Leadership

Thor Johnson leads inRiver as CEO and as a member of inRiver’s Board of Directors.

A SaaS industry forerunner and expert, Thor led Bedrock Data in Boston, a .406 Ventures-backed data integration company and marketed Intralinks (NYSE: IL, since acquired) as CMO. Thor pioneered modern B2B marketing and demand generation at Eloqua Corporation, which is now part of Oracle (NYSE: ORCL).

Thor has a degree in Computer Science from Brown University and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Johan started his career at Deloitte doing public accounting. He continued with this at EY, working with several public listed companies. Passionate about high growth companies, Johan joined Qlik in 2005, a business intelligence software company with approx. 100 employees. Seven years later the company had gone public at Nasdaq in NY with more than 1.200 employees. From 2012 to 2017 Johan served as CFO at Apsis, a SaaS company offering Marketing automation.

Johan holds a Master in Finance and International Accounting from Karlstad University. Prior to joining inRiver he had several different finance positions within the IT-sector in Sweden and in the US. He has more than 10 years of experience within the software sector and approximately two decades of finance experience.

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Jimmy has been in the IT & Telco industry since 1996, working with Telco operators, System Integrators, SaaS vendors, and IT outsourcing in different sales and management roles. He was Sales Manager within TeliaSonera prior to joining inRiver in 2014.

Jimmy is responsible for Global Sales.

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Steve Gershik leads the talented marketing team at inRiver. As a 20-year veteran of B2B marketing, Steve has worked with many growth-stage technology companies around the world.

Prior to joining inRiver, Steve ran his own marketing consulting firm, Koyne Marketing, was the co-founder and CMO of DemandCon, the demand generation conference, and lead marketing teams for Eloqua, now part of Oracle, and Sirius Decisions. He actively mentors young marketers interested in demand generation and customer marketing.

When not working, Steve can be found hiking in Yosemite, practicing his mixology skills, or speaking at events around the world like Campus Party, Brazil, Dreamforce, BMA, AMA, and DMA.

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Eric Waller is inRiver’s CTO and head of product development, bringing three decades of experience in software engineering, software architecture, and information technology strategy for business applications and data center operations to this leadership role. Eric was previously at Pansophic Learning, where he drove technology strategy and operations worldwide for both online and traditional schools that spanned early learning through higher education. Over the course of a thirty-year career, Waller has held a number of technology leadership positions, including CTO and head of product and software development at K12, Fannie Mae, and OneSoft.

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Anna leads inRiver’s People team as Vice President, whose aim is to foster high-performance teams with strong engagement and develop the culture of an industry-leading organization.

Anna has many years of experience working with People & Culture. She has a passion for developing people and leaders and nurturing engagement to make us winners.

Anna comes from Qliktech, where she developed the company culture and talent with strategic responsibility for her clients. She worked for more than 10 years as HR Manager at Anoto where she was responsible for the global organization—driving organizational change, attracting and retaining the right employees, and building the company’s culture and values.

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Johan Boström is a senior business leader with over 20 years of experience leading international technology companies and is one of the founders of inRiver. Before founding inRiver, Johan held leading positions at DDMM, Sema Group Consulting, and UDK. He has worked with PIM, e-commerce and content management since the mid-1990s in both EMEA and North America.

Johan studied data communication, system development, and philosophy at the University of Umeå.

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Johan is one of the founding members of inRiver. Prior to inRiver, he held leading positions as Project Manager, Senior Advisor, and Account Manager at Intentia Consulting. Johan holds a degree in Industrial Economics from the University of Linköping.

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As the head over EMEA Services, Maria Bolmstedt is leading inRiver’s Global Support Team and EMEA Customer Success Strategy. Bringing with her over 30 years of experience helping to make customers successful, with over 20 years in the software industry, she is looking for new ways to enhance inRiver’s customers’ experiences and service offerings.

Before joining the inRiver family, Maria drove the execution of support strategies focusing on business management aimed at improving customer experiences in a cost efficient and data-driven manor for organizations such as Qlik and Consafe Logistics.

Maria is passionate about people, data, numbers, technologies, improvements, but most of all, she holds the highest level of importance to the value she adds to her customers’ experience.

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Brad Johnson is the Director of the Americas for the Expert Services team. He has been in the software space since 1997, leading teams in various verticals, including eLearning, digital advertising, e-commerce, content syndication, and product information management (PIM). Brad co-founded two start-ups and also served as Managing Director for a division of First Student (LSE: FGP).  He spent the last five years deploying and supporting SaaS products in the e-commerce industry.

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