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Sharat Sharan

Founder, President and CEO

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Ian Halifax

Chief Financial Officer

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Jim Blackie

Chief Revenue Officer

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Joe Hyland

Chief Marketing Officer

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Jayesh Sahasi

Executive Vice President, Product, and CTO

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Scott Ray

Chief Customer Success Officer

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Mahesh Kheny

Vice President, Engineering, and Chief Systems Architect

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Mike Badgis

Vice President, Global Human Resources

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Lou Pelosi

Vice President, Business Development & Partnerships

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Sharat Sharan

Founder, President and CEO

An experienced internet executive and passionate entrepreneur, Sharat Sharan is the cofounder, President and Chief Executive Officer of ON24 Inc., where he leads a global team of over 400 employees on a mission to help businesses of all sizes and industries succeed through data-driven engagement marketing. For the past 15 years, Sharat has built ON24 into the industry’s leading webinar marketing provider, guiding the company through its strategic pivot to an SaaS platform and accelerating its revenue growth year over year. Today, the company’s engagement marketing platform empowers over 2,000 organizations to deliver 120,000 webinars annually, engages nearly 20 million of their prospects, customers and employees for a total of one billion minutes per year and translates that engagement into meaningful behavioral data. Previously, Sharat served as Vice President of Hearst New Media and Technology, as well as the Group Vice President of Hearst New Media Group, developing the firm’s innovation agenda and digital strategy to move its portfolio online. Before Hearst, Sharat was in executive roles at AT&T Wireless Systems during mobility’s nascent stage and began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Ian Halifax

Chief Financial Officer

Ian Halifax brings vast experience in fast-growing technology companies to ON24 after holding Chief Financial Officer roles at a range of both public and private companies. He most recently served as CFO at Tintri, a provider of storage solutions for virtualized and private cloud environments, where he led its IPO. Ian also served in public company CFO roles at Micromuse and Macrovision (now TiVo). He has held private company CFO roles at Host Analytics and Grass Valley. In the early part of his career, he held finance positions at Sun Microsystems and KPMG. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of York and an MBA from Henley Management College in the United Kingdom. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant.

Jim Blackie

Chief Revenue Officer

As Chief Revenue Officer, Jim Blackie is responsible for driving ON24’s revenue growth strategy and execution. He has more than 20 years of experience leading and building world-class sales organizations across a variety of industries. Jim has led large national sales teams at both Gartner and TriNet and built a global sales and marketing team at LRN. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University.

Joe Hyland

Chief Marketing Officer

As Chief Marketing Officer, Joe Hyland is responsible for driving the global marketing, communication and brand strategy for ON24. He has over a decade of experience creating and marketing innovative products in the enterprise software and SaaS market. Before joining ON24, Joe was the CMO at Taulia, the SaaS market-leading financial supply chain company. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.

Jayesh Sahasi

Executive Vice President, Product, and CTO

With more than 20 years of experience, Jayesh Sahasi is a pioneer in the development of applications for streaming media over the internet. In his role as Chief Product Officer, Jayesh is responsible for ON24′s overarching product vision, strategy, usability and design. As CTO, he manages the development and execution of the product road map and supervises the Engineering organization. Jayesh has an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business, a master’s in Artificial Intelligence and a BS in Computer Science.

Scott Ray

Chief Customer Success Officer

Scott Ray has over 15 years of computer programming and project and team management experience. Prior to joining ON24, he held key management positions at Pacific Northwest Laboratories and Ford Aerospace. Scott has also provided technical consulting for such companies as Radian, Toyota and Pacific Gas & Electric, as well as several government agencies and national laboratories. He has a master’s in Physical Science and a BS in Geoscience from California State University, Chico.

Mahesh Kheny

Vice President, Engineering, and Chief Systems Architect

Mahesh Kheny joined ON24 in 2003 and currently oversees design and development of strategic products. With over 19 years of hands-on experience in building software applications for the communications, airline and media industries, he brings valuable technical and management expertise to ON24′s flagship products. Prior to ON24, he worked at AT&T Bell Labs, American Airlines (Sabre) and Digital Generation Systems. Mahesh earned a master’s in Computer Science from Monmouth University.

Mike Badgis

Vice President, Global Human Resources

Mike Badgis brings more than 25 years of broad-based international and domestic experience leading Human Resources strategies in software, financial services and utility companies. Prior to joining ON24, Mike served as Vice President and Advisory Board Member at Espresa, an early-stage, venture capitalist-backed employee programs and services company where he advised leading technology organizations on culture, recruiting and retention strategies. Mike also led Human Resources teams at iPass, Visa and Pacific Gas & Electric Company. Mike studied Human Resources at Portland State University and holds two professional certifications from Stanford University.

Lou Pelosi

Vice President, Business Development & Partnerships

Lou Pelosi is responsible for developing corporate strategies, partnerships and initiatives to advance the ON24 mission. He has 20 years of experience with high-growth companies in the SaaS and telecom markets. Prior to ON24, Lou led the Marketo partner ecosystem. He holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a BSME from Tufts University.

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MEET THE ON24 EXECUTIVE TEAM

Sharat Sharan

Ian Halifax

Jim Blackie

Joe Hyland

Jayesh Sahasi

Scott Ray

Mahesh Kheny

Mike Badgis

Lou Pelosi

Sharat Sharan

Ian Halifax

Jim Blackie

Joe Hyland

Jayesh Sahasi

Scott Ray

Mahesh Kheny

Mike Badgis

Lou Pelosi

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