ISV Technical Enablement & AppExchange Operations

Srikanth Reddy Kota

Born and raised in Hyderabad, completed Masters from BITS, Pilani in Software Engineering. Before relocating to Bengaluru in February 2018, I worked in Hyderabad for 12 years. Joined Salesforce Ohana in 2018 as a Senior Technical Evangelist. Prior to joining Salesforce, I have handled multiple roles in product organizations from Developer to Enterprise Architect and BA, Scrum Master to Director. I enjoy Cricket, watching movies and eating Hyderabadi Biryani!

Shay Casey

Born and raised in San Francisco, one of the few natives who remained in the city . . . until I moved to Oakland about 5 years ago. Happily married with a 2-year-old son now. Have been with Salesforce either as a contractor or a full employee since 2007, all with the AppExchange or Partner Operations teams. I enjoy acting, singing, and watching movies.

Calvin Ou

Born and raised in the South Bay, I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in CS in 2015. After initially joining Salesforce as a Summer intern I've worked as a developer for the Hammer team, helping maintain the functionality, integrity and quality of the Apex programming language. I hope to learn new skills in addition to building on top of my existing ones as an ISV Technical Evangelist. I love exploring the outdoors by going hiking, mountain biking and skiing. I enjoy working with my hands to take apart, fix and improve but more often than not I end up breaking electronic gadgets, appliances and cars. I also volunteer for an Oakland based non-profit called the Crucible which teaches industrial arts to both adults and at-risk kids of the Bay Area. Feel free to drop by and say hello and I'll tell you about Vanessa, a 2006 Ford Econoline Van that I'm in the process of converting into a camper/adventure mobile... I promise, it's almost done!

Richard Redditt

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Graduated on Philosophy. Joined Salesforce on the Security Review Operations team pursuing my passion on security about a year and a half ago. My work interest is to embed a culture of security into our developing partners. Other interests include music, juggling, culture, lock picking, knots, etc.

Antonio Arevalo

Born in San Francisco and raised in the East Bay of Antioch Ca. I grew up as the oldest of 7 siblings. (2 brothers and 4 sisters) I got my opportunity to work at Salesforce as a contractor 2 years ago and have enjoyed working with the ISV Partner Operations Team since February of this year. Prior to joining Salesforce I worked at Wells Fargo Bank for 10 years as a Sales Supervisor for Online Banking. Blessed with a beautiful family, I have 2 daughters ages 17 & 6 and a 14 year old son that keep me on my toes. I am a huge sports fan and enjoy working out, playing softball, photography and graphic design.

Jenelle Feole

I grew up in the Bay Area, and I have lived in California for my entire life so far. I lived in Santa Cruz while h̶i̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ studying at UCSC, and now, I live in the South Bay. I have a B.A. in Business Management Economics which goes hand-in-hand with the fact that I am interested in many different things. One of my deepest interests has been innovation in technology. I think that the most unique things that I do outside of work are meditation and printmaking.

Alex Wong

I live in Madison, WI and have for the past 7 years. Married with two kids. Aside from my early childhood in New Jersey and recent stint in Madison, I lived in San Francisco for most of my life. This is my second time at Salesforce -- the first was in CSG. Aside from work, I play the saxophone and guitar, do a bunch of photography, and play an obscure sport, ultimate frisbee, nearly year round.

Andrew Albert

I live in Novato CA (15 miles north of Golden Gate). Born in Pittsburgh PA, grew up in Allentown PA, moved to Bay Area after college. I joined Salesforce in November 2004 as a technical consultant - my bootcamp covered the latest release which introduced web tabs and sforce 4.0 (API v4). I transferred to the Partner Technical Enablement team in August 2008 - when the team was founded. Married, no kids. Outside of work, my main hobby is CrossFit or any other exercise. I'm a huge Michigan football fan. My wife and I like to travel and try to go on 1-2 big trips a year.

John Hogan

I've been working on the Salesforce platform since 2007 and joined Salesforce in 2012 as a Technical Solution Architect with Services. I became a Program Architect in 2013 and then switched to the ISV team in 2014.

Peter Martin

Originally from Ireland. Came over here 27 years ago on a 2 month holiday visa - guess I overstayed my welcome. Now living in Michigan with my wife Jennifer and 3 sons. I have been doing SF for 10years and never looked back. Interested in all things tech, photography and playing tennis.

Michael Epstein

I started at Salesforce as a technical architect in Salesforce Services, and joined the ISV TE team in August 2015. I love working with many aspects of the Salesforce Platform, but especially native mobile apps (and especially Apple/iOS). I studied mechanical engineering end economics, and live in Chicago with four active kids, one wonderful wife, and one large and lazy dog.

David O'Connor

Born and live in Dublin Ireland, flying the ISV flag over here. I started with Salesforce in 2009 for 5 years in CSG Tech Support, then worked with an ISV for 2 years and finally joined the ISV Team in October 2015 I am married with no kids (Yet) When possible I love travelling and seeing new sights. I have joined my local rowing club last year and this year I purchased a bike under the bike to work scheme and loving it.

Ravi Ravichandran

Born in India and moved to Bahrain ('79) (in the middle-east) and then to US('81). Probably the only guy in this team that has lived in many states in US (SD, TX, MS, NJ, NY, CA). Lived in Singapore for a year as well. Married with two kids and a dog. I have a dual personality -- accounting/finance and technology. I know the difference between CTA (Cumulative Translation Account) and CTA (Certified Technical Architect)!. Been part of the Salesforce eco-system since 2006. I am a curious cat when it comes to technology. Always interested in knowing how things work. And watching international mystery movies (of course with sub-title!).

Laura Kulikauskaite

Born in Kaunas, Lithuania (yes, I do love basketball), moved to Reading UK to do my undergrad and then eventually to London for Masters in Information Systems and Digital Innovation (decided that this title goes along nicely with my surname) at LSE. By now I've been living in the UK for nearly 6 years. Did a fair bit of studying and a few internships before Salesforce. Joined the company in Jan 2016 to work with emerging partners in Europe and, currently, I'm covering EMEA South with Germany, France and Israel being my main countries. I also like organising activities for the team, it's always fun to gather everyone together and have a good laugh. When it comes to my hobbies I love travelling, hiking, discovering cool places in London and experiencing new things. German boyfriend is now a way how I can justify my excessive travelling :) Horse riding is something I'm still very keen on doing when I have an opportunity (I used to compete in dressage a while ago). Oh, and I really like contemporary art - last weekend I visited Documenta14, the biggest contemporary art exhibition in the world and it was great!

Marc Kuster

Born in a tiny village in France, lived in Paris and Rome and now in Aix en Provence. Learned architecture (no software) and couldn't resist to join salesforce (no software) in 2007 as an Instructor and moved to the ISV team in 2012. Married with my wife of 20 years, 3 kids (son 18,15 and 10) According to my sons my hobbies re Egality, Fraternity and Sofa (no TV but farniente). I tend to translate it to drinks, chats, food, swim especially during summer time.

Bill Mariani

Cinderella story. Outta of nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, 10+ year veteran of the ISV team. I live in Wheaton, IL outside of Chicago where I have a wife and a 14-year-old daughter who loves to play soccer and watch dad play golf. Remember - Two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left.

Manishi Singh

Grew up in India (multiple cities). Worked in India, Kuala Lumpur, London, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco and now call Charlotte, NC home. I joined Salesforce in Nov 2011 after working with an ISV. Cars and photography are my passions outside work, apart from Cricket which is the 2nd religion for most Indians. For my friends, I used to be the resident expert for their automotive troubles when vehicles were mostly mechanical. I also love reading history, mostly world wars. I am married for 16 years. My wife is a business analyst with Wells Fargo and we have a 8 yr old daughter. We love taking road trips and cooking together.

Lizz Brooks

I am a San Francisco native, and work out of the SF office. I briefly lived in Chicago and Tokyo, but still consider San Francisco home. I attended USC for college (Fight On) and am a huge Trojans fan. I joined the ISV Tech Evangelist team in July of 2015 and starting out working with emerging partners. I moved over to the Industries team in Feb '17, where I now support Healthcare partners (emerging and strategic) and also lead the Health Cloud expert area. Outside of work I enjoy watching sports, spending time with friends and family, traveling, and staying active.

Danny Chang

I am based out of San Francisco and have been since moving to the area for college. Before that I grew up in a small town called London, Canada. I've been with Salesforce for almost 3 years, coming in as a software engineer in IT (developing code that goes into Org62 and other internal orgs) before joining the ISV TE team earlier this year. Huge Cal football & Blue Jays fan. In my spare time, I enjoy running, listening to podcasts and drinking great cocktails.

Lynn Cohen

I am located in Chatham County, NC, about 20 minutes south of Chapel Hill. I joined Salesforce and the ISV TE team in 2013. I have worked exclusively with industry partners and am currently aligned with Life Sciences which is a great fit for me given my 13 years experience in pharma. In addition to helping partners, I enjoy learning new technologies, development (particularly backend services and integration), writing articles, and presenting. I used to do technical training as a consultant and am a member of Toastmasters; I am on target to complete my Distinguished Toastmaster goal this July. Personal hobbies include hanging out with my boys, playing golf badly, bowling league (also badly), running, yoga, audio engineering, volunteer parliamentarian, supporting Chatham Animal Rescue & Education with their use of Salesforce, repeating the same French lessons over and over, and more.

Hemant Jawale

I grew up in Mumbai (India). Worked as a Java Developer for a year at Hewlett Packard before doing my Masters in Information Management from Syracuse University, NY. Joined Salesforce Ohana in 2014 with the CSG's Developer Support Team in the Oregon office. Moved to the TE team in June '16 and moved to San Francisco in Jan '17. I have lived in multiple cities and I love traveling! I find joy in cooking and do some photography. I spend my weekends playing tennis, going on hikes, watching sports and movies and doing photography. Big fan of Barcelona FC, Golden State Warriors, F1 Grand Prix, and Cricket. #shamelssplug check out some of my photography: https://www.instagram.com/jawahemant/

Warren Chen

I have been with Salesforce and the ISV TE team for almost 5 years. I moved back to the Bay Area last April (I grew up in Oakland), after being in Chicago for 12 years. Outside of work I like to stay active (run, cycle, etc.) and take advantage of all the wonderful regional and state parks in the Bay Area. I am training for my first Marathon in late July. I also am a big Soccer fan, Liverpool and Barcelona, which means many early Saturday and Sunday mornings to watch their games. Lastly I am a bit of a foodie and like to research and find good food and drink both locally and when I travel.

Anika Teppo

I joined Salesforce this January on the Security Operations team, and am currently living in San Mateo (originally from Washington State). I like drawing & painting, going outdoors for hikes, reading & learning, and biking places.

Kevin Reece

I joined the Salesforce Ohana in January 2018 as Senior ISV Technical Evangelist in EMEA. I have a BSc in Software Engineering and I have worked in Product Delivery roles from Architect, Developer and up to CTO of a Digital Agency I ran from Newcastle upon Tyne for 7 years. I am married to Michelle, I have three children, Lilly-Anne (9), Oliver (4) and Esmae (6 months) and I live in Durham, which is in the North of England. I enjoy running, cycling, cricket and golf, my daughter and I enjoy archery and my son and I play football ('soccer') and build Lego! Finally, I am a bit of an aviation and space geek, and obviously a bit of a tech geek.

Courtney Dascenzo

I live in Apex North Carolina (yes, the town is really called Apex) about 5 miles outside of Research Triangle Park. I joined Salesforce in 2012 as a Technical Evangelist. Prior to that I worked in pre-sales at a few different software companies. I have three kids, all boys, all under the age of 5 so right now my only hobby is trying to catch up on sleep. I do love to cook though. When things fall back into a routine, my husband and I are avid divers. I use to like to travel but am pretty limited now (see above). So for the unforeseen future, my travel extends to Michigan to see family (where my husband and I grew up), Florida to see family, the Smokey Mountains or the Atlantic Ocean (since the mountains and the ocean are within 4 hours of us).

Stu Bernstein

I live in Atlanta, GA and have worked for Salesforce for 10 years. Work interests include scaling the ISV program and trying to give our ISVs the best experience possible. Personal hobbies include crossfit, running 5 and 10Ks and making great cocktails.

Vivek M. Chawla

I live in Carlsbad, a coastal city in San Diego's beautiful North County. I joined Salesforce and the ISV Tech Enablement team in October 2015 after working as a Technical Architect / Developer for Bluewolf then Intuit. I'm the founder and co-organizer of the San Diego Salesforce Developer Group and am proud to be a Summer '15 Salesforce MVP. Outside of Salesforce, I enjoy hiking, casual gaming, and almost anything related to Science Fiction (movies, books, etc). My wife Nina is a High School Spanish teacher and my step-daughter Sabrina starts her Junior year in college in the fall. I also love the NFL, and I'm a HUGE Patriots fan.

Ulrich Lütz

I live in Cologne, Germany with my wife since 2008 after we spend 3 1/2 years in Dubai, UAE. We have no kids and can focus on things we like to do ;) But we have two nieces and two nephews, which can be indeed like own children sometimes. Joining Salesforce in 2008 as a Senior Solution Engineer in Direct Sales for DACH I worked in an incredibly growing (from 35 in 2008 to almost 1000 in 2017) DACH Team. In 2015 I decided to join the TE Team in EMEA and work since then with my Partner Account Manager to onboard new Appexchange Partner and make the existing ones very successful. I love to travel and experience the variety of cultures all over the world. Cooking is another passion that I try to spend time when it is possible. The fun with spending time in the kitchen is that you have to invite friends to share the outcome, which leads to value time and some good wine drinking.

Jaswinder Rattanpal

I live in Waterdown, ON, Canada. I joined Salesforce in Technical Developer Support team in April 2014 and joined ISV Technical Evangelist team in January 2016. I love working with partners and making them successful, developing apps, writing blogs and learning about new technologies. My personal hobbies include tennis and web development. I have also started my YouTube channel to share all the demos; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE9VkofFiQab1od-RVR26jQ.

Kees Heida

I live in the center of the Netherlands (Hoogland) with my wife, three kids and a dog. I joined Salesforce as a remote ISV TE in October 2014 because I strongly believe that the combination of low-coding environments and reuse of existing solutions can drive innovation and prosperity. After looking around I found Salesforce to be the only company that really shared my belief. Outside of work I love to travel and go back to nature with my family. As a technology addict, I also spent some time in my little workshop making all kinds of working car/truck/boat models from scratch.

Mike Faust

I moved to Atlanta, GA six years ago but there is still plenty of midwesterner (St. Louis) in me. I enjoy learning about all of the innovative new technology our platform has to offer and helping ISVs leverage it. In my free time, I enjoy traveling, taking my dog to the park, live music, good food and good drinks.

Erica Walker

I moved to San Francisco at the end of 2015, and before joining the App Cloud, I worked on the Marketing Cloud as a Senior Software Quality Engineer. Outside of work I enjoy hiking, camping, and playing the ukulele. Fun facts about me: I have a twin sister, and once taught 60+ people how to play the ukulele at a music festival in Virginia. I also started a chapter of a women's tech group in Indianapolis called Girl Develop It. I love learning about festivals, and my favorite is the Ukulele World Congress in Southern Indiana.

Rodrigo Reboucas

I was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil and moved with my wife to the US 15 years ago to change careers (Sports Marketing to Computer Sciences). I went to school again and started working as a Java, .NET developer for 3 years and then moved into Salesforce Development. I started working with Force.com Development since then on the CRM customers side and joined Salesforce as a TE 3,5 years ago. I live in South Florida (Weston, FL) with my wife and our 8-year old son Luca. I love new technology stuff, playing tennis and traveling.

Joe Ondrejcka

I was born and raised in Southern California, and I now live in Bend Oregon. I went to the University of Southern California where I played Water Polo. I also went to night law school. I have been working with Salesforce for almost 9 years, and prior to joining Salesforce, I worked with an SI/ISV as a Solution Architect. I am married with an (almost) 2-year-old son, a baby on the way (Due around Thanksgiving), and an 11-year-old dog (aka Puppies). In my free time, I enjoy hiking, lifting, rowing, and spending time with my family. One of my current goals is to become a Beast Tamer.

Megha Malviya

I was born and raised in a Small Town in India and came to the states in 2013 to pursue my Master's from SUNY Buffalo... I joined the team as ISV Technical Evangelist 19th June, 2017. I have been with Salesforce for about 3 years working as Senior Developer Support Engineer. I am in process of transitioning to the new role and very excited about it. I enjoyed working on the new things that were introduced to support recently such as Wave.. IoT and Lightning Experience. I live in La Jolla, in Sunny San Diego! and enjoy the weather a lot after I moved here last year from Portland, OR. I enjoy outdoors .. Beaches in SD and hiking trails... I try to travel as much as I can and I am very excited about my travel to Europe this July long weekend. I am fond of cooking and I do various experiments which my husband has to bear the end results of.. sometimes the results are good!

Kamlesh Patel

I was born in India, got my degree in computer science, moved to UK to work in a bank as a software engineer. After 3 years in UK moved to US and have been working as Enterprise/Solutions architect since than. I joined Salesforce 3 years back as Technical Architect in services team. Recently switched role as an ISV TE. I live in Austin with my wife and 2 kids. I am a very outdoor person, love playing tennis and going for long walk. Also I love traveling.

Nicolas Pouilloux

I was born in Paris, France, in 1981 grew up in Paris and still leave there and I know that sounds very Parisian. I discovered the internet when the first FAI came to France and I knew since then that I wanted to do something in my life around this new world (huge fan of Matrix). I joined IBM in 2004 after a computer science engineering school, working first as an HR consultant and then an IT Architect (mainly Websphere). I then joined ATOS in 2010 (100 000 people IS company) working as a Solution Manager / Pre Sales / Alliance Manager (SAP, HP, Adobe, Redhat, ...) in innovative technologies like Enterprise Mobility, IoT and Cloud 4 years later, I started the startup adventure as a Key Account Manager for magical, training and events company called Magency Digital. And then I finally joined Salesforce on the 1st of January this year to consolidate every expertises I had before in this fantastic company. I am French but I traveled a lot and I love it. I also studied at Bristol University, I worked in an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. I played 6 years of classical guitar and I still play in a Pop Rock band occasionally. I love magic, snowboarding, rollerblading and discovering new things (like recently American football, following every match of every team from the last season)

John Belo

I was born in Porto, Portugal, where I graduated in Software Engineering. I moved to London in 2009 to complete my MBA at Imperial College Business School. I joined Salesforce in August 2015 and worked mainly with Sage for around a year. Since 2016 I've been managing a small team of TEs in EMEA. I do weightlifting (my powerlifting total is around 340Kg or 750lb) and love traveling to distant places - I'm gearing up for a Japan trip next year. Very passionate about Hard Rock music, 80s pop and cultural gems such as Star Wars, The Matrix, Back to the Future. I love eastern philosophy, especially Taoism and Zen Buddhism - I practiced Tai Chi for 5 years. I live in Notting Hill, London with my 3 cats.

Tom Cannon

I was born in Somerset, England on the day that Neil Armstrong and crew re-entered the earth's atmosphere (23-July 1969). I grew up in Brighton, left school when I was 15 and then at 18 spent 6 years travelling, including 3 years living in the South of France (inexplicably crewing on world class racing yachts), and 2 years living in San Diego, CA (crewing, labouring, DJ'ing). I discovered the internet in 1996, when contracting at HSBC in London and sitting next to 2 guys who were the bank's entire "Internet Dept" at the time. I then spent the next 15 years in a wide range of 'online', 'e-' and 'digital' roles at the bank, including 3 years in Vancouver (still my favourite place on earth) as head of digital at HSBC Canada and finally global Digital Product Lead. In 2011 I joined a UK s/w company, Thunderhead, as VP of Product for an AI-based customer journey optimization solution. This was also my first introduction to the Salesforce ecosystem, becoming a partner and working on several joint deals, including Time Warner Cable, finally joining the ISV team in 2013 I live in Dorset, in the West of England, with my wife, 2 kids (Sol: 13, Skyla: 10), Dog (Chewie: 4) and 2 Cats (Obi & Yoda: 16). I like running marathons, mexican food, 1970's music and films, and helping people less privileged than I get into technology. I'm not much of a sports fan, but my football ('soccer') team, Brighton, just got promoted to the premiership after 34 years.

Cliff Armstrong

I'm a Southern California native but have spent the last 16 years in Austin, TX with a few years in Philadelphia in between. I joined Salesforce and the AppExchange team in 2013, but began working with Salesforce as an ISV in 2007 while working for Convio. I enjoyed the full startup experience - joined early, endured layoffs, grew to 600+ employees, IPO'd, and was eventually acquired by our arch enemy Blackbaud. Family keeps me busy here in Austin - I've got two daughters, 11 & 13, two dogs, Standard Poodle and an Irish Terrier, and one wife (who uses Salesforce every day for her job with Dell and for whom I serve as tech support). For fun, it's travel (Hawaii is the big trip for this year), golf and whatever is lapping Circuit of the Americas (Formula 1 is the annual highlight).

Evan Hollonds

I've moved around a fair bit - Born/raised in Benambra, Victoria; In 1995 I moved to Melbourne for Uni; In 2003 I moved to London; In 2007 I moved to Bristol, UK; and in 2013 I moved to Sydney Australia - where I joined Salesforce as TE! Though my degree was Computer Science, I've done all sorts in my IT career. Help desk/Network Admin/Hardware installer/Web Master/Developer/Business Analyst/Technical Architect/TE! Skills wise I was primarily a .Net Developer, domain experience primarily in Finance/Trading/Asset Management style systems. My hobbies include music (I used to play guitar in metal/rock band during my Uni years); as well as art and more recently baking (kids birthday cakes) and prop building (think Adam Savage youtube videos!). Engaged but never married, but have 2 kids (son 8, daughter 6) with my non-wife of 20 years.

Vydianath Iyer

Live in Cumming, GA - about 30 miles north of Atlanta. Been with Salesforce since 2009 - joined the year "Chatter" was introduced as a Principal Consultant. I am as amazed by this company today as the day I joined. I was raised in Mumbai, India, did my masters in Canada and then moved to the US many moons ago. I am a proud father of 2 girls (10 and 12). My wife works for one our large customers (ADP) although she does not use Salesforce in her job. Likes - Technology, Gadgets, Music, Home improvement projects, Cricket, Tennis, Meditation, Traveling to different cultures and sometimes - staring at the ceiling doing nothing.

Randy Case

Originally a Southern California native, I now live in Chapel Hill, NC. (for the last 6 years). I started in October 2004 as a CRM Sales Engineer. In 2006, I became the first Platform SE when Salesforce made it's first go at selling the platform on it's own. Later, I moved into a pre-sales platform architect role. From there I did a short stint in R&D working with large customers with thorny, complex issues before landing this gig on the ISV team where I have been for the last 4 years. Family keeps me busy. I have two boys, 14 & 16. My wife is a teacher's assistant at the local middle school. I love technology, gadget enthusiast (not quite a "nut" yet), and I love to travel and cook. I volunteer quite a lot (I'm the SF admin for two local non-profits).

Michael Holt

Originally born in Wales, but live in London with 3 of my close friends from University of Hertfordshire (Just north of London!). I studied computer science and spent a "sandwich year" working for Accenture. Following graduation, I turned to the Salesforce world and joined a UK based SI as a developer. After a couple of years, it was time to "board the mothership" and I joined Salesforce and the TE team in January 2017. Currently undergoing (basic!) Spanish lessons in an attempt to communicate with my Spanish girlfriend's family. I'm a keen skier (with limited ability) and usually take to the alps when the season permits. Also enjoy touring the bars of London with my girlfriend and/or housemates.