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Al Lalani
Co-Founder and Chief Executive
S.K. Lalani
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Narasimha Voruganti
Chief Technology Officer
Maciek Gorzkowski
SVP of Customer Success
Erin Raese
SVP of Revenue
Matt Reeves
VP of Product Management
Wally Finley
Head of Information Security
Al Lalani
Co-Founder and Chief Executive
Al brings extensive experience in product management, marketing, and technology to Annex Cloud. Prior to founding Annex Cloud, he founded Immply Group, a web development agency. Before that, he led eCommerce at Teleflora where he was responsible for Product Management and Marketing for the teleflora.com, eFlorist and findaflorist.com properties. He also held senior technology roles at SaaS startups including Foodlink Online and Agribuys which offered a lot of learnings that he has been able to utilize in growing Annex Cloud. Under Al's leadership, the Annex Cloud team has grown from 2 to over 150 with people across several offices and 3 continents. Al is a frequent speaker at several trade shows including eTail and shop.org. When he’s not working, he loves spending time with his two girls and his family or just catching up on sleep.
Maciek Gorzkowski
SVP of Customer Success
Maciek is a pragmatic, passionate, curious and strategic digital marketer with over 20 years agency and client-side experience including work in Warsaw, London, and the US. He has extensive experience in business development, client management, forecasting, managing and working with fortune 500 brands including P&G, British Airways, Shell, HSBC among others. Maciek is a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of digital channels and user experience. He is a business leader who embraces the challenges of a changing digital landscape and enjoys getting involved. Maciek is an experienced with entrepreneurial ventures including co-founding digital ad agency Play, navigating the complexity of a multinational global agency, JWT and being involved in late and early-stage start-ups, Machinima and Annex Cloud.
Phil Barbaro
Head of Finance and Operations
Phil Barbaro is the Head of Finance and Operations for Annex Cloud and is responsible for leading strategic finance, company and corporate operations. He has over 12 years of finance experience with 10 years of experience working in startup and VC funded companies. Before joining Annex Cloud, Phil was the VP of Finance and HR for BOOM! Studios, a comic book publishing and media IP company. He has experience working closely with the board of directors and led company due diligence during M&A and funding rounds with partners including 20th Century Fox. He is a Los Angeles native and an avid Dodgers fan.
Franco Paolucci
Head of EMEA
Franco Paolucci is the Head of EMEA for Annex Cloud. He is responsible to develop the EMEA market strategically, as well as operational. Over the last 20 years Franco had different Sales and Management positions with leading US and European vendors like Omniture, Selligent or Oracle. He is an online marketing expert for 15 years. Before Annex Cloud he was the Head of Sales for Exponea, an experience cloud provider. Franco lives close to Frankfurt/Germany where also our EMEA office is located.
Steve Swain
VP of Business Development
Steve is responsible for driving strategic partnerships, alliances and mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth for Annex Cloud and its customers. He works closely with partners around the world, ranging from strategic alliances to system integrators, technology partners, and agencies, to identify areas of collaboration, drive innovation and unlock shared value. Prior to his work with Annex Cloud role, Steve had an early career as a professional baseball player with the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners for 6 seasons. He has also spent 20+ years in high tech in various leadership positions and industries including, IT Security, digital printing, manufacturing, and SaaS and has played a prominent role in IPOs, acquisitions, and mergers. Swain resides in sunny Carlsbad, CA with his wife Karen.
Wally Finley
Head of Information Security
Wally Finley has over 25 years of experience managing and optimizing IT infrastructure/strategy both domestically and internationally. These include large-scale petabyte shared storage cloud solutions, HA/DR, compliance, cost modeling, and data center architecture. Wally has worked in various public and private industries including education, aviation, medical, geospatial, banking, online travel, social media, human resources, and online data storage.
Jay Majumdar
VP of Sales
Jay Majumdar is a Senior Sales & Strategy Exec with a Six Sigma mindset and a bias for action. He has a proven track record at building repeatable, hyper-growth models & sales ecosystems for over 18 years. Jay has taken several startups through acquisition after being onboarded as early as their first Sales Exec by quickly growing revenues from under 5M to 100M, and scaling sales + revenue teams from under 8 employees to over 200 employees. He is a proud father of a 49er and SF Giants fan.
Matt Reeves
VP of Product Management
Prior to joining Annex Cloud of course - Over 16 years experience at SAP, holding leadership positions in Development and Product/Solution Management in the product areas of Commerce Marketing, Retail, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Analytics. Primarily focused on customer-centric methodolgies to craft future product & partner vision, define go-to-market strategies, and manage strategic client relationships.
Narasimha Voruganti
Chief Technology Officer
Narasimha Voruganti is the Chief Technology Officer for Annex Cloud and is responsible for leading the research and product development, technology, and strategy behind Annex Cloud’s next-generation software as well it's client implementation team. Narasimha began his engineering career over 20 years ago and brings experience in delivering software solutions across domains including Enterprise Software, Banking, Media, Real Estate and HR using traditional and SaaS models.Prior to Annex Cloud, Narasimha worked at Aditi, Bank of America, Myspace, Realtor.com, NBC Universal and Neogov. In his free time he loves spending time with family or watching cricket.
S.K. Lalani
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
S.K. is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Annex Cloud and is responsible for its international operations and team. S.K. brings extensive experience in operational management to Annex Cloud. Prior to co-founding Annex Cloud, he co-founded Immply Group, a web development agency. Before that, he founded and successfully exited multiple businesses in retail and manufacturing. He has also held senior management roles at several financial institutions prior to that with hundreds of people under his organization. His work ethic and passion for growing companies are unparalleled which has led to the fast growth of Annex Cloud.
Erin Raese
SVP of Revenue
Erin Raese is the SVP of Revenue at Annex Cloud and responsible for the partner development and corporate marketing functions at Annex Cloud Erin is a commercial growth executive with proven expertise in taking small and mid-size organizations to the next level: InteQ, Cartera Commerce, Aimia’s ILS division, and Loyalty360. She also brings an unparalleled customer loyalty strategy and innovation expertise. As a passionate loyalty strategist, Erin has focused her career on helping organizations build profitable relationships with their customers, develop long-term brand loyalty, and increase customer retention and revenue in both B2B and B2C environments. She is equally passionate about spending quality time with her son and golden retriever and giving back through mentoring.