen also has a background in the cyber security and marketing event technology spaces. Stephen is born and raised in Sydney, Australia and started his career there before moving to Singapore in 2010 where he has remained ever since. He earned his Bachelor of Business degree from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) with a major in marketing.
Andrew Rootes brings extensive sales and business development experience to help customers and partners significantly grow their businesses, enabling them to deliver remarkable outcomes. With over 20 years of hands on expertise in the document capture and enterprise software space, Andrew is responsible for managing the Asia Pacific and Japan region for Ephesoft. Based in Australia, his leadership will focus on the region’s sales growth across all industries, support our global partners and ensure success with our rapidly expanding customer base.
Prior to joining Ephesoft, Andrew’s successful career includes having worked for HP Enterprise Software, Kofax, EMC and Veritas Software, where he greatly impacted partners and strategic alliance growth channels. Under Andrew’s stewardship Kofax significantly grew its channel business, accounting for over 70% of the APJ regional revenue, and grew actual revenues by over 50% year over year.
Russ Hubbard leads the global sales team and all aspects of revenue creation at Ephesoft. With 20 years of experience in SaaS, software technology and content services, Russ uses a unique approach combining customer and partner success, operational excellence, change management and worldwide synergy to meet company goals and objectives. Bringing his global go-to-market experience and insight from driving growth teams across multiple continents, Russ is responsible for managing the direct, channel, inside, OEM, customer success and pre-sales teams worldwide.
Prior to joining Ephesoft, Russ held leadership positions in sales at Omnitracs (a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company), OpenText and Gemalto where he has lead turnarounds and elevated companies to the next level. His strong operational background provides the framework to continue major growth initiatives. He earned a BS in Business Administration and Spanish from Wake Forest University and an MBA in International Management & Finance from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Kevin Goulet leads Product Management for Ephesoft, bringing over 20 years of product, technology and strategy leadership experience. His focus will be to globally lead the team and products to market, enhancing customer success and growth. He is passionate about leading organizations to identify and deeply understand market opportunities and translate into successful and supportable products and solutions.
Previously, Kevin was the VP of Product Management at a privately-held data management and workflow leader Winshuttle LLC where he drove the decision to pivot and develop a new SaaS platform to enable scale and growth. Prior to Winshuttle, he led the definition, development and launch of a new-to-market Hadoop-based big data management solution, the company’s first big data product, as VP of Product Management. He also served in numerous hardware and software product leadership, operations and M&A roles at Motorola, was responsible for the entire product portfolio at U.S. Robotics as Head of Product Management and employee #4 in start-up Mobitrac. Kevin received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed the Business Administration Executive Education program at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Tim McMullin brings extensive sales and solution design experience to help customers and partners successfully meet their business objectives. With more than 25 years of technical and sales expertise in the enterprise document and data capture space, Tim is responsible for managing Ephesoft’s Channel Sales in the Americas region. His leadership focuses on the expansion and growth of the Ephesoft partner channel.
Prior to joining Ephesoft, Tim’s successful career includes working for Kofax, Notable Solutions and Nuance Document Imaging, including being a President’s Club achiever more than 10 times. He earned his BA in English from CSU, Fullerton and his Master’s degree in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University.