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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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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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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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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