OrangeHRM competitors

Brent Hayward is CEO of MuleSoft, provider of the leading platform for building application networks. Brent brings to MuleSoft more than 20 years of experience in software sales and service delivery. Prior to joining MuleSoft in 2013, Brent was at Oracle where he was vice president of North America application sales for the Oracle Knowledge Product Portfolio, driving rapid growth through both direct and channel sales operations. Brent began his career at Accenture, where he led teams serving Forbes Global 2000 clients in the communications, media and entertainment, and high tech industries. Brent holds a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Visionary software executive with a proven record of delivering outstanding shareholder returns through innovative growth strategies and strong execution. Chief Executive Officer of high growth enterprise software companies. Expertise in product management, marketing, technology, customer relationships & M&A. Core leadership skills in building strong teams, effective communications and operations.

Specialties: Building for scale, growth leadership, sales & marketing, discipline in execution. Previous experience with M&A, leading a publicly listed company, business/strategy development, recruiting and talent development, government and public relations. Extensive Board level experience as non-executive director of banking, tech, media and telecoms companies ranging in size from startups to G-SIFIs.

As CEO, Craig Charlton leads all facets of the SugarCRM business, from setting our vision and strategic direction to making sure we’re executing in the best possible way on the ground every day. Craig has been building and running high-growth businesses for 25 years. Before joining SugarCRM he was CEO of Oildex - the financial automation software and services provider - where he drove growth and oversaw the company’s acquisition by Drillinginfo. Craig also served as CEO of Abila, the financial and CRM provider operating in the association, non-profit and government space. Abila, which was acquired by Community Brands, grew its revenues threefold and transformed its revenue base to a subscription-based (SaaS) model over a three-year period. Craig has also been senior vice president and general manager (Asia Pacific) for ERP provider Epicor Software Corporation, where he shaped the company’s regional strategy to deliver consistent revenue and profit growth.

In the past three decades Abe Kleinfeld has led several companies through successful liquidity events including three mergers and two IPOs. Mr. Kleinfeld currently serves as President and CEO of GridGain, developer of the leading open source in-memory computing platform, based on Apache Ignite. Since joining GridGain in 2013, the company has averaged triple-digit annual sales growth, been ranked the second fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley, made the Inc. 5000 four consecutive years and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 three consecutive years. Before GridGain, he was CEO of nCircle, a network security company he led through 10 consecutive years of growth and its acquisition by Tripwire in 2013. As CEO of Eloquent, Inc., a provider of rich media business communications solutions, he attracted an experienced management team, implemented a high-growth strategy and guided the company through its successful $83 million IPO in February 2000. Before Eloquent, Mr. Kleinfeld was a co-founder of Odesta Systems Corporation where he played a key role in building the company from startup in 1991 through its merger with Open Text Corporation in 1995 and subsequent IPO in 1996 (NASDAQ:OTEX). Mr. Kleinfeld began his career as a software engineer with Raytheon Data Systems, and later held marketing and sales positions at Wang Laboratories and Oracle Corporation. He holds a B.A. degree in Computer Science from SUNY-Oswego.

James Brear has proven experience driving high-growth startups to successful outcomes. Prior to joining Swimlane, James was Chief Executive Officer of Veriflow which was sold to VMWare in August 2019. Veriflow was launched in 2016 and quickly gained recognition as pioneers of Intent-Based Networking. Accolades include being named Gartner's Cool Vendor, RSA Innovation Sandbox finalist, SC magazine Innovation award, Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 to watch, Information Week's vendors to watch and winner of Barclays innovation challenge. Previously, James was the Chief Executive Officer at Procera (NASDAQ:PKT) until its successful acquisition by Francisco Partners in August 2015. At Procera, James grew annual revenues in excess of 1100% in less than six years. He completed a public offering in 2012. Under James’s leadership, Procera was added to the S&P 600 and the Russell 2000—two of the world’s most widely followed stock market indices. James built Procera into a global leader in its industry as a six consecutive year winner of Deloitte’s Fast 500 award and Light Readings Public Company of the year finalist in 2012. Brear was also selected as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year regional semi-finalist in 2013. Prior to Procera, James was at Tasman Networks (acquired by Nortel) and Force10 Networks (acquired by Dell). In addition, he spent five years with Cisco Systems with responsibility for delivering more than $900M in annual revenue. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Experienced leader of software and technology services businesses ranging from venture backed companies to larger scale entities.