The World’s Most Innovative Companies Choose Tipalti

Chen Amit

Co-founder and CEO

Chen is a veteran high tech executive and repeat entrepreneur. Prior to Tipalti, Chen was CEO of Atrica, a Carrier Ethernet company that Nokia-Siemens acquired. Before Atrica, Chen was co-founder and CEO of Verix, a provider of business intelligence software. At ECI Telecom, Chen founded their ADSL business unit and led it from inception to $100 million in annual sales. He earned a BSc from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from INSEAD.

Rob Israch

President

Rob Israch is the President of Tipalti, helping to set the business, customer and growth strategy for the company. He previously led global marketing, alliances and the company’s Europe business, bringing over 20 years of leadership experience to the company. During Rob’s tenure, Tipalti has experienced 50X+ growth while helping the company receive a valuation of over $8.3 billion and becoming one of the select few companies in America to have made both the Deloitte Fast 500 and Inc 5000 lists for the last five years running. Prior to Tipalti, Rob served as VP, Global Marketing Programs at NetSuite, the leading provider of cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, helping to guide the company through 10X+ revenue growth, from a private company through IPO, to cloud ERP market leader. Previously, Rob held a variety of executive roles at Intuit QuickBooks and GE Capital.

Sarah Dickens Spoja

Chief Finance Officer

Sarah joined Tipalti in 2018 as CFO. In this role, she is responsible for global finance, global accounting and the legal organization at Tipalti in addition to related areas like fundraising, investor relations, and our financial infrastructure to scale globally. Prior to Tipalti, Sarah was a director at KKR Capstone, the portfolio operations arm of the Private Equity firm KKR, where she was a director at the firm and worked with portfolio companies in the Financial Services, technology and Retail Sectors, including First Data Corporation, a global merchant processor in the B2B payments space. Prior to joining KKR, Sarah worked at Bain & Company in Boston and Sydney. She holds a B.A. from Williams College in both Mathematics and Economics and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Manish Vrishaketu

Chief Customer and Operating Officer

Manish Vrishaketu as Chief Operating Officer, brings over 18 years of extensive payments and fintech experience to the company. Vrishaketu is responsible for establishing and maintaining key banking and payment partnerships, while leading Tipalti’s global customer success, client onboarding, payment operations and support organizations. Most recently, Vrishaketu served as President of Americas at GoSwiff, a leader in mobile payments in emerging markets and prior to that, he was VP of Business Development and Product Strategy at Fiserv (Nasdaq: FISV) leading new market expansion initiatives in business to consumer (B2C) disbursements, bill payment and other electronic payment categories. Before Fiserv, Vrishaketu served as General Manager of CashEdge, a consumer and business payments technology provider to banks, where he introduced leading consumer applications to money movement and risk management and led their India division. During his tenure, the company grew its revenue tenfold, processing over $50B in payment volume annually, before it was acquired by Fiserv.

Sam Barakat

Chief Revenue Officer

Sam is a results-oriented executive and thought leader with over 18 years of successful sales and management experience in the financial and enterprise SaaS technology solutions space. Prior to Tipalti, Sam was Vice President at Blackline (a leader in financial close software) where he built and grew the mid-market business from the ground up. There he also scaled it in just over four years to become the fastest-growing sector within the organization representing 50% of BlackLine’s customer base. At Blackline, Sam was part of the executive team that grew the business from $50M revenue to an eventual IPO in 2016 with a $3B valuation. Prior to that, Sam was the GM and Vice President of sales at Infor a leader in ERP and Cloud Software products. Sam holds an MBA from Simon Fraser University and a BS from Concordia University.

Roby Baruch

Chief Product Officer

Roby is a serial entrepreneur with vast experience in the field of products and the internet industry. Prior to Tipalti, Roby was the VP Product of Snoox.com (a BBDO company), a social recommendations engine. Before Snoox, Roby was co-founder and VP Product of Cent2Cent, a content ecommerce platform who was later acquired by Unicell. Before founding Snoox, Roby worked at 888.com where he planned and designed their payment processing system, building a system that processed over $500M transactions annually. Roby served as an Officer at the prestigious IDF technological unit “Mamram”, where he fulfilled several leading positions. Roby holds a BA from the College of Management of Academic Studies.

Dror Yosef

Chief Data Officer

Dror is a highly skilled data expert with over two decades of experience across all areas of data, from architecture to analytics. A veteran Chief Data Officer, Dror has previously held the position at various organizations including Start.io (formerly StartApp), myThings and Fundbox, where he also served as the GM of Israel and CTO. Throughout his career, Dror has excelled at turning raw data into actionable insights and has played an essential role in aligning data strategies with business objectives to drive innovation and growth. Dror sits on the Advisory Board of Lama AI, an AI-powered lending exchange, helping businesses become data-driven and optimize their business strategies. He graduated summa cum laude from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he holds dual Master’s degrees in Business Administration and Management and Statistics.

Alice Davidson

General Counsel

Alice is a Securities/M&A lawyer by trade with over 15 years of experience, including deep fintech, paytech and crypto expertise. Before Tipalti, Alice was the Chief Legal Officer at Mogo Inc. (a leading Canadian fintech), where she provided counsel for Mogo’s strategic initiatives, including acquisitions, investments, financings and partnerships, and led government relations. Over seven years, Alice led Mogo from a legal, regulatory and compliance perspective in launching all its products, expanding across Canada and listing on the TSX and NASDAQ. Prior to Mogo, she was an associate at Stikeman Elliott LLP, focused on public M&A, corporate finance and corporate governance. Alice holds a BBA from the Schulich School of Business and received her J.D. from the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.

Perla Stoeckert

Chief Compliance Officer

Perla re-joined Tipalti in March 2023 as the Chief Compliance Officer. She has more than 15 years experience in financial services, including firms engaged in foreign exchange, online payments, funds transfers, and deposit operations. Prior to Tipalti, Perla served in executive global roles in risk and compliance at OFX, FXCM, and Commonwealth Foreign Exchange (MoneyCorp). She has managed risk and compliance operations in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, U.K., and U.S. Perla received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Minor in International Relations from the Georgia Institute of Technology and has earned Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business LEAD Certificate on Corporate Innovation.

Des Cahill

Chief Marketing Officer

Des is a seasoned executive-level marketing professional with extensive expertise in helping B2B SaaS companies scale by driving growth and innovation. Beginning his technology career at Apple, Des was a marketing leader for nine years, driving strategy for multiple product lines and initiatives. Following Apple, Des jumped into the world of SaaS cloud in Silicon Valley, holding senior marketing leadership roles at Autonomy, eFax.com and AOL/Netscape before taking on CMO roles at BridgeSpan, Ensighten and Kerio Technologies. Des was also the Founder and CEO of Habeas (acquired by Return Path), an email reputation and identity manager. Most recently, Des spent six years at Oracle as Group Vice President, Global Product Marketing for its Customer Experience Cloud business. There, he built Oracle’s global marketing function and led product strategy and messaging. Des holds an MBA from Apple University/ San Jose State University and a BS in economics from Union College.

Ori Pearl

Chief Technology Officer

A developer through and through, Ori has been coding since age nine. Prior to Tipalti, he was with the Israel Defense Forces for nearly six years. He began as a software engineer, was promoted to Technical Lead, and eventually became the Head of R&D as an engineering group manager. He joined Tipalti in 2013 as a software developer and has since emerged with increasing responsibilities as team lead, Director of R&D, Vice President of Engineering, and now Senior Vice President of Engineering reporting to the CEO. Ori holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Steve Hunt

Chief People Officer

Steve Hunt has over 25 years of diverse technology industry and people leadership experience across the UK, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. As the Chief People Officer at Tipalti, Steve is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic people initiatives in support of the overall business plan and direction of the organization. Steve joined Tipalti from Citi, where he led the insourcing, design, and rollout of a new Talent Acquisition & People Insights operating model, and built a team of over 300 employees serving the 56 countries in its EMEA region. Before Citi, Steve worked at Coupang and was responsible for executing the transformation of its global recruiting organization located in Beijing, Mountain View, Seattle, Seoul and Shanghai. Steve has also held senior positions on the people leadership teams at Qatar Airways and Thales Group. Earlier in his career, Steve spent over a decade as a fintech headhunter, partnering with public and private software companies to build out their global leadership teams.

Dan Barzily

Chief Strategy Officer

Dan joined Tipalti in 2021, bringing over a decade of experience in strategic planning and business development. Prior to Tipalti, Dan held two roles during his career at American Express focusing on business development and partnerships and enterprise strategy. As the Head of International Business Development, Consumer Partnerships, Dan spearheaded long-term strategic partnerships to maximize partner-funded value, strengthening AmEx’s value proposition to its premium card holders. In his enterprise strategy role, Dan worked with executive leadership as part of the Strategic Planning Group on various initiatives including M&A, market-entry and new product development. Before American Express, Dan led operational excellence projects for Fortune 500 companies around the globe at Tefen Management Consulting. Dan holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Oren Zeev

Co-Founder & Chairman

Oren is the Founding Partner of Zeev Ventures where he is the only partner and sole employee. Oren is the main early backer of a large number of companies who created or reinvented new categories in the b2c, b2b and fintech spaces. Oren currently serves on the boards of Tipalti, TripActions, Houzz, Next Insurance, Marble, FireBolt, Domestika, Sunbit, Homelight, among others. Past investments include Audible (acquired by Amazon) and Chegg (public). Prior to Zeev Ventures Oren was a senior partner at Apax Partners. Oren holds a BSc Cum Laude from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD in France.

Dovi Frances

Investor

Dovi Frances is a financial services entrepreneur and the founding partner of Group 11 (f.k.a. SGVC), a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California. Over the course of his career, Dovi has invested over $500 million in some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent and disruptive financial technology companies, including TripActions, Next Insurance, Papaya Global, Addepar, Tipalti, Homelight, Sunbit, EquityBee, and Lili to name a few.

Prior to launching Group 11 in 2012, Frances worked for nearly a decade in the financial services industry; having managed an independent financial advisory firm, as well as having served as Vice President at Deutsche Bank AG Private Bank (NYSE: DB).

Frances currently serves on the Board of Tipalti, Homelight, Papaya Global, Sunbit, EquityBee, Lili, Venn, Masterschool, Sorbet, SMBX, Insurights, and Fintastic. He is also an Advisor to TripActions and Addepar, a member of the Advisory Council of Leumi Bank U.S., and serves on the Steering Committee of the Israel Collaboration Network (ICON).

Frances earned an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Business and a BA in Management and Psychology from Ben-Gurion University.

Carl Pascarella

Advisor

Carl Pascarella is currently affiliated with TPG Capital as an Executive Advisor. Prior to that, he was President & Chief Executive Officer of Visa U.S.A. Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of Visa International. Before assuming that position, he was President & CEO of Visa Asia Pacific Limited and Director of the Board. Prior to joining Visa, Mr. Pascarella was Vice President, International Division at Crocker National Bank and Vice President, Metropolitan Banking at Bankers Trust Company. His experience also included retail banking, commercial banking, corporate banking, credit review and policy, and DeNovo banking. Mr. Pascarella was also head of the California International Banking and Trade Finance organization for Crocker National Bank. Carl Pascarella received a Master of Science in Management from Stanford Sloan Program at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Buffalo. Carl has been affiliated with the arts for over two decades and is currently Chairman of the San Francisco Ballet, Vice Chairman for the Fine Arts Museums and a life-time governor of the San Francisco Symphony.