Lance Knight

SVP - GM

Lance Knight started work as a farmhand for a local farm in upstate New York, where he learned about the value of hard work. Leaving college, Knight held entry-level sales jobs in various industries before starting work in manufacturing as an IT manager. Using this real-world mix of sales and information technology, Knight grew his career to executive-level and upper-level management.

The future is never assured, but as Peter Drucker once said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

Throughout his career, Knight contributed to the creation of successful futures for several companies by providing senior-level leadership for a broad range of products over six continents.

Knight has held SVP and VP roles at LeadingAgile, Tasktop Technologies, and Accept Software, specializing in field operations, sales development, and customer success. He is the author of books and white papers on leadership, software development, and software sales.

In his free time, Knight volunteers with the Boy Scouts of America, teaching leadership concepts to youth and adult volunteers.

Andrew Fuqua

VP of Products

After a long-standing career as an Enterprise Transformation Consultant at LeadingAgile, Andrew joined ConnectALL as VP of Products.

Fondly and commonly known as an XP (eXtreme Programming) and Agile guru, Andrew is also an influencer in the world of enterprise transformation. His self-proclaimed passion is building great teams that build great software, with a focus on helping ISVs and IT organizations improve time to market, market responsiveness, predictability, and quality. With this move to ConnectALL, Andrew returns to his first love of being closely involved in product development.

His understanding, experience, and belief in Agile and digital transformation is evident in his approach. Andrew cares about an organization and works closely with every team to help the organization through the journey and achieve the desired business outcomes.

Andrew has an extensive career of 30 plus years of varied experience — held positions in consulting, management, product management, and development. After finishing his Masters degree in computer science, Andrew developed microcode for IBM’s datacom and networking devices. Moving into management and then product management, Andrew honed his business acumen and ability to help teams become more effective. After earning an MBA from Duke University, he started work at Internet Security Systems as an engineer and XP coach. In 2001 he helped found the XP Atlanta User Group and later renamed it to Agile Atlanta.

Andrew was the Development Director at Allure Global before he started Fuqua Consulting, LLC as CEO and Principal Consultant. His company was born from the realization that while lean and agile techniques can help improve ROI and achieve better business outcomes, they aren’t always easy to implement. Fuqua Consulting focused on helping companies with the transition.

Andrew joined LeadingAgile in 2012 as one of its earliest team members and has had a long innings as an Enterprise Transformation expert. His approach to organizational transformation was a journey in itself. He realizes the importance of transformation and how it is the first most critical activity to create the conditions for effective approaches to take hold and add value.

Andrew is an active contributor to the Agile community. He is an established speaker and influencer and is a published author in Gantthead, Agile Connection, and Agile Journal.

Mark Lewis

SVP - Sales

Lewis is responsible for oversight of the field sales and inside sales organizations as well as all of marketing.

Lewis is one of the individuals who formed Orasi in 2002 and have since helped to grow revenues to $75 million in 2012, making Orasi one of the largest HP Software partners in the U.S.

Prior to joining Orasi, Lewis was the Vice President of Sales for Technology Builders, Inc. He’s also served as the VP of Professional Services for Starbase and as a Senior Account Executive for KnowledgeWare Corporation. All total, he brings more than 24 years of software and services sales experience to the role.

Lewis earned a B.S. in Finance from East Tennessee State University. He enjoys golfing, boating, travel, coaching his kids’ sports and spending time with his wife, four children and a dog named Boomer.

Karl Rubin

SVP - Operations

Rubin brings more than 27 years’ experience to his role as Senior Vice President of Operations where he is charged with management of all the operations function as well as the support division, which he formed in 2008.

Currently Rubin’s group provides support for more than 400 customers and was recognized in 2009, 2011 and 2012 for their excellent service as the HP Software Support Partner of the Year.

Prior to joining Orasi, Rubin was Director of CaliberRM Engineering at Borland Software, Inc., where he coordinated the efforts of Software Development, Quality Assurance and Product Management teams to establish CaliberRM, an award-winning enterprise requirements management system, as the market leader.

Rubin earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern Polytechnic State University.

As a USAF Reserves Staff Sergeant, Rubin was awarded the Basic Military Training Honor Graduate Ribbon For demonstrating excellence in all phases of academic and military training (limited to the top 10% of the class) as well as the Air Force Achievement Medal for outstanding achievement service rendered specifically on behalf of the Air Force.

In his free time, Rubin enjoys golfing and watching his two daughters play fast pitch softball.

Brett Taylor

CEO - ConnectALL

Brett Taylor, has been consulting in application lifecycle management (ALM) systems for over 20 years for a wide range of enterprise and government agency clients. Brett has a background in designing and developing ALM integrations and automation tools, from RCS to ClearCase to Git and Jira.

Nick Kavadellas

Board Member  - CEO Orasi

Kavadellas brings more than 26 years of sales and management experience in software and service industries to his role as President and CEO where he guides the strategic direction of the firm and maintains a pulse on the development and delivery of services.

Prior to founding Orasi in 2002, Kavadellas was the Executive VP of Software Product Divisions at Starbase, where he established executive product direction and integration strategies for company’s suite of applications. Immediately prior to Starbase, he was the Founder and CEO of Technology Builders, Inc. (TBI); where he grew the company to $30 million with more than 750 clients. Before he founded TBI, Kavadellas was the VP of Sales for KnowledgeWare, where he led the southern region sales team in successful corporate complex solution selling; personally and consistently demonstrated over-quota performance in providing application development tools and services to Fortune 500 organizations. Prior to that, he was the regional manager at Computer Associates (CA) for 3 years.

In 2011 Kavadellas was recognized with the Cobb Volunteer of the Year award for his work at Kell High School and the creation of the Cobb Football League (CFL), the official high school feeder youth football and cheer program of Cobb County. Kavadellas founded the Cobb Football League in 2011 and is currently the president.

Kavadellas earned a B.A. in Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology.