Glen D. Vondrick
CEO
Glen D. Vondrick is CEO of CoSo Cloud LLC and has led the company as General Manager and then CEO since August 2015, including through a successful acquisition by AASKI Technology in April 2017. He previously served as Chief Revenue Officer starting in 2014. Glen’s executive leadership experience includes 20+ years in the enterprise messaging and communications security space, including serving three 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.
Chris Tennant
Chief Technology Officer
Chris co-founded ConnectSolutions in 2007. He currently serves as Chief Technology Officer of CoSo Cloud, leading the architecture design of our application stack and providing technical direction to our AASKI engineering team. Prior to founding CoSo, Chris worked for Adobe developing the Adobe Connect product for seven years. His experience with Adobe Connect started in 2000, when he managed development at Presedia, the company whose technology was acquired and eventually became Adobe Connect. Chris was the architect of Defense Connect Online, a large-scale on-premise deployment of Adobe Connect for the Defense Information Systems Agency. In addition to his interests in technology, Chris is trained as a lawyer and an anthropologist. After putting himself through college as a contract C programmer, he went on to law school, clerked at the Canadian Supreme Court, and completed a master’s in law and a doctorate in social anthropology, both at Harvard University.
Jim Seaman
Chief Revenue Officer
Jim Seaman is CoSo Cloud’s Chief Revenue Officer leading the CoSo VAR, OEM, and Direct sales teams, including channel partnerships, customer success, sales engineering, marketing and sales operation teams. Jim has over 25 years of direct sales and sales management experience with 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 positions at Sendmail, Netezza, Akamai, Control Data and Nynex. Jim earned his BS in Business Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Mike Kollen
Chief Architect
Mike Kollen is CoSo’s Chief Architect, and responsible for a team of developers building custom applications and tools designed to boost user engagement for Virtual training and collaboration. Mike has extensive experience as a lead web technology developer and instructor in a synchronous training environment. He has also built and designed over 60 websites and served as a Lead Architect for multiple web 1.0 and dynamic 2.0 RIA applications. In addition, Mike is the Co-Founder of the Boeing Flex and ColdFusion User Groups and an Adobe Certified Flex and ColdFusion Instructor. Mike founded eSyncTraining, an applications and tools company for Adobe Connect having provided solutions to over 400 customers, which was acquired by CoSo in March 2019. Mike received the UC Irvine 2007 Dean’s Outstanding Service and the 2005 Distinguished Instructor of the Year Awards. Mike is a native of California and currently resides in Orange County with his family.
Chris Johnson
Head of Services Operations
Chris Johnson has 15 years’ experience in both cloud and software defined datacenter architecture, design, and implementation; as well as, an extensive history in datacenter automation, process refinement, and a proven track record of operational excellence. In previous positions at Azaleos and Avanade, Chris built high performing teams to drive success of the Microsoft collaboration stack of applications for major enterprises, and responsible for the Production Private Cloud in North America and Europe. At CoSo, Chris has driven CoSo Cloud into the future, deploying a modernized flexible and extensible cloud architecture based on VMware SDDC, and Hyper Converged Infrastructure that is highly reliable and sustainable to support over 50+ million meetings per month. Today, Chris is responsible for the global Datacenter Operations team consisting of DevOPS, SecOPS, and Cloud Infrastructure Operations teams based in two geographical hubs in North Carolina and Ohio, supporting FedRAMP certified and Commercial HITRUST, SOC II compliant data centers in the North America, Europe, and Asia on a 24 x 7 x 365 basis.
Randah McKinnie
Head of Business Operations
Randah is a product expert in digital tools and technologies, and a recent addition to the CoSo team leading the company’s product development strategy with our managed services team, professional services team, and our external partnerships. Originally beginning her career as a technical instructor, Randah has been a driving force behind learning technologies for the last 20 years. One of the original architects of Macromedia Breeze, she continued as a principal product manager for Adobe Connect developing the product’s platform and product vision. Since then she’s been a product lead for Turbo Tax as well most recently leading learning innovation at Royal Bank of Canada. She holds a Graduate Degree from the University of Victoria and resides in Ontario Canada.
Ed Kwong
Controller
Ed leads Finance and Accounting for CoSo Cloud. He spent his formative years in the banking and biopharmaceutical sectors before moving over to the startup world. Prior to CoSo Cloud, Ed devoted three years to Sidecar Technologies and ended his tenure by facilitating the acquisition of its assets to General Motors. At CoSo Cloud, Ed was also a key contributor to the successful acquisition by AASKI Technologies in 2017. Ed earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia.
Michael Kennedy
Head of Service Delivery and Customer Support
Michael leads CoSo Clouds Global Service Delivery and Customer Support team to ensure the highest possible customer satisfaction for all service delivery. 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.
Mark Douglas
Head of Customer Success
Mark leads the Customer Success team responsible for nurturing client and partner relationships. He has worked successfully with CoSo’ enterprise customers for the last 5 years, and 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.
Kristen Sasser
Head of Marketing and Sales Operations
Kristen leads marketing and sales operations for CoSo Cloud, and is the voice behind the brand. She's passionate about continuing to stay abreast on the latest trends in the eLearning market, and sharing these tips with prospective customers. Prior to CoSo, Kristen worked for one the largest global ad agencies, Foote, Cone and Belding as well as numerous consumer and SaaS based products in the technology sector, including Yahoo!, Intacct and Adchemy in both demand generation & branding roles. Kristen has a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina.
Mike Sheridan
Federal Sales Manager
Based in the D.C. area, Mike is the Federal Sales Manager, leading the Federal VAR Sales team with the Adobe Connect Federal Sales team and Government partners. He has been involved selling eLearning solutions and Adobe Connect for the past 3 years. Prior to joining the corporate world, Mike was a Professional Baseball player for the Tampa Bay Rays for 5 years. In his free time, Mike organizes baseball camps for student-athletes. Mike holds a BA from The College of William and Mary.
Blake Loring
Lead Security Engineer
Blake Loring is our Lead Security Engineer, with over 20 years of progressive experience in server virtualization technologies, security and compliance, and infrastructure design and implementation. Blake ensures the Cloud Cloud Platform meets and exceeds the latest security compliance regulations, focusing on security, compliance, and governance. Blake leads CoSo’s SOC2 + HITRUST and FedRAMP certification efforts, along with implementing HIPAA, GDPR, and PIPEDA controls. Prior to CoSo he worked with the US Air Force, Qwest/CenturyLink, HP and LexisNexis.
