Dr. Tianyi (TJ) Jiang

Dr. Tianyi Jiang (TJ) co-founded AvePoint in 2001 and has served as the organization's Chief Executive Officer since 2005. Today, TJ is responsible for overall strategy and direction of AvePoint which includes product innovation, investor relations and business development. He is focused on delivering value to customers, partners, shareholders and to the AvePoint team, every day. 

A recipient of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award in New Jersey in 2010, TJ received both B.S. and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, and a Master of Philosophy and PhD in Data Mining from Department of Information Systems, Operations Management, and Statistics, Stern School of Business, New York University. 

Jason Beal

Jason Beal is the Senior Vice President of Global Channels & Partner Ecosystem for AvePoint where he is growing the business through multiple indirect routes to market. Today, Jason is committed to building relationships with managed service providers (MSPs), solution providers, and systems integrators, as well as expanding AvePoint’s global distribution networks and cloud market presence.

Sam Valme

Sam Valme is AvePoint's Director of Global Partner Experience. He has spent over ten years in the enterprise collaboration technology space. His experience began on the pre-sales engineering side and since traversed professional services and channel sales management with AvePoint. Now he is responsible for the development of business via the channel for AvePoint by managing their global program.

Christian Buckley

Christian is the Microsoft Go-To-Market Director at AvePoint, and both a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

An award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, Christian's almost 30-year tech career has included Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Evangelist for several leading SharePoint ISVs, and he was part of the Microsoft team that launched the hosted SharePoint platform in Office 365.

He has worked with some of the world’s largest technology companies to build and deploy social, collaboration, and supply chain solutions, and sold his first software startup to Rational Software in 2001.

Co-author of books on both SharePoint and software configuration management (SCM), Christian is one of the most widely published names within the Microsoft ecosystem, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com

Tarsila Rico

A seasoned Sales, Marketing, and Project Management Professional with 15 years of successful experience in managing and driving growth within the Software & Technology industry. Proven acumen to identify, build, and execute Sales and Marketing strategies while developing high-value partnerships. An effective team player leading multi-national and cross-functional teams to over-achieve set objectives. Adept in change management, process improvement, policy alignment to leverage people, processes, and policies over the long-term