2023 Speakers

With a vision for a better future for children experiencing homelessness, Kate took over as CEO of Horizons for Homeless Children in 2015. During her tenure, she established a financially sustainable model and enriched the organization's programs through innovative partnerships with leading edge providers in early childhood development. Under her leadership, Horizons initiated a capital campaign for the Horizons Center, a unique public/private joint venture that was completed in 2021 and is transforming the education, health and well-being of at-risk children and families in Boston.

Before taking the helm at Horizons, Kate was a leader, strategy consultant and operating manager in the finance and technology sectors. During that time she served on the Board of Directors at Horizons for 14 years and deepened her involvement at Horizons by volunteering as a Playspace Activity Leader.

Kate's passion for children and families battling homelessness has been a meaningful part of her entire career. Kate holds a BA in Early Childhood Development from the Eliot-Pearson Department at Tufts University and an MBA from Boston University.

Anthony joined Consigli Construction Co., Inc. in 2011 as Chief Information Officer, where he oversees information technology strategy, planning, and implementation for the $2 billion organization with 1,300 employees across 11 regional offices and 100 project sites from Maine to the U.S. Virgin Islands.

As a member of the senior management team, Anthony leads IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organization. Anthony is an expert in all software development methodologies encompassing analysis, development, testing, training and integration, and is responsible for the selection and management of all technology implementations from hardware and software to contracts and vendor relationships.

During his tenure at Consigli, Anthony has led major systems integrations including the move of 80% of the company's data to cloud systems; the corporate transition to Microsoft 365; the creation of a data warehouse to support a corporate scorecard, dashboard system, and integrations; and the implementation of a total cloud-based disaster recovery system.

Sarah Din is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Quickbase. She joined the company in 2022 to lead key areas of product marketing, including Product go-to-market strategy, Product Growth and Customer Lifecycle, and Market Intelligence and is responsible for defining and evangelizing the Quickbase story.

She has spent the last 18 years leading marketing for B2B SaaS companies, helping them bring new products to market, expand existing markets, and carve out new categories to create demand and win market share. Sarah's expertise is in developing strategic narratives and brands, operationalizing cross-functional teams around an effective GTM strategy, building high-performing teams, and mentoring people to find joy in their work.

Brendan Fogarty manages Horizons' analytics and technology portfolio, and he uses the lessons learned within these verticals to plan and lead Horizons' policy advocacy program. His background is focused on policy and analytics, and he has worked in state and federal service, the tech sector, and in a statewide issue campaign before his time at Horizons.

Ed Jennings joined Quickbase as chief executive officer in May 2020 and has a proven track record of accelerating enterprise growth for SaaS leaders. His unique strengths combine innovative market strategies, velocity sales leadership, and extraordinary team building.

Prior to joining Quickbase, Ed was chief operating officer at Mimecast, where he was responsible for the global marketing, sales and services teams and helped bring the company public in 2015. Under his leadership, Mimecast expanded its footprint into the enterprise space, grew its annual revenue from $82M to over $400M in four years, and scaled the team from 350 employees to 1,800, while expanding offices internationally.

In addition to his recent role at Mimecast, Ed has held marketing leadership roles at PTC and Veracode; at the latter, he defined the go-to-market strategy that enabled the company to quadruple revenues during his nearly four-year tenure. Veracode was sold to Computer Associates in 2017. He also has served as CEO for SaaS workflow solution Copanion that was acquired by Drake Software in 2010.

Ed is on the advisory board of Ten Eleven Ventures and the Cyber Resilience Think Tank. He is a regular speaker on a range of digital transformation and technology topics at Gartner, Forrester and FS-ISAC conferences.

Ed is a graduate of Boston College and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

John is a Group Product Manager at Quickbase. His work is focused on two areas: The first is building new ways to surface data and analytics to our customers about their apps, users, and integrations and the second is driving development of additional integration channels within Pipelines, allowing customers to get more diverse data-sources included in their Quickbase workflows. Prior to joining Product Management, John was a Data Analyst for our GTM team. Prior to Quickbase, he worked at athenahealth (a healthcare software company) and DellEMC (a multinational technology hardware & software company). Outside of his day job, John is an avid basketball enthusiast who enjoys coaching, playing, watching, and talking all things bball!

Emily Lundberg manages Horizons' database which her team custom-built in collaboration with Quickbase. She is in charge of day-to-day data operations and is continuously looking to improve the data entry experience for staff with advanced automations and integrations. With a background in research and analytics, Emily creates and maintains reports that give Horizons' staff insight into key performance indicators and tell the story of the work that Horizons does.

Ryan Murray has worked at Quickbase since 2014. After beginning his journey as a member of the Technical Support team, he gravitated towards building the Quickbase apps that run Quickbase the business. Now, he leverages his Quickbase expertise on our Product team modernizing the user interface and bringing new capabilities like Dashboards and the soon-to-be-released Form Designer to our customers.

Debbi Roberts is Senior Vice President of Product Management at Quickbase. Debbi leads all aspects of product management, including UI/UX and innovation teams, and is responsible for defining and executing the product vision and strategy to deliver customer solutions that exceed expectations.

Debbi has more than 20 years of experience leading product management for both B2B SaaS and hardware companies. Most recently, Debbi was Executive Director, Product Management at Vista Consulting Group, part of Vista Equity Partners. Debbi worked across Vista's 80 portfolio companies to help product management teams scale and increase business value through implementation of Product Management Best Practices. Prior to Vista, Debbi was Vice President of Product Management at Web.com (now Newfold Digital), where she had P&L responsibility for a broad suite of B2B SaaS products across multiple brand channels. Debbi has also held product management leadership roles at Motorola (RFID Division), Verisign and General Electric.

Debbi has a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from Loyola University.

Harlean Stevenson joined Quickbase in 2022 bringing her passion for empowering anyone to create solutions for business needs. Her current focus at Quickbase is driving efforts behind accelerated application building for our Quickbase Builders. Harlean brings 10 years of experience in Product Management previously working in Emerging Markets; Enterprise, B2B, and B2C SaaS; Marketplaces; and Low Code/No Code platforms. Harlean calls Colorado home; spending her days watching hockey and enjoying the Rocky Mountain lifestyle of hiking and mountain biking with her husband Doug and their three dogs; Bear, Cooper, and Ryker.

Molly Sullivan oversees Quickbase's Brand Experience team. In this role, she directs brand strategy to build awareness for Quickbase and strengthen its reputation in the market. Molly has nearly 20 years of experience building global brands and leading award-winning content and creative teams. Prior to Quickbase, she ran brand, content, and creative for Pegasystems where she drove a total reimagining of the brand over 3.5 years. Prior to Pega, she ran global brand and creative teams for large organizations such as Wayfair and Salesforce. Molly lives outside Boston, MA with her husband, Will, and two children, Jack and Maddie.

Technical Support Engineer within the Technical Support department. Part of a team of Technical Support staff that assist in implementing single-sign on (SSO) for our customers.

Waqar Alam is an experienced Quickbase Developer with a proven track record of success. He has 4.3 years of experience developing Quickbase Apps, pipelines, and customizing using python and javascript. His technical expertise also includes machine learning, data science, and SQL. He recently won the best use of Dashboard and an honorable mention in Quickbase Appathon 2021.
He is the perfect candidate to help you develop powerful Quickbase Apps that are tailored to your business needs. With his advanced skillset and industry knowledge, Waqar will help you get the best out of you.

Julian has been in IT for 21 years with 17 of them being in healthcare. He has worked in everything from system engineering and administration to application development. He is currently the Director of the IT Digital Cloud and Development Operations for Baptist Health in Jacksonville Florida. His team specializes in rapidly developing solutions for technical, process, and software gaps that are identified throughout the organization.

Baden Ballard is an avid hiker, swimmer, kayaker, and rock climber. He loves problem-solving and helping people understand and overcome their problems through software. In his free time Baden also runs a startup e-commerce site called Atticus at www.atticusshop.com geared towards helping people sell products that are environment friendly.

Ashley was first introduced to Quickbase during her previous role in quality manufacturing. She fell in love with the product and has now been working for Quickbase for nearly 3 years. She lives in Texas with her dear husband and two fur babies.

Paul Bills has been working with low-code technology for over 10 years. He started his work at Quickbase in 2022. Paul has a Master's Degree in Entertainment Arts and Engineering from the University of Utah and a Bachelor's Degree in English from Brigham Young University.

Scott engages with companies of all sizes in business process improvement and delivering best-in-class software solutions. He has a passion for working with end users and making sure they have the best tools to get the job done right with the highest level of efficiency. He leads the Trinity team in delivering amazing results for their clients.

With over 10 years of experience, Mr. Donnie Burke has developed, managed, and maintained QuickBase apps for disaster recovery programs in eight (8) states. These applications covered a magnitude of different disasters, including hurricanes, severe storms, fires, and floods. They also covered the whole disaster management process from response, temporary housing, repair and restoration to recovery, permanent construction, and mitigation. The applications he developed were specifically tailored for residential, commercial and government agencies and brought in over $100 million in revenue. Currently, Mr. Burke has built and maintains restoration and recovery program applications that specialize in providing the most efficient means of capturing, analyzing, and reporting project data. These systems were specifically designed to for FEMA funded temporary housing programs, construction management, operations management, inventory management, staff and labor management, billing, and invoicing. Donnie has also built QuickBase Apps to track and monitor emissions output of large operations to be reported to the Department of Environmental Quality.

Nashmia is a former Quickbase customer with an extensive Project Management and Business Analysis background. Having used Quickbase to solve a multitude of problems spanning over various use cases and apps, she turned into a Solutions Consultant with a mission to enable those closest to their work to do the same - and has never looked back! Now, she leads a team of technical resources to support the Partners & International business at Quickbase.

Shazik Burney is an Enterprise Senior Solutions Consultant with over 8 years of experience in Sales and Technical Process Management. With a passion for helping customers solve a wide range of complex business challenges using QuickBase, Shazik is widely recognized as an expert in the field. Leveraging his extensive knowledge of sales and technology, Shazik is committed to support organizations to deliver customized industry-specific solutions that meet the unique needs of their business and stakeholders.

Daniel has been at Quickbase for over eight years and over that time has held a handful of roles. Most recently he joined the Solutions Architects team, after having spent the past few years as both a Technical Enablement Consultant and a Product Trainer. Prior to that, he spent three years as an Application Developer focused on all stages of application lifecycle management. He's passionate about systems, simplifying & automating processes, and data & user governance.

Chelsea Carpenter (she/her) began her Quickbase journey as a non-technical customer three years ago. Now, she enthusiastically trains users on how to see, connect, and control their data using Quickbase. Chelsea's background is in translating data into comprehensible narratives, and she has been active in workplace DE&I employee efforts for the past 10 years. Chelsea lives in Portland, OR, and spends her free time with her puppy, Marge Simpson.

Jeff started his career over 20 years ago as a web developer during the "dot-com boom" and gradually transitioned into UX design. Before joining Quickbase in 2020, Jeff worked at Wayfair, Forrester, Harmonix, and several digital agencies.

Lee has spent 12 years in the Program Portfolio Management (PPM) space with PwC. He has helped clients plan for and deliver on some of their most complex change and transformational projects. He is a certified Quickbase builder and has a passion for expanding the awareness and uses cases of no/low-code platforms within both PwC and their clients.

James Cosman is passionate about helping businesses — large and small — solve problems using technology. He has worked with the world's leading companies to implement cloud solutions such as Quickbase in a wide variety of industries ranging from retail to manufacturing to professional services. In his former life, James came out of the business process consulting world, but was frustrated with the lack of tools to solidify good business processes in organizations. He discovered that Quickbase was a great way to fill the gap between a good idea and an executed idea. He co-founded VeilSun, LLC with Rich Crum with the mission to meld sound business know-how with technology. The result? Systems that truly transform business. James holds an MBA from Rice University. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family and scuba diving.

Ellen Crowley has worked in Commercial Technology at Southwest Airlines since 2014. The lion's share of that time was focused on Wanna Get Away Plus, but she has also worked on planning for Southwest.com and on the delivery of Southwest.com booking flow updates. She is a graduate of the University of Texas and currently lives in Rochester, Minnesota. Her personal Quickbase project is building a system to keep track of Christmas gifts.

Rich Crum has always enjoyed devising ways to use technology to make companies stronger, so much so that he's devoted over 20 years to working in almost every aspect of tech development and delivery, leading high-end teams to create successful applications.
Rich's technical roots have given him a keen understanding of how systems must complement every organization's unique needs and work culture. He is passionate about using Quickbase PaaS/SaaS Cloud and extended technologies to achieve his clients' desired results. Start-ups and Fortune 100 companies alike benefit from Rich's expertise in Cloud App Development, SaaS/Quickbase, Enterprise Application Integration, E-Commerce, Database Development, Project Management and Customer Relationship Management.
When he's not in the office, Rich, a Denver native, likes to head out to Colorado's Rocky Mountains to camp, snow ski and embark on outdoor adventures with his two sons.

David is new to the Technical Enablement Consultant world, but not the Quickbase world. He came from the technical support pipelines specialist role in technical support bringing a wealth of product knowledge with him. Now, he enjoys helping Quickbase builders solve their business problems.

As a value-focused solutions engineer with Procore, Kevin is the technical quarterback responsible for ensuring every opportunity if right sourced, from a people, process, forecasting and timing perspective. Kevin starts by working with the prospect through initial discovery session(s), then proceeds to work through the prospect defined evaluation process, win the opportunity, and ultimately work towards a smooth implementation handoff, deployment, ongoing success, and future expansion opportunities. He has worked with many of the highest profile Procore customers in his six years working with Procore.

Living in Minnesota, after almost two years as a customer builder Kelly now works in the Project Services department. Kelly works with clients to build their custom applications to fit all of their wants and needs.

Caroline leads the Customer Advocacy team at Quickbase. With over 10 years of experience in marketing and communications, Caroline enjoys working with customers to tell their stories and celebrate their successes. She currently lives in Williamstown, MA with her family.

Lala Ervin, a Solutions Marketing Manager at Quickbase began her journey at the company in 2021. Lala comes from a background in B2C marketing and digital strategy while having past experiences in Retail, Banking and Consumer Marketing. In her current role she is focused on enabling teams on solutions-focused industry research, insights and personas.

As a Product Manager at Quickbase, Edi possesses a deep passion for modern UI/UX. Prior to this role, he gained valuable experience as a Technical Support Manager at Microsoft and a Product Advocate Manager at Apollo.io, affording him a comprehensive knowledge of the industry. His expertise in product development and design aligns perfectly with his desire to create intuitive and user-friendly experiences for clients.

Caroline is a Customer Success Manager aligned to the Enablement Services Program. She started at Quickbase just over two years ago and made the shift from marketing to customer success because she loved learning about the unique and varying ways Quickbase helps customers. Currently, Caroline is supporting customers to achieve their outcomes by tailoring plans that meet customers where they are in order to help them get to where they want to be.

Rob Flynn is a Senior Technical Writer at Quickbase with many, many years helping developers of every levels become successful solving their company's problems.  Rob has a broad experience in highly technical areas such as developer software, iOS development, UNIX server and cluster deployment, and system administration

Scott has been with Quickbase for 12 years, working in a number of different roles including Solution Engineering, leading Customer Success and most recently as a Solution Architect. Scott works with some of Quickbase's largest customers ensuring they build solutions that scale and perform.

Polina is a Quickbase Product Manager leading our Mobile investment, where her current focus is on modernizing our mobile application and optimizing the experience for users on-the-go. Polina joined Quickbase in early 2022, bringing 5 years of experience working on multiple mobile applications within the areas of banking, engineering, and others.

Kaydee is the dedicated Interaction Designer on Quickbase's mobile team with a focus on centering the customer's voice to enhance and modernize the mobile application experience. She joined Quickbase in early 2022 after receiving her Master of Science (MS) in Human Factors in Information Design from Bentley University. With a deep commitment to human-centered design and research, she brings 5 years of experience designing for companies spanning various industries including finance, smart home, higher education, and others.

Mr. Grosky draws from his experience as an Expert Quickbase Builder, former Quickbase realm administrator, Solutions Consultant, Project Manger and Business Operations subject matter expert to share hands-on experience with designing and building "sticky" Quickbase applications that scale across the enterprise. His direct experience with start-ups to Fortune 50 companies across industries allows him to share best practices in gaining traction in user adoption and change management. He combines the discipline of a process-oriented operations professional, the creativity of an entrepreneur and the analytical perspective of a data analyst to formulate strategies to build Quickbase applications with a lasting, measurable impact.

Customer Success Manager Tessy Guerrere joined Quickbase last year after a decade in education. As a CSM, she leverages her talent for creating and executing success plans to help customers achieve their organizational goals with Quickbase and articulate the value of their work. Based in New Orleans, LA, Tessy enjoys sharing her love of reading with her daughter and trying new restaurants with her husband.

Emi Gwin is the President and CEO of Sympo with over 25 years of client services and management experience with companies from sole proprietorship to Fortune 100. Her human resources and technology recruitment background contributes to her ability to access and understand a client's needs. Emi's energy and enthusiasm, coupled with her efficient, organized method of operation, brings added value to our client engagements. She has built immense trust with our clients through her diligence, tenacity, and accountability. Sympo has over two decades of experience working in some of the most complicated industries and answering to some of the world's most respected brands, building Quickbase solutions that function in perfect harmony with a client's workflow, objectives, and preferred style of working.

Taylor Hardy is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Quickbase focused on custom integrations and ensuring that highly complex applications are built for performance and scale. A traditional developer background he is currently focusing on web application development and cloud infrastructure administration. Before joining Quickbase, Taylor was a customer of Quickbase for many years, administering a realm with 5000 active users across many organizations.

John Harvey is the Regional Director for BIRS, which provides Quickbase solutions to customers who want a high touch white glove experience.  He's implemented applications used globally, won the Hack-a-Thon, and been called on by Quickbase to solve complex problems.  Having been born on Gallifrey, he brings a unique perspective to solutioning. 

Kristina has been with Quickbase for almost 2 years. She joined the Product team where she has been working on different aspects of modernizing the user interface. Currently, she is working on the new Form experience where she is focused on the user journey of building and using forms.

Adam Jones is an IT Project Manager at Gotham Greens, a leader in the sustainable agriculture industry. In addition to his project management, Adam is also a full-stack web developer who has worked on a variety of development projects for large tech companies and startups alike.
When not solving problems behind a screen, Adam can be found on a bicycle, raft, or sailboat exploring our natural world.

Eric has been with Quickbase for about 3 years and has worked with a wide range of customers, primarily in the Built Environment/Construction space. With a background in mechanical engineering, Eric is passionate about creatively solving problems with a process-driven approach.

Based just outside the Boston area, William works alongside the rest of the Technical Support team to provide platform guidance and troubleshooting aid to the Quickbase community. With a year of experience under his belt, William is dedicated to continuous learning and growth in his role.

Sherri Kottmann is Quickbase's Chief People Officer, creating and driving the vision for the overall employee experience through leadership of talent acquisition, business partner, HR operations, employee engagement, and D&I practices. She joined in September 2021 and is committed to unlocking the potential of every employee and fostering a culture of growth, support and inclusion.

Sherri has been championing the employee experience at fast-growing organizations, both private and public, for more than 20 years. She spent 12 years at Forrester, most recently serving as CPO, where she evolved the Employee Experience practice into an empathetic, data-driven, transparent, and trusted partner to the business. During her time in this role, she led the COVID-19 response, designed a fully reconstructed flex work program, and established Forrester's Diversity & Inclusion vision and strategy, including standing up their first employee-led and exec-sponsored D&I council. Prior to Forrester, she served in both HR and sales roles at EF Educational Tours.

Sherri has a B.S. in Biology and a minor in French, from Miami University at Ohio.

Simon has been with Quickbase since 2021, prior to which he worked as a System Administrator for an advertising agency, and also spent several years as an Apple hardware and solutions consultant. With this unique blend of experience, he brings a distinct perspective on the needs and concerns of IT managers and security teams.
Simon loves nothing more than diving into apps experiencing performance issues to isolate the culprits, then provide solutions that ensure his clients are able to get back to work, continue to grow, and get the most value from their investment.

Adrian has worked at Quickbase for 7.5 years. In that time, he has worked with customers as part of Tech Support, Customer Success, Customer Orientation, and now manages a team of technical consultants that deliver Enablement Services. He enjoys building and experimenting in Quickbase to see how much further he can stretch native functionality and streamline his team's operations.

Co-Founder & CEO of LZTEK, LLC Rosson has worked in Supply Chain and Manufacturing in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for 10 years and currently lives in Indonesia with his wife Jessica Long. He has been leading a team of developers to create a multi-tenant Quickbase Software called Sightline for Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing companies. More recently he has been creating a Quickbase network/community called Landing Zone where developers can connect to find work and solve problems together.

For over 25 years, Dennis has been a leader of technology services organizations in companies large and small, ranging from pure technology consulting firms to big data organizations, to SaaS startups. Originally from Winnipeg, Canada, Dennis currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona

Wes began his Quickbase journey in 2016 as a customer in a Supply Chain and Quality Management context. Later, he briefly worked for a QSP before joining Quickbase as a Senior Technical Enablement Consultant. Now, Wes is again on the customer side.
Empower 2019 instilled in Wes great appreciation for everything Quickbase. Connecting with the fantastic Quickbase community means opportunities to share our passion for the brand and product knowledge. Wes prefers backend type work but has learned to develop for frontend needs.

Gabe is a highly skilled digital transformation leader with expertise in telecommunications, construction, and field services industries. With a proven track record of leveraging data to drive strategic business decisions, Gabe has successfully developed and implemented data-driven solutions that have resulted in increased revenue and improved operational efficiency.

Meghan Milam, a Senior Solutions Marketing Manager at Quickbase, has diverse experience driving opportunities and discovering insight in the Construction, Software, and Financial Services industries for over 15 years. An Indiana native with a BA from DePauw University and an MBA from the University of Indianapolis, Meghan's professional passion is to leverage information, understand more, and make it work better.

With years of direct customer interaction at Quickbase, Eric's excited for another Empower and to see all of the great work Quickbase customers and staff accomplish together. From sales, to support, to customer success, to implementation, to solutions architect, Eric has helped countless people be successful within the platform.

Kevin has nearly 20 years of experience leading finance and operational teams to improve customer satisfaction and financial performance. He has worked in wide variety of industries including aerospace, construction, manufacturing, logistics, power generation, retail, airlines, private equity, and oil field services. In his current role as CFO, JBPA Developments Inc., a large construction management company, Kevin brings operational, sales, and financial leadership to improve customer satisfaction, business growth, and overall business performance.

Kevin's operational experience includes leading large, geographically diverse teams of over 800 employees and over 40 locations with full accountability for the full life cycle of customer and profitability of the business unit. His finance experience includes a valuable range of roles from financial analysis, public reporting, business planning, mergers and acquisitions through to CFO. Kevin has interacted with the boards with a variety of publicly traded companies ranging in size from $15 million to over $4 billion. He is known for a practical approach to strategic decision making that draws from a wide variety of experiences in both operations and finance. Kevin holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) and Master of Science (Accounting) from the University of Saskatchewan. Kevin also a CPA (CMA) and holds a Net Promoter Certification from Satmetrix, the co-creator of the Net Promoter Score.

Rob is a Technical Support Engineer at Quickbase with 9 years of extensive real-world experience with Pipelines. With a degree in computer programming, he is passionate about working directly with customers and building applications to see, connect and control critical data. In his spare time, Rob enjoys working on his car and getting behind the wheel to drag race it in the summer months.

Karen Motyka is the Senior Director of Quality Engineering at Quickbase. She's been at Quickbase for many years and has extensive quality and management experience. Karen currently manages both a System Quality Team and a Quality Community of Practice at Quickbase, with a goal of allowing teams to move quickly but, at the same time, ensure continued high levels of feature quality. She's passionate about quality (of course), leadership, and team management. She's co-chair of the Quickbase Women's Leadership Program and an officer and member of Toastmasters. She's received leadership awards from several programs including the Women Unlimited LEAD Program and Dale Carnegie Effective Leadership & Communications program.

Charlie is a long time Quickbase enthusiast; architecting and building 100s of apps over the last 13 years. He recently accepted a position as a Senior Product Manager within Quickbase, following the acquisition of MCFTech. His ambition is to bring his years of expertise, especially in the area of extending Quickbase, to the new and exciting Plugins feature of the product!

Sabetay Palatchi is a seasoned business executive with a diverse background in finance, technology, and innovation. He is also an expert in Quickbase, having used the platform since 2008. Currently serving as the President of The Innovation Lab at Fay Financial, Palatchi leads the development of cutting-edge financial technologies and solutions, leveraging his extensive knowledge of Quickbase to create efficient and effective solutions. Prior to this role, Palatchi was the CEO of General Financial, a leading provider of financial services in consumer lending. He began his career as a consultant with A.T. Kearney, where he advised clients across a range of industries. Palatchi holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and his deep knowledge and experience in finance, innovation, and Quickbase make him a respected leader in the industry.

Georgi, based in Sofia, Bulgaria has been with Quickbase for more than a year as Product Manager. He has worked on several projects, including Admin Console improvements and our ALM initiative. Right now, Georgi is combining his skills with his prior analyst experience to enable users to get insights and trends on their data with the Automated Insights feature.

At Black Bear Energy, Megan manages and designed their internal database, improves existing workflows, and builds new software programs that improve their ability to deploy more solar across commercial and industrial real estate markets. Her background is in engineering but she is captivated most by data analytics. Megan essentially created her own role at Black Bear energy, which is a mixture of business analytics and software engineering.

Ryan, first introduced to Quickbase as a customer in 2012, now serves customers as a Sr Solutions Architect, consulting on performance, large-scale deployments, and advanced integrations. He has extensive experience leveraging APIs and navigating complex workflows/integrations and enjoys sharing his learnings with others.

Brittany Pratt, a native of San Antonio, TX, earned her Bachelor's degree in Public Relations and Master's degree in Interpersonal Communications from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). She landed an internship as an undergrad at the Children's Shelter of San Antonio where her career in the non-profit industry began. She moved on to work for Girls Inc. of San Antonio and then to her alma mater, UTSA, to fundraise for research and scholarships. In 2016 Brittany made the jump to the corporate world and is now in the social responsibility space at WellMed Medical Management.

Chad Ravancho, a Staff Solutions Consultant, joined Quickbase a little over a year ago. Working on Quickbase's Strategic Accounts team, he focuses on broadening Quickbase adoption in existing accounts. Listening to and consulting on a customer's new ideas is his favorite part of the role and draws inspiration when he hears how individuals closest to their work are able to close data fragmentation gaps using Quickbase. Chad is based in Seattle and enjoys spending time with his wife, family & friends, camping, hiking, overlanding, and shooting pool.

Jeremie Reese loves playing and making RPGs and MMORPGs in his free time. He has a passion for games and the story building and gameplay aspect of gaming. With these incredible programming skills comes the capacity for incredible problem solving. Jeremie never shies away from a daunting problem and tackles his work head on.

Megan Ross is a Senior Manager within the Product Marketing org at Quickbase. Megan leads our go-to-market PMM org, who focuses on strategic product and services market launches, our product pricing and packaging, as well as go-to-market readiness and enablement. Prior to Product Marketing Megan spent time in the Customer Success organization, giving her a customer-centric approach to her work in Product Marketing.

As a PreSales Leader at Quickbase, Freddie has helped hundreds of companies solve previously unsolvable workflow problems by leveraging Quickbase's powerful low-code platform. With 15 years of professional experience in SaaS/PaaS technology, Freddie is able to partner with project stakeholders to create custom software applications without incurring the cost of traditional software development practices. By taking the time to understand what makes your process unique, Freddie can streamline approval workflows, prevent errors or compliance issues, and create dynamic dashboards that create a 'single pane of glass' view across your complete portfolio of projects.

Kevin Shuler is the owner and CEO of Quandary Consulting Group: a team of technology consultants formed in 2017 specializing in business transformation. Quandary, an Elite QuickBase partner, builds low code solutions, automated workflows and business enabling integrations to scale systems so businesses can rapidly transform while remaining operationally efficient. Kevin is committed to delivering smart business tools that help business managers gain back time so they can focus on their passions. He is a strong advocate of building bridges between I.T. and emerging citizen development teams. Kevin received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia in 2008.

Ben has worked in Customer Success at Quickbase since 2018. Ben started as a Customer Success Manager and worked with strategic accounts, and in 2020 Ben moved into a management role, where he is now managing the Customer Success @ Scale team which runs our Customer Networks initiative along with other customer community programming. Ben lives in Boston with his wife and two daughters (Lily and Genevieve).

Ming is PMP certified team leader with 16 years' experience on infrastructure and building projects in multiple geographical locations (NY metro area, Asia and Middle East). Ming demonstrated versatility and quick transition across cultures, job functions and compliance requirements to generate specific solutions, successfully delivers projects on time and on budget while fulfilling the company's objectives.

I am Tammy Stamps. I originally lived in Wichita, Ks, moved to Amarillo, TX and ended up in Rutherfordton, NC. I am a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and have facilitated and completed projects in many different business arenas including the University setting as well and have over 15 years of Project Management experience. I am a 5th degree black belt in Taekwondo and Choi Kwang Do, was a US Team alternate for 4 years and owned my own Academy for 14 years in Wichita, Ks. I have worked in the banking sector, aircraft, women's empowerment, project management and in the health field as well. I currently work from home for the WellMed Charitable Foundation as a Social Responsibility Coordinator and oversee our WellMed Delivers program. I work with our Quickbase software system for WellMed Delivers and am responsible for maintaining and streamlining the program to fit our needs. WellMed Delivers is a program that serves older adults in 16 different markets who are in urgent food need.

Matt is focused on providing service excellence to his clients in a variety of industries including food & beverage, manufacturing, metal & mining, pulp & paper and waste water treatment. His experience has included several years of Industrial site-based roles in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia. He is passionate about driving efficiency in the delivery of capital projects, large programs of work, shutdowns and all business in general by utilising the best people, methodology and tools for the job. Matt pioneered the use of Quickbase at Beca way back in 2015 with a small collaborative Beca/Client team of 20 shutdown engineers. Since that time Matt has been a shutdown advisor, mechanical engineer, design manager & project manager by day. Meanwhile his alter ego's roles of Quickbase solutions architect, Beca low-code champion, Beca's Quickbase realm administrator, and Beca's Quickbase Developer community manager has steadily increased now that Beca's current users number 1400.

Rayna joined Quickbase in 2021 as a product manager. She worked in the areas of Pipelines, platform governance, and enabling growth in scale for Quickbase customers. Her main focus at the moment is application lifecycle management and extending the toolset for managing Quickbase solutions for admins and high-complexity builders. Prior to Quickbase Rayna worked in the aviation industry on digital innovation and transformation.

Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., is the founder and CEO of the 2040 Strategy Group Consulting, LLC, which provides assessments, trainings, and strategic advice to corporations, governments, and non-profits. His consulting practice centers on leveraging the key insights of the analytic social sciences to meet challenges facing diverse organizations. Alvin is also the founding director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy and professor of political science at Northwestern University. Additionally, he serves as an adjunct faculty member for both Fortune Magazine's "Connect Program" and the Kellogg School of Management's executive education programs. Alvin earned his PhD from Harvard University in 2001. In 1993, he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Morehouse College. He is a frequent commentator in the national media on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues and presidential leadership. In 2021, Alvin had the honor of briefing the foreign press corps on racial equity issues on behalf of the Biden-Harris administration.

Carlos is a Director in the Risk Advisory Services group at BDO USA, LLP, where he focuses on providing construction advisory services to owners and contractors. Carlos has 20 years of accounting, audit, and advisory experience.

Carlos has extensive experience in all areas of the project delivery lifecycle advising clients on ways to improve existing project processes and controls. Carlos also has broad experience performing contract compliance assessments of large construction contractors and vendor audit programs resulting in the identification and recoveries of millions of dollars in overbillings and process improvement opportunities to reduce or avoid future overbillings.

Shannon Van Duren is a Technical Enablement Consultant II based in Atlanta, GA. Before joining Quickbase last year, she made a career change to IT where she was a Quickbase customer and Help Desk Technician. With that experience, as well as a previous career as a Conference Planner, she is committed to understanding the perspective of end-users. Her passion lies in making software approachable and finding new ways to make complex topics easy to understand. When she's not making Quickbase magic, you can find her exploring Atlanta's food scene or watching the latest blockbusters.

Bogi joined the Product team at Quickbase in 2021. Since then, her primary focus is on enhancing reporting capabilities, specifically table reports. Bogi's ambitions are to provide a sophisticated editing experience within table reports and currently working towards modernizing summary reports. She is also involved in introducing the new report builder panel across other report types. Prior to Quickbase, she was a product manager in the fintech industry and has had experience in a wide variety of industries including healthcare, banking, and manufacturing.