Meet the leaders shaping the future of ecommerce

Guru Hariharan

Chief Executive Officer

Guru is a seasoned Technology and Business leader with over 15 years of experience in the ecommerce industry. Before founding the company in 2012, Guru spent five-plus years at Amazon building out automated vendor management and supply chain. He also became the AI-based selling coach for 3P sellers. Guru also held the role of General Manager of the Marketplace Experience at eBay, where he led the global launch of eBay’s “Fast N’ Free” shipping and the Global Returns programs. Guru has a Masters with a focus on Machine Learning from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Jaya Jaware

Chief Financial Officer

As the CFO at CommerceIQ, Jaya is committed to aligning people, products, and profits to create value for our shareholders. Jaya’s 20 years of experience in leading technology companies have provided her the opportunity to effectively build a world-class G&A function that aligns with corporate strategy. Prior to joining CommerceIQ, Jaya served as CFO at Appify. Prior to that role, she was VP of Finance at Unravel Data and ServiceMax (Acquired by GE Digital). Jaya has also served in various finance and accounting roles at Stratify, Clearwell Systems, Spire Systems, and Ernst & Young. Jaya is certified as a chartered accountant in India and a CPA in California (Inactive).

Frank Iannotti

Chief Revenue Officer

In his role as Chief Revenue Officer, Frank is responsible for strategy and operations to drive overall revenue growth for CommerceIQ.  Frank has more than 25 years of progressive management experience in the technology sector. Before joining CommerceIQ, Frank excelled in executive roles with enterprise software software leaders like FourKites, Procore Technologies, NetSuite, Salesforce, SAP, and  PeopleSoft.  Frank is a leader and entrepreneur with proven success in building, leading and driving high performance sales teams and partner channels. Frank is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, and holds a B.S. degree in Management Science.

John Maltman

Chief Customer Officer

Heather Sullivan

Chief People Officer

Heather is an experienced leader who balances big company discipline with start-up innovation and agility, Heather brings more than 20 years of experience to rapidly expanding companies domestically and across the globe. As a People leader, Heather develops and executes People and Talent strategies, implements tactics to encourage growth and coaches executives on effective leadership. Prior to CommerceIQ, Heather worked for several large multinational corporations, including Samsung, Comcast and Discovery Communications, and has also led the People function at some of the most innovative startups including Discord and Udacity. Heather holds a BA from University of Michigan and her MBA from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business

Balaji T Kuppuswamy

SVP, Global Customer Success & Chief Of Staff

Over his 17+ years of experience, Balaji has held important positions in analytics, data science, and engineering. Balaji formerly worked for YouTube Business as the Director and Head of Analytics, Data Science & Engineering, reporting to the CFO of YouTube. Prior to that, he was the Senior Director of Data, Analytics & ML products at Lowes. This is Balaji’s second stint at CommerceIQ. Balaji has also worked as a Consultant at McKinsey & Co, where he helped CXOs of Fortune 100 companies. He holds a BS from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT M), and an MBA from the Chicago Booth School of Business.

Nirjar Sanghavi

SVP, Marketing

Prasun Kumar

SVP, Engineering and Head of India Ops

Prasun brings 15+ years of experience in the software industry, building, scaling and launching new SaaS products to market. At CommerceIQ, Prasun heads Engineering and the India center. Prior to CommerceIQ, Prasun architected Capillary’s award winning CRM and analytics engine and scaled it across 6 geographies.At FICO, Prasun built the core algorithms for strategy optimization & segmented scorecard and holds 10 patents for the innovation he drove through the years. Prasun has a B.Tech in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and Bachelor of Economics from London School of Economics.

Christian Hassold

VP, Corporate Development

Christian has fifteen years experience in the ecommerce ecosystem, founding and successfully exiting 3 companies in both private and public transactions. His last company, HubLogix, was purchased by ChannelAdvisor in 2017 At ChannelAdvisor he led corporate development for more than 2 years. Following that, he launched the European go-to-market for Salsify where he was a principal to the May ’21 acquisition of Alkemics. At CommerceIQ, Christian leads the corporate and business development function, focusing on both inorganic and indirect revenue driven growth. Since joining the team he has led the acquisition of both E.Fundamentals in July ’22 and the purchase of assets of Ideoclick in October ’22. Christian resides outside of Boston, Massachusetts and holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

Suryadeep Agrawal

VP, Product Management

Surya is an experienced product executive with 10+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise SaaS products at companies like Adobe. He also had leadership stints at multiple venture backed startups in product and marketing roles one of which got acquired by Amazon. At CommerceIQ, Surya leads product management for the Sales and Operations platform. He has a B.E. in Computer Engineering from the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta

Himanshu Jain

VP, Product Management

Himanshu is an experienced business leader with 12+ years of experience across product management, customer success, business development, statistical modeling, building enterprise software and services. Himanshu leads product management for the CommerceIQ Advertising platform. Prior to CommerceIQ, Himanshu advised fortune 100 companies at Kearney and started his career building machine learning models at Capital One. He has a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and an MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

Doug Bleszinski

VP, Sales

Doug Bleszinski has over 20 years of experience in building and developing high-performance teams in innovative and high growth software, SaaS and open-source organizations. Doug has held a variety of executive roles at Salesforce, Salsify, Elastic and Ionic Security. At Salsify, Doug led the global team in helping the largest named brands and retailers to transform their digital product experience for modern digital commerce. Prior to that, he led the East for Elastic to help users with the hard challenge of managing, securing and extracting value from their data. Doug has his Business Administration degree from the University of Richmond and his MBA from Pace University.

Varun Srivastava

VP, Engineering Omnichannel Product

A technology leader, Srivastava is armed with over 15 years of experience having worked with Uber, Walmart Labs and Yahoo previously. In his last role at Uber, he served as the head of business platform where he led the engineering teams for Uber for business vertical. He has worked within diverse domains including ecommerce, ride sharing & delivery, media platforms and network algorithms. Varun holds a master’s degree in computer science from The University of Texas, Austin.