Our Story: Innovating the Future
Team
President & Chief Executive Officer
Kia Behnia is an industry veteran with over 20 years of executive experience in private and public high-tech companies. Most recently, as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, he was responsible for leading BMC’s technology and solution strategy for all products including social enterprise, mobility management and cloud computing management. He came to BMC via the acquisition of Marimba Inc. where he served as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Marimba, he served as a senior member of the technical team for Tivoli Systems Inc., which was acquired by IBM.
Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer
Andrew Cohen combines vision and strategic leadership with a rich background in innovative technology solutions. Over the last 12 years, he has taken on startup leadership roles in enterprise sales, strategy services and first customer product releases. He has 10 years of leading-edge R&D in mobile work, collaboration and product design, with multiple patents, presentations and publications to his name. Companies he has worked with include Kanisa, Knova, Kana Communications and IBM Research.
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Jonathan Kaplan, a technical leader who understands the corporate IT environment, has spent more than 15 years focused on bringing transformative technology into the workplace. He was the original software architect of the Open Wonderland project, an open source Java toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds, and a founder of the Wonderland’s supporting company, WonderBuilders. Prior to WonderBuilders, he spent 6 years at Sun Microsystems Labs, during which he developed and deployed multiple systems and received several patents for distributed collaboration systems.
VP, Product Management
As VP of Product, Ravinder Braich brings 15 years of product and technical sales experience in both startups and public companies to PowWow Mobile. Previously, he was at Citrix Systems (via Net6 acquisition) as the Senior Director of Product Management as well as Director of Solutions Engineering. Prior to Citrix, he held sales engineering roles at Octane which was acquired by Epiphany and Intrepid which was acquired by PeopleSoft. Ravinder was also on the board of advisors at Vivu Inc. which was acquired by Polycom.
SVP, Customer Success
VP, Marketing & Communications
SVP, Sales
SVP, Strategic Alliances
Board Members
Chairman / Investor
Dave Schwab, a managing director of both Sierra Ventures and Vertical Venture Partners, has years of experience growing businesses not just as an investor, but as an entrepreneur, engineer, and sales and marketing professional.
