Brett Taylor
CEO - ConnectALL
Brett Taylor, founder of Go2Group, 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.
Lance Knight
SVP - GM ConnectALL
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.
Jim Azar
SVP - CTO Orasi
In his role as SVP and CTO, Azar is charged with oversight of service delivery, technology evaluation and strategic planning.
A 29-year veteran of the software and services industry, Azar came to Orasi from Starbase where he served as Vice President of the Caliber division. Prior to Starbase, Azar was a co-founder of Technology Builders, Inc. (TBI), where he was credited with building the original CaliberRM requirements management tool and led the engineering and product development teams to the ultimate delivery of that commercial software application. Before joining TBI, Azar worked for Computer Associates (CA).
Azar earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama, College of Engineering, where he was named to the Deans’ Leadership Board. He furthered his education with advanced and continuing studies at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon and Auburn University at Montgomery.
Azar has been published in both IEEE and ACM. He lives in Marietta with his wife and three children.
Mark Lewis
SVP - Sales - Orasi
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 - Orasi
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.
Tom Stilling
Chairman of Board
Tom joined Go2Group as its initial BOD member and CEO Advisor in 2016. With 30 years of software operational experience and most recently as CEO of Tidal Wave Partners LLC and Angel Investments, Tom has assisted many early-stage software startups launch operations (domestic and international), secure funding, and successfully exit via M&A or an IPO. Tom has held multiple CEO, COO, CRO, Sales Ops, and HR roles with such diverse companies as Bluestone Software, Curl Corporation, Hewlett Packard, SalesMethods (London-based startup), EnterpriseDB, Lumigent, Seer Technologies, Wang Labs, and others. Most recently, Tom launched Gartner’s initial “CEO SMB Advisory” program for hi-tech startups generally under $20million in revenues. Tom currently sits on the board of several startups, and as a former US Marine brings his “refuse to lose” discipline to all his portfolio startups and CEO’s.
Brett Taylor
CEO - ConnectALL
Brett Taylor, founder of Go2Group, 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.