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.
Chandra Devarajan is an innovative global leader for the Engineering team at Ephesoft. He has over 20 years of experience in developing and delivering products successfully in following Agile methodology. He manages the entire product life cycle, design, development, operations, networking, IT and business integration. Chandra is an expert in planning, delivering and meeting the customer demands as well as being hands-on in building products on AWS.
Over his tenure he has received excellence in customer satisfaction and on time delivery of the products. While Chandra demonstrates technical expertise and management skills, he puts people first, helping make employees feel valued and appreciated. Engineers love his passion for innovative ideas in bringing AI and cloud technologies, promoting training and advocating Agile practices. He is an active organizer and presenter in the cloud computing Meetups.
Prior to joining Ephesoft, Chandra led platform development at Sharp Labs of America for Sharp worldwide and portal development at Change Healthcare. Chandra brings a global perspective from working at Sun Microsystems in New Zealand for 3 years as a consultant. He earned Masters in Computer Applications and BS in Mathematics from University of Madras. He loves to visit all United States National Parks and State Capitol buildings with his wife and two kids.
Stephen Boals runs global business development for 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.
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.
Alex Welsh leads Ephesoft’s direct enterprise sales team. Alex is an experienced sales director, project manager, and entrepreneur with a passion for solving customers’ mission critical problems with innovative cost-effective technology solutions. He has over 15 years of professional experience in information technology, holding leadership positions in sales, business development, project management, product management, and engineering for Fortune 500 corporations as well as venture-backed startup companies.
Prior to joining Ephesoft, Alex led Nuance Document Imaging’s U.S. government sales organization after a successful acquisition integration of Notable Solutions, Inc. Before Notable, Alex led data warehousing and systems integration teams for Accenture as part of several large outsourcing programs.
Enno Lückel leads Ephesoft’s Sales teams in EMEA and Asia Pacific. He brings over 15 years’ experience in the areas of document capture and enterprise content management. Prior to joining Ephesoft, Enno built Notable Solutions’ European operations, transforming the organization from a technical sales approach in the MFP industry, to an EMEA-wide provider of decentralized capture solutions including MFPs, Scanner and Mobile devices. He also successfully established decentralized capture solutions for SAP, providing new ways to process documents in ERP scenarios beyond classic invoice capturing.
Enno has a proven record of accomplishments in business development, strategic alliances, product management, sales, sales management and technology sales.
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.
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.
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.
