Karen White

Chief Executive Officer

Karen has spent more than 25 years in the technology industry as a successful operating executive and investor.

Prior to joining Syncplicity in 2011 as CEO, Karen served as Executive Chairman. Previously, Karen led worldwide corporate and business development at SolarWinds (SWI), a top network management software company. Karen joined Solarwinds while they were privately held, crafting the global business development strategy and leading the company’s M&A activities. SolarWinds debuted its successful IPO in May 2009 and enjoys a market cap of more than $1 billion.

Before SolarWinds, Karen served as managing director at Pequot Ventures, a private equity firm with $1.8 billion under management. She established and led the software investing team in Silicon Valley, focusing on investments in enterprise software and information technology. Her investments and Board roles included Scalent (acquired by Dell), Securify (acquired by Secure Computing, now McAfee), Kavado (acquired by Protegrity) and privately held Blazent and Klocwork.

Karen was senior vice president at Oracle from 1993-2000, most recently as head of worldwide business development. Her organization drove multi-hundred million-dollar revenue streams in new markets. In her seven years at Oracle, she held a variety of executive management positions, reporting to CEO Larry Ellison and President Ray Lane, including senior vice president of worldwide marketing. She led a $300 million marketing organization and was responsible for global marketing communications, brand management, pricing and licensing strategies, market and competitive analysis, as well as streamlining the marketing function globally. She launched Oracle’s first global branding initiative, including award-winning print, Internet and television advertising campaigns. She was also a member of Oracle's Product Development Management Committee led by Ellison.

Prior to Oracle, from 1990-1993, Karen was the chief executive officer of Egis Inc., an international high-technology company focused on networking and communications technology. Before Egis, Karen led product management and marketing for Smart House L.P., a technology start-up developing peer-to-peer network control technologies for both commercial and consumer applications.

Leonard Chung

Chief Product Strategist and Co-founder

Leonard Chung is co-founder and Chief Product Strategist of Syncplicity. He has spent 12 years in the computer industry focused on finding better ways to manage and access data on a large scale. Before co-founding Syncplicity, Leonard spent four years at Microsoft working on innovative cloud architectures and data management solutions in the early days of cloud computing. This included BIG (Billions of Internet Gizmos), an ambitious project to build an end-to-end automated development, provisioning, and management system to manage super-scale cloud services, along with Windows PowerShell and the Microsoft Management Console, to manage large scale Windows server deployments.

Prior to Microsoft, Leonard distinguished himself at IBM as one of only 70 technologists in North America selected for the company’s prestigious Extreme Blue program. There he worked on bringing innovation to Storage Area Network performance and management. Previously, Leonard served on the engineering team at Scale Eight, a pioneer in cloud-based file storage solutions founded in 1999. Before Scale Eight, Leonard was granted a Sun Fellowship award and worked on SETI@home, the largest distributed computing project ever launched, with 5.2 million participants and more than 2 million years of aggregate computing time to date. Leonard has also enjoyed notable past collaborations with RISC/RAID inventor David Patterson and ACM Turing Award Winner Jim Gray.

Leonard received a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Leonard’s hobby has always been computer science – his first job in the computer industry was at the age of 12. Leonard is also an avid cyclist and has competed in multiple 100-mile Century rides.

Ondrej Hrebicek

Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder

Ondrej Hrebicek is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Syncplicity. Ondrej is a strong technologist with a record of delivering innovative and quality products to market. Before co-founding Syncplicity, Ondrej was at Microsoft, where he worked on innovating within the Windows Communication Foundation, .NET and Web Services.

While at Microsoft, Ondrej was chosen as an employee with one of the highest future potentials at the company, and was named to participate in an elite division-wide program designed to grow future leaders. Ondrej was given the opportunity to work with the senior executive team, focused on thought leadership to solve broad and strategic technology and product challenges. Ondrej served as the product team liaison to the Web Services standards team. He was involved in the design and implementation of Web Services protocols, and for evangelizing Web Services protocol consumption, validation and testing across the entire Windows Communication Foundation team. To streamline quality assurance, he also led a division wide effort to consolidate the use of various test methodologies across the organization to ensure higher quality and a consistent testing model. Prior to Microsoft, Ondrej worked at USB Warburg in Chicago, Illinois. There he developed a comprehensive metadata management solution for the Data Services Group.

Ondrej received a BS in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is originally from Prague, first moved to the U.S. in 1999, and speaks four languages. Ondrej is an enthusiastic snowboarder and backpacker in his free time.

Jeff Schultz

Chief Marketing Officer

Jeff Schultz is Chief Marketing Officer at Syncplicity. He brings 24 years of experience in marketing, selling, supporting, and developing innovative software solutions for businesses.

Prior to Syncplicity, Jeff was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Bill.com, where he led the establishment of the company’s brand and broad customer base, helping to drive the organization from its early stages to a recognized leader in cloud-based accounting services. Jeff recruited and led the team that drove market awareness and demand generation, and deployed a unique marketing operations infrastructure capable of handling high velocity user adoption and conversion at scale. Bill.com saw triple-digit annual customer growth rates during Jeff’s tenure there, and exceeded over $2.5B in annual payments processed less than 3 years after launch. Jeff also led Bill.com’s ground-breaking relationship with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants where he was at the forefront of evangelizing the use of cloud-based solutions for financial professionals.

Prior to Bill.Com, Jeff served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Parlano, a leading provider of group collaboration systems for global financial services organizations, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. Jeff drove the effort to establish group chat as a business tool when the market was still nascent and was an early adopter of social media to drive market awareness. After the acquisition, Jeff worked in Microsoft’s Unified Communications group where he led marketing integration and customer communications for the newly acquired products.

Earlier in his career, Jeff was Chief Marketing Officer at Divine Inc. leading marketing activities across a $500M+ portfolio of products and services. Jeff also served as Vice President of Marketing for the Knowledge Management and Internet Solutions divisions at Platinum Technology prior to its acquisition by Computer Associates, and was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Identity Management vendor Abridean. Jeff spent the first nine years of his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he was a software developer, led an award-winning global product support organization and eventually ran product and international marketing for a $100M software products division. He has also held marketing leadership roles at Red Brick Systems.

Jeff received a BS in Electrical Engineering with High Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. He has completed 2 Ironman Triathlons and numerous marathons including qualifying for and racing the Boston Marathon in 2011. Jeff also enjoys time with his family, landscape photography and has just taken up Tae Kwan Do.

Abhi Sawant

Vice President, Engineering

Abhi Sawant is Vice President of Engineering at Syncplicity. Abhi brings 15 years of technology and leadership experience to his current role. Throughout his career, Abhi has demonstrated a strong ability to innovate and build successful teams, taking products from initial concept to proven market leaders. Before joining Syncplicity, Abhi was head of development at CA for Interscope, the company's flagship enterprise solution. He first landed at CA through the company's $350 million acquisition of Wiley Technologies in 2006, where he led a team that transformed the vision of the CTO and founder into a world-class product, building the team and software solution from the ground up. Prior to Wily, Abhi spent 6 years at Oracle as a senior member of the technical team in the company’s core Server Technologies Division, successfully launching numerous products in his tenure there, including the market dominant Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Abhi received a BS in Computer Engineering from the Universidade Federal de São Carlos. He also earned an MS in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida and an MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Abhi speaks five languages and in his free time, enjoys international travel and scuba diving.

Brenda Swiney

Vice President, Finance

Brenda Swiney is Vice President of Finance at Syncplicity and brings over 20 years of financial management and accounting expertise to her role.

Prior to joining Syncplicity, Brenda was Vice President of Finance at Good Technology, a leader in multiplatform enterprise mobility, with customers in the financial and professional services industries as well as governmental agencies. Brenda worked at Good Technology for eight years, including through the acquisition of the company by Motorola, and in 2009, the successful spin-out of the company by Motorola. While at Good, she provided financial and operations management leadership, with responsibilities ranging from creating high performance finance functions, reporting and analysis of the company’s financial results, driving contact with the SEC, investor and Board relations, and working closely with attorneys and consultants to establish and maintain international subsidiaries in Europe, India, and China. She also led the company’s risk management and treasury functions and played a key role in M&A activities.

Prior to Good, Brenda served as Corporate Controller at Blaze Network Products, a 100-employee pre-revenue start up developing optical networking products. There, she led the controller functions across the company and played an operational role, including managing pre-productions processes and inventory management systems. Brenda has also extensive public company experience, as Controller at a Lucent Technologies $100 million high-growth business unit, and as Director of Corporate Finance at Hitachi Data Systems, a multi-billion dollar joint venture of Hitachi and EDS. At HDS, she was responsible for worldwide financial planning and reporting.

Brenda started her career in public accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers, serving clients ranging from SEC registrants, start-ups and subsidiaries of public entities. She is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant, and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, Institute of Management Accountants and California Society of CPAs. Brenda received her M.S. and B.S. in Accounting from the University of Colorado.