Certain, Inc. is led by a global team of experienced and talented executives, whose industry vision and rich business technology experience have resulted in innovative solutions that continue to surpass the demands of modern events while also delivering business value to all stakeholders.
Certain Executive Team
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Doug Goldman's accomplishments span a variety of world class commercial, philanthropic and career interests. As an entrepreneur, Doug's early business and technology contributions to Certain Inc. started the company down the path to becoming the leading provider of solutions to the event and meeting industry. Today, Certain serves over 1,800 customers and 8 million attendees around the globe. As the founder of Certain Inc., Doug's entrepreneurial drive and spirit can be traced to his family history as a descendant of Levi Strauss, who invented the blue jean and spawned one of the world's great brands. Doug's experience as a technology industry entrepreneur are rooted in his role as the founder and chief architect of a computerized research center for Jewish genealogy at the Museum of the Diaspora in Tel-Aviv. As a philanthropist, Doug has served on the boards of dozens of national, international and local organizations. Doug currently serves on the board of the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, the Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy at Tel-Aviv University, the Goldman Environmental Foundation, and the Goldman Prize Jury. He also serves as President of the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund which makes valuable contributions to a variety of fields including youth, civic affairs, civil and human rights, education, environment and social and Jewish affairs and human services. As Chairman of the Stern Grove Festival Association, the oldest annual free concert series in the United States Doug spearheaded a stunning, award-winning $15 million renovation of the Sigmund Stern Grove in San Francisco. Doug also has an extensive background in medicine. Earlier in his career, Doug became a board-certified emergency physician and practiced at Mount Zion Hospital & Medical Center and Marshal Hale Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. He also served as the Medical Director of the Emergency Medical Services Agency for the City and County of San Francisco. As an expert in emergency medicine, EMS and pre-hospital care, Doug is the only emergency physician to have served on the San Francisco Fire Commission. Doug received a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and earned his M.D. from the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University in Israel.
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Peter Micciche serves as Certain's President and CEO responsible for the Company's vision, strategy, and global operations. He has extensive executive management and board level experience in public and private software companies, including roles as president of Cognos Corp. the leading business intelligence vendor (acquired by IBM); CEO of NativeMinds, Inc. (acquired by Verity and now Autonomy); and CEO of Kinecta Corp. (acquired by Stellent and now Oracle). In addition, Peter served as a director of Centura, Inc. a NASDAQ traded company. In addition to his experience running technology companies, Peter also brings a wealth of experience from other senior executive roles. He served as senior vice president of sales, at Americas for Nuance Communications Inc., a $1 billion provider of speech recognition solutions, and was senior vice-president of sales for ChannelPoint Inc., a leading provider of solutions for the financial services and insurance industry. Peter was also vice president and general manager of ASK/INGRES, a $500M business software company where he was responsible for the North American applications, data base business as well as global customer service. Peter was also an advisor to venture capital and private equity firms as well as chief executive of enterprise software and Web 2.0 companies, providing guidance on raising capital and strategy. Peter earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance from Boston College and an MBA degree from Suffolk University in Boston, MA.
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Betsy Zikakis holds the position of Vice President of Marketing at Certain and is responsible for the company’s global marketing strategy and execution. With extensive marketing and product experience, Betsy has worked in several rapidly evolving technology markets including cloud computing, mobile applications, marketing automation, online advertising, and e-commerce. Prior to Certain, Betsy built the marketing organizations at early stage, venture capital-backed cloud computing companies RightScale and SOASTA. She was also a senior marketing executive at Workscape as well as at Engage, where she and her teams helped drive brand awareness, revenue growth, an IPO, and multiple acquisitions. Earlier in her career, Betsy oversaw engineering at Epsilon Data Management, an early innovator in data-driven marketing. She also served as an IT strategy consultant at Arthur D. Little and was a member of the software engineering staff at Hewlett Packard. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.
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As Vice President of Global Sales, Bob drives the strategy for the company's growing worldwide sales organization, as well as all new initiatives designed to meet demand for Certain's cloud-based events applications with integrated mobile, social and virtual features. Bob has over 20 years of sales & sales management experience. He spent the last 10 years with early stage data protection and archiving companies; Atempo & EVault. As Senior Vice President of Sales at EVault an early stage cloud storage service provider he was responsible for leading the sales organization from inception to acquisition by Seagate Services. While at Atempo, he led the company's strategy around Big Data and solidified them as a leader in media rich archiving. Bob has also spent time with early stage Telecommunications companies; Telco Communications Group, Allnet Communications, and spent the early part of his career with AT&T. Bob holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from the State University of New York at Oswego.
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As Vice President of Product and Technology Strategy, Ravi Jagannathan drives Certain's overall vision, software solutions, and technology partner ecosystem. Additionally, he oversees the company's product management, technology partnerships, and product innovation functions. Ravi brings a wide range of software product leadership experience to the position. Prior to joining Certain, he was an executive consultant for companies such as Jaspersoft and NetBase. At NetBase, Ravi drove the company's transition from a single-application to a multi-solution enterprise platform vendor. Previously, Ravi was co-founder and CEO of MoJolt, a location-aware smartphone application platform and service for connecting consumers and businesses. Ravi also served as Vice President of Product Planning and Management at Siperian, a leading provider of master data management solutions, which was acquired by Informatica in 2010. Ravi held key customer-facing and technical roles with Agile Software, Broadbase, and Oracle in the areas of enterprise analytics and data management. Ravi earned dual Master of Science degrees in computer and systems engineering and operations research and statistics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
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As Vice President,Product Operations and Deployment, John is focused on Certain's integrated technology backbone, application stack, and customer deployment. John Correia has been at the forefront of professional services and operational management for more than 25 years, where he held various senior management positions responsible for shaping the software as a service (SaaS) industry. John joins Certain from Phoenix Technologies, where he served as General Manager and Vice President of Core Engineering and Services and was responsible for leading a global team of over 300 professionals delivering new SaaS services. Before that, John served as Vice President, Strategic Services with CoWare (acquired by Synopsys) where he had worldwide responsibility for all strategic consulting services for Tier 1 customers including Sony, Samsung, Motorola and others. John has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tulsa and a Master of Science degree from Oklahoma State University.
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Aleks Rabrenovich is responsible for Certain's finance, accounting, human resources, and legal functions. He brings 25 years of private and public company finance experience to Certain, including venture capital backed and Fortune 500 organizations. Prior to joining Certain, Aleks was Chief Financial Officer at Venturi Wireless, a venture-capital backed supplier of data network optimization solutions to mobile operators world-wide. During his 6 years at Venturi, Aleks raised $50 million of debt and equity capital; negotiated complex supply contracts with mobile operators such as Verizon Wireless, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices; and negotiated critical offshore outsourcing agreements with strategic suppliers. Before joining Venturi Wireless, Aleks served as Chief Financial Officer at NativeMinds, a privately-held natural language search company where he was instrumental in negotiating and completing the acquisition of NativeMinds by Verity, Inc. (now Autonomy). He also held various financial management positions at Corio, (acquired by IBM), Navigation Technologies (acquired by Nokia), The Ask Group (acquired by Computer Associates), and Compaq Computer in Munich, Germany (acquired by Hewlett-Packard). Aleks holds an MBA from San Jose State University.
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As Vice President of Human Resources for Certain, Inc., Valerie is responsible for supporting growth ambitions across Certain's worldwide offices. Valerie has over 20 years experience designing and delivering human resources programs to attract, develop, reward and retain the talent necessary to achieve business success. She has served as a human resources executive with highly regarded industry leaders including The Walt Disney Company, Apple Computer, BEA Systems and Siperian (acquired by Informatica) and has been a consultant, coach, and strategic advisor to clients in the entertainment, technology, and consumer products industries. Most recently Valerie served as the Principal Consultant at Nashira Coaching, a boutique consulting firm specializing in HR strategy and organizational effectiveness. Valerie completed her undergraduate studies at West Virginia University and the executive management program at the University of Southern California along with being a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute.
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