People & Story Behind EASL
Our Mission
We aim to raise the capacity of our employees, clients, and partners through a high degree of integrity, transparency, and speed.
What does that mean? We aim to create a company culture that ensures our clients, employees, and partners are prosperous in their daily work. We believe in "empower others and do no harm." Doing well by each day, improving every day.
We commit to getting it right, no matter what it takes. We believe in being upfront, transparent, and forthright about whatever needs to be overcome. We don't shy away from obstacles in the road - we see them as opportunities to achieve incremental lift or discover new edges of what is truly possible.
We aim to make the difficult task of "getting your data right" easier and fully transparent. We've built a technology platform on which businesses could be built. It all starts with data movement and the foundational layer of data infrastructure that enables your success.
John Derham
Founder & CEO
John has long been an architect of innovative technology stacks throughout his career. His products are state-of-the-art layers of integrated AI and proprietary contextualizing software, and the platforms have utility for measurement in industries including media, financial services, e-commerce, and various other B2C and B2B applications. He is a pioneer in building and leading diverse data analytics teams and strategies. He also has an uncanny ability to effectively communicate between technology and executive layers to advance innovative strategies and solve real-world problems. Derham has many noted successes in marketing, product, risk management, and other operational disciplines. John has a Bachelor of Science from the Villanova School of Business with a concentration in Financial analytics.
Lakshmi Venkataswamy
Founder & CTO
Lakshmi Venkataswamy is a seasoned CTO who has 30+ years in the art and practice of IT in various business verticals. He has led IT organizations in the roles of CTO and CIO in banking financial services and the broadcast media & data industries. He has also been involved in successful startups both internationally and domestically. His passion is to provide technology solutions that provide scale and performance in a cost-effective manner. His abilities to advance forward technologies into stable production environments have placed Lakshmi among the most coveted engineering minds. Lakshmi earned a Bachelor of Engineering Electronics & Communications Engineering B.E. (Hons) ECE at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, and an MBA in Finance from Drexel University.
Davis Rosborough
Founder
Davis Rosborough has played the roles of M&A advisor, investor, entrepreneur, and operator. Most recently with Amobee, a cross-platform data & advertising technology company, operating as a counterpart to its parent, Singapore Telecommunications Strategic Portfolios Group. Prior, Davis spent nearly a decade in investment banking and venture capital, with boutique merchant banking firm Progress Partners, advising growth-stage M&A transactions in tech, data, and media verticals, for clients in NA, UK/EU, MENA, and APAC. Davis also co-founded IndustryMaps, a SaaS platform to track transaction activity within different sectors of the TMT space. Davis earned his B.A. with honors, in International Relations (MENA Concentration), with minors in Arabic and Economics at Bucknell University, having also invested valuable time in Egypt and Jordan, teaching English, and studying at the American University in Cairo (Political Economics).
Judi Stillman
Head of FP&A
Judi has over thirty years of experience in accounting, finance, and administration, specifically in SEC financial reporting and internal operations. She began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers and has worked as a senior finance executive in both small and medium-sized private and public multi-national corporations in several industries including e-commerce, real estate investment trusts, and financial and technology services. She is a board member of the Body Empowerment Project, a nonprofit that addresses eating disorders among high school students in the Philadelphia School District. Judi has a master’s in accounting and business administration from Northeastern University.
Jeff Denton
COO
Jeff is an experienced operator who has held several senior roles and advisory and board positions in mostly start-up, venture capital or private equity funded ventures. Jeff has at various times been the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and or General Counsel of companies in the fintech, martech, and IT industries. He has participated in or led several successful fundraising efforts and exits. Most recently Jeff was the Founder, CFO and GC for First Equity Management, which sold to Vervent in March of 2022. Jeff brings experience to the team in all of the administrative functions, such as legal, HR, accounting, finance, audit, tax, and investor relations. Jeff has undergraduate degrees in Finance and Economics from LaSalle University and an MBA and Law Degree from Widener University.
Nate Weiss
Head of Sales
Nate is a results-driven sales leader with over 20 years experience selling technology services and solutions to large US based enterprises. He has embraced the “voice of the customer” and is passionate about delivering business value and successful outcomes. In his prior role, as a member of the leadership team, Nate built and lead a sales organization for one of the premier Identity and Access Management system integrators in North America. He grew the team from six to over twenty sales professionals, and while scaling direct and channel sales from $22m to over $65m. During that time, he was responsible for leading the Go To Market strategy, launching a cornerstone Managed Services offering, and building and maintaining key customer relationships as an executive sponsor while driving revenue via direct sales. Nate brings the experience of building a professional sales organization focused on solving business problems through technology solutions. Nate has an undergraduate degree in Public Relations from York College of PA.
Founding Team
Our Story
The founders met in 2016 to collaborate on the sale of John and Lakshmi's prior digital TV monitoring infrastructure and analytics company which captured and made searchable 75 million hours of linear programming and ad content. Davis was an integral part of the deal team that led to a successful exit to a private equity firm: in the process that took the better part of three years, a bond was forged alongside a common philosophy about how to build a strong, sustainable technology company that prioritizes professional growth for its employees and customers.
A couple of years later, after proving the initial product-market fit for the EASL Platform, we declared the founding moment for EASL Tech – a new data infrastructure company founded on the simplicity of form and undeniable function: to uphold the works of our trusted clients and customers.
The painter's easel serves a purpose: it carries a burden, its stability is constant - and establishes a steadfastness that, in turn, allows the user to reach a creative maximum.
We believe with the right efforts applied and measured, amidst a free contest of thinking, built upon an open workspace actively fostered on the idea that there's always terrain to grow just beyond mistakes – a distinct and diverse collective of people assemble, with a brush in hand.
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