Meet Riskonnect’s Management Team
Jim Wetekamp
Jim Wetekamp is chief executive officer of Riskonnect, Inc. Since assuming the role of CEO in April of 2018, Jim has focused on accelerating growth by delivering superior value to customers by bringing risk under one roof.
Jim previously served as CEO of BravoSolution, a cloud procurement solutions company. Jim has more than 20 years of experience in software product leadership, supply chain, and risk.
Peter Vlerick
Peter joined the Riskonnect team as chief financial officer in May 2024. Prior to joining Riskonnect, Peter held several CFO roles, for both public and private equity-backed software and technology-enabled service businesses. Most recently, he was CFO of Keypath Education, a $140 million publicly traded, global company in the online education space.
Peter attended Boston College where he graduated magna cum laude with a BS in accounting. He received an MBA from the University of Chicago and is a certified public accountant. Peter is married with three children and lives in the Chicagoland area.
Andrea Brody
Andrea Brody joined Riskonnect in 2018 as chief marketing officer. She has more than 25 years of product and marketing leadership experience for both large and small global software and SaaS companies.
Prior to joining Riskonnect, Andrea was CMO at BravoSolution, a strategic procurement solution provider. She has held various marketing, product management and strategic sales leadership positions for companies such as OpenText, MERANT, and GE Information Services.
Andrea has a B.S. in marketing from Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and a M.S. in information systems from American University.
Kathryn Carlson
Kathryn Carlson joined Riskonnect as chief product officer. She has more than 20 years of product management and product development leadership experience.
Before joining Riskonnect, Kathryn was vice president of product management at KPA, an EHS software, online training, and consulting company. Prior to KPA, she has held positions in product management, product marketing and product development including leading the team at ADP that developed the patented Decision Matrix applicant selection software.
Kathryn’s approach to product management blends pragmatism and innovation, leading to solutions that solve clients most pressing problems, decrease time to market and deliver true value.
John Casazza
John joined Riskonnect in 2009, bringing nearly two decades of experience in advanced application and client server database support in the risk management industry. At Riskonnect, John is responsible for the technical and security infrastructure of the organization, specifically server specification, configuration, deployment and monitoring.
John previously worked as the client technical services manager at CS Stars, managing its worldwide client technical support team. John earned his B.S. in management information systems with a concentration in finance from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York.
Kevin Crow
Kevin Crow brings more than 20 years of human resources leadership experience to Riskonnect, where he serves as the chief human resources officer.
Kevin has held multiple senior-level human resources roles within the technology and media industries and has an extensive background in talent management, employee engagement, coaching, recruitment and retention, compensation and benefits, leadership development and organizational development. Most recently, Kevin was a senior vice president of global human resources at BravoSolution, a Chicago-based cloud procurement solutions company. Kevin holds a B.S. in human resources/business management from Northern Illinois University.
Alan Friedman
Alan is Riskonnect’s chief professional services officer. He has more than 25 years of experience in technology, consulting, and global professional services. Most recently, Alan held multiple roles delivering enterprise retail software in the professional services organization at Aptos, Inc. Prior to that, Alan held executive positions and led delivery teams at QuantiSense, Inc., ChoicePoint, Inc., and EzGov, Inc.
Throughout his career, Alan has maintained a focus and emphasis on delivering customer success and speed-to-value implementations, leveraging data to support decisions, and building repeatable methodologies. Alan earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Duke University.
Fritz Hesse
Fritz joined the Riskonnect team as chief technology officer with more than 25 years of scaling and building world-class global software engineering organizations.
Prior to Riskonnect, Fritz was CTO at Bazaarvoice and held executive positions at Mitek Systems, Intuit, and MaintenanceNet (acquired by Cisco). He also spent a large portion of his early career overseeing software engineering teams at JD Edwards, now owned by Oracle.
John Ryan Shaw
John is Riskonnect’s chief customer officer, where he focuses on engineering the customer experience to drive ROI at every stage of the journey towards risk under one roof.
John has more than 20 years of experience helping customers maximize the value from business applications, most recently serving as the vice president of customer success for JAGGAER, a cloud-based procurement solutions company. John has held multiple senior-level positions leading the development of teams in customer support, change management, customer data analytics, and educational services.
John’s undergraduate degree is in marketing and management information systems from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Eric Zoref
Eric oversees Riskonnect’s sales team. Eric has over 10 years of go-to market experience in the risk management software space from his prior roles at Bloomberg and Nasdaq.
Eric earned his B.S. in management from Binghamton University and his MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.
Mark Holt
Mark serves as strategic advisor at Riskonnect, bringing nearly two decades of enterprise software sales experience to the role. Prior to joining Riskonnect, Mark was the EMEA sales & marketing director at Ventiv Technology (formerly Aon eSolutions) and the vice president of sales at Marsh ClearSight. Mark holds a B.A. hons degree in business information systems from the University of the West of England.
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