Leadership Team

Rita Cenni brings over 16 years of technology sales and sales management experience. She has not only managed seasoned sales teams but has also developed sales organizations from their infancy. Previously she served as Vice President of Sales at both Critical Path and Fabrik Communications. At Fabrik she was instrumental in increasing revenues 600% over a three year period, positioning the company for acquisition. Prior to joining Fabrik, Rita spent six years at Oracle where she served in various roles within the sales organization surpassing all sales goals. In the early stages of her career, Rita was with Payday and Wells Fargo Bank.

Rita holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Dickinson College.

John Collins brings more than 20 years of experience in high-tech sales, partner relations, marketing, and management to his role leading CSRware's global sales and distribution operations. Prior to CSRware, John was an individual contributor and sales leader at ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS), TouchPoint, Atlantech Pacific, and FWB Hammer. During John's sales leader tenure, FWB Hammer received recognition three times as an INC 500 fastest growing company. John has worked with a number of cleantech ventures on fundraising and go-to-market strategies in the wind, water, and efficiency spaces. He is an active member of Imagine H2O and serves on the advisory board of the Sherwood Institute.

John has an B.A., from Columbia University in the City of New York.

An accomplished business leader, Ms. Birkhead offers over 25 years of experience in Marketing, Business Development, Strategy Consulting and Operations Management. As a successful entrepreneur, and leader in many start-ups, she has worked extensively in Canadian and U.S. markets. Industry experience includes Fortune 500's in the CPG / Retail sector; Technology, Healthcare, Finance, Agriculture, Construction, CleanTech and GreenTech.

Birkhead's versatility and creativity is combined with her passion for developing, implementing and managing profitable B2C or B2B sales and marketing programs. With experience in channel marketing, brand building, events, field promotions and national sales, she has achieved aggressive revenue growth via integrated campaign strategies, co-marketing programs, go-to-market strategies, and popular educational programs. Birkhead also served as public relations coordinator and media spokesperson for one of America's largest supermarket chains and has been interviewed on 100's of TV and radio shows.

Over a decade ago, Ms. Birkhead founded ClearPath Strategies, Inc. a boutique consulting firm specializing in advising start-up, small and mid-cap companies in the technology, cleantech and greentech sectors. She has worked as a consultant and lecturer for Fortune 1000 companies and professional sports teams and has a passion for projects that embrace corporate social responsibility and sustainability.

Birkhead holds a Bachelors of Science degree, and a MBA from Pepperdine University. She is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and holds memberships with the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, Project Management Institute, International Society of Information Technology Professionals, and the American Marketing Association.

Torben brings over fifteen years of experience in product management and product marketing. His background brings in-depth SaaS knowledge, user research, direct development of several product lines with an emphasis on product strategy. At Ringcentral, Yoomba, NetSuite, Lycos Europe and Yahoo, Torben was instrumental in defining and managing efforts to define requirements, product positioning and management of teams to launch of next-generation products. He has an extensive background at start-ups and large enterprise companies.

Torben attended the University of California and received an MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business where his focus was on technology and marketing.

Yann brings extensive experience in software engineering. Most recently Yann served as Sr. Director Sales Engineering for Global IP Solutions, where he was responsible for worldwide technical sales and managed the customer engineering team. Prior to that, Yann participated in the launch of the company's operations in Asia, where he held the position of Director Customer Engineering, Asia Pacific. Before joining Global IP Solutions, Yann was a software engineer at Scientific Learning.

Yann holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from ENSEA in France.

Kari Birdseye is an environmental and sustainability professional with twenty years of management experience and has spent more than a decade devoted to corporate environmental management. She has created and managed communications on sustainability, government policy, and biotechnology strategies for Fortune customers. She served as a high-profile spokesperson for the California wine industry while developing and implementing the California Code of Sustainable Wine Growing Practices program.

Kari has a Master's of Science in Environmental Management (MSEM) from University of San Francisco and a BA degree in Journalism from San Francisco State University.