Leadership
Roman Stanek, CEO and Founder
Roman is GoodData’s visionary leader; in 2007 he had the crazy idea 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.
Email | Twitter | LinkedIn
Stephane Panier, CFO
Stephane brings more than a decade of experience managing the rapid growth of Internet-scale companies. Prior to joining GoodData, Stephane was president of Bebo, overseeing all global operations for AOL’s social network. Stephane also spent six years at Google, building the company’s Product and Engineering Finance team, leading the EMEA Financial Planning team and managing AdSense’s astronomical revenue growth.
Email | LinkedIn
Michael Gear, Vice President, Field Operations
Michael’s mandate is customer success. He has spent more than 16 years helping Fortune 1000 and internet companies monetize cross-channel solutions engineered and delivered in the cloud. Prior to joining GoodData, Michael was Vice President of Sales at Webtrends, inc. where he was responsible for 70% of the company’s revenue. Earlier, he was a principal member of the Akamai sales team, helping the company grow from $0-$250 million in annual revenue.
Email | LinkedIn
Zdenek Svoboda, Vice President, Platform
Zdenek 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 more 15 years in engineering and product management roles at Hewlett Packard, Systinet and NetBeans.
Email | Twitter | LinkedIn
Jaroslav Gergic, Vice President, Engineering
Jaroslav manages GoodData’s engineering team, delivering a high-performance analytics service to thousands of users. 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.
Email | LinkedIn
Cliff Cate, Vice President, Customer Success
As Vice President of Client Services, Cliff spearheads client services, customer support, training and implementation teams. He is zealously focused on the success of all GoodData clients post contract signature. A Professional Service veteran, Cliff has 18 years of experience in the area of professional services and has a passion for using technology to solve business problems. Before GoodData, Cliff worked at CaseCentral, Oracle, Stellent and Viant.
Email | Twitter | LinkedIn
Board Members
John O'Farrell, Andreessen Horowitz
Larry Bohn, General Catalyst Partners
James Gellert, Windcrest Partners
Dave Girouard, Google Enterprise
Roman Stanek, GoodData
Investors
GoodData is backed by venture firms and private investors that still believe in the power of technology to disrupt markets.
Founded in 2000, General Catalyst Partners leverages its principals’ extensive operational, business development and technological expertise to provide portfolio companies with a catalyst for success through business-building and partnership development assistance. General Catalyst is headquartered in Cambridge, Mass.
O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures is in the business of funding disruptors, innovators and hackers of the status quo. OATV is affiliated with O’Reilly Media which, from open source to the early days of the web and its recent resurgence, has played a key role as trend spotter, putting world-changing technologies on the map.
Andreessen Horowitz was established in June 2009 by entrepreneurs and engineers Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, based on their vision for a new, modern VC firm designed to support today’s entrepreneurs. Andreessen and Horowitz have a track record of investing in, building and scaling highly successful businesses.
Windcrest Partners is an evergreen venture capital and private equity partnership. Together with its affiliate, Windcrest Microcap Investments, the firm invests in private companies at all stages of development.
Fidelity Growth Partners Europe is a venture and growth capital investor which backs entrepreneurial companies in the IT and clean technology sectors across Europe. FGPE supports portfolio companies as they accelerate their growth.