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CEO
Glen D. Vondrick is CEO of CoSo Cloud LLC and a member of its Board of Directors. Glen joined ConnectSolutions Inc. as CRO in 2015, and then as CEO, he led the company through a successful acquisition by AASKI Technology Inc. in April 2017. Glen’s executive leadership experience includes 20+ years in the enterprise messaging and communications security space, including serving three other times as CEO of private venture-backed high technology companies. At Sendmail Inc., Glen led the company to become the premier email infrastructure security provider to global 1000 enterprises before being acquired by Proofpoint Inc, and as CEO at FaceTime Communications, he transformed the dotcom company to be the pioneer in integrating instant messaging networks and presence into enterprise business applications. As an accomplished sales leader, Glen has built high performing global sales teams in previous stops as an executive at Autodesk Inc., Inference Inc., Prime Computer Inc., and Ithaca Software. Glen earned his Bachelor’s degree in business and public administration from the University of Arizona.
Chief Revenue Officer
Jim Seaman is CoSo Cloud’s Chief Revenue Officer leading three sales teams (Channel, Federal, and Direct) and is responsible for channel partnerships, customer success, sales engineering, marketing, business development, and sales operations. Jim has over 25 years of direct sales and executive sales management experience in both large public companies and high-growth venture backed companies, selling to large enterprise and public sector agencies. With a strong background in cyber security solutions, Jim most recently came from Proofpoint where he was Sr. Director of Major Accounts, and prior to that held senior-level sales management positions at Sendmail, Netezza, Akamai, Control Data and Nynex. Jim earned his BS in Business Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Chief Services Officer
As Chief Services Officer, Chris Johnson leads the global Services team located in two continents which includes Customer Support, SecOPS, Platform Engineering, Applications Engineering, Professional Services, and Cloud Infrastructure Operations. With seven FedRAMP certified, Commercial HITRUST, and SOC II compliant data centers based in four international and domestic hubs, the team supports the CoSo Secure Private Cloud managed services platform infrastructure and delivers global software development services to our customers. Chris has over 15 years of experience in cloud and software defined datacenter architecture, design, and implementation. His background includes an extensive history in datacenter automation, process refinement, and he has a proven track record of operational excellence. In previous positions at Azaleos and Avanade, Chris built teams focused on ensuring the success of Microsoft’s collaborative suite for major enterprises and the Production Private Cloud platform in North America and Europe. Throughout his tenure, Chris has driven CoSo Cloud into the future, deploying a modernized flexible and extensible cloud architecture based on VMware SDDC and Hyper Converged Infrastructure to support more than 50 million meetings per month.
Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development
Neil Manheimer is CoSo’s Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development. Neil is CoSo’s top executive for Finance, General, Administrative, and Human Resources functions, also in charge of evaluating inorganic growth via acquisitions and mergers. He most recently served as CFO at defense contractor AASKI Technology Inc., which was sold in 2020 to MAG Aerospace. Prior to joining AASKI, Neil served in a broad range of financial and operational leadership positions at Comcast, EDS and Arthur Andersen. Neil’s experience includes debt and equity financing, corporate mergers and acquisitions, short and long range strategic planning and financial modeling, new business ventures, and corporate administrative oversight. A Certified Public Accountant, Neil earned a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Maryland. He has attended a variety of leadership and industry training seminars throughout his professional career.
Head of Customer Success
Mark Douglas leads the Customer Success team responsible for nurturing client and partner relationships with “white glove services”. He has worked successfully with CoSo’s enterprise customers for over 5 years. Prior to CoSo, Mark gained over 10 years of experience delivering products and services as a Program manager at Nielsen and as an Operations Manager at CriticalPath, Inc. Mark has a Bachelor of Science in Political Economy of Natural resources from University of California, Berkeley.
Head of Service Delivery and Customer Support
Michael Kennedy has been with CoSo over 10 years and leads the Global Service Delivery and Customer Support teams to ensure the highest possible customer satisfaction, responsiveness, and service level guarantees for enterprise customers and large government agencies. In addition to technical on-boarding and support, he is responsible for all change and incident ITIL management. He has a long history of supporting and managing highly available SaaS solutions. Previously, Michael worked at Adobe, Convergys, and Ernst & Young, where he gained experience in running complex integrated services, with a focus on web conferencing, telephony, learning management solutions (LMS), and eCommerce. While at Adobe, Michael was responsible for the global delivery of their multi-tenant hosted Connect, CreatePDF, and Acrobat.com service offerings.
Head of Market & Business Development
Rob Porter is Head of Market & Business Development for CoSo’s eLearning solutions. He is responsible for developing and executing corporate communications, market programs, market visibility and positioning strategy to expand CoSo’s market share in eLearning. Rob has a successful 25-year track record in instructional design and eLearning programs as well as authoring and presenting on a variety of corporate topics and learning techniques. During his career, he has built hundreds of hours of eLearning content, workshop curriculum, webinars, presentations, and multiple custom learning platforms for his customers. Rob has supported hundreds of enterprises by designing and deploying custom learning solutions which deliver content to millions of learners. He has developed state of the art learning programs for organizations such as BMW, Nike, Nikon, Johns Hopkins, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Dassault and Domino’s. Before joining CoSo Cloud, Rob founded and was a principal at Training Objectives Corp.
Channel Sales Manager
AJ Gorton is CoSo’s Channel Sales Manager responsible for all commercial sales for CoSo Cloud offerings. AJ is passionate about customer satisfaction and works closely with the Adobe channel partner network, developing trusted relationships as part of the Adobe Connect and Captivate Prime eco-system for the last 3 years. He has a deep understanding of how to match customer needs with products and services to support each individual customer’s unique use cases. Prior to joining CoSo, AJ spent time working on the development and finance of large commercial and utility scale solar projects and remains passionate about renewable energy. AJ attended University of Oregon where he majored in political science with a minor in economics.
Sales Manager
Jorma Jennings heads CoSo’s government business responsible for all federal, SLED and non-profit sales. Jorma has over 15-years’ experience in managed services businesses with a focus on eLearning technologies. Having worked with customers in every vertical in both sales and solution engineering, his strengths are matching customer requirements with the best solution available leading to consistent high customer satisfaction. Jorma attended Embry-Riddle University with a degree in Professional Aeronautics which he continues to leverage as a flight instructor.
Security Program Manager
David Thompson is CoSo Cloud’s Security Program Manager leading the efforts to attain important security certifications such as SOC2, HIPAA, GPDRS, and Authorizations to Operate for FedRAMP for the CoSo Secure Private Cloud platform. David has worked in many different areas in Cybersecurity; from security analysis to penetration testing, as well as designing security in security architecture. His diverse background provides him with a unique insight into the many challenges that the modern information security landscape has to offer. David is a lifetime learner, and holds twenty different industry recognized certifications, including the CISSP, the CISM, and the OSCP. David also holds both his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance from Western Governor’s University.
Board Director
Prior to his current position, Bharat Parikh was President of the AASKI Engineering & Technology Business Unit of MAG Aerospace, located in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Bharat is a technical and management professional with over 25 years of experience in the communications and networking industry with a strong emphasis on Acquisition Management and Engineering. He is highly proficient on the DoD 5000 acquisition regulation and processes. He was an Army Civilian in PEO EIS, PM DCATS for 9 years from 1989-1998, and was involved in advanced IP networking technology in commercial industry from 1998-2002. Bharat was a US representative to NATO for 6 years in an Ad-Hoc Experts Group for satellite communications waveforms. Bharat was the CEO of AASKI Technology prior to the acquisition by MAG in 2020. AASKI Technology delivered professional services for planning, designing, implementing, securing, and managing highly complex, mission-critical networks and systems. delivers complete lifecycle communications, infrastructure and support for the world’s most demanding clients – from the U.S. Department of Defense to leading communication service providers and contractors, equipment manufacturers, financial services firms, and pharmaceutical companies. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University and a M.S. in EE from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Board Director
Prior to her current position, Mrs. Parikh served as the President of AASKI Technology, founding the company in 1997. She began her career as a support contractor to the Army until she joined in 1988 as an Army Civilian where she worked until 1997. She was involved in advanced technology demonstrations for digitization of the battlefield in support of Task Force XXI. She provided numerous high level presentations and demonstrations to senior Army officers at Ft. Gordon and at Ft. Hood. More recently, she has been involved in the initiation of the Synchronized Pre-Deployment Operations Tracker (SPOT) program, which is now a DoD standard for tracking personnel deployed OCONUS. She has performed as the Phase V RESET lead for PEO C3T. The AASKI Technology Business Unit delivers professional services for planning, designing, implementing, securing, and managing highly complex, mission-critical networks and systems. delivers complete lifecycle communications, infrastructure and support for the world’s most demanding clients – from the U.S. Department of Defense to leading communication service providers and contractors, equipment manufacturers, financial services firms, and pharmaceutical companies. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, and a MBA in Contracts Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
