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30 Best CEOs of the Year 2020
Company
cxLoyalty
www.cxloyalty.com
Golden Software
www.goldensoftware.com
SpinalCyte, LLC
www.spinalcyte.com
Minesoft
www.minesoft.com
Engineered Tax Services
www.engineeredtaxservices.com
Pariveda Solutions, Inc.
www.parivedasolutions.com
Datavail
www.datavail.com
Jade Global
www.jadeglobal.com
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
www.njfsearch.com
Opsview
www.opsview.com
Management
Todd Siegel, CEO
Blakelee Mills, CEO
Pete O’Heeron, CEO
Ann Chapman
Co-founder & MD
Julio P. Gonzalez
Founder & CEO
Bruce Ballengee
CEO
Mark Perlste
President & CEO
Karan Yaramada
CEO
Nathan Francis, CEO
Mike Walton
Founder & CEO
About the Leader
Todd Siegel is the Chief Executive Officer of cxLoyalty, responsible for
setting strategic direction and management of the company. Mr. Todd
has held a variety of positions over the past 15 years, including CFO,
General Counsel and oversight of the International business, prior to
being appointed CEO in 2013.
As Chief Executive Officer of Golden Software, Blakelee Mills oversees
the company’s strategic direction, global sales, growth, market
expansion, and product direction. Blakelee began her career as an
intern for Golden Software co-founder Patrick Madison while attending
the Colorado School of Mines.
Pete O’Heeron serves as SpinalCyte Chief Executive Officer.
With more than 20 years of medical technology development
experience, Mr. O’Heeron brings together the resources necessary to
commercialize unique technologies.
Ann Chapman’s key behind the success has been a sound business
strategy and execution that demonstrates well across all disciplines,
including people management, customer service, exports, innovation
and product development.
Founder and CEO, Julio Gonzalez, is an expert in tax reform whose
strong presence is helping define our current tax laws. Under Gonzalez’s
guidance and true insight into how the industry is shaping, Engineered
Tax Services is one of the largest, fastest growing, and most innovative
engineering, energy, and specialty tax credit services firm in the country.
Bruce Ballengee is the Chief Executive Officer of Pariveda Solutions,
Inc. He has held leadership positions in consulting, software and
telecommunications industries in both large and small organizations
including CEO, COO, CFO, and CTO.
Mark Perlstein is a national leader in database support and
professional services. For more than two decades, Mark has been
a leader in the IT services market and brings a wealth of growth-
oriented and operating experience in the services business to Datavail.
Karan Yaramada, CEO of Jade Global founded the company in 2003
with a vision and passion to deliver excellence to its customers.
An alumnus of Harvard Business School, Karan exemplifies the
company’s deep rooted culture of maximizing value from the latest
technology to address some of the biggest business challenges.
Nathan Francis serves as the Chief Executive Officer of NJF Global
Holdings Ltd. He was named as one of the World’s Top 10 Most
Influential Headhunters & Game Changer Award Winner 2018 /
2019’s Most Outstanding International Executive Search Firm by AI
Magazine - Chief Executive Officer.
Mike Walton has over 30 years of experience in software
and consulting sales, management and company leadership.
The first half of his career was with large IT and software
companies and for the second half of it he has built start-up
and high growth businesses as a founder, co-founder and C.E.O.