Satya Misra, CEO

Satya has over 14 years of experience in Sales, Marketing, Business Strategy and Finance. Prior to co-founding ActionRun, Satya was a VP at AllianceBernstein (NYSE: AB), where he was responsible for the development of a practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Earlier, Satya was Senior Director of Marketing, and later, a VP of Sales and Channels at Blue Pumpkin Software, where he efficiently trained and managed a team of direct and channel sales and solution delivery professionals in various countries around the world.

Satya’s innovative market penetration and channel strategies established Blue Pumpkin Software as a monopoly leader in the call enter space among global companies such as GE, Accenture and Citibank, who purchased tens of thousands of licenses.

In 1999, Satya co-founded Cofix, an IT service exchange and signed partnership agreements with the largest IT distributors in the US including Ingram Micro and Tech Data. Earlier he worked at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in its strategy consulting division. Satya enjoys long-distance running in his spare time. Satya holds a BS with honors in Engineering from IIT and MBA from Stanford Business School.

Ali S. Kazeroonian, President & CTO

A veteran technologist and product development specialist, Dr. Kazeroonian has over 16 years of experience in management, development, and implementation of marketing technologies and hosted online solutions incorporating data warehousing and analytics. Ali’s solutions have been implemented in large and complex organizations including AT&T, Fidelity Investments, HP, Staples, Albertson’s, Sony, Bank of America, and FreshExpress.

Prior to co-founding ActionRun, Ali was VP Engineering at Market6, a retail software pioneer in fast moving consumer packaged goods industry. He co-founded Active Decisions in 1997 and served as its CTO and VP of Engineering to build the first hosted guided selling solutions for large online and offline stores. Earlier, Ali co-founded FasTV where he led the development and commercialization of one of the first software technologies for real-time indexing of video over the web. Ali received his BS from Caltech and Ph.D. from MIT, both in physics.

Darby Williams, Advisor

Darby is a senior marketing executive with over 22 years of experience in high technology and consumer marketing. Currently, Darby is the VP of Product at PowerReviews, a social shopping company offering “affinity shopping” tools for consumers to find the right product for them.

Prior to PowerReviews, he was VP of Marketing at Active Decisions, Group Product Manager at Microsoft, Strategy Consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton, and a Platoon Leader in the US Army. Darby also co-founded CookExpress.com, a provider of gourmet food online, and Breakaway Technologies, a consumer electronics company in the music space. He holds an MBA from University of Chicago, where he graduated First in class and a BA, summa cum laude, from the University of Virginia.