Leadership

All the founding team members have had major successes, and this time they strive to make something 100 times better than before - hence the name Cien, which means "100" in Spanish.

ROB KALL
CEO / CO-FOUNDER
3 Previous Entrepreneurial Successes totaling $100M

SVP at leading Real Estate Software Co. RealPage (NASDAQ:RP)

Built 2nd most trafficked US Real Estate Website (remax.com)

Devised Strategic Partnerships w/ Airbnb, TripAdvisor

B.S. Comp Sci./Business Adm.

MARGOT CARTER
INVESTOR / CO-FOUNDER
President Living Mountain Capital

EVP/CLO RealPage, Led IPO (NASDAQ:RP) Over $2B Mkt. Cap

Lead Director, Chair Nominating & Governance (NYSE:IBP)

Led over 100 M&A Transactions

Fordham Law, JD



Gertrude Van Horn SVP,
information System


CIO NCH Corp,  


St. IT Leadership for AMEX, JPMorgan, Office Depot and others

BBA. Temple University
SMU Tech CXO Leadership Instructor

Joanna
Ridgway
SVP,
Global Sales 


MD Corp Banking, Santander Bank, N.A. 

Corp Banking & Diligence Experience at BofA, JPM, Fifth Third

B.A. Rhodes College
Ivan
Redini
Director, Partner Success

Strategy Manager, Accenture 

Business Designer & Development. IDEO. UK.

MBA London Business School
Martin Andersson
Director, Data Visualization

20+ years of UX Design 

Graphic Designer & A.D. w/ Branding of National & International brands

B.A. Visual Arts

Gosia
Wiejacha
Director of Data Science &
Data Engineering


Lead Data Scientist for
TrueAI platform

Rose from Intern to Lead in 3 yrs.

M.S. Data Science UPC

Advisory Board

Wide expertise and deep experience across business, sales, AI and transactions

Dr. CHRISTIAN BROWNLEES
Strategic Advisor

Professor of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE

Expert in Statistics and Econometrics

PhD in Statistics from Università degli Studi di Firenze and Post-doc at NYU Stern

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ERIC BUCHEN
Strategic Advisor

Seasoned Professional Services Exec

Former Global Business Development Leader & Sr. Partner EY

BBA Marketing University of Texas at Austin

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SUSANNE DEEGAN
Strategic Advisor

Founder and CEO of Chase Strategies

Over 25 years of experience advising Fortune 500 companies and their CEO’s on strategy

Senior Advisor to Applecart

Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Advertising from Johnson & Wales University.

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MATTHEW HOFFMAN 
Strategic Advisor

Former VP Sales & GM – RealPage, Inc

Founder of 4 Companies

Multiple Successful Exists

BS Marketing & International Affairs, Florida State

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RANDY HUMPHRIES
Strategic Advisor

Finance Pro w/ Deep Network in Banking

Head of International Banking Citi

Exec Director JP Morgan

MBA Texas Tech

RONEN LAMDAN
Strategic Advisor

Hands on B2B Tech Sales Leader

Opened Up APAC for NetSuite

Sales Director Microsoft

Pavillion Exec Member

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JIM McGUIRE
Strategic Advisor

Former VP Sales - Microsoft

Part of Sales Leadership that took Azure Cloud from $0 to Billion Dollar Juggernaut

Turned around FAST (MS subsidiary) - received coveted MS Platinum Award

Ex IBM, HP, etc - 25 yrs. of IT Sales

BS Marketing Northern Illinois (Magna Cum Laude)

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MICHAEL O'HARE
Strategic Advisor

Managing Director at KeyBanc Capital Markets

Advisor on over $2 billion of M&A and growth equity capital transactions for software companies

Over 26 years of M&A experience in SaaS and Enterprise Software industry

MBA, Indiana University, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

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JEROME ROSE
Strategic Advisor

Executive positions in sales at SMS Inc & IBM

Managing sales teams with over $100M in quota

Expert in Sales Enablement & CRM Tools

MBA Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business

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RICK WELDAY
Strategic Advisor

Former GM/EVP AT&T Business ($30B P&L)

35 years of TMT Exec Leadership (AT&T, DIRECTV, AdWorks, Xander Media, Southwestern Bell (SBC))

Baylor University - BBA, Double major in Finance and Management

Emmy Winner

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