Accela CEO and leadership

Gary Kovacs (born 1963 or 1964) is a San Francisco Bay Area technologist. He was the chief executive officer of AVG Technologies. Kovacs has worked for Mozilla Corporation, Adobe, SAP, and IBM, and led Zi Corporation, a mobile text messaging company.

Bobby Wilson is a CFO at Accela and is based in San Francisco Bay Area. He has worked as CFO at Turnitin; Product Development Finance Analyst at Ford; and Senior Director, Finance at Thomson Financial. Bobby attended Texas A&M University between 1994 and 1998 and MIT between 2001 and 2003.

Jonathon Knight serves as Accela’s Chief Customer Officer, responsible for establishing metrics for customer relationships, managing how products and services are delivered, and helping to define and streamline the Company’s overall operational approach. He has held a number of executive positions in venture funded and public companies. Previous to Accela, he was the VP of Global Services and Customer Care at Ooyala, a privately-held technology company in the Bay Area, where he oversaw all aspects of post-sales. Prior to that role, he held senior-level customer and services management roles at SaaS and enterprise software firms including, Infinian Technologies, Agile Software and JRG Software, Inc.

Tom Nieto is Accela’s Chief Operating Officer. He is responsible for global corporate strategy and operations including partnerships, corporate development and international growth strategy.Prior to joining Accela, Tom most recently served as the Head of Sales Strategy and Execution at Box where he also held leadership roles in the Go-to-Market and Customer Success areas. Prior to Box he was Project Leader with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a Strategy Consulting firm, where he helped clients with growth strategies and scaling operations.Tom holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University.

Troy Coggiola brings more than 18 years of software industry experience to his role as Accela’s Chief Product Officer. Prior to joining Accela, Troy served as Senior Vice President of Product Management at Ellie Mae, the industry leader in mortgage origination technology, where he led product strategy and guided teams responsible for researching and defining the vision and requirements for the company’s SaaS-based mortgage origination automation products. Prior to Ellie Mae, he held various software consulting positions at supply chain software companies including Saqqara Systems, Inc. and demonstrated his expertise in defining and implementing software solutions to automate and streamline complex business processes. Troy holds BS and MS degrees in Engineering and an MBA from the University of California, Davis.

Software executive with proven success driving growth strategies and inspiring teams to high levels of quality, productivity and innovation. Highlights include: * (Re)built and managed engineering teams from small to large all across the world utilizing a wide variety of execution models * Deep expertise building cloud based Saas platforms with rich web and mobile experiences * Experience with all stages of fundraising from early stage to IPO * Owned executive communication on technical topics with board, investors, and other key stakeholders* Participated on both sides of the acquisition discussions from interest to close * Managed a FinTech platform processing billions in total payment volume across multiple payment rails with highest levels of reliability, uptime and security * Experience supporting high load consumer traffic across games and media events * Deep experience in consumer gaming involving the iconic Atari brand - pioneering Facebook, mobile, augmented reality and location based gaming* Built one of the first GeoSpacial Cloud Platforms supporting one of the fastest “satellite to user” distribution systems across one of the largest GeoSpacial imagery libraries in for the world * Built one of the first and at the time the fasted GeoSpacial GPU based Supercomputers * Pioneered early artificial intelligence & machine learning techniques for speech recognition at Rosetta Stone and to solve email spam * Seasoned enterprise software experience from development tools, server products to enterprise applications

Dennis Michalis is a Chief Revenue Officer at Accela and is based in San Juan Capistrano, California. He has worked as GM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM at MICROSOFT CORP; Group Vice President, CX at ORACLE CORP; and Senior Manager at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC). Dennis works or has worked at Fujitsu and Infor. He attended California State University Fullerton between 1991 and 1998.