PROS CEO and leadership

PROS President and Chief Executive Officer Andres Reiner joined the company in 1999. He was appointed to his current role in November 2010 and also serves as a member of its board of directors.

Reiner has led PROS to record revenue growth, fueled by his vision and strategy around innovation, customer success and helping people achieve their full potential. Under his leadership, the company has expanded its global reach and scale, introduced numerous new products, entered new markets, grown its partner ecosystem, completed four acquisitions and more than tripled the size of the team.

Reiner has held a broad range of leadership roles that provide the breadth of experience and understanding of how to drive growth. In this series of increasingly responsible roles, he has led products and product management, marketing, global alliances, science and research, and development of the company’s next-generation software portfolio.

Prior to joining PROS, Reiner held various technical and leadership positions in software-based companies including Platinum Technology and ADAC Healthcare Information Systems.

Reiner serves on the board of directors at Paylocity Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: PCTY), a cloud-based provider of payroll and human capital management software solutions. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Reiner received the Ernst & Young 2015 Entrepreneur Of The Year Award® in the technology category for the Gulf Coast.

He earned a B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Houston.

Scott Cook joined PROS in 1999 and serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer.

Since joining PROS, Cook served as Vice President and Corporate Controller where he oversaw global corporate and revenue accounting, external financial reporting, treasury and financial controls covering all aspects of PROS business. He reports to Stefan Schulz, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Cook has more than 30 years of accounting and finance leadership and experience in a high-growth environment. Throughout his tenure at PROS, Cook successfully supported PROS IPO, several follow-on equity and convertible debt offerings and led the financial and accounting integration of multiple acquisitions in strategic industry growth markets.

Prior to PROS, Cook served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Flotek Industries, Inc. in Houston. Cook began his career in public accounting with both Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton LLP.

Stefan Schulz joined PROS in 2015 and serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

He is responsible for PROS finance, accounting, corporate development, information technology and legal teams globally. Schulz reports to President and Chief Executive Officer Andres Reiner.

Schulz brings to PROS more than 20 years of financial and operations experience where he has built internal capacity to support high-growth, and has led the evaluation and integration of multiple acquisitions. Prior to joining PROS, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Digital River, Inc., a global provider of commerce-as-a-service solutions, headquartered in Minneapolis. In this role, Schulz was charged with building the company’s full-service merchant-of-record and seller-of-record offering, and overseeing the company’s internal transformation to greater efficiency and scale.

He previously spent six years with Lawson Software, an enterprise resource planning software company. As senior vice president, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer, Schulz led the acquisition and integration of two companies in strategic industry growth markets.

Schulz worked for 12 years at BMC Software during a period of high growth, where he held several leadership roles, the last as vice president, global revenue operations. Schulz began his career with Arthur Andersen & Co.

He earned a B.B.A. in accounting from Lamar University.

Craig Zawada joined PROS in 2010 and serves as its Chief Visionary Officer. He is responsible for creating and articulating the vision for how PROS uses big data and the latest technology to help companies drive incremental sales growth and profit improvement. Zawada also works with new and existing customers to define the implementation path for these solutions to help them outperform in their respective industries. Prior to joining PROS, he was a partner and leader in the Marketing & Sales Practice at McKinsey & Company.

Zawada is a widely published author, with articles that have appeared in many high-profile publications, including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Mergers and Acquisitions, and the McKinsey Quarterly. He has been interviewed by and quoted in Fortune Magazine, Canadian Business, Business 2.0 and CNBC. Zawada co-authored both the first and second editions of “The Price Advantage,” which has been recognized as one of the most pragmatic books available on pricing strategy. As a frequently sought-after presenter, Zawada has spoken at conferences around the world on next-generation sales and pricing improvement strategies.

He earned both an M.B.A. and bachelor's degree in business administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Ontario, Canada.

Damian Olthoff is a Chief Compliance Ofcr/Secy/Gen Cnsl at PROS HOLDINGS, INC. and General Counsel & Secretary at PROS HOLDINGS, INC.. He works or has worked as Counsel at Trintel Communications Inc. Damian attended University of Missouri Kansas City.

Martin Simoncic, PROS Chief Customer Officer, joined the company in January 2021. He leads the global customer experience and engagement teams to help PROS further accelerate customer value and deliver a world-class customer experience at scale.

Simoncic rejoined PROS after serving as Vice President, Customer Success and Professional Services at Vertafore, where he was responsible for driving high velocity onboarding and adoption across the customer base of 20,000+. At Vertafore, Simoncic was instrumental in driving transformation of the customer organization, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, financial performance, customer retention and improved employee engagement.

Prior to Vertafore, Simoncic spent 11 years at PROS, where he started as an Implementation Consultant leading many of the company’s largest implementations. During his tenure at PROS, he served in a number of roles including VP of Professional Services, where he led the global B2B professional services team through periods of high growth, and VP of Product Management, where he defined and drove B2B product strategy forward during the company’s transition to SaaS.

Since 2012, Simoncic has served as an Adjunct Professor at Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, educating graduate students on the key strategic and tactical concepts of advanced pricing, omnichannel optimization and revenue management.

Simoncic earned an M.B.A. from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Louisiana Tech University. Additionally, he completed the Leading Professional Services Firms executive program at Harvard Business School.

Nikki Brewer joined PROS in 2017 to lead our global Total Rewards team and now serves as its Chief People Officer. She leads the global human resources team, where she oversees the talent acquisition, talent development, rewards, culture and diversity strategies. A key focus for her team is driving innovative employment initiatives that make PROS a destination technology company for outperformers and fuel the company’s growth around the world.

During her tenure leading the global Total Rewards team, Brewer drove significant changes to the PROS benefits program and branding, strengthened the PROS reward programs, and overhauled PROS human capital IT systems resulting in a vastly improved PROS employee experience.

Prior to joining PROS, Brewer served in a range of increasingly responsible human resources roles in the energy industry both in the US and abroad. Most recently Brewer served as Director of Total Rewards for Columbia Pipeline Group (now TC Energy), where she was as a member of the HR leadership team, led the annual reward programs, and was a key member of the M&A team.

PROS President and Chief Executive Officer Andres Reiner joined the company in 1999. He was appointed to his current role in November 2010 and also serves as a member of its board of directors.

Reiner has led PROS to record revenue growth, fueled by his vision and strategy around innovation, customer success and helping people achieve their full potential. Under his leadership, the company has expanded its global reach and scale, introduced numerous new products, entered new markets, grown its partner ecosystem, completed four acquisitions and more than tripled the size of the team.

Reiner has held a broad range of leadership roles that provide the breadth of experience and understanding of how to drive growth. In this series of increasingly responsible roles, he has led products and product management, marketing, global alliances, science and research, and development of the company’s next-generation software portfolio.

Prior to joining PROS, Reiner held various technical and leadership positions in software-based companies including Platinum Technology and ADAC Healthcare Information Systems.

Reiner serves on the board of directors at Paylocity Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: PCTY), a cloud-based provider of payroll and human capital management software solutions. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Reiner received the Ernst & Young 2015 Entrepreneur Of The Year Award® in the technology category for the Gulf Coast.

He earned a B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Houston.

Senior B2B technology executive with a proven track record of growing strong teams and delivering consistent results. I’ve demonstrated broad global leadership experience in software sales & operations, professional services delivery, and human resources. And I have the privilege of working with some of the coolest, smartest people in the world at PROS … a fast growing, innovative cloud software company that uses data science and machine learning to help companies create personalized and frictionless buying experiences for their customers.