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Our team

Our team is comprised of industry experts and relentless innovators
bringing years of experience to a young company.

Naveen Gupta

Co-Founder & CEO

Former Yahoo executive. CPO at RingCentral. Product innovator. Table tennis player.

David Lehman

President, GTM & COO

Former EVP at Yext, Chief Revenue Officer at Campaign Monitor, and VP of Commercial Sales at Salesforce

Yang Chao

CFO

20+ year finance leader at Motorola and Gogo, 3-time start-up CFO. Loves photography and the outdoors.

Neeraj Gupta

Co-Founder & President,CS and R&D

Engineering architect at Oracle and Yahoo. Makes things happen at Birdeye. Warriors' fan.

Camille Boothe

Global Head of People and Culture

Former HR Leader at Lululemon, Ralph Lauren and Uninterrupted. Raptors fan and not-so-good golfer.

Anil Panguluri

SVP, Product

Former Head of Product at RingCentral, Yahoo and Uninterrupted - golfer and poetry aficionado

Sarah Bennett

VP, Commercial Sales

Former Fortune 500 sales leader. Expert in driving revenue for hyper growth. Trailblazer for women in technology.

Nate Henry

VP, Channel Sales

Former Head of Strategic Partnerships at Yext. Problem solver. Volunteer for children at YMCA USA.

Zach Watson

Head of Sales, Enterprise

13+ years direct sales experience for Box, Adobe, Marketo and Reputation.com. Sports car enthusiast and outdoorsman

Steve Munch

Head of Sales, SMB & MM

20+ years small business, SaaS business dev & software services. Avid sports card investor & NY Rangers fan.

Justin Taysom

VP, Demand Generation

Former Head of Digital Marketing at Qualtrics. 10+ experience in demand generation. Enjoys soccer.

Rebecca Sprynczynatyk

Head of Product Marketing

Transformative Product Marketing leader. 15+ years of fast-growth SaaS experience. Avid garden and trail runner.

Pietro Consavari

VP, Design & PLG

Designed for Ferrari and Amazon. Design thinker. Design maker.

Ameya Virkar

VP, Engineering

Yahoo dude. Eats full stack for breakfast. Highest calibre, highest integrity.

Kamal Joshi

VP, Engineering

Tech leader; experience building high-performing teams, large-scale distributed systems & cloud computing

Nate Chambers

Chief NLP Scientist

Stanford Phd. Big brain. NLP, computational semantics, information extraction and stuff.

Eric Chen

VP, Corporate Controller

Former Corporate Controller at Coupa Software. 14 years' experience with PwC. Enjoys cooking and gardening.

Lauren Adamo

VP, FP&A

SaaS FP&A leader. Former corporate banker and CPA. Yoga enthusiast.

Board, Advisors, Investors

Ajay Chopra

Gen. Partner, Trinity Ventures
Board Member, Birdeye

From living room to IPO with Pinnacle Systems.

Rob Theis

Chief Investment Officer, WiL
Board Member, Birdeye

Builder of category winners: HubSpot, RingCentral, DocuSign.

Marc Benioff

Founder CEO, Salesforce.com
Investor, Birdeye

One of the pioneers of cloud computing.

Jerry Yang

Cofounder ex CEO, Yahoo
Investor, Birdeye

Co-created the Yahoo Internet navigational guide in April 1994.

Clara Shih

Board of Directors, Starbucks
Advisor, Birdeye

Author, Female in tech advocate, Founder CEO at Hearsay Social.

Ellen Levy

Managing Director, SVC
Investor, Birdeye

The most connected woman in Silicon Valley (Fast Company).

Gokul Rajaram

Product Engineering, Square
Investor, Birdeye

Godfather of Google AdSense. Then Facebook. Then Square.

Kevin Weil

Head of Product, Instagram
Investor, Birdeye

The Twitter insider that ran all Twitter products. Now Instagram.

Joseph Porten

Managing Director, Accel-KKR,
Board Member, Birdeye

Prior VP at Battery Ventures. MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Rick Marini

General Manager, Hearst
Investor, Birdeye

3x Founder incl. BranchOut. Angel investor in 40+ companies.

Semil Shah

Author, Media Personality
Investor, Birdeye

Technology investor, startup adviser, and media personality.

Sunil Madan

Advisor

SaaS growth enabler. Former CIO at Zoom, executive at RingCentral and WebEx. Avid reader and meditator.