Simpplr CEO and leadership

I am a Technology Management professional possessing a breadth of entrepreneurial experience and corporate-level successes with technology based businesses. I have over fifteen years of executive experience in start-up ventures, consulting, project management, product architecture & development, technology evaluation & commercialization, acquisitions and asset divestitures. A successful action orientated experienced motivator of people adopting hands on approach who creates a competitive advantage for organizations & bottom line cost savings utilizing innovative information technology solutions while controlling and reducing expenses. My favorite roles are those that require me to wear multiple hats and work across different functional areas. Specialties: Product Development, Product Management, Team Management, Rapid Growth, Employee Engagement, SaaS, Salesforce, Subscription Billing, Enterprise Software, Distributed Systems, Scalability, Integration, E-Commerce, Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT)

Aykut Firat is a Chief Data Scientist at Simpplr. He Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management.

■ Product Management and General Management executive with over 20 years of software industry experience

■Track record of having brought many disruptive SaaS products and solutions to market; two companies had successful exits

■ Leadership ability to build & grow a Product organization, manage budgets and P&L; History of partnering and leading cross-functional teams including Engineering, UX, Sales, Customer Success, Finance and Marketing - in both direct and matrixed environments

■ Demonstrated ability to unlock massive value by partnering with Professional Services, Training and Customer Success teams to launch innovative productized services as a category

■ Entrepreneur; launched Grasshopr, a B2B2C SaaS product for Advocacy Associations

SPECIALTIES:

■ Product Planning, Product Roadmap, Portfolio Planning, Software Development

■ Business Planning, Go-to-market Strategy, Market & Competitor Analysis, Product Positioning & Market Fit, Sales Enablement, Sales Management

■ Budgeting, Team Leadership, Profit & Loss responsibilities

■ AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, Analytics, Mobile Apps

■ SaaS, Enterprise Software, B2B, B2B2C

■ Domain expertise in HR Technologies, Payments Technologies, FinTech, AdTech, MarTech

Parag Kulkarni is a Chief Technology Officer at Simpplr.

I am a Technology Management professional possessing a breadth of entrepreneurial experience and corporate-level successes with technology based businesses. I have over fifteen years of executive experience in start-up ventures, consulting, project management, product architecture & development, technology evaluation & commercialization, acquisitions and asset divestitures. A successful action orientated experienced motivator of people adopting hands on approach who creates a competitive advantage for organizations & bottom line cost savings utilizing innovative information technology solutions while controlling and reducing expenses. My favorite roles are those that require me to wear multiple hats and work across different functional areas. Specialties: Product Development, Product Management, Team Management, Rapid Growth, Employee Engagement, SaaS, Salesforce, Subscription Billing, Enterprise Software, Distributed Systems, Scalability, Integration, E-Commerce, Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT)

Aykut Firat is a Chief Data Scientist at Simpplr. He Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management.