ChannelAdvisor Corp. is an e-commerce company based in Morrisville, North Carolina.

Software

ChannelAdvisor

Steve leads product management and user experience for all [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor) products, driving product direction and design for high-value solutions that help customers succeed in online commerce.

Steve has over 25 years of software development and product experience and is an innovative leadership veteran across a variety of software enterprises and startups. Steve joined [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor) through its 2017 acquisition of HubLogix, an innovative provider of cloud-based fulfillment automation for e-commerce retailers and brands, where he served as CTO. Prior to that Steve served as VP of Engineering at Qlik, a leading business intelligence and analytics platform. Steve is passionate about helping customers solve complex business challenges and technical problems through easy-to-use software solutions.

Steve received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from [Northeastern University](/org/northeastern-university).

Steve Frechette

Richard Cornetta is the current CFO at [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor). Prior to this, they were the Director of Financial Reporting and Accounting at Dex Media, Inc. (formerly Dex One Corporation) from September 2010 to September 2013. In this role, they were responsible for managing all SEC reporting, technical research and application of accounting and reporting standards, supervising various accounting functions and benefit plan audits and reporting. Richard was also a member of the Disclosure Committee, Finance Committee and Asset Management Committee.

Some of their key accomplishments include successfully resolving SEC comment letters resulting in no amendments or restatements of prior SEC filings, managing the accurate and timely filing of Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-4, etc. and debt filer reporting requirements, administering the preparation and review of financial results and variance analysis presented to executive management, assessing and providing guidance on the accounting and reporting impact of new products, significant transactions and events, directing the accounting and reporting for mergers and acquisitions, and successful implementation of XBRL.

Richard Cornetta received a BA in Accounting from [Iona College](/org/iona-college) and also attended Iona Preparatory.

Their manager is David Spitz, CEO. Some of their coworkers include Jeremy Allen - VP, FP&A & Operations, Amy Rumford - VP, Global Services, and Beth Segovia - COO.

Richard Cornetta

Janet Cowell is the current Director at [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor). Janet has also previously worked as the CEO for [Girls Who Invest](/org/girls-who-invest), State Treasurer for the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer, and various other positions. 

Janet Cowell has dedicated their career to helping others. As the CEO for [Girls Who Invest](/org/girls-who-invest), they helped create a pipeline of talented and motivated young women who are prepared to succeed through an intensive educational program, a meaningful paid internship, mentoring, and a robust on-going community. 

At the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer, they managed over $100 billion in assets and was recognized for their exceptional results in financial performance, governance, and transparency. Under their leadership, the department grew pension assets by 50% from $60 billion in 2009 to $90 billion in 2016. 

Cowell is also a Rodel Fellow with the Aspen Institute and a member of the [Council on Foreign Relations](/org/council-on-foreign-relations).

Janet Cowell received their Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from The Wharton School, their Master's Degree in International/Global Studies (German) from The Lauder Institute - [University of Pennsylvania](/org/university-of-pennsylvania), and their Bachelor's Degree in Non-western Theirtory (Chinese language and history) from [University of Pennsylvania](/org/university-of-pennsylvania).

Janet Cowell

Mike Shapaker is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor). Mike has held this position since February of 2008. Prior to that, they were the Director of Services and Account Management at [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor) Corporation from April 2003 to February 2008. Before that, they were Sr. Manager at Nortel Networks from July 1997 to March 2003. And before that, they were a Sr. Consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton from May 1991 to June 1995.

Mike Shapaker has a MBA from [Vanderbilt University](/org/vanderbilt-university) and a BS in Electrical Engineering from [Virginia Tech](/org/virginia-tech).

Mike Shapaker reports to David Spitz, CEO. Mike Shapaker works with Vladi Shlesman - Managing Director, EMEA, Josh Christie - VP, Engineering, and Beth Segovia - COO.

Mike Shapaker

Amy leads [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor)’s global services team, which includes customer implementation, global technical support, account management, and managed services.

Before joining [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor), Amy worked as a consultant for the manufacturing industry. Prior to that, she served as vice president, supply chain services for [Advance Auto Parts](/org/advance-auto-parts), headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. With an extensive background of over twenty years in the technology industry, Amy served in senior operations and transformation leadership roles at industry-leading companies including Google, [Lenovo](/org/lenovo), and IBM. She spearheaded successful global initiatives to drive each organization’s transformation and growth, including new business integration and global accounts operational design and execution.

In addition to her extensive leadership experience, Amy brings her passion and commitment for the local community to [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor). She is an active volunteer, serving on advisory boards for the YMCA-Camp Kanata, [North Carolina State University](/org/north-carolina-state-university)’s Poole College of Management, and [Appalachian State University](/org/appalachian-state-university)’s Walker College of Business, where she is vice chair of the Business Advisory Council. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering at [Penn State University](/org/penn-state) and a Master of Business Administration at [North Carolina State University](/org/north-carolina-state-university).

Amy Rumford

Marshall Heinberg is the founder of, and since 2012 has served as Managing Director of, MAH Associates, LLC, which provides strategic advisory and consulting services to various companies. Since 2015 he has served as a Senior Advisor to [Burford Capital](/org/burford-capital), a litigation finance company. He has served as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ecology and Environment Inc., a publicly traded environmental consulting firm, since September 2018, and has served on its Board of Directors and compensation committee since April 2017. Mr. Heinberg began his investment banking career in 1987 in the Corporate Finance Division of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., which was acquired by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, or [CIBC](/org/cibc), in 1997. He served as Head of the Investment Banking Department and as a Senior Managing Director of Oppenheimer from 2008 until 2012, and as the Head of U.S. Investment Banking at [CIBC](/org/cibc) World Markets from 2001 until 2008. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the publicly traded companies Galmed Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Universal Biosensors, Inc., and also serves on the Board of Directors of [Union Carbide Corporation](/org/union-carbide-corporation), a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company. Mr. Heinberg received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the [University of Pennsylvania](/org/university-of-pennsylvania) and a J.D. from Fordham Law School.

Marshall Heinberg

Linda Crawford served as the chief executive officer of [Helpshift](/org/helpshift), a digital customer support platform, from August 2017 to February 2020. She previously served as chief revenue and chief customer officer of Optimizely, Inc., a private company providing website and mobile testing and personalization, from January 2016 to February 2017. She previously served in several executive positions at [Salesforce](/org/salesforce).com, Inc. (“Salesforce”) from 2006 to 2015, most recently as executive vice president and general manager, Sales Cloud, from 2012 to 2015 and as Senior Vice President Sales, Strategy and Productivity from 2008 to 2012. Prior to joining [Salesforce](/org/salesforce), Ms. Crawford served as Vice President, Sales at Rivermine Software, Inc., a telecom expense management software platform, from 2004 to 2006 and held several executive positions at Siebel Systems, Inc. She currently serves on the board of directors of Equilar, Inc., a provider of corporate leadership data. Ms. Crawford previously served on the board of directors of the publicly traded software company Demandware, Inc., from January 2016 until its acquisition by [Salesforce](/org/salesforce) in July 2016. She is an advisor to several private companies and holds a B.B.A. in computer information systems and economics and an M.B.A. from [James Madison University](/org/james-madison-university).

Linda Crawford

Mr. Wingo is a co-founder of [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor) and served as Executive Chairman of our board of directors until December 2019. Prior to founding the company, he served as general manager of GoTo Auctions, chief executive officer and co-founder of AuctionRover.com, which was acquired by GoTo.com, and as chief executive officer and co-founder of Stingray Software, which was acquired by RogueWave. Mr. Wingo received a B.S. degree in computer science from the [University of South Carolina](/org/university-of-south-carolina) and a M.S. degree in computer science from [North Carolina State University](/org/north-carolina-state-university).

Scot Wingo

Paul oversees all sales in North America and business development globally. He leads the development and execution of the company’s U.S. sales strategy including responsibility for customer acquisition and expansion in this market.  Paul is also responsible for building a network of strategic partners, alliances and channel sales programs globally to support the company’s sales and revenue goals. In this role, he works closely with customers, product management and engineering to identify opportunities to enhance the capabilities and value that [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor) offers its customers. Previously, Paul served as vice president, global business development, where he oversaw global strategic partner efforts and before that as vice president of sales, Americas, where he oversaw all sales efforts for the region and was responsible for generating new business and extending client relationships across the e-commerce industry and across international markets.

Paul has more than 25 years of sales, product development and executive management experience with both start-up and established technology companies such as Venda, Thomson Dialog and [Profound](/org/profound). Prior to joining [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor) in 2008, Paul acted as an executive partner for Iconitel Consulting Services and President of Accolade Concepts, a marketing consulting services company. Paul started his career with [Northwestern Mutual](/org/northwestern-mutual).

Paul received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from [Hofstra University](/org/hofstra-university).

Paul Colucci

Ms. Segovia joined [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor) as Vice President, Global Services in 2017. In this role, she led the global services operations, including implementation, technical support, account management, and managed services.

Beth Segovia

David is responsible for leading the company in its mission to provide retailers and branded manufacturers with the software and services needed to successfully sell their products via online sales channels.

Before joining [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor), David founded and successfully exited multiple venture-backed software companies. He was most recently an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Aurora Funds, a venture capital firm with more than $200 million under management. Prior to Aurora, David was president of Avesair, a mobile marketing company that was acquired by Inphonic. Previous to Avesair, David was co-founder and CTO of Netsation, a network management software company acquired by Nortel Networks.

David received a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.

David was awarded the Triangle Business Journal’s 2010 CFO of the Year Award. In 2008, he received the Triangle Business Journal’s Top 40 under 40 award. David has also been awarded four U.S. patents. He has been a chairman of the board for the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation as well as for the North Carolina Council for Entrepreneurial Development.

David Spitz

Vladi oversees the business strategy and execution of [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor)’s EMEA operations, including customer acquisition, expansion, and retention. Previously, Vladi was leading the company’s EMEA and APAC Client Services, where he drove the transformation of the organisation responsible for account management, managed services, customer onboarding and presales.

Prior to joining [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor), Vladi served for over 20 years in senior presales and services roles in a number of leading tech companies. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Global Presales at Automic Software, a leading IT automation provider (acquired by CA Technologies in 2017) and expanding the role owning a broader automation portfolio and organisation in CA Technologies post acquisition. Before Automic Software, Vladi was Regional EMEA Presales and Client Services Leader at [BMC Software](/org/bmc-software), where he led the technical teams of the Identify business unit in EMEA.

Vladi Shlesman

Kathy oversees worldwide legal functions, including regulatory compliance, commercial affairs, M&A, litigation and intellectual property management.

Kathy previously served as Vice President, U.S. General Counsel at [Mayne Pharma](/org/mayne-pharma-group-ltd) Inc. Before joining [Mayne Pharma](/org/mayne-pharma-group-ltd) in 2017, she was a partner with the [K&L Gates](/org/kl-gates-llp) law firm. She has also served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of LipoScience, Inc. (formerly NASDAQ: LPDX), Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary of M*Modal, Inc. (formerly NASDAQ: MODL), Vice President, Senior Associate General Counsel of Quintiles Transnational Corp., and General Counsel of Misys Healthcare. She is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and New York.

Kathy received a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Juris Doctor from with honors The University of North Carolina School of Law.

She serves on the board of directors of this Research Triangle Area Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel.

Kathy Twiddy

Darren oversees business and sales strategy and execution of the company’s APAC operations including customer acquisition, expansion, and retention. He is responsible for generating new business, expanding client relationships, and extending the company’s footprint into new markets within the region.

Prior to joining ChannelAdvisor, Darren served as Chief Commercial Officer for aCommerce. Indonesia and as Regional Director for Liveclicker in the Asia-Pacific region. Fifield has also held senior roles at Radial Inc., Nielsen, Kelly Services and Lightspeed Research.

Darren received a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Marketing Management from Western Sydney University. 

Darren Fifield

Derek Conlin

Stephanie Levin is responsible for leading ChannelAdvisor’s global HR department. In her role, she is responsible for designing and leading the people, culture, and HR operational initiatives within the organization, ensuring all programming is compliant and scalable and helps drive our growth.

Stephanie Levin is an experienced global Human Resources leader with deep experience across diverse industries and organizations. Previous to ChannelAdvisor, Stephanie worked at Lenovo, where she held several global HR leadership roles. Most recently  she served as the Global HR leader for Lenovo’s Intelligent Device group, where she led the HR strategy and execution for a global population of 1600 employees.

Stephanie holds a master’s degree in Educational Psychology from UC Berkeley, as well as a second master’s degree in Training and Development from U Mass Boston. She graduated magna cum laude from Union College. She also has her SPHR certification and Business Coaching Certification from NC State.

Stephanie Levin

Amanda Needleman

Jeremy oversees Financial Planning & Analysis, Business Operations, Business Intelligence and MIS for [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor). In this role, he leads all strategic financial and operations planning, strategy, and execution.

Previously, Jeremy served as Senior Director, Operations at [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor) where he established the company’s Business Intelligence function, further developed the Business Operations team, led the global MIS and Information Security teams, and strengthened overall operations capabilities.

Prior to joining [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor), Jeremy served in several executive roles at [Lenovo](/org/lenovo) where he was responsible for services operations, services strategy and support for the global accounts and SMB segments. Jeremy started his career with IBM.

Jeremy received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from [Virginia Tech](/org/virginia-tech).

Jeremy Allen

Josh Christie is the VP, Engineering at [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor). Josh has held this position since January 2002. Prior to that, they were a Software Engineer at [ChannelAdvisor](/org/channeladvisor) from January 2000 to December 2002. Josh also worked as a Web Developer at Dell Computer Corporation from January 2000 to December 2000.

Josh Christie has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from [North Carolina State University](/org/north-carolina-state-university).

They work with Darren Fifield - Managing Director, APAC, Steve Frechette - VP, Product Management, and Mike Shapaker - Chief Marketing Officer. Josh Christie reports to David Spitz, CEO.

Josh Christie

Joe Cowan

Joseph L. Cowan

Mr. Buckley is Chairman of our board of directors and the former chief operating officer for [Red Hat](/org/redhat) (Nasdaq:RHAT) the world’s premier open source and Linux provider. As COO, Mr. Buckley used his insight to accelerate the momentum of open source and expand [Red Hat](/org/redhat)’s worldwide business, service and support operations. Prior to [Red Hat](/org/redhat), Mr. Buckley was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Seattle-based Visio Corporation, where he was instrumental in growing the company from a start-up to a public company that was acquired by Microsoft for $1.5 billion.

Timothy Buckley

Mr. Williams held the chief financial officer position at [Blackbaud](/org/blackbaud) (NASDAQ: BLKB), a SaaS provider to non-profit organizations, before retiring in 2011. During his tenure, which lasted over a decade, Mr. Williams played a significant role in BlackBaud’s financial reporting, human resources and legal operations, and led the company’s initial public offering in 2004. In addition, he drove record growth at [Blackbaud](/org/blackbaud) and headed a number of key acquisitions. With expertise in financial management, Mr. Williams has served on several boards such as PROS Holdings, Inc., ROS Revenue Management and ManageIQ, Inc. Mr. Williams’s prior roles include executive VP and CFO at Holiday Inn Worldwide as well as CFO of Mynd Corporation. He holds a B.A. in business from the [University of Northern Iowa](/org/university-of-northern-iowa).

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