Leadership
Our Principals
Preetham Peter
Managing Principal
Our Advisory Board
With significant experience in financial services, healthcare, and retail, Preetham helps clients solve their most pressing business challenges and capitalize on their most significant opportunities. He believes in putting clients first as people, and accepts nothing less than the very best in value delivered. He accomplishes this by facilitating discussions with the right stakeholders to truly understand the problems people face to deliver solutions that work. An advisor on many IT performance improvement areas, the depth and breadth of his subject-matter expertise allows him to come up with alternative solutions to complex business issues.
Glenn Fishler
President, Axelero
Glenn is Board Director/Advisor for three private companies, and also President of Axelero LLC, advisors to CEOs of mid-sized companies on "all things CEO". He has over 35 years of experience as a business leader, including 25 years as President and CEO of EORM, a leading EHS consulting firm that he co-founded, sold to UK-based BSI Group in 2015, then led an aggressive buy/build strategy that resulted in a business of over 300 employees generating revenue of $65m/year. His areas of expertise include M&A, strategy, sales and marketing, operations, and leadership team development.
Justin Suissa
Principal
Justin is a passionate, high-energy IT professional with extensive experience solving business and technical problems while driving value. A proven leader, he combines deep consulting experience with business acumen to accomplish client objectives — on time and on budget. A subject-matter specialist, Justin helps organizations address risk, security, privacy, and compliance needs while focusing on key industry and business challenges. From scoping and assessment to remediation and building sustainable monitoring programs, he enjoys delivering large compliance initiatives. Justin regularly leads and manages teams of security and compliance professionals, providing professional services in complex technical environments.
Dwayne Melancon
CTO, Tripwire
Dwayne is a leader in the application of research and quantitative analysis in information risk and security. He focuses on developing and utilizing methods to help modern organizations succeed in the information economy. Dwayne’s approaches are practical and business-focused which help alleviate constraints that prevent typical operating models to evolve.
Our Leadership Team
Michel Gelobter
Director
Michel is an experienced leader with extensive knowledge building new institutions, and driving social and technical innovation in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. Prior to joining infoedge, Michel co-founded the fastest-growing platform for building energy data and a company to connect every purchase to a solution for global warming. In government, he managed billion dollar capital budgets and founded a number of environmental justice, water, and oceans organizations. Michel led successful efforts to pass aggressive, revenue-generating climate legislation in California and the Northeastern United States. He founded the environmental policy program at Columbia University and the energy and environment track at Singularity University.
Karolina Chachulska
Director
With over 10 years of professional experience working in financial auditing and at high-profile management consulting groups, Karolina is the best at what she does. She is passionate about helping her clients’ drive growth through customer engagement strategies. Karolina holds a MBA from Hult International Business School and a Master’s of Science in Economics, Finance and Banking. As a member of UK- based accounting and managerial finance body, ACCA, she uses the business case approach to link her recommended analytical strategies to realized outcomes for her clients. In her spare time, Karolina enjoys reading about autonomous vehicles and the concept of new mobility. She plans to visit every state in the U.S.A. and continue her globetrotting adventures.
Joe Knape
Director
Joe has 20+ years of experience in information technology and consulting, from software development and security engineering to executive suite. Recognizing that change is hard, Joe’s passion is improving his clients’ condition - with uncovering what changes create the biggest impact, and partnering as an experienced mentor to guide them through implementing those changes. Joe previously worked as VP of Engineering in the payments industry, developing “pay at the table” technology for restaurants. Now he helps clients do more with less by driving out waste and increasing efficiency with their IT investments. He specializes in Agile, DevOps, Lean IT and beyond. His goal is for his clients to turn their technology programs into force multipliers - not cost centers. Thanks to his experience, he is a master at nurturing relationships with clients.
Robert Miller
Senior Consultant
With 30+ years of experience in systems engineering and architecture focusing on security and systems management, Robert is a recognized expert in the industry. His clients enjoy his expertise in translating their business objectives into real-life plans tackling identity, IT systems and security management. Thanks to his experience, his clients now adapt to a rapidly evolving business environment armed with their new agile architecture skills. Prior to joining infoedge, Robert worked at one of the world’s largest IT outsourcing firms as the enterprise architect for security services. Robert has a bachelor’s degree from Angelo State University.
Kunal Nagpal
Senior Consultant
With over a decade of working in the technology field, Kunal has extensive experience developing technology strategy and executing projects in diversified areas such as payment systems, solar energy and electronics manufacturing. Kunal holds an MBA from University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. Brainstorming effective solutions to solve his clients’ problems through unique and innovative digital applications is his favorite part of his job. Prior to joining infoedge, Kunal served as a program manager for a developing-world solar lighting project, and worked on renewable energy, environment, and sustainable development fields at a premier research institute.