Embroker CEO and leadership

Yotam Shacham is a seasoned developer and platform architect with almost two decades of experience building cross-platform technologies. As CTO of Embroker, Yotam is responsible for technology leadership, software architecture, and engineering culture. Before Embroker, Yotam was CTO and co-founder of Particle-Code, a cross platform client framework which was acquired by Appcelerator as well as Mytopia, a social games business acquired by 888 (LSE: 888). Yotam earned his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Technion University in Haifa, Israel. Yotam has held senior engineering roles at Digital Dimensions building 3D Virtual Worlds, Pixel Technologies building a mobile and TV games platform and Mars Games, where he helped launch 4 new iTV channels.

Dynamic, results-driven professional with extensive track record driving start-up, turnaround and accelerated growth in for-profit service companies. Proven leadership skills and consistent record of quantifiable financial achievements. Demonstrated success in achieving corporate objectives and bottom-line results. Seasoned financial executive highly effective at leading companies through growth, change and new business development. Proven track record of outstanding leadership experience creating a positive, goal-oriented team atmosphere. Core competencies include:

* Strategic & Tactical Planning

* Business Start-Ups & New Venture Planning

* Operational & Corporate Financial Analysis

* Management Reporting

* Cost Cutting & Efficiency Enhancements

* Turnaround of Problem Operations & Businesses

* Budgeting & Forecasting

* Acquisition Due Diligence

* Treasury Management

* Financial Statement Preparation

* P&L Improvement

* Mergers & Acquisitions

Ben Jennings is Chief Revenue Officer for Embroker, the leading insurance technology company that’s radically improving the way insurance works for businesses of all types and sizes. A seasoned global technology executive, Ben brings more than 25 years experience in sales, marketing, business development, customer success and alliances to the role. Ben is responsible for driving new client acquisition, installed base retention, customer success and overall go to market for the company.

Previously, Ben was Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer for ServiceSource responsible for the company’s global Sales, Solution Design and Business Development functions. During his 15+ years at ServiceSource, Ben led the company’s global expansion, founding and managing ServiceSource’s EMEA and APJ operations, and also held a variety of customer success and operational leadership positions in the company.

Prior to ServiceSource, Ben held leadership positions at Jamcracker, Loudcloud, and Transition Networks. Centered on revenue growth, Ben’s career also includes marketing, go to market strategy, product management, networking, hardware and managed service sales.

A technology executive with over twenty years of enjoyment leading organizations aligned on solving customers’ problems.

Executive Strategy:

° Emphasizes strategic alignment to business objectives as a cornerstone of execution

° Drives ambitious goals that result in impactful, value-driven deliverables.

Diverse Journey:

° A multi-faceted leader with experience running organizations including Product, Engineering, Data Science, Security Research, Technical Operations, Business Operations, Information Security and Compliance, and Corporate IT.

° Led technology innovation and product development in the domains of Information Security, Data Science, Risk Management, High-frequency Trading, and SMB eCommerce

° History of leading global teams with remote, nearshore, and offshore resources

People and Culture:

° Passion for people: recruits exceptional talent.

° Raw enthusiasm for the development of culture to build high performance, self-driven organizations, focussed on collaboration, diversity of thought, and entrepreneurship.

Customer Focus:

° Hyper-attention on customer problems striving for simple, pragmatic solutions

Agility and Scale:

° Nimble and self-assured in taking on new and unfamiliar challenges.

° Enjoys fast-paced environments steeped in ambiguity and uncertainty

° Thrives within organizations large and small, from 13 employees to 35,000, easily adapting to existing cultures or defining new ones.

° Track record of executing the “speed test”, taking two different organizations from “0 to 60” team members

Austin Soares is a Chief of Staff at Embroker and People Operations Lead at Embroker and is based in San Francisco Bay Area. He has worked as Executive Assistant at Walmart eCommerce, Event Manager at Roy s Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine, and Executive Assistant at SendGrid Inc.

Yotam Shacham is a seasoned developer and platform architect with almost two decades of experience building cross-platform technologies. As CTO of Embroker, Yotam is responsible for technology leadership, software architecture, and engineering culture. Before Embroker, Yotam was CTO and co-founder of Particle-Code, a cross platform client framework which was acquired by Appcelerator as well as Mytopia, a social games business acquired by 888 (LSE: 888). Yotam earned his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Technion University in Haifa, Israel. Yotam has held senior engineering roles at Digital Dimensions building 3D Virtual Worlds, Pixel Technologies building a mobile and TV games platform and Mars Games, where he helped launch 4 new iTV channels.