Roman Stanek, CEO and FounderRoman is GoodData’s visionary leader, who had the crazy idea back in 2007 that cloud computing could finally make good on the broken promises of generations of BI. Roman has been a tech entrepreneur for almost 20 years. He was Founder and CEO of NetBeans (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Systinet (acquired by Mercury Interactive and later Hewlett Packard). Read Roman’s blog. |
Mike DeVries, COOMike is GoodData’s roll-up-your-sleeves operations guy, responsible for sales, business development and customer engagement. Mike has spent over 25 years in operations and executive roles throughout the technology industry. Mike was CEO of Instill, Clarus Systems and Wakesoft; was CMO of Versata; and spent 10 years at General Electric, but never got his Six Sigma blackbelt. |
Cindy Smith, CFOCindy brings more than 20 years of finance and operational management experience focused on growing early stage companies. She has been the CFO for several VC-backed high tech startups over the past decade, and has completed multiple financings and M&A transactions, including Frictionless (sold to SAP) and Systinet (sold to Mercury Interactive). Cindy earned her CPA during her tenure at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. |
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| Michal Dovrtel, Principal Architect Michal co-founded GoodData after conceiving and building a high-scale analytics engine that broke through the performance limitations commonly accepted in the BI world. Michal’s experience in data analysis spans 25 years with posts in pharmaceutical and health care research, Silicon Graphics, and as co-founder and leader of a business intelligence consultancy. |
Zdenek Svoboda, Vice President, ProductsZdenek turns ideas into products, co-founding GoodData and leading the effort to build the world’s first true multi-tenant Cloud BI platform. Zdenek has been building world-class products for over 15 years, in engineering and product management roles at Hewlett Packard, Systinet and NetBeans. |
Sam Boonin, Vice President, MarketingSam’s mission is to deliver GoodData to the elusive and heroic analysts who have been underserved by technology for too long. Sam has spent the last fifteen years guiding innovative technologies to market in startups and bigcos alike: in marketing leadership positions at Cisco, Blue Titan Software, AT&T and Microsoft; and as a strategic marketing consultant for Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, QL2 and Nielsen. |
Jaroslav Gergic, Vice President, EngineeringJaroslav manages GoodData’s engineering team, delivering a high-performance analytics service across thousands of users in an innovative user experience. Before joining GoodData, Jaroslav worked as a spend management consultant at Ariba, serving its Fortune 100 customers across Europe. Before Ariba, Jaroslav worked at various R&D positions at IBM, Reuters and LCS International. |
Jakub Nesetril, Senior Director of User ExperiencesJakub spends each day ensuring that GoodData customers have an innovative and intuitive user experience. He has a long track record of creating large interactive and enjoyable Internet showcase sites, having led large web projects for APN publishing house in New Zealand. Jakub was co-founder and lead developer of a boutique web development studio, Webworx. |

Roman Stanek, CEO and Founder
Mike DeVries, COO
Cindy Smith, CFO
Zdenek Svoboda, Vice President, Products
Sam Boonin, Vice President, Marketing
Jaroslav Gergic, Vice President, Engineering
Jakub Nesetril, Senior Director of User Experiences