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As Senior Vice President of Customer Operations, Leanne implements strategies that drive customer success, retention and operational excellence for North America. She also oversees our strategic practices and global community of testers. Since joining Applause, Leanne has built out account management processes, infrastructure and the operational reporting necessary to scale the company.

With a passion for change management and scaling processes for growth, Leanne brings over 25 years of experience to Applause from leadership positions at NTT Data and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). During her tenure with NTT Data, Leanne was involved in executing complex, global initiatives spanning business transformation, acquisition and integration efforts, global financial system and business intelligence implementations, as well as operational optimization edicts. She served as Senior Vice President of Global Resource Management, Delivery Operations and Reporting where she improved business processes and systems that drove more effective resource utilization, business controls and cost management metrics across five key delivery centers. Earlier in her career, Leanne was focused on sales and business development, client service delivery and business process and controls consulting at PwC.

Leanne received her bachelor's degree from Tufts University.

Leanne Orphanos

As SVP and GM, Strategic Accounts, Chris is responsible for the success of Applause’s strategic account business including strategy, sales, and operations to ensure continued growth and customer success of Applause’s largest customers. Since joining Applause in 2015, Chris has held roles on multiple teams at Applause including software delivery, product strategy, and customer success.

Chris has over 22 years experience with high-growth companies as an operating executive, investor and board member. Prior to Applause, Chris was COO of venture-backed TrueLens, a SaaS data platform. Previous experience includes seven years as a general partner of an early-stage technology VC fund, and operating roles at enterprise software company BEA Systems and Stax, a global strategy consulting firm.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Christopher Sheehan

Doron Reuveni is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of [Applause](/org/applause). Since founding [Applause](/org/applause) (formerly uTest) in 2007, Doron has led the creation of the crowdtesting market and solidified [Applause](/org/applause)’s position as the market leader. Doron’s leadership has made him an internationally-recognized expert in software development, testing, and entrepreneurship.

Although the idea of “in-the-wild” software testing through a crowdsourcing model was a radical notion when [Applause](/org/applause) was founded, today, it has become an integral part of the software development process for thousands of companies worldwide. Under Doron’s leadership, [Applause](/org/applause) has evolved into an enterprise-grade solution, meeting the complex requirements of the world’s most influential brands. Doron’s vision has transformed [Applause](/org/applause) into the digital quality leader through expanded product offerings, investment in its SaaS platform and growth in our global Community of vetted, digital experts.

Doron earned a degree in Computer Science and Information Systems Engineering from the Technion University in Israel. Doron is an avid runner and cyclist, competing in the Boston Marathon more than 10 times and regularly competing in triathlons across the USA.

Doron Reuveni

Christopher Jolie is the Chief Financial Officer at Applause, managing the corporate areas of Finance & Accounting, IT and Business Applications & Systems. Chris is focused on delivering business oversight, strategic financial planning and process improvement to drive improved business performance and profitability across Applause.

Prior to joining Applause, Chris worked at NTT DATA Services, a top five global IT service provider. During his 17+ year tenure at NTT DATA, Chris held several high-profile roles including head of corporate financial planning & analysis, CFO of the Healthcare & Life-Science divisions and, most recently, CFO of the Manufacturing division. While at NTT Data Services, Chris played an active role in the NTT DATA acquisition of Keane, Inc., multiple M&A activities and financial oversight of $500M+ divisions. Prior to NTT DATA Services, Chris spent three years with Deutche Bank in the firm’s international equities group.

Chris received his Bachelor’s degree from Gordon College in 2000.

Christopher Jolie

Heather Levy Sigel is the SVP of Corporate Strategy & Development. She acts as a Chief of Staff to the CEO and has responsibility for corporate strategy, corporate development, and Applause's partnership & alliance channel.

Most recently, Heather worked at Deloitte Consulting. At Deloitte, she worked with Fortune 100 companies to develop and implement strategies to improve organizational performance and efficiency.

She graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Industrial & Labor Relations and she received her MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.

Heather Levy Sigel

Suzanne is the General Counsel and Vice President at Applause. She is responsible for the worldwide legal function for Applause and its subsidiaries. As a key executive team member, she is responsible for corporate governance and leading initiatives around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Environment, Social and Governance.

Suzanne is a trusted advisor with 20+ years diverse expertise in commercial law, compliance, data privacy, litigation, employment law, strategic transactions, IP, open source software, general corporate matters, including IPO readiness and M&A. She leads an agile legal process driving repeatable processes to minimize risk while accelerating growth and customer acquisition and retention.

Suzanne’s legal career has spanned two decades from large law firm to Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, to co-founding Diverse Solutions Consulting, prior to her EMC and Pivotal inhouse legal experience. She helped lead Pivotal’s growth from launch through start-up, to IPO and acquisition by VMware.

Suzanne has served on nonprofit boards: the Anti-Defamation League of New England; the Tyler Foundation in affiliation with Children’s Hospital; New England Corporate Counsel Association; and The Global Good Fund, mentoring young entrepreneurs.

Suzanne obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College and JD from Boston University School of Law.

Suzanne Gilfix

As Chief People Officer at [Applause](/org/applause), Bradley is passionate about building inclusive cultures, embracing innovation and creating memorable employee experiences. He has helped [Applause](/org/applause) earn its reputation as a high-growth company by cultivating a diverse culture centered on a PRIDE (Passionate and focused, Respectful communication, In it together, Deliver [Applause](/org/applause), Embrace change) culture code. And he has been instrumental in building and acquiring an impressive team of top-notch talent at [Applause](/org/applause). Bradley’s efforts have paid off year after year as [Applause](/org/applause) is consistently recognized as a top place to work both locally and globally by organizations like Inc. Magazine, Boston Business Journal and the Boston Globe.

Along with building a culture of collaboration, Bradley makes supporting [Applause](/org/applause)’s surrounding community a priority. He spearheads [Applause](/org/applause)’s charitable initiatives, many of which – like the annual Back to School Backpack Drive, Thanksgiving Food Drive and Hope for the Holidays gift donations – are in partnership with the [United Way](/org/united-way) of Tri-County. [Applause](/org/applause)’s volunteer and fundraising efforts have been recognized by the [United Way](/org/united-way) with awards including the Live United Award and the Good Neighbor Award.

Prior to joining [Applause](/org/applause), Bradley held roles in recruiting and talent acquisition at Monster and Enterprise Search.

Bradley Batchelder

Lisa Landa is the Chief Marketing Officer at [Applause](/org/applause). Lisa is responsible for [Applause](/org/applause)’s marketing strategy and is focused on driving awareness and demand for [Applause](/org/applause) offerings.

Lisa brings 25+ years of experience in brand building and marketing for a wide range of technology companies. Most recently, Lisa was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing for [Monotype](/org/monotype). In that role, Lisa was responsible for branding, corporate marketing and demand generation strategy and programs. Prior to [Monotype](/org/monotype), Lisa held leadership roles at dynaTrace, Arbor Networks and [RSA Security](/org/rsa).

She graduated from [Williams College](/org/williams-college) with a degree in Arts and English.

Lisa Landa

Luke is the Chief Growth Officer at [Applause](/org/applause) and leads the company’s sales strategy and execution efforts across a number of our customer facing organizations.

With a focused eye on accelerating growth, Luke brings 20+ years of operating experience to [Applause](/org/applause) from national leadership positions at Oracle and EMC. During his tenure with Oracle, he led sales, business development and customer success initiatives across multiple growth priorities including solution development, strategic customer acquisition and engagement, and customer retention programs. Earlier in his career, Luke held significant roles at EMC serving in various leadership positions across sales and business development.

Luke holds an MBA and a BS from [Babson College](/org/babson-college). He also earned an Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Luke Damian

Jan leads as General Manager the European operations of [Applause](/org/applause) and is responsible for growing the business overseas. In this role, he has been tasked with ensuring that [Applause](/org/applause) Europe meets its goals around revenue growth and customer acquisition while also ensuring the highest levels of quality and customer satisfaction.

Before joining [Applause](/org/applause), Jan was CEO and Co-Founder of Germany based software testing company Testhub which was acquired by [Applause](/org/applause) in May 2014. So, he has been supporting companies from different sectors to implement and scale innovative software testing solutions for years before joining [Applause](/org/applause).

Jan holds a Master of Science degree from London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Science degree from [University of Mannheim](/org/university-of-mannheim), Germany.

Jan Wolter

Tom Bonos is the Chief Revenue Officer at [Applause](/org/applause). At [Applause](/org/applause), Tom is responsible for driving the vision and execution of the global sales strategy, and leading the company’s revenue generation and solutions delivery processes, and the strategic practice areas. Since joining in 2014, Tom has built the sales processes and infrastructure necessary to grow the company. Under Tom’s leadership, [Applause](/org/applause) has expanded its global footprint, achieved exponential growth, and is well positioned for further market expansion.

Tom came to [Applause](/org/applause) with 15+ years of Sales Leadership. Most recently, Tom served as the Executive Vice President of Sales for ServiceSource, the leader in outsourced Recurring Revenue growth solutions. Prior to ServiceSource, Tom was a Group Vice President at Oracle, responsible for leading its North American Applications Value Programs. Tom has also held leadership roles at SAP America and Benchmarking Partners/Surgency.

Tom graduated from [Lehigh University](/org/lehigh-university) with a degree in Economics and Geological Sciences. Tom lives in Florida with his wife and children.

Tom Bonos

Rob Mason has more than 20 years of operational, management, and software development experience across many different companies, languages, platforms, and technologies. A meticulous builder and obsessive tester with an eye for talented engineers, Rob’s teams produce innovative, robust software. And, through his own example of hard work and ingenuity, he inspires his teams to reach new heights.

Most recently, Rob was Founder and Executive Vice President of Engineering at [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), where he took the company from initial product concept to more than 10 Petabytes of managed storage consisting of billions of files in a global file system spanning more than 50 different countries and generating more than $10M in recurring revenue.

Prior to [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), Rob oversaw all development and quality assurance as the VP of Engineering at Archivas from 2004 to its acquisition by [Hitachi](/org/hitachi). After the acquisition, he continued in his role as VP of HCAP Engineering, managing the integration of his team with [Hitachi](/org/hitachi)’s and supporting the broad rollout of HCAP.

Rob Mason

Chris Malone is the President & Chief Financial Officer at [Applause](/org/applause). Since joining in 2013, Chris has taken [Applause](/org/applause) through multiple rounds of financing with leading investors such as [Goldman Sachs](/org/goldman-sachs) and [Accenture](/org/accenture). Chris is responsible for the company’s financial and strategic management including corporate development, long-range business planning, financial reporting, IT and Human Resources. Chris has been instrumental in [Applause](/org/applause)’s growth and has driven the development of the company’s business and finance infrastructure.

Most recently, Chris worked at [NTT Data](/org/ntt-data), a top five global IT service provider, as the CFO of the North American Business, responsible for financial oversight and operations of the billion dollar division. Chris took on that role after successfully exiting Keane to [NTT Data](/org/ntt-data) in 2010. Prior to [NTT Data](/org/ntt-data), Chris held a number of leadership roles in Finance, Sales & Operations. Chris began his career at [KPMG](/org/kpmg) and is a Certified Public Account (CPA).

Chris received his Bachelor’s degree and MBA from [Babson College](/org/babson-college) in 2000. Chris serves on the Babson Board of Overseers.

Chris Malone

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Stephen Seelbach joined Vista in 2014 and is Managing Director in the Office of the CEO. In his role, Mr. Seelbach leads Vista’s strategy in Asia, including investor-facing dialogue, portfolio company go-to-market activity and partnerships. He currently sits on the boards of Vista’s two joint ventures in Japan, NEC and Japan Cloud Computer, as well as Vista portfolio company Applause.

Mr. Seelbach is an active contributor to the firm’s international growth strategy, having led the opening of Vista’s offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. He is a member of the Asia Council of the Global Private Capital Association (GPCA) and the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association, and actively collaborates with the World Economic Forum. Prior to his current role, Mr. Seelbach was the Chief of Staff to Vista’s Founder, Chairman and CEO, Robert F. Smith, and involved in firm strategy, investor relations, operations and other cross firm and functional projects.

Prior to joining Vista, Mr. Seelbach was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, where he led the Asia-Pacific Financial Sponsors group. He worked at Morgan Stanley for 15 years in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York, including time in the Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Corporate Finance groups.

Mr. Seelbach is an avid squash player and serves as the Board Chair of Squash Drive in San Francisco/Oakland and is also Deputy Board Chair of St. Luke’s Preschool in San Francisco.

Stephen Seelbach

Nick Prickel is a vice president and member of the private equity Flagship team at Vista Equity Partners. Mr. Prickel currently sits on the boards of Applause, Gainsight, iCIMS and Smartbear and works with the firm’s investments in Aptean, Granicus, Jamf and Solera. He was actively involved with Vista’s investments in Aderant, Advanced, BigMachines, DealerSocket, Greenway Health and Social Solutions. From January 2015 to June 2016, Mr. Prickel worked for Aptean as the Director of Strategic Operations, where he helped lead the company’s acquisition and operational integration of multiple acquisitions.

Prior to joining Vista, Mr. Prickel worked at Rothschild in New York. While at Rothschild, Mr. Prickel provided advisory services to technology and industrial companies on a broad range of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, financings and other corporate strategic activities. He holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Economics from Washington University in St. Louis, summa cum laude.

Nick Prickel

Kim Eaton has worked at Vista Equity Partners since 2019 and is currently a member of the private equity Foundation team. Ms. Eaton currently sits on the boards of Acquia, AGDATA, Applause, DealerSocket, ESO Solutions, Quickbase, SmartBear and Vena Solutions.

Prior to joining Vista, Ms. Eaton served as Chief Executive Officer at Aptean, a Vista company, which provides industry-specific software applications that help businesses manage their resources, supply chain, employees and customer relationships. Before her time with Aptean, Ms. Eaton worked at NCR Corporation, where she most recently served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company’s Hospitality and Travel business. Prior to NCR, Ms. Eaton served as the Executive Vice President of Marketing at Radiant Systems and President at BlueCube Software.

Kim Eaton

Liza Landsman​ is ​a General Partner at New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) focused on investments in the consumer, ecommerce, and fintech sectors. Prior to joining NEA​ in 2018​, Liza was President of Jet.com where she was a founding member of the executive team and later, following Jet’s acquisition, of Walmart’s US Ecommerce leadership team. Prior to joining Jet, she was Chief Marketing Officer and a member of the Executive Committee at E*TRADE Financial, Global Head of Digital for BlackRock and held various leadership roles at both Citigroup and IBM earlier in her career.

In addition to her involvement with NEA portfolio companies, Liza is an independent Board Director for Choice Hotels (CHH), Squarespace and Applause as well as the NYC based non-profit organization The GO Project. Liza graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University.

Liza Landsman

Jason Mills joined Applause's Board of Directors in August of 2021. An established leader in the technology industry, Mills’ focus on business strategy, innovation and digital transformation for Fortune 100 companies supports Applause’s mission to empower the world’s leading companies to deliver exceptional digital experiences.

Mills is currently the Executive Director and Head of Customer Engineering Cloud Industries at Google, where he leads the industry-aligned team responsible for sales engineering for the top 250 customers in finance, healthcare & life sciences, telecom, media & entertainment, gaming and retail.

Prior to his work at Google, Mills held several technology leadership roles at JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup. He also co-founded BLISTS, Inc., a non-profit organization specializing in technology and economic development in underdeveloped communities.

Jason Mills

Jeff Wilson has worked at Vista Equity Partners since 2015 and is currently a member of the private equity Flagship team. Mr. Wilson currently sits on the boards and is actively involved in the firm’s investments in Alegeus, Allvue Systems, Applause, DealerSocket, PlanSource, SmartBear and Xactly. He was actively involved in the firm’s investment in Vertafore.

Prior to joining Vista, Mr. Wilson was a Principal at TPG Capital and helped lead their software and financial technology investing. Mr. Wilson spent over 11 years at TPG Capital where he led over $4.7 billion in equity investments, including investments in software platforms Vertafore, GlobeOp, Eze Software Group, Advent Software, Box and GreenSky TradeCredit. Before TPG Capital, Mr. Wilson was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in their Technology group and Financial Sponsors group.

Jeff Wilson

Michael Fosnaugh has worked at Vista Equity Partners since 2005. Mr. Fosnaugh is Co-Head of the Flagship Fund and sits on its Investment Committee. Additionally, Mr. Fosnaugh serves as a member of Vista’s Executive Committee, the firm’s governing and decision-making body for matters affecting its overall management and strategic direction, and Vista’s Private Equity Management Committee, the firm’s decision-making body for matters affecting Vista’s overall private equity platform.

Mr. Fosnaugh currently sits on the boards of Acquia, Alegeus, Applause, CentralSquare, EAB, Greenway Health, Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ: IAS), Jamf (NASDAQ: JAMF), Mediaocean, Ping Identity (NYSE: PING), PlanSource, SmartBear, Stats Perform and TripleLift. He was actively involved in the firm’s investments in Advicent, Forcepoint, MRI Software, Numerator, SirsiDynix, Sunquest Information Systems, Websense and Zywave. Mr. Fosnaugh is Co-Head of the Chicago office.

Prior to joining Vista, Mr. Fosnaugh worked in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group at SG Cowen & Co., where he focused on the software, services and financial technology sectors. While at SG Cowen, Mr. Fosnaugh advised clients on buy-side and sell-side transactions, public and private equity financings, and other strategic advisory initiatives.

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