SmartBear Company Overview

As CEO, Justin is responsible for SmartBear’s strategic direction and overall operation. Prior to his role as CEO, Justin served as SmartBear’s COO and President where he oversaw all sales, marketing, product management and strategy functions as well as execution for the company. Justin came to SmartBear from Bullhorn where he was COO. At Bullhorn, he owned the growth strategy and execution, which led the company through a three-year period of considerable sales growth in excess of 40 percent per year. At Bullhorn, one of the software industry’s fastest growing cloud/SaaS companies and leader in vertical CRM solutions, he managed all aspects of global sales operations and strategic growth initiatives after also managing the customer success organizations including support, services and renewals.

Justin was Divisional Vice President and General Manager for product lifecycle management giant, PTC (NASDAQ:PTC), where he led the $600 million mechanical engineering global business unit through a $100 million revenue surge. For more than 14 years, Justin drove revenue and profit growth within global businesses as a GM for acquired companies at PTC. He also held several sales and operations leadership roles domestically and abroad.

Justin also held various sales and support positions at The Learning Company, a leading educational and consumer software company. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a minor in finance from Providence College.

In his role as EVP and GM of Smartbear’s API Business, Christian is responsible for leading the company’s API business strategy and operations, product development, and market alliances.

Christian is passionate about growing and leading disruptive customer-focused companies. He has a strong track record of growing Marketing Technology and Enterprise SaaS Applications.

Prior to joining SmartBear, Christian held multiple CTO and GM positions within eBay Enterprise. While at eBay Enterprise, Christian facilitated the divestiture of the eBay Enterprises marketing technology product lines, first to a consortium of PE firms and ultimately to Zeta Interactive. Prior to eBay, he held CTO and P&L roles at multiple high-growth companies in the marketing technology and services space including KBM, MITI, and Merkle.  

Christian holds a B.S. in Marketing from The University of North Carolina.

Dmitry Fonarev has more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise, Application, SaaS, and embedded software development as well as extensive experience with managing multiple on and offshore teams across variousproduct development functions.

Prior to SmartBear, he was previously Vice President of Engineering at Dell Software Group which he joined through the vKernel acquisition.  At vKernel Dmitry helped drive the company to profitability by innovating, simplifying, and establishing a high say/do ratio.  Before that Dmitry served as Vice President of Quality Assurance at Intralinks (NYSE:IL;IPO 2011). He led software development at Soapstone and held various leadership roles in software development organizations at Nortel, Bay Networks and Wellfleet.

Dmitry has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from Boston University.

Lance serves two critical roles at Smartbear, leading both the legal and human resources organizations worldwide. As General Counsel, Lance is responsible for making sure Smartbear maintains the highest reputation and integrity in all the markets we serve and scaling Smartbear’s legal operations globally. As head of Human Resources, Lance is responsible for making Smartbear a leading destination for people to grow and develop their careers. He also supports the organization’s efforts to develop effective managers and leaders from within.

Prior to Smartbear, Lance was Senior Vice President and General Counsel and Human Resources of Affinnova through its acquisition by Nielsen. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Human Resources at Imagitas through its acquisition by Pitney Bowes. Before then, Lance was Assistant General Counsel at PAREXEL International. Lance began his legal career as a civil litigation attorney.

Lance holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lafayette College and a Juris Doctor degree from Suffolk University School of Law.

As Vice President of Products, Test and Development at SmartBear, Ryan Lloyd leads the direction and growth of SmartBear’s industry leading test and development tools, ensuring entire software teams, including developers, testers and operations, address their biggest challenges amidst market changes. Previously, Ryan was Vice President, Product Management and Strategy at product lifecycle management company, PTC. He has spent more than 15 years developing deep domain knowledge in software engineering.

For more than 10 years, Ryan held several product management roles at MKS Inc., before the company was acquired by PTC in 2011. MKS was the developer of an industry-leading platform for software application lifecycle management (ALM). While at MKS, Ryan developed significant international experience, spending six years in the UK and extensive time in Europe and Asia Pacific as the company established a presence in Germany and Japan. While at PTC, Ryan led the subscription transition for the ALM business, was a key business sponsor behind PTC’s acquisition of ThingWorx and led the development of strategies for modernizing the business through the introduction of a new SaaS product. Ryan began his career as an embedded software engineer for an aerospace start-up. He holds multiple Agile certifications from the Scrum Alliance.

From 2008-2012, Ryan served as an Executive Board member of the Waterloo Community Arts Centre in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a judge and mentor for MassChallenge™, the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet.

Anand Sundaram has nearly 25 years of experience building and growing several technology businesses. He is the co-founder of three startups including RSW Software that was valued at more than $240 million and comprised more than 160 employees. He has extensive background in software quality, security and post deployment monitoring having built two load testing products and invented the first post deployment deep transaction monitoring product.

Anand was most recently the Senior Director of Mobile Products at Bit9, the leader in a new generation of endpoint security and server security based on real-time visibility and protection. Prior to that, he was Head of Engineering & Chief Technologist at CRICO, leader in evidence-based risk management, owned by and serving the Harvard medical community. Earlier in his career, Anand was President, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering for Whofish Media, President and Co-Founder of FMX Software and General Manager, Board Member, and Co-Founder of RSW Software, brought by Teradyne, Inc.

Anand has a master’s degree in computer science from the Rochester Institute of Technology, a master’s degree from the Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India and a bachelor’s from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India.