Management Team

Piyush Pandey

CEO

Piyush Pandey is a technology executive with 18 years of global experience in strategy, sales, mergers & acquisitions, and operations within software companies. Over the last 10 years, he has worked with enterprise software companies including Oracle, Epicor, Concur, Citrix and Microsoft on various transactions. He has held various leadership positions at Procera, Deutsche Bank, Stifel, Wipro Technologies and a wireless startup.

Jason Huey

Head of Sales

Jason Huey is the Head of Sales for Appsian. Jason brings more than 20 years of technology industry leadership, sales and executive management experience to his role with the company.

Jason Huey manages corporate sales direction and strategy for Appsian, facilitating company activity in sales, consulting, marketing, alliances and partnerships.

Jason Huey graduated from the University of Colorado, earning his bachelor’s degree in International Business.

Previously, Jason served as Senior Vice President of U.S. Sales for Trustwave, Regional Vice President of Western U.S. Sales for Imperva, Inc. and Sr. Director of Strategic Sales at CA Technologies, where his focus on customers, innovation, improved operational efficiency, and execution led to significant company growth.

Chris Heller

CTO & Co-Founder

Chris Heller was among the first 250 employees of PeopleSoft. He is recognized as a leading expert in PeopleSoft’s development environment, PeopleTools. While at PeopleSoft, Chris was Director of PeopleTools Product Strategy and managed the launch of the acclaimed PeopleTools 8.0. Chris also worked in PeopleSoft’s Corporate Strategy Group and in the International group where he managed sales and customer implementations for the first South American customers, working out of Buenos Aires and Miami. After the Oracle acquisition, Chris worked on planning for Fusion, Oracle’s middleware technology and became well-versed in Oracle’s development strategy.

Kevin Agatone

VP of Product Development

Kevin Agatone has been building large scale enterprise software products for over 25 years. He specializes in product optimizations and practical process driven designs. Over his career, Kevin has held several senior level software positions within companies involved in embedded software, process control, project management, and document management including Moore Products (now Siemens Power), Primavera (now a business unit of Oracle), and Okidata. Kevin has also held positions in PeopleSoft architecting PS/nVision for PeopleTools releases 7, 7.5 and 8, and in Applications Development for Resource Management, Project Management and Common Components.

Greg Wendt

Executive Director - Security

Greg Wendt is the Oracle® PeopleSoft security expert. During his 17 year career, he has been recognized as a leader in data security, application architecture and business operations. He served as ERP Application Architect at TCU where he was responsible for TCU’s PeopleSoft system and was Chairman of the Higher Education User Group’s multinational Technical Advisory Group (HEUG TAG). Greg has led criminal justice and cyber security courses focusing on hacking techniques.

Rajesh Rengarethinam

VP of Engineering (SAP)

Rajesh Rengarethinam has over 23 years of experience building business-critical applications and products for large enterprises. He leads the Appsian SAP engineering organization, devising technical strategy and providing architectural direction for the Appsian SAP product suite. He is an experienced SAP solutions architect with deep knowledge of SAP application security with a proven track record of building high performing teams and developing products that meet complex business requirements and enterprise security standards. Before taking over this responsibility, he worked in different roles on several SAP products, including solution extensions for SAP GRC access control.

Andy Oehler

Senior Director of Product Management

Andy is an experienced leader in Product Management with over 20 years of experience in product innovation and development. Most recently, Andy was at Skyhigh Networks (acquired by McAfee) where he was responsible for CASB solutions for structured data cloud applications. Prior to that, Andy was at F5 Networks managing Product Management for F5’s Access Policy Manager products. Andy graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in EECS & MSE.

Scott Lavery

Senior Director of Marketing

Scott Lavery is an experienced marketing leader in the technology/SaaS industry with over 10 years of experience in brand development, demand generation and product marketing. Prior to joining Appsian in 2017 as the company’s first marketing leader, Scott has worked for several technology companies including Intuit, Mimecast, and PeopleFluent. Scott received his BA from Southern Methodist University and his MBA from The University of Dallas.

Shelley Nelson

VP, Services

Shelley Nelson is a customer support executive with 20 years experience. She has been a Senior Consultant at Anderson, a Financials Consultant and Application Developer at PeopleSoft, and VP of Global Support for TomorrowNow where her team achieved top 10% worldwide IT-industry customer satisfaction and loyalty and an unprecedented 98% customer reference rating as measured by leading independent market research analyst, Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS). Prior to joining GreyHeller, Shelley spent 4 years launching Services at Lisam America.