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Stephen Smith
PRESIDENT & CEO
Steve Smith is a senior software executive with a 25+ year record of successfully building, leading and inspiring top-performing direct, partner channel and service delivery teams. His career includes founder and executive roles in the Software Solutions and Services sector, from start-ups to Enterprise Technology organizations. More recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Certent, where he helped navigate a successful exit with an acquisition by TA Associates. Prior to Certent, he spent 9 years at IBM in various North America and global leadership roles.
Brian Abernathy
COO & SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT TECHNOLOGY
Brian joins Blue SaaS Solutions with over 15 years of professional experience in Finance and Technology. During his tenure at Royal Bank of Canada, Ameriprise Financial, IBM and Wells Fargo Brian held strategic positions that incorporated technology into business functions to improve efficiencies, reduce risk and increase profitability. In addition to Brian’s experience within the operational functions of companies, he has held sales and solution engineering roles at emerging and Fortune 500 organizations.
Don Hill
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Don brings over 17 years experience in Disclosure Management narrative reporting, XBRL and the ESG space, where he provides world class managed consulting services to companies that produce external and internal disclosures. Don has held senior roles at DisclosureNet, IBM and Certent, where he lead a global services team of 30+ consultants. With deep domain expertise in the disclosure regulatory market for ESG and SEC XBRL filings, Don has worked with some of the largest fortune 500 companies to help streamline their reporting processes.
Phil Pillsbury
SENIOR EXECUTIVE ADVISOR
Phil Pillsbury is a former technology executive who served in numerous key leadership roles during his 20 years with leading enterprise software companies IBM, Hyperion and PeopleSoft. Prior to joining Blue SaaS Solutions as Chief Revenue Officer, Phil led IBM’s Financial and Operational Performance Management Group, a role which included oversight for sales, marketing and recruiting across North America. During his tenure at IBM, teams under his leadership significantly increased market share and achieved double-digit growth in multiple geographies, earning several top sales and performance rankings in the process, including being named global sales leader for IBM’s business analytics division.