Team

Who we are.

Sharad Verma

Sharad Verma

CEO & Co-Founder

Sharad's focus is on building products our customers love. At Piqora, Sharad and his team are working on creating the future of marketing.

Naveen Akunuri

Naveen Akunuri

CTO & Co-Founder

Naveen loves building engaging and scalable products that bring clarity to data and empower customers to make the right decisions. His main focus at Piqora is on creating the technology platform to analyze the explosive growth of the visual web.

Kris Rudeegraap

Kris Rudeegraap

Senior Account Executive

Kris strives to bring a very consultative approach to helping our customers make the right decision for their Pinterest Marketing and Analytics technology needs. His focus on targeting customers business goals is driven by 5 years of experience in social and consultative selling.

Troy Simpson

Troy Simpson

Founding Engineer

Troy is passionate about developing products for emerging platforms on the web. His focus is empowering customers to make data driven decisions.

Brian Hough

Brian Hough

Founding Engineer

Brian's passion is leveraging cutting edge web technologies to provide great user experiences. His focus is to create the best methods for navigatating and utilizing complex amounts of data.

Alex Littlewood

Alex Littlewood

VP of Customer Success & Marketing

With over 10 years experience in social and brand marketing strategy, Alex is passionate about the ROI benefits Pinterest brings to a brand Social strategy. His focus is to ensure brands derive maximum business results from Pinterest and Piqora.

Marcin Kadluczka

Marcin Kadluczka

Chief Architect

Marcin enjoys building and analyzing B+ (social/web) graphs. With over 10 years of experience at 3+ startups, two leading search companies (Google, Yahoo YST) and PhD in Search AI, he plans to apply the expertise at Piqora with an explosion of products.

Jon Shea

Jon Shea

Sales Manager

Jon has deep experience working directly with C-Level Executives from Fortune 1000 companies from the Executive Event industry. Having worked at Wildfire before making the move to Piqora Jon brings a strong background in social marketing to the team.

Alyssa Chamberlain

Alyssa Chamberlain

Account Executive

Alyssa is passionate about working within a creatively rich and powerful space such as Pinterest. She aims to bring the most strategic marketing and social media plans to life with each of her clients and develop strong lasting relationships with those customers.