Meet the executive team
Aleksandar Čabrilo
CEO
Aleksandar is a co-founder and the CEO of HTEC Group, leading the company from its inception in 2008 to its international expansion. An entrepreneur by passion, he is responsible for driving the company’s vision and growth. After graduating with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, he started his career at the semiconductor startup Silicon Hive. When Silicon Hive was acquired by Intel, Aleksandar formed its R&D center in Serbia, which became a part of Intel’s mobile group. Nowadays, Aleksandar is living and working in San Francisco, where HTEC is headquartered and where he manages our client relationships globally. Business digitalization, corporate innovation and venture acceleration are his specialties. Additionally, he makes sure that the technology excellence of HTEC meets relevant industry domain expertise to create the disrupting digital products that support innovative business models. He is an active member at YPO Global One Chapter and also a member of the Association for Corporate Growth – ACG Silicon Valley.
Dušan Kosić
President
Dušan is a co-founder and the President at HTEC Group. He is responsible for the company’s corporate organization and development, while also spearheading its M&A activities. Before joining HTEC as a partner in 2010, Dušan was a Foreign Direct Investment Advisor at SIEPA (Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency) and a fund manager at the Innovation Fund in Serbia. Dušan graduated from Saint John’s University in Minnesota, where he became a member of the Board of Trustees in 2017, making him the youngest board member in the university’s more than 160 year history. Dušan holds an EMBA from Cotrugli Business School and he has invested in several technology startups. As a leader, he is a true believer in people’s capacity to grow and his main objective is to create an environment that allows each individual in the organization to develop their full potential.
Miroslav Virijević
CFO
Miroslav is the Director of Finance at HTEC Group. He’s responsible for M&A activities, corporate finance, investor relations, planning, analytics and reporting. Before joining HTEC, Miroslav spent 12 years in investment banking and was a partner at Kvantum Capital Partners, prior to founding the independent M&A and corporate finance advisory boutique Temcour Advisory. He participated in more than 50 M&A deals during that period and was actively involved in almost all consolidation activities in the SEE, including IT, pharma, retail, healthcare, telecommunication and more. Miroslav has extensive experience in deal prospecting and origination, deal structuring and execution as well as post acquisition integration. Miroslav is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade.
Nathan Elsberry
CRO
Nathan is the Chief Revenue Officer at HTEC Group. He is responsible for all revenue-generating activities across the organization, as well as connecting revenue-related functions from marketing to sales, customer success, pricing, and revenue operations. Nathan started his career serving in the US Navy. Once honorably discharged, he continued his education in Wireless Engineering at Auburn University. His technology consulting career began on the delivery side at Capgemini, transitioned into sales with Infosys Consulting and overall sales management where he found his passion for revenue creation. Before joining HTEC, Nathan was North America Head of Sales for Thoughtworks. Nathan has a tireless focus on process execution and leads his teams towards success by having them focus on doing their jobs each day, rather than achieving specific results; if we do our jobs, the results will come.
Darko Todorović
VP of Engineering & Delivery
Darko is the VP of Engineering and Delivery at HTEC Group. He oversees delivery and is responsible for lead conversion, customer onboarding and tech excellence. Before taking on this role, Darko was the group’s head of R&D and the leader of HTEC’s development center in Nis. Darko has a special interest in the application of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science in business digitalization, improving organizational and business process efficiency across industries with a deep specialization in IoT and Robotics. Currently, he is working on his PhD dissertation in Human-Robot Interaction Anticipation with Application in Collaborative Robotics at the University of Nis, where he teaches in the department of Control Systems and also leads the Robotics Laboratory.
Srđan Jovanović
VP of People
Srđan is the VP of People at HTEC. He is responsible for the recruitment, organic growth and new offices expansion, as well as the HTEC experience. Before this role, Srđan was the Head of Hardware and Embedded Engineering at the company, where he led research initiatives in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Before joining HTEC in 2012, Srđan was responsible for R&D at the German company LMB Soft, producing high-end medical electronics for global markets. As a true philanthropist, he has contributed to younger generations through the electronics course he managed at the Petnica Science Center, where he’s educated gifted children from 1999. He is proficient in complex DSP algorithms, custom electronics engineering, embedded systems design, software architecture, and various compliance and certifications standards – the expertise he applied in leading the MedTech startup Humeds, as the CTO.
Katarina Urošević
Chief of Staff
Katarina is the Chief of Staff and Director of Communications at HTEC Group. Besides ensuring the company’s smooth operations, Katarina is in charge of managing our account portfolio and leading a number of horizontal initiatives across departments. She joined HTEC with 13 years of experience in science, technology and innovation policy and managing development projects within international organizations. While in the government, as the science advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister, Katarina worked on research sector reforms, developing research infrastructure, securing international financing and establishing the first financing instruments for innovative start-ups and business-academia collaboration. She also worked for the OECD in Paris as a policy analyst and project manager in South East Europe and was a consultant for the World Bank for almost five years, for projects in the Balkans and Sri Lanka. She is passionate about bringing out the incredible potential of Serbia and its people, which is why she returned to the country after completing her BA in Physics at Princeton University.
Vladimir Trbović
VP of Technology
Vladimir leads our Technology Excellence Team. He is responsible for technology sophistication and standards at HTEC, as well as career path development for engineers. Together with his team, he oversees technology implementation across our customer portfolio and provides technical support for business development. Previously, Vladimir was the Head of Software Engineering, where he led multiple teams across cloud technologies, data science and Artificial Intelligence. He is an expert in complex enterprise solutions, multi-platform, high bandwidth and big data systems, data optimization and analysis and system scalability. He leverages his cross-industry experience to deliver large scale transformational products in areas such as multimedia, networking, utility, payments, social media, productivity and logistics. He believes in agile development, adaptive planning and continuous improvement with flexibility in response to continuous change.
Bojana Noskov
Director of Legal
Bojana Noskov
Director of Legal
Bojana is an attorney-at-law who leads HTEC legal department and is responsible for the legal governance of the entire HTEC Group. She manages the provision of all legal services within HTEC Group to ensure maximum protection of its legal rights, as well as ensuring that all legal matters are managed properly and efficiently. Prior to starting cooperation with HTEC, Bojana has gathered a wealth of experience within the framework of a large international law firm. She has extensive expertise in a broad range of fields of law, including commercial, corporate, M&A, insolvency, real estate and dispute resolution.
David Thomson,
CEO, Momentum Design Lab, part of HTEC Group
Since 2002 with Momentum Design Lab, Thomson has served as the executive strategy and experience design leadership for over 650 software as a service platforms, big data, blockchain, adtech, healthcare, iot, financial services, HCM, analytics, and mobile projects. Prior to that, Thomson served as a software product designer for several startups, financial services and media companies. Thomson has a Bachelors in Applied Art with the Emphasis in Graphic Design from San Diego State University.
Meet the board of directors
Aleksandar Čabrilo
CEO
Aleksandar is a co-founder and the CEO of HTEC Group, leading the company from its inception in 2008 to its international expansion. An entrepreneur by passion, he is responsible for driving the company’s vision and growth. After graduating with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, he started his career at the semiconductor startup Silicon Hive. When Silicon Hive was acquired by Intel, Aleksandar formed its R&D center in Serbia, which became a part of Intel’s mobile group. Nowadays, Aleksandar is living and working in San Francisco, where HTEC is headquartered and where he manages our client relationships globally. Business digitalization, corporate innovation and venture acceleration are his specialties. Additionally, he makes sure that the technology excellence of HTEC meets relevant industry domain expertise to create the disrupting digital products that support innovative business models. He is an active member at YPO Global One Chapter and also a member of the Association for Corporate Growth – ACG Silicon Valley.
Dušan Kosić
President
Dušan is a co-founder and the President at HTEC Group. He is responsible for the company’s corporate organization and development, while also spearheading its M&A activities. Before joining HTEC as a partner in 2010, Dušan was a Foreign Direct Investment Advisor at SIEPA (Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency) and a fund manager at the Innovation Fund in Serbia. Dušan graduated from Saint John’s University in Minnesota, where he became a member of the Board of Trustees in 2017, making him the youngest board member in the university’s more than 160 year history. Dušan holds an EMBA from Cotrugli Business School and he has invested in several technology startups. As a leader, he is a true believer in people’s capacity to grow and his main objective is to create an environment that allows each individual in the organization to develop their full potential.
Mark F. Dziagla
Managing Partner, Brighton Park Capital
Mark F. Dzialga is the Founder and Managing Partner of Brighton Park Capital and is a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to starting Brighton Park Capital, Mark was a Managing Director at General Atlantic for more than 20 years and had been a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Portfolio Committee, and Human Resources Committee through September of 2018. He played a key role in helping GA invest in companies in a wide variety of end markets, including software, internet, health care, financial services, and consumer goods. Mark has been a member of HTEC’s board of directors since 2021 and has an important role in helping the company execute its global ambitions. He has a degree in accounting from Canisius College and an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Kevin Magan
Partner, Brighton Park Capital
Kevin Magan is a Partner at Brighton Park Capital. Prior to joining BPC in 2019, Kevin was a Vice President at Great Hill Partners, a growth-stage private equity firm focused in the technology space. While at Great Hill, Kevin was involved in multiple investments across software, internet, and business services, including Custom Ink, TodayTix, IntApp, and Bombas. Kevin began his career in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) group at Barclays. He has been a member of HTEC’s board of directors since 2021, supporting HTEC’s global goals and strategy. Kevin received an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in Finance.
Daniel Whalen
Partner and Advisor
Daniel Whalen
Partner and Advisor
Daniel is an active philanthropist, business and social entrepreneur, and a private investor. He founded or co-founded several successful businesses serving telecommunication firms, and also founded or helped transform a number of non-profit and non-governmental organizations in the US and overseas. Daniel’s public sector career included stints as a manager of an election campaign; an analyst with the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; a manager with the Institute of Medicine; a management consultant; a director of health planning for New York state and health policy specialist for the Governor of West Virginia. He received an undergraduate degree from Saint John’s University in Minnesota, and MBA and AM from Stanford University.
Peter Bisson
Board Member, Brighton Park Capital
Peter spent most of his career with McKinsey & Company. Over three decades, he has worked with Fortune 100 companies in a wide range of industries, including energy, telecommunications, media, and technology. His functional experience encompasses strategy, corporate finance, marketing, and business transformation. Peter holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and won the Ford Award for outstanding academic performance. He also received his BA from Dartmouth College. As a member of HTEC’s board of directors, Peter helps management build HTEC into a distinctive services company for a future tech ecosystem where even mission-critical software and algorithms are entrusted to reliable business partners with the skills to curate distinctive technical talent.
Meet the advisory board
Michael Abbott
Former Executive Vice President of Software and Services at General Motors
Michael Abbott was most recently the Executive Vice President of Software and Services at GM, overseeing a global team of nearly 20,000 technology engineers focusing on all aspects of GM’s business. Before GM, Mike was the VP of Engineering for Apple Cloud Services, which included core infrastructure services and products like iCloud, account security, iMessage, Private Relay, and Mail. Mike was previously a General Partner with Kleiner Perkins, where he focused on investments in the firm’s digital practice, helping entrepreneurs in the social, mobile, and cloud computing sectors rapidly scale teams and ventures. As an engineering leader, entrepreneur and investor, Mike has led the building of innovative, secure, high-performance applications and services at Twitter, Palm, and Microsoft. Additionally, Mike serves on the board of USC Viterbi School of Engineering, on the UC Berkeley Engineering advisory board, and on the foundation board at California Polytechnic State University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL), where he performed technical research in computer vision, an adjunct Lecturer at Stanford Computer Science Department, and was a member of the HealthCare.gov Tech Surge Team while holding numerous board seats of both investments and companies he founded. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic State University and was a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington.
Ron Guerrier
Chief Information Officer at Save the Children
A member of the HTEC Advisory Board, Ron Guerrier is the chief technology officer at Save the Children, a four-time Fortune 500 chief information officer (CIO), CIO Hall of Fame inductee, and former CIO and secretary of the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology. As a board member of various organizations, Ron brings extensive industry knowledge and business strategy experience to the HTEC Advisory Board. He also stresses the importance of trustworthiness, a strong business network, and honesty in fostering long-term partnerships and scaling businesses successfully.
A tech and mechanics aficionado from an early age, he saw innovation at work in his native Haiti, watching his cousins’ handiwork with old cars. Today, as an accomplished Chicago-based executive, he enjoys spending time with his family and remains devoted to bringing more diversity into the technology field. He also believes in the positive transformative impact of emerging technologies and is passionate about creating better STEM education opportunities for all children.
Paul Chapman
Vice President of Business Strategy at Cisco
A distinguished figure in the technology industry and a member of the HTEC Advisory Board, Paul has significant leadership experience in business strategy, digital transformation, and innovation. He’s occupied high-level roles at a number of global corporations, including Cisco, where he is currently vice president of business strategy. In the past thirty years, Paul has also held senior leadership roles at other prominent Silicon Valley companies, including HP, VMware, and Sun Microsystems.
Paul is also a thought leader and sought-after speaker on diverse subjects such as digital transformation, organizational change, and artificial intelligence. His dedication to cultivating high-performing teams, fostering work cultures grounded in customer-centric principles, and consistently delivering value through technology is a hallmark of his professional ethos.
Christopher Paquette
Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Allstate
Christopher Paquette is a member of the HTEC Advisory Board and serves as the Chief Digital Officer for Allstate, responsible for building and leading the overarching strategy to accelerate enterprise-wide digital transformation to deliver a best-in-class experience for customers, agents, and employees. In prior positions, Christopher was the Chief Digital and Strategy Officer at Trustmark – a health TPA, life, and stop-loss insurer, and a Partner at McKinsey, serving financial services clients on digital, data and analytics, operations, and strategy topics. Christopher earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and psychology from Northwestern University and his MBA with distinction from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He also serves as an advisor and investor on multiple boards in the software, InsurTech, and ClimateTech sectors and serves on the Ravinia Festival Association board of trustees. Christopher lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and three daughters.
Bill Portelli
Head Strategy at xMentium
Bill Portelli is a seasoned executive and a member of the HTEC Advisory Board. He is renowned for his exceptional track record in driving exponential growth and creating substantial enterprise value across diverse technology sectors. For over thirty years, Bill has led technology companies as a chief executive officer (CEO), advisor, and board director, delivering results that have amounted to billions of dollars in revenue and market capitalization. Currently serving as the head of strategy at xMentium, a pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) company, Bill spearheads initiatives that push the boundaries of AI.
An expert in mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) development, open-source technology, and information technology, Bill has driven innovation in the semiconductor and electronic design automation market, with notable roles as a senior vice president, general manager, and corporate officer at firms such as Cadence and CTT. Also, as founding CEO of CollabNet, he is credited with building the first company to commercialize software development in the cloud. Bill is also a recipient of the prestigious Davos Technology Pioneer Award from the World Economic Forum for contributions to cloud computing, DevOps, and open-source technology. He is based in Los Altos, California.
Sasha Ostojić
Venture Partner at Playground Global
Sasha Ostojić is a Venture Partner at Playground Global and a member of the HTEC Advisory Board. He actively invests in artificial intelligence (AI), next-gen computing, and robotics while assisting and advising portfolio companies on defining and executing technology and business strategies.
Sasha’s Silicon Valley career started in 1988 at IBM as an early pioneer in voice technology products, leading to the role of chief executive officer and founder at Ultimate Technology, Inc. He went on to grow his expertise in a series of high-profile senior executive roles at Nvidia, Cruise (acquired by General Motors), and Zoox (acquired by Amazon). Sasha is chairman of the Anari AI board and holds board positions at Allison Transmission and d-Matrix. Additionally, he is an advisory board member at Zoox and the Serbian AI Institute. A patent holder and an innovator, Sasha organizes and leads various engineering leadership events and the acclaimed Robochat event series. With a unique blend of leadership and technology expertise, Sasha brings tremendous value to HTEC’s Advisory Board. In his spare time, this Palo Alto-based expert is an avid tennis and basketball player and enjoys spending time with his family.
Meet the management team
Marko Anić
Senior Director, Engineering & Delivery
In his 15-year-long engineering career, Marko has gained vast experience and expertise across various industries, with a strong focus on Media and Entertainment, as well as delivering hi-tech solutions for automotive and banking industries. From developing, designing, and specifying enterprise-wide, web-based business solutions to leading large teams and projects – Marko has checked every box in engineering and delivery processes. With a deep commitment to providing customers with premium end-to-end solutions, Marko is all about helping people grow, building trust, and ensuring the success of customers’ projects.
Bojan Šukalo
Senior Director, Engineering & Delivery
Bojan started his career as a networking engineer, and in the course of 15 years, he has built extensive expertise with a special focus on the telecommunications and green energy industries. From networking and security to project management, cloud integration, and designing IaaS/PaaS/SaaS offers for a major telecommunication provider, Bojan has always been committed to creating seamless and sustainable end-to-end solutions. As Director of Engineering and Delivery at HTEC, Bojan ensures our teams make the best use of their deep engineering expertise to consistently deliver innovative products that make a significant impact and bring lasting value to our customers.
Dino Selimbašić
Senior Director, Engineering & Delivery
Dino started his professional journey as a software engineer after obtaining a degree in computer software engineering. His analytical mind and strong team spirit earned him respect among teammates and the leadership in different software companies, where he accumulated knowledge ranging from engineering and leading teams to solution architecture work. Most recently, Dino served as a CTO of Mistral, assuming the role of Senior Director of Engineering and Delivery after Mistral’s acquisition by HTEC Group. These various roles enabled Dino to get an incredibly comprehensive skill set, both from a technology and a business perspective – deep tech and product development, system architecture and design, as well as delivery and customer relations management. All of which he integrates daily to help deliver premium products and services to our customers while building trusted partnerships.
Stefan Mršić
Senior Director, Engineering & Delivery
Stefan has been fascinated by computer science from a very early age. After obtaining a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering, he successfully climbed an engineer’s route from junior to senior, driven by a constant desire to solve complex engineering challenges. Stefan soon realized that the business aspect drew him in as much as technology, and pursuing that road has led him to his current role of Senior Director of Engineering and Delivery, managing end-to-end delivery and building strong partnerships with our customers. His expertise spans numerous industries, with a special focus on Health Tech & Logistics, expanding into Automotive in the last few years.
Tom Stallings
Global VP of Business Development
Tom brings nearly three decades of managing and leading teams on national and international levels. His experience includes leading sales strategy, business development, partnerships, marketing, and hands-on recruitment and training across various roles in the technology services, software, and consulting sectors. He approaches his responsibilities with a customer-centric perspective, ensuring that all HTEC functions and teams are aligned to deliver ultimate client satisfaction and business growth.
Milena Omerašević
Head of Deal Conversion
As HTEC’s Head of Deal Conversion, Milena is responsible for co-designing and continuously improving the sales process. Her path has led her from education in comparative literature, linguistics, and translation, to technical, business, and product content creation, all the way to market research and business development. Correlation and analysis are the common denominators in everything Milena does, so she is always on the hunt for new knowledge and opportunities to drive and impact the results positively.
Mark Scrivener
UK Managing Director
Equipped with a degree in product design engineering, Mark has navigated his professional journey squarely at the nexus of innovation and technical prowess. Throughout his extensive 20-year tenure, he’s been the driving force behind memorable customer experiences, consistently applying human-centered design principles across the realms of digital product innovation, technological evolution, and strategic marketing endeavors. As the UK Managing Director for HTEC Group, Mark remains steadfast in his commitment to refining business strategies, cultivating enduring partnerships, and assembling teams finely attuned to the unique needs of each client. Amidst this, he fosters a corporate culture deeply rooted in the tangible value digital products bring to organizations of all scales.
Daniel Horton
Vice President of Engineering and Delivery
As the Vice President of Engineering and Delivery at HTEC Group, Daniel is responsible for strengthening partnerships, shaping clients’ ideas into value-driven products and services, and guiding them through their digital journey toward a smarter tomorrow. His focus is to lead and navigate through an innovative landscape, leveraging over 30 years of experience in software architecture and retail technology. Daniel is committed to blending his deep industry knowledge with HTEC’s cutting-edge methodologies to drive forward-thinking digital solutions attuned to clients’ evolving needs.
With a diverse professional background encompassing pivotal roles as a technologist, retail consultant, and business owner, Daniel has skillfully devised solutions for various enterprises. His leadership has guided transformative teams that have redefined traditional business practices through a technological lens. He has co-authored a book and authored numerous articles, and cohosts the tech podcast “Think Big and Code Small”, offering a diverse blend of expertise and perspectives.
Amila Pita
Senior Director of Client Success
With the role of Senior Director, Client Success at HTEC Group, Amila is dedicated to helping HTEC grow by focusing on the biggest strengths of her broad skill set — her talent for building and maintaining impactful relationships with clients. She plays a pivotal role in leading strategic initiatives, managing the largest accounts, and defining and implementing account and delivery management practices, while contributing to the company’s expansion and success.
Amila is an experienced IT professional who understands how businesses can up their game, achieve sustainability, and remain competitive in the age of exponential tech advancements. With a strong track record of managing large and complex projects, developing scalable systems, and helping companies accelerate their growth, Amila has developed sharp problem-solving capabilities, challenging her to stay goal-focused in a constantly shifting, agile business landscape. Her dedication to excellence has been recognized through various awards, including the Rene Descartes Entrance Award from the University of Waterloo and a Canada Scholarship for academic achievements.
Goran Savić
Director of Technology, Tech Excellence Network
In a career guided by a tireless drive to improve and refine technical approaches and a dedication to building environments that encourage continuous growth and enable talents to flourish, Goran has gained a wealth of experience in steering individuals, teams, and organizations forward. As the Director of Technology guiding HTEC’s Tech Excellence Network–internal community gathering the company’s most distinguished engineers, he is the spearhead of a wide range of activities, from defining the company’s tech standards and ensuring their consistent application on all projects, to mentoring and coaching tech leads and system architects in the making, and all the way to researching and adopting new technologies on an organizational level.
Peter McNulty
Head of User Experience at Momentum Design Lab
Peter is a proven leader, strategist, and creator with 20+ years of experience guiding product design, innovation cross-functional team leaders, and practitioners. Having worked at the forefront of human-centered design as an advocate for the customer, the customer experience, and the practice of product design, Peter experienced working through the product development process end-to-end, with particular strengths in Design across physical & digital touch points and successful collaboration in dynamic and ambiguous environments connecting business and technology organizations into the design journey. An advocate for close collaboration between design, business, and engineering, Peter is always looking to improve not only product experiences but also the culture that builds them.
Milena Bogavac
Head of PIO
With a wealth of experience in a variety of roles in product management, Milena has distinguished herself in productizing innovation and guiding clients from the initial idea all the way to the product market launch. As HTEC’s Head of Product Innovation Office, she is the primary change enabler on the client-facing side, while also holding a wide range of internal responsibilities involving processes, standards, and ensuring continuous development for all product-related roles. She serves as the bridge between product and engineering teams, enabling collaboration that creates impactful, innovative digital products.
Marko Zdravkovski
Senior Director, Engineering & Delivery
Marko’s broad expertise encompasses a wide range of business contexts. In more than two decades, he has gained valuable experience in software and product engineering, project, program, and portfolio management, as well as sales and customer relations management. His expertise spans numerous domains and industries, with a focus on High-Tech, Embedded, Semiconductor, and Automotive. As Senior Director of Engineering and Delivery at HTEC, Marko ensures our customers get exceptional user-centered products and solutions that bring lasting value, make a great impact, and enable our partners to further grow, innovate, and transform their business.
Shawn Torkelson
Vice President, Global Head of Marketing at HTEC Group
Shawn leads global marketing & external communications at HTEC Group with the aim of enhancing awareness of the HTEC brand and growing worldwide demand with enterprise clients. The marketing team’s functional responsibilities include brand strategy, marketing strategy & operations, content marketing, digital marketing, field marketing, employer branding, demand generation, visual communications, and public relations. Before joining HTEC, Shawn led marketing for KPMG in the Northeast U.S. and was responsible for creating the U.S. firm’s first national marketing launch plan for Generative AI solutions and services. Previously, he led marketing, sales, and channel development efforts at Essential (now PA Consulting), North Highland, and Stage7 Systems – a firm he co-founded. As a people leader, Shawn advocates leading as a player/coach to hire and inspire high-performing teams to focus on achieving their highest and best use in their professional lives as a means for conceptualizing and delivering creative multi-channel market-facing programs. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Shawn has served on advisory boards and has mentored the founding teams of several technology startups. He is a founding member of the Boston chapter of CMO Collaborative, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Master’s degree in International Business & Marketing from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Jazmin Cabrera
Vice President, Strategy & Client Services at Momentum Design Lab
Jazmin is a seasoned professional with vast experience and expertise in strategic product roadmapping, UX strategies, and product management and delivery. She is devoted to establishing and managing efficient collaboration among corporate, customer, and partner stakeholders to align products with market and industry demands, ensure competitive advantage, and maximize the value for the customers. She is fully committed to fostering continuous improvement of products and product management processes, with a strong focus on leveraging user experience (UX) design strategies and best practices.
Viktor Stevanović
Director of Technology, Cloud & Infrastructure
A tireless professional with more than a quarter century of experience in information technology, Viktor is a proven leader and manager with a strong background in large digital networks and systems. In his role of Director of Technology, Cloud & Infrastructure, Viktor is responsible for all of HTEC’s digital infrastructure as well as the infrastructure services we provide for our clients, making sure that our solutions are safe, reliable, efficient, and ahead of the curve with new and emerging technologies and industry practices. Furthermore, he defines the standards, guidelines, and practices for HTEC’s internal and external system administration, SecOps, DevOps, and Cloud operations and ensures their consistent implementation on an organization-wide level.
Vlad Panut
Senior Director, Engineering & Delivery
A versatile technology professional with a broad career path, Vlad has excelled in a wide range of technical, leadership, and client management roles. His career has been defined by a persistent desire to grow, embrace new opportunities, and exceed expectations. Starting out as a developer, he has amassed industry-spanning experience as a leader of teams and units, project and product manager, and an executive with a variety of roles and responsibilities on the client relationship and business development side. His comprehensive background informs a rich perspective that helps businesses move forward.
Denis Lacasse
COO at Momentum Design Lab
As the Chief Operating Officer at Momentum Design Lab, Denis oversees the global operations of a design agency that serves clients across various industries, devices, and platforms. With over 25 years of software design, product management, business development and operations experience, Denis is a seasoned leader combining product vision, design thinking, and technology knowledge to deliver impactful product-led experiences. He also drives business with strategic involvement in business development for our customers and Federal contracting. Denis holds an MBA from HEC Montreal, a top 30 program in the world.