-
Sid Banerjee
CEO and Co-Founder
A Greater Washington Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in IT services, Sid is the CEO and Co-Founder of Clarabridge. Sid provides executive leadership and strategic direction and is a well-known expert in customer experience, business intelligence, and text mining.
Prior to Clarabridge, he co-founded Claraview, a leading BI strategy and technology consultancy firm. Under Sid's leadership, Claraview grew into a thriving services firm with over 130 employees without any outside funding. Claraview was acquired by Teradata, a leading data warehousing and business intelligence company, in March 2008.
Over his career, Sid has amassed nearly 20 years of business intelligence leadership experience. A founding employee at MicroStrategy, he held Vice President-level positions in both product marketing and worldwide services. During his tenure leading MicroStrategy's worldwide services division, he grew the organization to a 500+ person organization supporting enterprise deployments of BI solutions. Before joining MicroStrategy, Sid held management positions at Ernst & Young and Sprint International. Sid has a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
-
Bill Welch
Chief Financial Officer
Bill Welch has twenty years experience building successful companies in the technology and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining Clarabridge, he was the CEO of Vibrant Solutions, Inc., an international software company, where he led the company's expansion into Europe and negotiated the sale of the company to Teoco Corporation. Bill previously served as Vibrant's EVP and CFO, positions he held since 2001.
Bill has been co-founder or a founding employee of several emerging growth companies where he held executive positions. His responsibilities have included finance, operations, human resources, information technology and international business development. Bill has an extensive mergers and acquisitions background having negotiated and closed multiple transactions. He has also raised over $200M in various types of growth capital financing.
Bill has served as an advisor to several businesses and organizations and currently serves on the board of directors of the Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority. He received a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
-
Tony Lopresti
Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
As Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Tony is responsible for the integration of our clients' feedback into our product offerings, marketing activities and business development plans. Tony is an entrepreneurial executive with progressive experience in enterprise software sales, product management, marketing, strategy, and operations. Prior to joining Clarabridge, Tony held profit and loss responsibility for all software products for a $50M subsidiary of Monster Worldwide. At Monster, Tony built a metrics-driven, high-performing department from the ground up to provide business development, marketing and product management functions.
Prior to Monster, Tony held senior management positions in product and consulting management at American Management Systems. Tony has a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. While completing his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, Tony worked with Intel's strategic marketing and venture capital organizations and also provided strategic business consulting to the executives of various high-technology startups.
-
David Marko
Senior Vice President, Services
David is a seasoned executive who developed Clarabridge's world class Professional Service Organization, focused on the success of our customers. David’s professional focus has spanned Large Scale System Development efforts, Global Implementation Strategies, Customer Experience Management Initiatives, BPR/Change Management Best Practices, Support/Help Desk Management, Training Design and Deliver, and overall Service Excellence. David holds the unofficial title of Customer Experience Officer at Clarabridge, as he practices what we preach by continually acting as our clients' advocate in our product development, implementation and engineering processes.
Prior to joining Clarabridge, David was responsible for the management and support of an Ecommerce and Enterprise Service set of applications for the College Board that touch millions of students and parents each year. Before joining the College Board, David spent more than 8 years with CACI as a Director overseeing the execution of multi-million dollar projects and programs that have spanned ERP, Procurement, Financial, and Reporting systems. With each program and project, David was responsible for their design, development, installation, implementation, and post delivery support. David holds a BS in Business Administration from Bucknell University.
-
Brendan Haggerty
Senior Vice President, Engineering
Brendan brings over 15 years experience in managing, developing, and implementing enterprise applications. Prior to joining Clarabridge, Haggerty was cross product lead at SAP, where he was responsible for coordinating and managing product release activities. Prior to this position, Haggerty served as vice president at C-Systems International and senior principal at American Management Systems (AMS). Brendan received his M.S. in Electronic Commerce from Carnegie Mellon and a B.S. in Computer Science from Bucknell University.
-
Darren Jaffrey
General Manager, EMEA
As the General Manager of EMEA, Darren is responsible for strategic planning, business operations and management of key functions for the region, including sales, channels, services and marketing.
Darren was previously General Manager, EMEA & APAC for Vurv Technology and SVP, International Operations for Taleo, both leading lights in the HCM SaaS marketplace. At both companies he was responsible the management of all direct and indirect sales channels, implementation services and customer support outside of North America. Prior to entering the HCM market Darren held a number of senior management positions at Business Intelligence vendor Microstrategy culminating with a 3 year tenure as Vice President of Sales for EMEA. Darren's extensive experience in the software industry began at consulting giant Electronic Data Systems where his role as a consultant included assignments throughout Europe, Japan and the United States.