Executive Team

Vendavo is led by an experienced, accomplished team that honed its expertise at some of the most respected industrial, software, and consulting companies in the world – including General Electric, Microsoft, Siebel, and IBM.

	Neil Lustig, CEO and President Neil Lustig is an accomplished executive with over 25 years of experience in the IT Industry. After joining Vendavo in 2007, he led the global commercial team for three years prior to assuming his current role. Before Vendavo, Mr. Lustig successfully directed Ariba’s North American field operations for two and a half years. Previously, he served as general manager of Ariba’s EMEA field operations and significantly grew the size of the business. Prior to joining Ariba, Mr. Lustig spent 16 years at IBM, serving in a variety of sales and account management roles. Mr. Lustig holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from State University of New York at Albany.
	Jamie Rapperport, Founder & EVP Marketing and Business Development Jamie Rapperport brings an impressive record of entrepreneurial success to Vendavo. Prior to Vendavo, he served as a founder and vice president of marketing and sales at VXtreme, a leading streaming video technology provider which he helped lead to its category-leading position and subsequent acquisition by Microsoft. Mr. Rapperport's 20 years of experience in the technology sector also includes senior management, product management, marketing, and business development positions with Lotus, Sun Microsystems, and WebTV Networks. Mr.Rapperport holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
	Bob Andrews, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Bob Andrews, with more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, leads Sales, Business Consulting and Pricing Science at Vendavo. Before joining Vendavo, Mr. Andrews was Vice President of Sales for SmartSignal, recently acquired by General Electric. Previous experience includes vertical market sales leadership for i2 Technologies, where Mr. Andrews managed industrial, consumer packaged goods (CPG) and Tier 1 automotive sectors. Prior to that, he led the central region for the company's newly created CPG vertical market sales team at Oracle. Mr. Andrews also spent 10 years with Dun & Bradstreet Software in sales, sales management, product management and alliance management. Mr. Andrews holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Miami University and an M. B. A. from Emory University.
	Mark Anderson, Senior Vice President, Global Solutions Delivery Mark Anderson brings over 18 years of experience in the enterprise software industry with consulting practice leadership roles at SAP, Comergent and Sterling Commerce. Over this period, he specialized in B2B CRM solutions and provided program expertise and leadership to medium sized companies as well as Fortune 500 global enterprises. With management experience at both emerging and large software companies, Mr. Anderson brings a unique blend of leadership expertise to Vendavo. In addition, he worked as an Industrial Engineer at Eastman Kodak. Mr. Anderson holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Nebraska and an M.B.A. from the Simon School of Business.
	Mark Coggins, Senior Vice President, Engineering Mark Coggins brings over 20 years of engineering and product management experience to Vendavo. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Actuate, where he played a leadership role in devising the company's winning open source strategy and in founding and developing the BIRT open source project at the Eclipse Foundation. He has held other senior management positions at VeriSign, Netscape Communications, Interactive Development Environments, Hewlett-Packard Company, and a start-up he co-founded in the CRM industry. Coggins holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, Phi Beta Kappa, and a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University.
	Jennifer Maul, Chief Customer Officer Jennifer Maul is responsible for lifetime customer relationships, including strategic and transformational customer partnerships, value realization, support, and pricing education. Prior to joining Vendavo, she was Senior Vice President of Customer Operations at SCI Systems, an enterprise software company, building her team from start to full-scale operations, and delivering implementation tools and methodologies that led the company to a #5 top customer service ranking among 150 technology vendors. Ms. Maul has also held senior management, engineering, and support positions at Eclipsys Corporation and Sunquest Information Systems. Ms. Maul holds Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, in Business Management and Management Information Systems from the University of Maryland.
	Andrew Stern, Chief Financial Officer Andrew Stern has 20 years of broad-based, CFO experience in high growth, venture capital-backed, software and hardware companies. Among his prior positions, Mr. Stern was the CFO of Datasweep where he led the successful acquisition by Rockwell Automation. Prior to Datasweep, he held CFO positions at NetContinuum and Skire. Mr. Stern was also the CFO at two highly successful enterprise software companies: Arbor Software (now Hyperion Solutions), the leading company in online analytical processing (OLAP), and Gupta Corporation, the early leader in the client-server software revolution. Mr. Stern holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University.