Changing the way
businesses do billing

James has spent the past 25 years focused on the telecommunications and IT industries. He served as Vice President of Sales for LHS Group, one of the largest implementation and support networks in the global customer care and billing marketplace with more than 300 customer sites worldwide and 18 global and regional partners. James later served as Vice President of Sales for Sema Group plc, which became the world leader in communications software and solutions after the acquisition of LHS for $4.75 billion. Sema then surpassed all global competitors in revenue, subscribers, sites and solutions. Related to B/OSS, James also served in senior management positions for CSG Systems, US Telecom Advanced Telecom Service (sold to CSG) and TechnoCom Wireless – a leader in wireless location-based services. Additionally, James also served as Vice President of Federal Programs for Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB), and served on the staff of U.S. Senate Leader Bob Dole focusing on telecommunications, IT and foreign policy. James also participates as a partner in Spectrum Five LLC, the largest holder of DBS spectrum with full U.S. coverage.

Michael Beamer is a 24-year technology and business leader with unique experience helping companies maximize the business impact of technology. He’s been instrumental in the growth and success of companies ranging from pre-revenue startups to Fortune 500 companies. Michael has extensive experience in a wide range of roles from Building and running global development teams to driving record revenue through global sales and marketing programs. Michael lead the effort to develop the IoT strategy and go to market model for one of the world’s top engineering solutions companies. In his current role as President of Gotransverse, he is helping the company emerge as the top IoT Monetization solution provider. He is leading industry discussions with other IoT execs and analysts to drive the future of IoT Monetization. The flagship product from Gotransverse, TRACT, was recently selected as IoT Solution of the Year at the CODIE awards. Michael is considered one of the top thought leaders in IoT Monetization.

Mike serves on numerous advisory councils including undergraduate and graduate level councils on IM for The University of Texas at Austin as well as the Austin InnoTech Technology Council. Mike has also established FLL Robotics in elementary education for his community.

Geoff has over 25 years of technology experience, with a 20-year focus on the billing industry. Prior to joining Gotransverse, Geoff was associate vice president for business support service product offerings at Comverse. Coleman led Product Management through the creation and market introduction of Comverse ONE. Comverse is the world’s leading provider of software and systems for converged billing, customer management, mobile Internet, and value-added services whose customer base spans more than 125 countries and covers over 450 communication service providers serving more than two billion subscribers. Prior to Comverse, Geoff led product management for RateIntegration, now Sixth Sense Media, a provider of real-time mobile marketing, loyalty, and advertising solutions.

Paul has built his career around finding cost-effective and pragmatic ways to deliver complex software solutions. His professional experience includes roles of software engineering manager, technical leader and CTO, with companies focused on multi-tenant, high-availability software as a service (SaaS) models built to enterprise standards. Before Gotransverse, he founded and was CTO and Director of Engineering at CreativeLink Technologies|SiteBlox.com, an Austin-based SaaS web content management, portal and commerce platform provider. He was the CTO of iPath Solutions, a boutique startup consulting firm focused on custom Java-based projects, which was subsequently acquired by NASDAQ-listed Perficient, where Paul worked with numerous Fortune 500 clients. Paul also worked as the Technical Director for Emerging.com, a consultancy and systems development provider, and was a Software Development Engineer/Manufacturing Engineer for Compaq. Paul holds MBA and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degrees, as well as a patent for a manufacturing-related algorithm.

Kris most recently served as a Strategic Account Executive at Workday, where he worked for 6 years. In this role, he helped some of the world’s most strategic and iconic companies leverage Workday’s cloud-based, industry-leading HR & Finance applications to drive digital transformation. Before Workday, Kris spent 9 years working for Oracle as the VP - Innovative Solutions Strategy Group and 4 years at SAP as a Strategic Account Executive. The first 14 years of his career were spent working for Ernst & Young, first in the audit practice and then as the Director of Human Resources. A collaborative leader with executive-level influencing and relationship building skills, Kris’ focus is to help Gotransverse clients leverage technology to improve optimization and growth of their businesses.

Kris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics with a concentration in Accounting from Lehigh University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant and holds an MBA from New York University. In his spare time he enjoys playing golf and paddle tennis, the beach and spending time with family and friends.

For the past 22 years, Stephan has worked around the globe managing the full life-cycle of complex billing implementations and operations – from solution architecture and customer requirements through customer support. Originally from Hamburg, Germany, Stephan comes to Gotransverse from Ericsson/LHS – one of the most influential and largest billing solutions providers in the world. There Stephan was responsible for product, business, and technical strategy development for major accounts. Stephan helped Ericsson become a global leader in next-generation billing by focusing on solutions for cutting-edge business models and contributed to Ericsson’s vision for next-generation BSS architectures. Prior to Ericsson/LHS, Stephan ran product management for the deployment of an on-demand service offering for a complete back-office solution at NextWave Wireless. In addition, Stephan’s past experience includes senior positions at EDS (now HP), Intec Telecom Systems (now CSG Systems) and Digiquant (now Volubill).

Sean joined Gotransverse in February of 2018 as Vice President of Finance and is responsible for the finance and legal functions. Prior to Gotransverse, Sean held progressive leadership roles at Upland Software, Dell Computer, and Continental Airlines. He is a senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in finance and operations management with expertise in leading complex business analysis, aligning strategy, and driving operational excellence.

Sean enjoys traveling, live music, spending time with friends and family, and being active outdoors. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona and still claims it’s only a dry heat.

With over 24 years experience in leading technology and consulting companies Mark brings a diverse background to the Gotransverse team.

Mark joins Gotransverse most recently from Cisco’s Security Services team. Leveraging his experiences there, along with his background leading product management for a threat behavior platform, Mark oversees our security team as the CISO. From his experience running a high volume hosting company in the heady days of the late 1990’s to his consulting work at Capgemini to improve operational efficiency for some of the largest hosting providers in the world, Mark brings discipline and perspective to how we create and operate our world-class elastic scaling platform. He has also led a performance consulting team dedicated to data and analytics performance, developed web applications platforms for leading ecommerce companies and managed application development for enterprise IT organizations.

In addition to his technical chops, Mark is a trained chef and bartender, is a regular speaker at cocktail conferences, founded Texas’ first Vermouth House and has a degree in Film from Antioch College.

Doug Johnson serves as Vice President of Product Management. Doug joined the Gotransverse team in 2013, where he has since played an integral role in the technical evolution of the Gotransverse platform. As the product owner, Doug is responsible for the product lifecycle from product vision and roadmap definition to feature delivery.

Doug has over 20 years of experience in product leadership for enterprise, high-volume, software-as-a-service companies in manufacturing, telecommunications and enterprise software industries. Prior to joining Gotransverse, Doug has served in various leadership positions at Silverpop (now IBM Marketing Cloud), Integrated Broadband Services (now Momentum Telecommunication), Digiquant (now Volubill) and EDS (now HP). Doug holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Central Michigan University and is an avid college football fan and amateur photographer.

Tim brings more than 30-years of end-to-end billing and customer management to Gotransverse. Tim was the Director of Sales Engineering at ACE*COMM, where he supported a global sales effort of telecommunications back-office solutions. Tim was one of the original employees of Birch Telecom, a CLEC with services in 26 states. His roles included Chief Architect and Developer of Birch’s first retail rating, mediation and billing system. Tim also led Birch’s Systems Administration and Development with expertise in data migration from legacy back-office and billing systems. Prior to Birch, Tim co-founded a software development company that specialized in billing solutions; in fact, he helped develop the client software for Qualcomm’s OmniTracs platform – a project that became part of the foundation of one of Qualcomm main product lines, which remains active today. Tim’s company also provided a turnkey billing and accounting solution to mid-range logistics companies throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Brian is a relentless advocate for the customer with 15 years of experience in Customer Success, Solution Design, Architecture, Business Analysis and Technical Design. His strong technical and business acumen, along with the ability to translate customer needs into business requirements and applicable system architecture, has allowed him to deliver solutions that not only meets the customers' current needs, but future demands of the business. Before joining the team at Gotransverse in 2015, Brian spent the first decade of his career at National Instruments leading and managing Business Analysts for critical manufacturing projects, systems and processes. Brian is a proud graduate of Texas Tech University and enjoys cheering for the Red Raiders.

Ross leads our Professional Services and Implementation teams. He has extensive eBusiness, Business Analysis, and Program Management background and is known for building innovative solutions and driving change throughout organizations for more than 15 years. Ross has been able to evaluate cutting edge digital technology, build execution plans, and deliver exceptional results based on proven implementation. He oversees and supports all our projects for new customers and leads growing internal and external departmental teams that focus on implementations. Ross ensures that our implementations are completed on time, within budget, and meet client expectations.

Before joining the team at Gotransverse in 2016, Ross spent the first decade of his career at National Instruments performing various roles like program strategy/delivery, web site leadership, IT planning and portfolio management, and operations management. Ross holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas, where he was also a NCAA championship swimmer.

Derrick is responsible for go-to-market strategy and business development through the partner channel at Gotransverse.

Prior to joining Gotransverse, Derrick was most recently with Monitor Deloitte, the Strategy consulting arm of Deloitte Consulting, LLP, where he specialized in leading teams that delivered successful Growth Strategy and Pricing and Profitability Strategy engagements within the Consumer and Industrial Products sectors. Derrick has served clients across industries including aerospace, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, food and agricultural products, automotive, industrial equipment, and even grocery retail.

For Derrick, Gotransverse is an exciting return to tech, as his career started in product management and product marketing at National Instruments, a global leader in test, measurement, and automation hardware and software.

Derrick received a Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honors in Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.