Espressive CEO and leadership

Pat Calhoun is a visionary leader with an intense focus on user experience and customer adoption. He has founded two companies - Airespace and Espressive. As CEO at Espressive, Pat is set to transform the enterprise self-service experience to a consumer-like approach that drives employee adoption and significantly reduces help desk calls. Pat's first startup, Airespace, grew revenues to over $80M in two years before being sold to Cisco for $450M. Most recently, Pat served as senior vice president of product at ServiceNow where he was responsible for ServiceNow applications. Prior to that, he was general manager of the McAfee network security business. Pat also served as both CTO for the Cisco $14B switching, routing, wireless, and security access business and GM of the Cisco identity business. Pat holds 35 patents and has been published in more than 16 publications.

Keno Helmi is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in the Enterprise Software Space. He has led Sales organizations at both publicly traded and startup companies spanning the likes of Parametric Technology Corporation, Amdocs, Opsware, Hewlett Packard Software, Digby, Duetto, Platform9, and Pegasus. Prior to his career in high tech, Keno was an Economics Professor with a concentration in pricing optimization. In his spare time Keno enjoys hiking, cooking, college football, and time with his four daughters. He is based in Austin, Texas.

Criss has a passion for building brands that inspire and is excited to be doing that for Espressive. She is a goal driven leader with proven success developing and executing go-to-market, brand, and communication strategies that generate excellent ROI and increased sales for high-tech startups to multibillion-dollar global organizations. Criss joins Espressive from Panzura where she served as CMO and implemented a turnaround branding strategy that increased pipeline nearly 100% in one year. Prior to that, she was vice president of marketing at Palerra where she defined and executed a go-to-market strategy that saw a seven-fold increase in demand in six months culminating in an acquisition by Oracle. Prior to Palerra, Criss was vice president of marketing at G5 and vice president of strategic marketing at Imperva. She held senior-level marketing positions at NetApp and Sun Microsystems as well as served as vice president of corporate marketing for Storage Dimensions through a revenue- enabling IPO and merger.

Fran is the Espressive "Batman" of product. His mission involves blending consumer design principles with the best artificial intelligence (A1) technologies to create exceptional self-help experiences that employees love and enterprises profit from. Fran has a wealth of enterprise service management experience spanning a 20-year period of time, including companies such as ServiceNow, BMC Software, and CA. He was the first product manager hired at ServiceNow, and so he is intimately familiar with the IT service management (ITSM) market including key enterprise pain points. Immediately prior to Espressive, Fran was director of product management at BigPanda where he helped organizations process a storm of data into meaningful inputs that they could react to. Fran graduated from UC Berkeley and is an avid mountain biker and coffee drinker.

Rohit is a technology leader who brings his passion for building intuitive interfaces along with more than 20 years of experience in building enterprise and service provider products to Espressive. Prior to Espressive, Rohit was a principal engineer at Cisco where he was instrumental in bringing next generation enterprise WiFi controllers to the market. Rohit was an early member of Airespace and designed and developed LWAPP as the interface between Wireless Access Points and Wireless LAN Controllers. Airespace was acquired by Cisco for $450M. Before Airespace, Rohit worked on 3G technology at Symmetry Communications and Interwave Communications. Rohit holds 23 patents and graduated from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology.

Pat Calhoun is a visionary leader with an intense focus on user experience and customer adoption. He has founded two companies - Airespace and Espressive. As CEO at Espressive, Pat is set to transform the enterprise self-service experience to a consumer-like approach that drives employee adoption and significantly reduces help desk calls. Pat's first startup, Airespace, grew revenues to over $80M in two years before being sold to Cisco for $450M. Most recently, Pat served as senior vice president of product at ServiceNow where he was responsible for ServiceNow applications. Prior to that, he was general manager of the McAfee network security business. Pat also served as both CTO for the Cisco $14B switching, routing, wireless, and security access business and GM of the Cisco identity business. Pat holds 35 patents and has been published in more than 16 publications.

Keno Helmi is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in the Enterprise Software Space. He has led Sales organizations at both publicly traded and startup companies spanning the likes of Parametric Technology Corporation, Amdocs, Opsware, Hewlett Packard Software, Digby, Duetto, Platform9, and Pegasus. Prior to his career in high tech, Keno was an Economics Professor with a concentration in pricing optimization. In his spare time Keno enjoys hiking, cooking, college football, and time with his four daughters. He is based in Austin, Texas.