Jamie Rapperport, Founder & EVP Marketing and Business Development

Jamie Rapperport brings an impressive record of entrepreneurial success to Vendavo. Prior to Vendavo, he served as a founder and Vice President of Marketing and Sales at VXtreme, a leading streaming video technology provider which he helped lead to its category-leading position and subsequent acquisition by Microsoft. He thereafter directed development of strategic partnerships with top telecom companies for Microsoft-owned WebTV Networks. Jamie's 20 years of experience in the technology sector also includes senior management, product management, marketing, and business development positions with Lotus, Sun Microsystems, and Approach Software.

Jamie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Jennifer Maul, Chief Customer Officer

Jennifer Maul is responsible for lifetime customer relationships, including strategic and transformational customer partnerships, value realization, support, and pricing education. Prior to joining Vendavo, she was Senior Vice President of Customer Operations at SCI Systems, an enterprise software company, building her team from start to full-scale operations, and delivering implementation tools and methodologies that led the company to a #5 top customer service ranking among 150 technology vendors. Jennifer has also held senior management, engineering, and support positions at Eclipsys Corporation and Sunquest Information Systems.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Management Information Systems from the University of Maryland.

Sean Geraghty, Vice President, Pricing Science

Sean Geraghty is a Vice President responsible for Pricing Science at Vendavo. Prior to joining Vendavo, Sean was a Senior Manager in the Pricing and Profitability Management practice at Deloitte, where he led an Advanced Analytics team. Prior to Deloitte, Sean held Vice President and Principal Scientist roles with SAP / Khimetrics, where he developed and delivered enterprise price optimization software.

Sean holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, and has 19 years of experience in mathematical modeling and advanced analytics across numerous industries, including oil & gas, telecommunications, retail, and financial services. Sean has held adjunct faculty positions at several colleges and universities, where he has taught various mathematics, statistics, and engineering courses.

Colin Carroll, Vice President, Business Consulting

Colin Carroll is a subject matter expert in pricing. As the Vice President of Business Consulting at Vendavo, Colin is responsible for creating and managing the presales team, methodology, process and deliverables, and for helping to drive penetration of the Vendavo solution set across verticals. Colin has 12 years of experience helping manufacturers to implement and automate price and margin management best practices. Before joining Vendavo, Colin was a pricing strategy consultant in addition to 8 years at International Paper Company in a series of sales and marketing management positions.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Colin has an MSE in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Binghamton University.

Chase Powell, Director, Business Development 

Chase Powell is the Director of Business Development and is responsible for managing relationships with Vendavo’s partners.  He is a 16 year veteran of B2B Pricing Strategy and Sales Operations Management, with deep expertise in the High Tech and Semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Vendavo, Chase ran pricing at Intel Corporation, developing pricing strategies and driving negotiations. He previously ran microprocessor pricing and sales operations for Intel Asia in Hong Kong and developed global factory capacity, build and inventory strategies for all Intel processors.

After earning his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations at Pomona College, Chase served as an officer in the US Army, leading up to 250 soldiers in the US and Korea.

Michael Lucaccioni, Director, Value Realization

Michael Lucaccioni’s team of value realization consultants are responsible for ensuring customers achieve and exceed their price management initiative’s ROI by identifying, quantifying and capturing price efficiency and price effectiveness opportunities. Prior to joining Vendavo Michael was a pricing domain expert at a strategy consulting firm focused on analyzing and recommending end-user pricing strategies and channel compensation systems. Prior to consulting Michael spent 12 years in various sales and marketing roles, marketing commodity, specialty and new, patented products both direct and through distribution.

Michael has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

James Marland, Director, Business Consulting

James Marland is a Principal Business Consultant at Vendavo and also manages the Knowledge Management and Demonstrations teams. With over 20 years of experience, James has a solid record in assisting customers in deriving value from Enterprise-Class software. He has also helped several software companies with an innovative solution “cross the chasm” into the mainstream: ERP, eProcurement, eAuctions and now pricing software. Prior to Vendavo, he was Vice President of Solutions for Ariba, running a team of 15 solutions consultants providing tools and programs for global sourcing organizations. James also spent 5 years with SAP America.

James holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Southampton University.

Elliott Yama, Director, Education

Elliott is an expert in pricing competency development in B2B organizations. He possesses a wealth of experience as a consultant on pricing strategy in a broad range of industry settings. Elliott has over 12 years of experience as an instructor for global B2B companies. At Vendavo, Elliott holds the title of Director of Education and leads Vendavo University. Prior to joining Vendavo, Elliott was a partner at Strategic Pricing Group / Monitor, a global consultancy.  Elliott is a recognized member of the pricing community and is a member of the faculty of the Professional Pricing Society as well as the Institute for the Study of Business Marketing (ISBM) at Penn State. 

Elliott holds an MBA from Boston University.