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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 the CoSo VAR, OEM, and Direct sales teams, channel partnerships, customer success, sales engineering, marketing, and sales operations 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.
Chief Services Officer
As Chief Services Officer, Chris Johnson leads the global Services team across all functions in the company. Chris’ organization includes Customer Support, DevOPS, SecOPS, Engineering, Professional Services and Cloud Infrastructure Operations. Based in four international and domestic hubs, the team supports FedRAMP certified and Commercial HITRUST, and SOC II compliant data centers. Chris has over 15 years’ experience in cloud and software defined datacenter architecture, design and implementation. His background includes 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 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.
Chief Architect
Mike Kollen is CoSo’s Chief Architect, and responsible for the design of custom applications, subscriptions, and tools designed to boost user engagement for Virtual training and collaboration delivered through CoSo’s Application Engineering team. 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.
Head of Delivery
Andrew Kundelyev joined CoSo as Head of Delivery for CoSo’s global Applications Engineering team in late 2020. Andrew is responsible for the smooth operation of the delivery organization including applications development, providing committed professional services work and products to customers, talent retention, and processes excellence. He has more than 20 years of experience managing enterprise software R&D services and developing distributed mission-critical programs while establishing and maintaining relationships between clients and engineering teams. Andrew graduated from Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) with a master’s degree in applied mathematics and mechanics and also earned an MBA degree from the University of Sheffield (UK).
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.
Federal Sales Manager
Based in the Washington, D.C. area, Mike Sheridan is CoSo’s Federal Sales Manager, leading the CoSo Federal Sales team and collaborating with the Adobe Federal Sales team as well as various Government partners while managing relationships with large federal systems integrators and prime contractors. For over 7 years, Mike has been committed to providing leading eLearning solutions to Federal government customers with high-consequence virtual training needs. 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.
Commercial Sales Manager
AJ Gorton is CoSo’s Commercial 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.
Manager, Cyber Security and GRC
Blake Loring is CoSo's Manager of Cyber Security and Governance, Risk, and Compliance, responsible for gaining and adhering to regulatory compliance and security certifications for the CoSo Secure Private Cloud. 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. Blake also is responsible for CoSo’s internal IT services and cyber security policies. Prior to CoSo, he worked with the US Air Force, Qwest/CenturyLink, HP, and LexisNexis.
Controller
As corporate controller, Ed Kwong is responsible for CoSo Cloud’s accounting functions including managing the AR/AP and Payroll functions. Ed spent his formative years in the banking and biopharmaceutical sectors before moving over to the start-up technology world. Prior to CoSo Cloud, Ed devoted 3 years to Sidecar Technologies and ended his tenure by facilitating the acquisition of its assets to General Motors. At ConnectSolutions Inc., 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.
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