The Badgeville Team

Executive Team

Ken Comée President and CEO

As President and CEO of Badgeville, Ken Comée is responsible for overseeing the company's overall strategic direction, planning and execution.

Ken brings more than 20 years of executive management experience in both private and public cloud software companies. Most recently, Ken was CEO of PowerReviews, the world’s most... more widely deployed social commerce platform, and led the company through a successful acquisition by Bazaarvoice. Prior to this, Ken was CEO of Cast Iron Systems, the leader in cloud integration. He spearheaded the company's strategic transformation from a startup to a global Cloud computing leader, with a 10-fold increase in revenue and the acqusition of more than 700 new customers. IBM acquired Cast Iron in April 2010 as a critical piece of its cloud strategy. Previously, Comée held executive positions at CollabNet, a software development pioneer in the cloud, and at product lifecycle leader PTC. He also held various general management positions at Amdahl / Fujitsu in both Europe and the US. Mr. Comée is a graduate of Santa Clara University and received an MBA in Strategy from the London Business School.

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Kris Duggan Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder

As Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Kris oversees Badgeville’s product and strategic direction and serves on Badgeville’s Board of Directors. Kris is a published author and sought-after thought leader on gamification, social business and cloud computing. He led Badgeville from its bootstrap phase to a high-growth... more venture-backed company with hundreds of global customers in under three years, raising three rounds of funding as one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies. Much of his career has been focused on sales and channel execution roles vital to revenue and profit growth. Previously, Duggan held executive positions at WebEx and enterprise collaboration pioneer Socialtext. Duggan holds an MBA from the UC Irvine.

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Wedge Martin CTO & Co-Founder

Wedge has over 17 years of experience in large enterprise development, network design and operations. At Shopping.com and Epinions.com, the pioneers of online reputation and status, Wedge led operations through the company's IPO and acquisition by eBay. In addition to his deep experience in web services and operations, Martin developed... more web-based solutions for IBM's tier 1 customers and is currently responsible for the architecture and operations of Badgeville.

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Kevin Akeroyd SVP of Field Operations

Kevin is an experienced veteran of field operations and enterprise software, including leadership roles across sales, marketing and business development. He joins Badgeville directly from Salesforce.com, where he managed operations, revenue, marketing alliances, and all client and community facing services for Jigsaw. Prior to Jigsaw, he held... more general management positions at large public companies such as Acxiom Digital (previously Digital Impact) and RR Donnelley & Sons Company. He also held President and CEO positions at several start-ups, including Gallery Player, Inc. and The Loan Page, Inc. Kevin is an alumnus of the EPSO program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington.

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Ted Farrell VP of Engineering & Operations

Ted is Vice President of Development & Operations. Ted has over 20 years of experience architecting and building software products and companies. Prior to joining Badgeville, Ted served as Chief Architect & SVP for Tools & Middleware at Oracle Corporation. Ted was responsible for technical and strategic direction of Oracle's... more runtime frameworks and tooling, as well as leading the architecture for Oracle Fusion Applications, the next generation of on-premise and SaaS-based packaged applications built from the ground up. Prior to Oracle, Ted was a founder and CTO at several startups including WebGain, Novasoft Systems and Tendril Software.

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Chandar Pattabhiram VP of Worldwide Marketing

Chandar is a seasoned enterprise executive with nearly 20 years of marketing and management consulting experience in both private and public companies. Prior to joining Badgeville, Chandar was most recently VP of Product and Channel Marketing for IBM Cast Iron, the leader in Cloud integration. With his marketing leadership, Cast... more Iron transformed from a small appliance provider to the #1 brand in a new market category with more than a ten-fold increase in revenue. Chandar also spearheaded Cast Iron's joint go-to-market initiatives in Cloud computing with leading brands including Amazon, Cisco, Dell, Google, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, and many others. IBM acquired Cast Iron in 2010 as a centerpiece of it's Cloud strategy. Previously, Chandar held a senior product marketing role at Jamcracker, one of the pioneering SaaS platforms. Before transitioning into startup companies, Chandar spent many years at Andersen Consulting where he led strategy, e-commerce and business re-engineering projects for numerous Fortune 500 providers in Retail, High-tech and Oil and Gas industries. Chandar has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from India and a Masters in Management from the University of Texas.

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Chris Duskin VP of Product

Christopher Duskin is Vice President of Product at Badgeville. In this role, Chris is responsible for leading product development strategy and execution. Prior to Badgeville, Chris was Director of Product Management at Adobe responsible for Adobe’s conversion optimization products, including Test&Target, Recommendations,... more Search&Promote, and Scene7. He is a leading expert in web site testing, behavioral targeting, personalization and optimization. Chris arrived at Adobe through the acquisition of Omniture and earlier served as Director of Product Marketing at Offermatica. Prior to Offermatica, Chris spent several years at Fort Point Partners helping design and deliver ecommerce solutions for Global 1000 companies including Martha Stewart Omnimedia, Estee Lauder, Joann’s, and Kmart.

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Catherine Blackmore VP of Account Management
Catherine has 20 years of account management experience in technology, marketing services, and food industries. She has spent the majority of her career helping a diverse list of clients from small businesses to F100 clients achieve success as well as significant return on investment. Catherine joins Badgeville from Salesforce.com where she was VP... more of Customer Success for Data.com, responsible for the on-boarding, support, training, management and renewal of all customers. Prior to Salesforce, Catherine held a number of senior leadership positions, including VP of Customer Success at Jigsaw.com, VP of Client Services at Banner Retail Marketing, and Director of Sales for the Kellogg Company. less
Steve Sims VP of Production & Professional Services
Steve has 20 years of experience in game development and production for web, mobile, console and PC systems. He started his gaming career at Electronics Arts and EA Online where he was an Executive Producer and responsible for Madden NFL Football, the #1 selling sports video game franchise in North America, and EA's earliest forays into the... more online space including Fantasy Sports and Casual Games. He has worked in the gaming industry since with notable roles including Director of Operations at Gemini Mobile Technologies and Vice President of Product Management and Service Operations at Outspark. less
Shane Anastasi VP of Enablement

Shane Anastasi brings nearly 20 years of Enterprise Services experience to the Badgeville team. He is an expert in building world-class professional services teams within enterprise software companies and is a leader in the professional services community. After starting his career at IBM delivering complex systems integration projects Shane... more has since worked as both a service provider and a service buyer and understands what it takes to achieve successful outcomes for his teams and his customers. He has held significant leadership roles within the services divisions of SignTel Optus, Vignette (now OpenText) and BigMachines (the leading SaaS CPQ software provider in the market). Shane specializes in bringing process and order to services growth having taken on a number of unprofitable Services teams and successfully scaling them to profitable, global thought leaders in their industries. Shane is a graduate of one of Australia's most prestigious IT degrees from Swinburne University of Technology (BIT) where he attended with an industry-funded scholarship.

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Raymond Lim VP of Finance
Raymond Lim has more than 20 years of experience executing business and financial strategies that have successfully grown and scaled several technology startup companies. Raymond was recently the Vice President of Finance for CrowdFlower, which runs a crowdsourcing platform for Labor-on-Demand. He was responsible for the performance of... more CrowdFlower's finance, accounting, HR, and legal functions. Prior to that, he was the Vice President of Finance for Jigsaw, where he readied the company for its $175 million acquisition by Salesforce.com. Before Jigsaw, Lim led the G&A and Hosted Services functions at ECbridges, a software company specialized in e-commerce systems for enterprise clients. Earlier in his career, Lim held various management positions at Compuware where he ran several product engineering and integration teams. less
Tony Nemelka VP of Business Development

Tony is a seasoned business executive, having held leadership roles in numerous Fortune 500 enterprises and startups. Prior to joining Badgeville, he served as Chief Marketing Officer at YouSendIt, Chief Operating Officer at Socialtext, CEO at Teleplace, and Co-founder and CEO at Helpstream.

Prior to Helpstream, Tony was Vice President... more of the Asia Pacific region at Adobe Systems, responsible for marketing, sales, and services across a region that includes both the fastest growing and most technologically sophisticated markets in the world. He lived in Japan for several years, where he was Co-founder and CEO of Epiphany Japan and President and General Manager of PeopleSoft Japan. Tony began his career at IBM, spending 13 years marketing a wide variety of hardware, software, and services across multiple industries from 1986 through 1998.

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