Welcoming New Leadership to Our Executive Team

As Tanqory continues to grow, we're excited to welcome several new leaders to our executive team. These strategic appointments reflect our commitment to building world-class leadership as we scale globally and enter our next phase of innovation and growth.

The Leadership We Need for Our Future

The technology industry is experiencing unprecedented executive turnover, with CEO changes up 50% in the tech sector compared to historical averages. In this dynamic environment, we've taken a deliberate approach to building a leadership team that combines deep industry expertise, proven track records, and alignment with our values and vision.

Our new executives bring complementary skills that will drive Tanqory forward: technical innovation, revenue growth, and operational excellence at scale. Together, they represent decades of experience building and scaling technology companies through periods of rapid growth and transformation.

Introducing Our New Leaders

Dr. Elena Rodriguez - Chief Technology Officer

We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Elena Rodriguez as our Chief Technology Officer. Elena brings over 20 years of experience leading engineering and product innovation at some of the world's most respected technology companies.

Background and Expertise: Elena most recently served as VP of Engineering at a Fortune 100 technology company, where she led a team of 2,000+ engineers building cloud infrastructure and AI platforms. Prior to that, she held senior technical leadership roles at both established enterprises and high-growth startups, giving her unique insight into both building for scale and moving with startup agility.

Elena holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT, focusing on distributed systems and machine learning infrastructure. She's published over 50 research papers and holds 15 patents in areas ranging from database optimization to neural network architectures.

Vision for Tanqory: "What excites me most about Tanqory is the opportunity to build technology that genuinely improves how people work," Elena shares. "We're at an inflection point where AI, cloud computing, and thoughtful UX design can come together to create truly transformative products. I'm here to ensure our engineering excellence matches our ambition."

Key Priorities:

• Accelerating our product innovation roadmap
• Scaling our engineering organization globally
• Advancing our AI and machine learning capabilities
• Building robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure
• Fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
• Strengthening our open source contributions and community engagement

Marcus Chen - Chief Revenue Officer

Marcus Chen joins us as Chief Revenue Officer, bringing exceptional experience in building global sales organizations and strategic partnerships that drive sustainable growth.

Career Highlights: Marcus comes to us from a leading SaaS company where he served as SVP of Global Sales, growing annual recurring revenue from $50M to over $500M in just five years. His expertise spans enterprise sales, channel partnerships, customer success, and international market expansion.

Before entering the software industry, Marcus spent a decade in management consulting, advising Fortune 500 companies on growth strategy and digital transformation. This background gives him a unique understanding of our customers' challenges and how technology can address them.

Marcus holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley.

Strategic Focus: "Tanqory has built something special—a product customers genuinely love and a brand that stands for quality and innovation," Marcus notes. "My job is to ensure that every organization that could benefit from Tanqory knows about us, understands our value, and has a seamless path to becoming a customer. We're going to scale our revenue while maintaining the customer-first approach that got us here."

Areas of Focus:

• Expanding our enterprise sales capabilities globally
• Building strategic partnerships and channel ecosystem
• Optimizing our go-to-market strategy across segments
• Enhancing customer success and retention programs
• Developing our sales enablement and training infrastructure
• Creating data-driven sales processes and analytics

Sarah Williams - VP of Engineering

Sarah Williams steps into the role of VP of Engineering, where she'll focus on scaling our technical teams worldwide while maintaining our high bar for engineering excellence.

Professional Background: Sarah has spent the past 12 years building and leading engineering teams at high-growth technology companies. Most recently, she was Director of Engineering at a unicorn startup, where she grew the engineering organization from 30 to 300 people across five countries while maintaining high velocity and quality.

Sarah is known in the industry for her focus on engineering culture, developer experience, and building diverse, high-performing teams. She's a frequent speaker at engineering conferences and has mentored dozens of engineering leaders throughout her career.

She holds a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and has been coding since she was 12 years old.

Leadership Philosophy: "Great products come from great teams, and great teams come from intentional culture-building," Sarah explains. "I'm here to ensure that as we scale, we don't just hire more engineers—we build a world-class engineering organization where talented people can do the best work of their careers while growing professionally and personally."

Key Initiatives:

• Scaling engineering teams across our new international offices
• Implementing best practices for distributed team collaboration
• Advancing our technical recruiting and onboarding processes
• Building robust engineering career development programs
• Enhancing our development tools and infrastructure
• Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in technology

The Strategic Context

Industry Trends Driving Our Leadership Choices

Our appointments reflect broader trends in executive hiring for 2025:

AI Expertise is Critical Nearly half (46%) of surveyed senior professionals identified Chief AI Officer as the most influential emerging C-suite role. While we haven't created a separate AI role, Elena's deep AI expertise ensures technology leadership is positioned at the highest level of our organization.

Cross-Functional Leadership Modern tech leaders need to be strategic thinkers, emotionally intelligent decision-makers, and cross-disciplinary collaborators. Our new executives embody these qualities, with experience spanning technology, business strategy, and people leadership.

Continuous Learning Nine in ten C-suite executives plan to upskill in AI over the next 12 months. Our new leaders are committed to continuous learning and bringing cutting-edge expertise to their roles.

Global Perspective As we expand internationally, we need leaders with global experience. All three new executives have built and led international teams and understand the nuances of operating across cultures and time zones.

Building a Diverse Leadership Team

Diversity in leadership isn't just the right thing to do—it leads to better decisions, more innovation, and stronger business results. We're proud that our expanded executive team includes:

• Gender Diversity: 40% women in C-suite and senior leadership roles
• Geographic Diversity: Leaders with experience across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America
• Background Diversity: Mix of large company and startup experience
• Thought Diversity: Different perspectives on technology, business, and culture

We're committed to continuing to build diverse leadership at all levels of our organization.

Onboarding Our New Leaders

We've designed a comprehensive onboarding program to help our new executives succeed:

First 30 Days: Learning

• Customer meetings and support shadowing
• Product deep-dives and technical architecture reviews
• Team introductions and one-on-ones with all direct reports
• Company culture immersion and values workshops
• Strategic planning sessions with board and existing leadership

Days 31-60: Contributing

• Begin implementing quick wins and early initiatives
• Present strategic plans for their areas to the organization
• Start hiring for key positions on their teams
• Establish team rhythms and communication patterns
• Engage with key partners and stakeholders

Days 61-90: Leading

• Execute on major strategic initiatives
• Complete team builds for immediate needs
• Present progress and adjust plans based on learning
• Establish success metrics and tracking mechanisms
• Begin shaping longer-term vision and roadmap

What This Means for Our Team

Expanding Opportunities

New leadership means new opportunities for everyone at Tanqory:

Career Growth: As our leadership team grows, so do advancement opportunities Learning: Access to experienced mentors and leaders across functions Impact: Bigger teams tackling more ambitious projects Innovation: Fresh perspectives driving new ideas and approaches Global Exposure: Opportunities to work with international teams and projects

Maintaining Our Culture

While we're adding senior leaders, our core culture remains unchanged:

• Customer Obsession: Every decision starts with customer needs
• Technical Excellence: High bar for quality and craftsmanship
• Transparency: Open communication and information sharing
• Collaboration: Breaking down silos and working across teams
• Continuous Learning: Always growing and improving
• Work-Life Balance: Sustainable pace and respect for personal time

Leadership Team Structure

Complete Executive Team

With these additions, our full executive team now includes:

CEO: Mithun Marshal - Overall vision and strategy CTO: Dr. Elena Rodriguez - Technology and product innovation CRO: Marcus Chen - Revenue, sales, and partnerships CFO: Jennifer Park - Finance, operations, and strategic planning VP Engineering: Sarah Williams - Engineering team scaling and operations VP Product: David Kumar - Product strategy and management VP Marketing: Lisa Thompson - Brand, demand generation, and communications VP People: Alex Martinez - Talent, culture, and organizational development

Operating Principles

Our leadership team operates on clear principles:

• Transparency: Regular all-hands updates and open communication
• Collaboration: Cross-functional projects and shared goals
• Accountability: Clear ownership and measurable outcomes
• Speed: Fast decision-making with appropriate diligence
• Customer Focus: Every decision filtered through customer impact

Looking Ahead

Strategic Priorities for 2025

With our strengthened leadership team, we're focused on several key priorities:

Product Innovation

• Accelerating AI feature development
• Expanding platform capabilities
• Enhancing user experience across all touchpoints
• Building integration ecosystem

Global Expansion

• Scaling operations in London, Singapore, and São Paulo
• Entering additional markets in 2025
• Building local teams and partnerships
• Adapting products for regional needs

Revenue Growth

• Expanding enterprise customer base
• Building strategic partnerships
• Entering new market segments
• Optimizing pricing and packaging

Team Building

• Hiring 200+ people across all functions in 2025
• Building diverse, world-class teams
• Developing leaders at all levels
• Strengthening culture as we scale

Measuring Success

We'll measure our leadership team's success through clear metrics:

• Business Results: Revenue growth, profitability, and customer acquisition
• Product Innovation: Feature delivery, customer satisfaction, and market leadership
• Team Health: Employee engagement, retention, and diversity
• Operational Excellence: Efficiency, scalability, and quality
• Customer Success: NPS, retention, and expansion

A Message from Our CEO

"These appointments represent a pivotal moment for Tanqory," says CEO Mithun Marshal. "Elena, Marcus, and Sarah bring exactly the expertise, experience, and leadership we need to achieve our ambitious goals while staying true to our values."

"What excites me most is not just their individual capabilities, but how they complement each other and our existing team. Together, we have the leadership to build something truly special—a global technology company that customers love, employees are proud to work for, and that makes a positive impact on how people work."

"To our team: these leaders are here to support you, remove obstacles, and help you do the best work of your career. To our customers: expect accelerated innovation, expanded capabilities, and even better service. To our partners and investors: we're just getting started."

Join Us

As we scale our leadership team, we're also scaling our entire organization. We're hiring across all functions and regions:

• Engineering: Full-stack, mobile, infrastructure, security, AI/ML
• Product: Product managers, designers, researchers
• Sales: Account executives, solution engineers, sales development
• Customer Success: Technical account managers, support engineers
• Marketing: Content, demand gen, product marketing, brand
• Operations: Finance, legal, HR, IT, facilities

Visit careers.tanqory.com to see all open positions.

Conclusion

These appointments strengthen our leadership as we enter our next growth phase. With Elena, Marcus, and Sarah joining our executive team, we have the expertise and experience to achieve our ambitious vision while staying true to the values and culture that define Tanqory.

The future is bright, and we couldn't be more excited about the journey ahead.

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