As an 'Atlassian Platinum Expert', Appfire Technologies is widely recognized as the authority on Atlassian in the Enterprise. Appfire provides expert Atlassian Enterprise Services and develops Atlassian-focused products which enable the world's most advanced product development teams to quickly innovate, develop and drive their products to market.

Peter Santeusanio
Chief Executive Officer

A graduate of MIT's computer science department, Peter Santeusanio brings 25 years of experience in high-tech entrepreneurship to the Appfire Technologies team as CEO.

Before joining Appfire, Peter's impressive career includes the establishment of 10 successful corporations, and the architecture of more than 40 marketable technology products and services. Some of Peter's accomplishments include:

• Former CTO of Polycom
• Former CEO of Bizfon, manufacturer of the nation's most successful, user installable, small business communications system
• Founder & Architect of the NBX Corp., Ethernet based telephone system
• Chairman & CEO of Xionics Document Technologies
• Former venture capitalist with Hambro International Venture Fund

Randall Ward
Co-Founder / Product Strategist

A founding executive at Appfire, Mr. Ward has built the firm from the ground up using his concept of 'reusable pre-engineered application frameworks'. Combining strong business acumen with unparalleled technical expertise, Randall is continually sought-after for his consulting services and skills. He has designed and developed a variety of highly sophisticated enterprise applications for world-wide audiences.

Randall currently serves as Product Strategist and Chief Architect overseeing Appfire's most challenging technology endeavors.

Mat Gauvin
Co-Founder / Chief Operating Officer

Mat is widely regarded as a specialist in enterprise collaboration software and online business process. Drawing from many years of user experience design and knowledge management expertise, Mat has provided strategic consulting services for many well known billion dollar brands including Fidelity, Target, CalTech, Millipore, Palm, CNN, Bechtel and MIT.

A founding executive at Appfire, Mat currently serves as Chief Operating Officer.

Raghu Bhagavathula
Vice President of Engineering

As Vice President of Engineering, Raghu Bhagavathula is focused on directing Appfire's engineering teams to develop and deliver innovative products and solutions in the software collaboration space. With 20 years of experience in the software industry, Raghu is passionate about simple, practical and quality tools that promote content sharing and shrink delivery schedules.

Raghu has previously held leadership positions directing large software development teams at Boston Communications Group (bcgi) and Zhone Technologies.

George Lannan
Vice President of Sales

George Lannan has been a sales executive in the telecommunication and software industry for over 25 years and currently serves as Appfire's Vice President of Sales. During his career, George has excelled in building and managing successful direct sales teams as well as channel partner programs.

Prior to his current role at Appfire, George was with FairPoint Communications, a multibillion dollar Telecommunications company in Northern New England, where he hired and trained the New Hampshire sales team. During George's tenure at FairPoint his sales team consistently led the company in acquisition sales. Before FairPoint, George was Director of Sales and Partnerships in North America at TC&C, a leading global developer of unified communications software, where he built the company's top performing sales channel. George has also held sales and sales management positions at AT&T, Bizfon, VoiceCom Systems, Qwest communications and several startups.