Leadership

The ChannelAdvisor management team brings years of experience in the technology and professional services sectors. The team’s entrepreneurial spirit and cohesive vision has consistently delivered value to ChannelAdvisor’s customers, employees, investors and partners.

Management Team
Board of Directors

Management Team

Scot Wingo

CEO, Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder

CEO of ChannelAdvisor, Scot Wingo leads the company in its mission to provide retailers and manufacturers with the software and services needed to successfully sell their products via online sales channels. In tandem with his work at ChannelAdvisor, Scot is an industry thought leader, contributing regularly to several ChannelAdvisor blogs and speaking often at industry events. Prior to launching ChannelAdvisor, Scot occupied the roles of general manager of GoTo Auctions, CEO and co-founder of AuctionRover.com (acquired by GoTo.com) and CEO and co-founder of Stingray Software (acquired by RogueWave).

Scot received a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Computer Science degree from North Carolina State University. Scot has received numerous awards including Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year and Triangle Business Journal’s Top 40 under 40.

Aris Buinevicius

Chief Technology Officer, Board Member and Co-Founder

As the chief technology officer, Aris Buinevicius drives the company’s technological vision and uses innovative knowledge management and development practices to enhance the company’s competitive edge. Prior to ChannelAdvisor, Aris was the Director of Technology at GoTo Auctions, CTO and co-founder of AuctionRover.com and CTO and co-founder of Stingray Software.

Aris received a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Iowa State University and Master of Computer Science degree from North Carolina State University. He was recently named to the 2010 InfoWorld CTO 25, honoring the top CTOs of 2010.

David Spitz

President & Chief Operating Officer

David Spitz, ChannelAdvisor’s president and COO, is responsible for global sales and marketing, services and general operations. Before joining ChannelAdvisor, Spitz founded and successfully exited multiple venture-backed software companies. He was most recently an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Aurora Funds, a venture capital firm with more than $200 million under management. Prior to Aurora, David was president of Avesair, a mobile marketing company that was acquired by Inphonic. Previous to Avesair, David was co-founder and CTO of Netsation, a network management software company acquired by Nortel Networks.

David received a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. David recently was awarded the Triangle Business Journal’s 2010 CFO of the Year Award, and in 2008, David received the Triangle Business Journal’s Top 40 under 40 award. David has also been awarded three U.S. patents, is past chairman of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation Board and is a member of the executive committee and board of directors for the North Carolina Council for Entrepreneurial Development.

Suzanne Miglucci

Chief Marketing Officer

Suzanne provides strategy and execution of ChannelAdvisor’s global marketing presence. Her responsibilities include company and product branding, public relations, marketing/communications, event management and demand management activities to drive ChannelAdvisor’s growth strategies. Prior to ChannelAdvisor Suzanne served as Senior Director of Global Procurement Solution Marketing at SAP where she contributed to the direction and market awareness of portfolio solutions. Suzanne brings more than 15 years of experience in high tech marketing to ChannelAdvisor, having held executive marketing and business development roles at SciQuest, Arsenal Digital Solutions (now IBM) and Computer Associates. Suzanne holds a Master’s degree from Colorado State University, and undergraduate degrees from Fitchburg State College.

Scott Alridge

Vice President and General Counsel

Serving as vice president and general counsel, Scott Alridge leads all legal and contractual matters and planning for ChannelAdvisor, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, software and intellectual property licensing, corporate governance, sales transactions and strategic/corporate development initiatives. Additionally, he is responsible for Asia-Pacific and Germany sales and operations as well as growth into emerging markets. Previous to his employment at ChannelAdvisor, Alridge was an attorney at the corporate headquarters of Glenayre Electronics, a publicly held telecommunications company, where he worked extensively on a variety of domestic and international transactional and corporate matters. Scott also worked on numerous software, intellectual property and joint venture transactional matters while with IBM Corporation.Scott received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Juris Doctor from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University.

Tat Ng

Vice President of Engineering

Tat Ng, vice president of engineering, directs the global development of e-commerce solutions at ChannelAdvisor. By utilizing his extensive software development and SaaS operations experience, Tat maintains, nurtures and drives a product roadmap that meets the needs of ChannelAdvisor’s dynamic client base and strengthens ChannelAdvisor in its role as an industry leader.

Prior to joining ChannelAdvisor in 2010, Tat served as senior vice president of engineering and hosting operations at Rivermine, a provider of on-demand telecom expense management solutions based in Washington, D.C. Before Rivermine, Tat also held the vice president of engineering and IT operations position at ECnet, a provider of an online supply chain management platform for high-tech manufacturers.

Tat received a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering, with distinction, from the University of Arizona.

Brad Schomber

Vice President of Finance

Brad Schomber, vice president of finance for ChannelAdvisor, directs the finance, human resources, and business operations teams for the company. His global responsibilities include creating presentations for the board of directors and other interested parties, managing relationships with lending institutions, strategically evaluating and improving company methodologies, and ensuring compliance with various governmental agencies. Before joining ChannelAdvisor in 2006, Brad was a senior audit manager for Grant Thornton LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP. In this role, Brad worked with clients ranging from start-up technology firms to billion dollar manufacturers. Additionally, he has assisted on numerous mergers and acquisitions, as well as performed various consulting projects.

Brad received a Bachelor of Science degree from Wake Forest University.

Ryan Walsh

Vice President of Sales

Vice president of sales, Ryan Walsh is devoted to defining and executing ChannelAdvisor’s strategic growth plan while carrying out the company mission: to be the essential partner for e‐commerce. He is responsible for leading the North American sales organization, including revenue generation and growth, as well as customer acquisition, expansion and retention.

A ChannelAdvisor employee since 2001, Ryan has consistently exceeded sales quotas and achieved record bookings throughout his career as sales director, a sales executive and a category manager. Prior to ChannelAdvisor he was a manager at GoTo Auctions, and seller services advisor for AuctionRover.com.

Ryan received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Board of Directors

Scot Wingo

CEO, Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder

Aris Buinevicius

Chief Technology Officer, Board Member and Co-Founder

Louis J. Volpe

Prior to joining Kodiak Venture Partners, Lou was president, chief operating officer and director of ArrowPoint Communications where he was responsible for all of ArrowPoint’s functional organizations and focused on managing worldwide operations to achieve company growth objectives. ArrowPoint had a successful IPO in March 2000 and was acquired by Cisco Systems for $5.5 billion in June 2000. Lou is a board member of airwide solutions, Azimuth Systems, Egenera, GTESS, HighRoads, K-Motion Interactive, Newforma, SpaceClaim, and ChannelAdvisor. Prior to joining ArrowPoint, Lou was senior vice president of worldwide sales & marketing and a member of the board of GeoTel Communications, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in June 1999. He joined GeoTel early in its development stage and was a major contributor in building its worldwide sales and marketing presence. He was also instrumental in guiding the company through its IPO and eventual $2 billion acquisition. Previously, he served as senior vice president of marketing and operations for Parametric Technology Corporation from 1989 to 1994. Before Parametric, he was an executive at Prime Computer. Lou has been an active investor and board member of a number of companies including Atria (acquired by Pure) and Softdesk (acquired by Autodesk). Lou holds a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a Master of Business Administration from Boston University.

Tim Buckley

Tim is the former chief operating officer for Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT) the world’s premier open source and Linux provider. As COO, Tim used his insight to accelerate the momentum of open source and expand Red Hat’s worldwide business, service and support operations. Prior to Red Hat, Tim was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Seattle-based Visio Corporation, where he was instrumental in growing the company from a start-up to a public company that was acquired by Microsoft for $1.5 billion.

Richard Holcomb

Richard is a leading entrepreneur in the Research Triangle area. He was a founder of HAHT Commerce in 1995, a major e-commerce application provider, and served as HAHT’s first CEO and chairman. Prior to HAHT, he was a founder of Q+E Software in 1986, a supplier of client-server database access technology, and served as that company’s CEO, president, and chairman from inception to its acquisition by Intersolv in 1994. Throughout his career, Richard has won several awards including the 1993 Ernst and Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for North Carolina and the 1996 Business Leader Top Gun Entrepreneur of the Year.

Bob Hower

Bob joined Advanced Technology Ventures in 2002. He focuses on new investments in the communications, Internet infrastructure and software markets. Bob also plays an important role in adding strategic, operational value to the portfolio companies within ATV’s IT practice. Prior to joining ATV, Bob was a director at BancBoston Ventures where he focused on the telecommunications and IT infrastructure sectors and completed investments in Telephotonics (sold to DuPont) and AccessLan (sold to AFC). Bob has more than 15 years of hands-on operating experience including responsibilities as VP of sales at LHS Group (EMEA), where he built the firm’s Enhanced Services Division for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions, and four years as a member of the senior management team at Priority Call Management (PCM), which was sold in 1999 to LHS Group. His management background also includes sales and marketing roles at Lotus Development and General Mills.

Patrick Kerins

Patrick joined New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in 2006 as general partner, focusing on a broad range of information technology investments with particular emphasis on enterprise software, network infrastructure and Internet companies. Prior to joining NEA, Patrick was general partner of Grotech Capital Group where he specialized in high-tech investments and served on a number of boards including Advertising.com, Bluefire Security, CDnow, Fieldglass Software, Hillcrest Labs, SALIX Technologies, and Synchrologic. Prior to Grotech, Patrick spent nearly 10 years at Alex. Brown & Sons as an investment banker for high technology companies. At Alex. Brown & Sons, he was responsible for a range of financing and advisory projects including initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions for high-tech companies. Prior to that, Patrick was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Patrick served as an officer in the U.S. Navy where he spent substantially all his tenure on the staff of Admiral H.G. Rickover at the Headquarters of the Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Program. Patrick is chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association. He received a Master of Business Administration with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science from Villanova University.