At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Massachusetts based CFO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Marlon K. Pearson
CFO of Markley Group
Marlon K. Pearson serves as the chief financial officer of [Markley Group](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/markley-group#/entity), where he is responsible for financial reporting, management, taxation, and strategic planning. Prior to joining Markley Group, Pearson has served as a controller and operations manager for 2 privately-held business conglomerates. He has over 30 years of public accounting experience with many firms such as [Arthur Andersen & Co](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/arthur-andersen-co-llp#/entity).
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About Markley Group: New England’s largest and longest operating multi-tenant, mission-critical telecommunications and data center facility.
Tivanka Ellawala
Chief Financial Officer of Endurance International Group
Tiv Ellawala’s experience and expertise in a range of financial functions across various industries have prepared him for his role as Chief Financial Officer at Endurance International Group. Tiv believes small businesses are the engine of the economy and loves how technology and the Internet can help grow them worldwide. It’s this passion for small businesses that led him to Endurance. Tiv’s career launched with his navigating the world of mergers and acquisitions at Merrill Lynch in New York, and then in its technology division, in San Francisco. His journey to Endurance then took a 13-year detour to Redmond, WA. While at Microsoft, he focused on strategy, business development and strategic alliances, financial planning, financial controllership and investor relations as well as business operations, ultimately leading to his position as CFO for the Windows Phone Division. When not propelling the journeys of small businesses across the globe, Tiv is also passionate about other types of journeys, including hiking, biking and driving.
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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.
Steve Webber
Chief Financial Officer of Quickbase
Steve Webber is the Chief Financial Officer of Virtustream with global responsibility for the accounting, finance, corporate development, security operations and IT activities for the company. Prior to joining Virtustream, Steve was the senior vice president of Finance and Operations at EMC Corporation, recently supporting the Global Enterprise Services organization. Steve spent over 19 years at EMC Corporation in various financial roles including Corporate Finance, International Finance, Sales Finance and Operations for Latin America and business partner roles supporting the Enterprise Software Division and Global Services. In his most recent role, the Global Services organization grew to $5B in revenue. Steve also spent four years at Deloitte & Touche LLP in Boston in the audit practice with a focus on public companies. He has both a Bachelor of Science degree and an MBA from Babson College.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Larry Whitman
VP and CFO of AppNeta
Larry Whitman is a CFO at AppNeta.
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Paul Tranter
Chief Financial Officer of The Boston Consulting Group
Paul is a partner and managing director in the Sydney office. Since joining BCG in 1998, he has worked for clients in a range of industry sectors, including travel and tourism, agribusiness, consumer goods, food services, industrial goods, financial services and telecommunications. Paul is a core member of BCG’s Travel and Tourism, People & Organization, and Operations practice areas. He is also a topic leader for BCG’s Engaging for Results organization tool. Before BCG and university, Paul worked in the agribusiness sector through his management of a family dairy-farming business. This business is still operated by his family and has grown into one of Australia’s largest dairy farming operations. Paul has a bachelor’s of arts and law degree from the University of Queensland and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About The Boston Consulting Group, The Boston Consulting Group, The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Daniel Geffken
Interim Chief Financial Officer of CalciMedica
Daniel E. Geffken is the founder and managing director of Danforth Advisors, a consulting firm providing administrative, strategic and operational support to life science companies. He has more than 20 years of experience in the life science industry, with companies ranging from early startups to publicly-traded companies with over $1 billion market capitalizations. Previously, he served as chief operating officer or chief financial officer of four publicly-traded and four privately-held companies, in addition to his consulting clients, and was interim chief executive officer of a medical device company. In these roles, he held management responsibility for finance, accounting, human resources, investor/public relations, facilities, legal, intellectual property and manufacturing functions. Mr. Geffken has raised more than $700 million in equity and debt securities, including a $132 million private placement that was, at the time, the largest private investment in public equity (PIPE) in biotechnology history. Previous to these roles, Mr. Geffken was a principal in a private equity firm, and prior to that position was a certified public accountant (CPA) at KPMG. Mr. Geffken holds a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About AnTolRx, Apic Bio, CalciMedica, Danforth Advisors, Danforth Diamond, DermBiont, Elicio Therapeutics, ProMIS Neurosciences, Vigeo Therapeutics, Zikani Therapeutics: CalciMedica is engaged in the discovery and development of small molecule drugs for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.
Christopher Malone
President & CFO of Applause
Chris is responsible for overseeing the financial strategy and administrative operations of Applause. He is a veteran of the IT Services industry, previously serving as the Vice President of Finance for NTT DATA, the 6th largest Global IT service provider. At NTT DATA, Chris held leadership roles that included oversight of the financial management of the Company’s U.S. and Canada Commercial Operations. Prior to NTT DATA, Chris was a Managing Director with a financial consulting firm providing CFO, M&A and Controllership services. Leveraging his financial and technical skills Chris was instrumental in the successful acquisition of significant commercial deals ranging from several million to hundred million dollar customer engagements. Chris holds both a Masters of Business Administration and a B.S from Babson College and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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About Applause: Applause is a crowd-sourced digital quality testing enabling companies to deliver digital experiences to their customers.
Paul Deeley
CFO of Validity
Paul Deeley serves as Chief Financial Officer for Validity and will also oversee the HR and IT functions for the firm. Paul brings over 25 years of extensive finance, administration and public accounting experience in diverse industries including software, services, mobile and advertising. Paul has a proven ability to build, lead and advise organizations through business growth, restructurings and other complex transactions. With strong SEC expertise and a background in mergers and acquisitions, he is accomplished in structuring and negotiating commercial and financial transactions with favorable terms. Paul is a Certified Public Accountant for the state of Massachusetts. He received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Boston College, Carroll School of Management.
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About Validity: Validity is a Boston-based provider of data quality and compliance solutions
Gaurav Agarwal
Chief Financial Officer of emids
Gaurav is in charge of overseeing the company’s finance, legal and secretarial functions.He is an expert in Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investor Relations, Negotiation, Financial analysis, and other related areas. Gaurav works closely with all other executives to build long term and short term strategy and help implement them while adopting the best standards in financial and operational discipline. He is a Chartered Accountant from India and Certified Public Accountant from USA.
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About emids: Emids is a consulting firm that provides IT and business process management solutions to the healthcare industry.
Shevawn Hardesty
Chief Financial Officer of MerlinOne
Shevawn has served as MerlinOne’s CFO since joining the company in 2007. She has been providing financial management and leadership for technology organizations for over 25 years and has held positions as vice president, controller and financial director at several well-known financial organizations. At Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank and Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Shevawn oversaw the financial planning and accounting and served as a financial advisor to senior management for the information technology groups of these organizations. At Fleet Bank, she also served as the division head for the operating division providing bank wide administrative and logistics support, and she spent the first five years of her career on the audit staff of Ernst & Young. Shevawn holds a BSBA degree from Boston University and is a licensed CPA.Shevawn resides in Hingham, Massachusetts with her three sons, Lou, George, and John. In her free time she enjoys cooking, gardening, yoga, and hiking.
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About Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Compass Organization, Fleet Bank, MerlinOne: MerlinOne, Inc. is a dedicated and innovative supplier of digital asset management solutions for organizations large and small.
Michael Soja
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of FusionStorm
Mike Soja has more than thirty years of varied experience as a senior financial executive. He is responsible for all financial matters including lender relationships, accounting, budgeting, planning, and taxes. Mr. Soja began his career with KPMG and later served as the Chief Financial Officer at XTRA Corporation, a publicly held transportation equipment leasing company for twenty years. He subsequently entered the life science sector, serving as the CFO of Control Delivery Systems, a privately held drug delivery development company. Mike later served as the CFO of pSivida, Inc, a publicly held company that developed proprietary drug delivery technologies. Mr. Soja holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mathematics from The College of The Holy Cross, Worcester MA, and a Master of Science Degree in Accounting with Honors from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and a Masters in Business Administration, with High Honors from Babson College, Wellesley, MA.
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About FusionStorm: FusionStorm provides IT products, professional services, support contract services and managed services for enterprises.
Maja Drolec
Co-Founder & CFO of Celtra
Prior to Celtra, Maja was the CRM manager at Si.mobil (Vodafone group), a Slovenian mobile operator, and after that, the head of marketing at Elektroncek group, the world’s leading manufacturer of electromechanical gaming devices. She graduated with honors with an M.B.A. degree from Babson College, where she co-founded Celtra Inc.
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About Celtra: Celtra is the Creative Management Platform that empowers agencies, media suppliers, and brand leaders
Chris Ewart
CFO of Virtustream
Chris Ewart serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Virtustream.
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About Virtustream: Virtustream provides cloud computing management software and infrastructure as a service to enterprises, governments, and service providers.
Maureen Levangie
Chief Financial Officer of Ogment
Maureen is responsible for financial reporting and analysis, cash forecasting and management of business operations. Maureen has more than 20 years of financial leadership experience. Prior to EvoText, she spent over 15 years as Principal for her own accounting consultancy firm, maintaining the financials for business clients in the banking, insurance, educational, software, and entrepreneurial sectors. She served for two years as Corporator for Belmont Savings Bank (BLMT : NASDAQ), transitioning to her current role as a member of the BSB advisory board. Maureen brings a unique perspective to her role from an educational standpoint, having served for three years as Treasurer, and continuing her role as financial consultant to CNS, a community nursery school in her hometown of Lexington. She spent a semester studying abroad at SAIIE in Seville, Spain, and received her Bachelor of Science in Finance from Carroll School of Management, Boston College.
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About Ogment: Create engaging, relevant lessons your way with Ogment.
Michael Baker
CFO of Cloud 9
Michael Baker is CFO at Cloud9.
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About Cloud 9: Cloud 9 creates a dual treatment solution for behavioral healthcare prevention and intervention.
Bruce Tiedemann
Partner / CFO of Boston Millennia Partners
Bruce is a founder of Tiedemann & Company, an independent certified public accounting firm. He has also served as part-time Chief Financial Officer or Controller of several start-up venture funded companies. His professional experience includes over 20 years of public accounting experience.
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About Boston Millennia Partners: Boston Millennia Partners provides private equity financing to high growth companies in the healthcare and business services industries.
Christopher Hemme
CFO of Privafy
Christopher Hemme is the Chief Financial Officer of Privafy. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from S.U.N.Y. at Oneonta and an MBA from Suffolk University.
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About Privafy: Privafy redefines data-in-motion security and delivers protection in an easy-to-use cloud-native service.
Chris Holden
Chief Financial Officer of OptiRTC, Inc.
Mr. Holden is a strategic finance and operations professional with over 15 years experience. At Opti, he oversees finance, accounting, human resources, legal, and real estate functions. Prior to Opti, he spent over 12 years at Eze Castle Integration, a hedge fund technology and cloud services provider, where he finished his tenure as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer. During his time at Eze Castle, he managed the company’s US financial operations and spearheaded the establishment of international operations in both Europe and Asia. He has also held the role of Vice President, Finance and Operations, at Forward Financing. He began his career at The Parthenon Group, a global strategic advisory firm. Mr. Holden holds an AB, Magna Cum Laude, in Mathematics from Dartmouth College and a Postgraduate Certificate in International Finance and Accounting from The University of Liverpool.
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About OptiRTC, Inc.: Opti is a technology company focused on the continuous monitoring and adaptive control of distributed stormwater infrastructure.
Niv Krikov
CFO of Profitect
Niv served as CFO, Executive VP, Principal Accounting Officer, and Treasurer at NTS, Inc. He was also CFO, Principal Accounting Officer, and VP of Finance of Xfone. Prior to Xfone, Niv held the following positions: Corporate Controller of Nur Macroprinter Ltd., Controller and later Credit and Revenues Manager of Alvarion Ltd., CPA at the Israeli public accounting firm of Kost Forer Gabbay & Kasierer. He holds a BA degree in Economics and Accounting from the Tel Aviv University and is licensed as a CPA in Israel. Niv also holds a LLM degree from the Faculty of Law at the Bar Ilan University.
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About Agrify, Profitect: Profitect offers profit amplification software that enables retailers to quickly realize increased revenue and reduced costs.
Mark Sullivan
Chief Financial Officer of IDC
Mark Sullivan is the Chief Financial Officer at International Data Corporation.
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About IDC: IDC provides market intelligence solutions, advisory services, and events for the information technology and other related markets.
Ed Lafferty
General Partner & CFO of Saturn Partners
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About Chirpify, Saturn Partners: Since 1994, Saturn Partners has taken an active role in the formation and management of seed and early-stage technology companies.
Kenneth Stone
CFO of Visibility
Mr. Stone has been with Visibility since August 1999. Over his 25-year career he has held executive positions responsible for financial, contract, human resources, purchasing, customer support center and business unit management. His assignments have included managing international business operations, strategic and business planning, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and strategic partnering, capital financing including public stock offerings, venture capital funding and bank financings. Prior to joining Visibility, Mr. Stone held management positions with both large, public multi-national corporations and mid-market private companies including WSI Corporation, TASC Inc., and GTE Corporation. His industry experience includes software, aerospace/defense, communications, electronics and electrical devices manufacturing, and construction. He began his career with Coopers and Lybrand and is a CPA. Mr. Stone holds a MBA from Syracuse University, a MS in Taxation from Suffolk University and a BS in Accounting from LeMoyne College. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and its Information Technology Division.
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About Visibility: Visibility is a software solutions company designing ERP systems for organizations.
Steven Nothern
CFO of Satuit Technologies
Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Satuit in 2004, Mr. Nothern was a portfolio manager responsible for more than $10 Billion in Fixed Income portfolios at MFS Investments. He also worked at Merrill Lynch in Manhattan as a derivatives and futures specialist. Mr. Nothern holds a bachelors degree from Middlebury College and an MBA from Boston University. Steven has volunteered for organizations outside Satuit such as The Habitat for Humanity and The Carter Center. “I find inspiration in former President Carter’s example of public service. For me, helping to strengthen emerging democracies is not about spreading our values so much as supporting the very basic of Human rights, the right to self-determination”, says Steven.
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About Satuit Technologies: Satuit Technologies Inc. is a global leader in CRM and investor portal software for Buy-Side asset managers
Gary Levine
Chief Financial Officer of CSPi
Money is always on Gary’s mind. As the Chief Financial Officer for CSPi worldwide, Gary is a vital part of the financial wherewithal of their business. He brings a plethora of experience and money sense to CSPi from his early days as Corporate Controller and Vice President of Finance in the 1980s, to his current distinction as CFO. As a part of their team, Gary has pioneered their financial success through his diligence and insight on markets, investor relations, treasury, and various other financial endeavors.
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About CSPi: CSPi is delivering portfolio of products and consulting solutions singularly focused on securing their customers critical business assets.
Bryce Chicoyne
COO and CFO of SmartBear
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About SmartBear: SmartBear is a developer of enterprise-class software development and testing tools.
Mark Blaxill
Chief Financial Officer of Vibrant Technologies
Mark is a founding partner of 3LP Advisors, in the Boston office. He has over 25 years of strategy consulting experience, with extensive experience in technology related industries. Prior to 3LP, Mark was a Senior Vice President at The Boston Consulting Group, where he led the firm’s Strategy Practice investments, launched the IP Strategy Practice and recruited BCG’s core IP Strategy team. Mark is a co-author of the book The Invisible Edge, on IP strategy, and has been named one of “The World’s Leading IP Strategists” by IAM Magazine. Mark is a graduate of Princeton University, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Vibrant Technologies: Vibrant is a mission to build a company that invested in customer relationships and company culture.
Ian Bastow
CFO of Patients Know Best
Ian is a UK qualified accountant with experience in both blue-chip and start-up organisations in an international environment. Ian holds an MBA with Distinction from London Business School and has raised over $100m of funding for start-ups.
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About Patients Know Best: Patients Know Best provide hospitals with personal health records software so that their patients can better manage their health.
Dan Sullivan
CFO of TruTouch Technologies
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About TruTouch Technologies: TruTouch Technologies manufactures noninvasive intoxication measurement systems that help measure a person’s alcohol concentration.
D. Tyler Drolet
Chief Financial Officer of Upland Qvidian
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About Upland Qvidian: The premier provider of cloud-based RFP and proposal automation software, helping more than 1,000 companies worldwide win more business.
Andrew Beal
Chief Financial Officer of International Association of Privacy Professionals
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About International Association of Privacy Professionals: IAPP a not-for-profit association with more than 16,000 members across 83 countries, focused on education and certification.
John Reilly
Chief Financial Officer of Promisec
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About Promisec: Promisec provides clientless end-point management software that secures and optimizes PCs and servers in enterprise computer networks.
John Reilly
Chief Financial Officer of Promisec
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About Promisec: Promisec provides clientless end-point management software that secures and optimizes PCs and servers in enterprise computer networks.
Sheng-kuei Hsu
COO/CFO & Co-founder of Coolso
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About Coolso: Coolso uses unique patent technology to develop wearable gesture recognition solution.
Sheng-kuei Hsu
COO/CFO & Co-founder of Coolso
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About Coolso: Coolso uses unique patent technology to develop wearable gesture recognition solution.
Julie Callagee
CFO of Verne Global
Julie Callagee is responsible for financial planning, accounting and human resources. Experienced in global operations, Julie has worked for 20+ years in private industry and public accounting with a focus on technology, renewable energy, construction and M&A. She was International Controller for MathWorks, CFO for Global Marine Energy Inc., Controller for Lycos, and Controller for a privately held construction company. Julie is a Certified Public Accountant and has a Certification in International Financial Accounting Standards (IFRS).
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About Verne Global: Verne Global is a tech company focused on providing data centers.