Celigo Leadership

Jan Arendtsz

Founder and CEO

Jan Arendtsz is a veteran of the software industry with more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, business development, product development, and customer success. He founded Celigo with the goal of simplifying how companies integrate business applications together for a connected enterprise. He is responsible for overseeing all company operations.

Prior to Celigo, Jan was a Director at NetSuite, the leading cloud-based ERP platform, where he launched their integration platform. Prior to that, Jan worked for Cambridge Technology Partners, where he implemented complex business solutions for a multitude of customers ranging from Internet startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Jan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Scott Henderson

Chief Technology Officer

Scott Henderson has worked in the enterprise software space since 2003, focusing largely on emerging technologies and applying them to business software integration problems.

Scott was Celigo’s first engineer and has since led the company through multiple technology shifts. He is always reading and toying with new ideas and loves working with talented developers that have a knack for both engineering and design. Scott currently oversees Celigo’s product engineering operations along with Celigo’s product technology strategy.

Scott holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Shane Kent

Chief Revenue Officer

Shane comes to Celigo from OpenLegacy, where he launched the company into the North American market. At OpenLegacy, Shane owned sales, pre-sales, customer success, solutions engineering, and marketing functions and was responsible for go-to-market strategy, commercial modeling, hiring, and enablement in standing up and operationalizing the NA team.

Prior to OpenLegacy, Shane spent four years at Talend, where he was SVP/GM of the Americas. During his time at Talend, Shane led the Americas Team to be the top region globally while growing NA to represent nearly half of Talend’s annual revenues. In addition to his time in the integration space, Shane spent ten years at Verint systems in several sales and services leadership roles. He was responsible for incubating acquired companies before rolling them into the rest of the sales organization’s product portfolio. Shane started his career as a performance management consultant working for boutique consulting companies.

Shane has a BSBA in Marketing from Villanova University (Go Cats!) and MBA from Drexel University.

Matt Graney

Chief Product Officer

Matt Graney is a seasoned product management leader with over 15 years experience in the discipline across B2B software enterprises and startups. At Celigo, Matt is responsible for the company’s overall product vision, strategy and roadmap.

Prior to joining Celigo, Matt held senior product management roles at Axway, an integration middleware vendor, where he was responsible for the global portfolio strategy. Before that, Matt led product management for strategic products at Borland Software and Telelogic (now part of IBM Rational). Matt began his career as a software engineer in the defense and telecommunications industries in Australia.

Matt holds a B.E. in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

James Whitemore

Chief Marketing Officer

James brings 25 + years of experience leading marketing organizations in both startups and big tech companies. Most recently, he was the CMO at NetApp and played a significant role in building their cloud business from zero to a $500m + run rate. Prior to NetApp, James led marketing organizations at two very successful startups, Smoothstone and SolidFire, both of which grew fast, challenged the status quo, and led big technology shifts in networking and cloud storage. In his early career, James led sales and marketing teams at IBM and Sun Microsystems and had the opportunity to live and work in Europe, Asia, and the US.

Throughout his career, James has demonstrated the ability to align sales and marketing teams to drive significant revenue growth and market expansion. He is passionate about both the art and science of marketing and is known to be an innovative leader and a team player with a real entrepreneurial spirit.

James is originally from the UK but has lived in the US for the past 25 years. He currently lives in Boulder, CO, with his wife Clare, and as of August 24th this year, they will be “empty nesters” as their youngest son, Alfie, heads off to college. After raising kids for 31 years, he thinks they are absolutely ready to send the last one off! James and Clare spend a lot of time in Southern California, where their three other children, Albert, Millie, and Matilda, live along with their two grandbabies, Goldie and Betty-Belle.

Outside of work, James loves to sail, fly, bike, and ski. He is passionate about music, mostly centered around 80’s hip-hop. He is also a strong ally of the LGBTQ community and volunteers for several organizations that promote and support mental health for LGBTQ teens.

Asad Siddiqui

Chief Information Officer

Asad is a seasoned technology executive who brings extensive experience in Business Technology, Data Analytics, Security, IT Infrastructure and Global Operations. He specializes in supporting fast growing global businesses with SaaS B2C and B2B business models. As a member of Celigo’s executive team, Asad is leading our company’s technology strategy and operations.

Prior to Celigo, Asad has held several leadership positions with the most recent ones being at Asana where he was the VP/Head of Enterprise Technology helping scale their SaaS business along with supporting its IPO direct listing. Before that, Asad was leading Business Technology and IT teams at LinkedIn, Zynga and other reputed technology companies all of which scaled to billion dollar businesses. Asad started his career as a product engineer in the FinTech space and transitioned into business architecture and IT infra operations.

Asad holds an MS & B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering. He loves being outdoors hiking, biking and traveling to new places to appreciate the diversity of culture our planet has to offer.

Suresh Pandian

SVP of Engineering

Suresh brings extensive experience to Celigo. He has done it all: built multiple cloud native systems, scaled engineering teams, worked in the iPaaS and data integration space, co-founded a company, and much more.

Before joining Celigo, Suresh was VP of Development at Informatica. He was responsible for Core Cloud Platform, iPaaS, Cloud Catalog & Governance, and Global Operations. Prior to Informatica, Suresh co-founded and grew Neptune Technologies, building real-time embedded systems and eCommerce platforms before facilitating a merger with Sand Hill Systems and transforming it into a CRM product company.

Suresh holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering, and has five patents. He enjoys gardening, and has an organic garden in his backyard. He likes to walk his dog Roxy. Suresh lives in Sunnyvale with his wife and son.

Frederic Stemmelin

Vice President, Business & Corporate Development

Fred brings over 25 years of experience in partnerships, sales, technology, and SaaS leadership to the Celigo team.

Before joining Celigo, Fred served as VP, Business & Corporate Development at Symphony, where he was instrumental in building the partnership and alliance program, opening new verticals, and growing the company’s valuation to almost $2B.

Before Symphony, Fred was a coach, business advisor, and business development executive to more than a hundred companies. Fred supported the CEOs of these companies to drive growth, innovation, product strategy, sales strategy, and strategic partnerships.

Fred also co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of IDB Consulting, a software and consulting company. After 12 years of growth, he successfully sold the company to a European midmarket ERP specialist.

Originally from France, Fred lives in Los Altos with his wife and daughter. He is a passionate action sports athlete and a sponsored kitesurfer.

Rico Andrade

VP of Marketing

Rico oversees Celigo’s marketing organization, where he is responsible for the company’s brand, messaging, demand generation, outreach programs, events, and communications. Prior to joining Celigo, Rico was VP of Marketing at iCharts, significantly enhancing the company’s visibility and reputation inside the NetSuite ecosystem. He spent 13 years as the Executive Producer at Transvideo Studios, where he worked closely on marketing strategy with some of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley.

Kim Loughead

VP of Product Marketing

Kim has over 25 years of integration industry experience having managed integration teams in Fortune 100 companies for over 10 years before moving into product marketing.

Before Celigo, she ran product marketing teams at Axway and Informatica and leveraged her industry expertise and understanding of buyer needs to drive marketing and product initiatives that drive exponential growth in both cloud and data integration lines of business. At Celigo, Kim leads a team of product marketers that drive product messaging, product launches and sales enablement.

Kim holds a Masters of Science in Systems Management from Notre Dame de Namur University and a B.S. in Business Administration.

Chris Corcoran

General Manager, CloudExtend

Chris Corcoran was a co-founder and CEO of Market Share, Inc. from 1986-2011 and oversaw the successful sale of the business to Apps, Inc. Chris was an early adopter of cloud computing, and Market Share, Inc. was one of NetSuite’s first customers in 1999. Chris attributes the rapid yet manageable growth of his company to his decision to implement NetSuite.

After the sale of Market Share, Inc., Chris fulfilled a one year consulting agreement with Apps, Inc. and subsequently met the leadership team at Celigo. An immediate bond was formed and he was hired to head up the Account Management team in December of 2012.

Chris holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University and loves to travel with his wife and 3 daughters while not working.

Tony Deblauwe

Vice President, Human Resources

Tony has an extensive 20+ year career managing HR in a variety of Silicon Valley companies.

Most recently he joined Celigo from Symphony where he scaled the HR department for growth including doubling headcount and adding new international locations. Prior to Symphony, Tony managed HR at other fast-growth start-ups including Apttus and Hortonworks, both resulting in successful exits. Tony’s experience extends to the enterprise as well with key roles at Citrix and Nokia where he focused on M&A, global leadership programs and various culture and talent initiatives. In addition to his organizational work, he is a published author and app developer.

Tony holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Development and Human Resources from the University of San Francisco.