Zilliant CEO and leadership

Shams leads Zilliant's engineering team, managing the development of the company’s innovative and scalable software products and overseeing the delivery operations of its applications in data centers globally. He has extensive experience building and managing onshore and offshore engineering teams at NewComLink, SolarWinds, Brocade, FullArmor Corporation and NetIQ. Prior to joining Zilliant in 2016, Chauthani was vice president of engineering for NewComLink, a financial technology platform that provides a full spectrum of financing options to connect retailers with multiple lenders. While there, he was responsible for leading corporate strategic initiatives and transitioning the organization from a project-based to a platform-based business strategy. Shams believes in leading by example through empowering his team with the right tools to be successful, and measuring results. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Houston and an executive certificate in innovation and strategy from MIT.

As the leader of Zilliant’s marketing organization, Lindsay is responsible for accelerating growth strategies, demand generation, product marketing, corporate communications, sales enablement, and market positioning. Before serving as CMO, Lindsay was a top-performing Zilliant sales director for three years, where she established a track record of success working with B2B company leaders to identify their unique pricing and sales challenges and remedy the most significant sources of revenue and margin leakage. Prior to that she spent three years as Zilliant’s director of marketing.

Prior to joining Zilliant in 2012, Lindsay served as a senior consultant at Deloitte Consulting, and held product management and product marketing manager positions at Dun & Bradstreet. Lindsay holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. Lindsay is also a co-founder of Club Blue of the Austin Area, a non-profit organization.