Geoff Vona

Vice President & CTO of EQ Bank

2023 - Current

Technical Advisor

2023

Providing fractional technical leadership and advice for Qui as it ramps up towards product launch. Working with the engineering team on process and pace.

Chief Product and Technology Officer

2023 - 2023

Leading both the Product and Technical orgs, including Product Management, Design, Engineering, Data/ML, IT and Security. Setting people and technical vision as part of a multi-part product and technology transformation for Wave's small business financial software.

Chief Technology Officer

2021 - 2023

Joined Wave to lead the Engineering, Data/ML, and Security organizations. Put in place new people management plans including promotions, talent evaluation, and role definitions, resulting in improved retention and morale. Set vision for the technical organization through fiscal year planning. Created and delivered a plan to address a detailed security audit. Engaged third parties to create Business Continuity and Privacy plans. Recast role of Data team to be central to product planning.

Senior Manager, Software Dev, AL/DF

2020 - 2021

Managing teams in Seattle and Beijing for Amazon Link (AL) and Direct Fulfillment (DF). Amazon Link provides APIs and EDI for retail partner automation. Direct Fulfillment is a fulfillment model that allows vendors to ship orders directly to the Customer.

Senior Manager, Software Dev, FBA Technical

2017 - 2020

Manage multiple teams focused on optimizing the inbound process for Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). Teams determine eligibility of inbound seller inventory and place that inventory for optimal spread in the Amazon fulfillment network, as well as manage inventory pooling across sellers and manage special handling for dangerous goods. Led a cross-team initiative to reverse a multi-year operational load trend from +15% YoY to -5% YoY. Pushed for in-flight architecture of eligibility and placement systems to enable flexibility and away-team work.

Director of Research and Development for Foglight

2012 - 2017

Managed multiple software labs in Tel Aviv, Santa Clara and Zhuhai, China, achieving consolidated and integrated R&D organization that produced uniform product efficiently. Created product strategy for products in 3 separate markets to align with business goals and customer needs, resulting in significant revenue preservation. Acted as main liaison between CTO Group and Foglight team and attended meetings and engaged in architecture discussions, enabling architecture sharing and product integration across business units. Created and implemented multi-year resource shifting and transition plan across labs, decreasing costs without losing critical knowledge or delaying release plans.

Director of Research and Development for Foglight

2002 - 2012

Rearchitected Quest’s enterprise monitoring platform, resulting in orders of magnitude improvement in scalability and unprecedented customizability for data collection and user interface. Product supported multiple performance monitoring domains, including database, Java, .NET, virtualization. Built out new team for platform and product, delivering hundreds of releases to thousands of customers, resulting in $100M in revenue for Quest. Established sibling development and Quality Assurance lab in Zhuhai, China. Team was full participant in product success, and at end of tenure, took over Foglight development. Taught part of university credit course on performance management at 2 Chinese universities, as part of university outreach program in China, establishing reliable pipeline of qualified candidates willing to move to smaller Chinese city (Zhuhai).

Development Manager

1996 - 2002

Team Lead for OpenImage

1991 - 1996