EXECUTIVE TEAM
VIJAY SIKKA
Founder and CEO
Vijay Sikka is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sikka Software Corporation. He has worked in Artificial Intelligence and decision systems beginning with his Masters in Syracuse and Ph.D work at Stanford (incomplete) and added more than 25 years of experience with large scale projects at Intel Corporation, Sikka Software, National Institutes of Health, Glaxo Smith Kline, Roche and UCSF affiliates. In 1996, Vijay founded IBrain Software, Inc. that used to compete with Informatica and Cognos and served as its CEO until its acquisition in 1998 by Entigen Corporation, a healthcare information company that later became part of Roche. Vijay holds an M.S. degree from Syracuse University New York, pursued graduate studies in neurosciences at Stanford University, and is a Registered Continuing Education Provider in California. He is a frequent speaker at big data, AI, healthcare, technology and quality meetings. Vijay’s book on Maximizing ROI on Software Development was published by Taylor and Francis International and is available on Amazon Kindle edition.
JASPRIT SANDHU
Vice President, Finance
Jasprit has over 20 years of experience building global teams, leading capital raising, driving growth and finance operations from inception through IPO, as well as leading financial and strategic exits. Prior to joining Sikka, Jasprit served as VP of Finance at Emergent Technology Holdings, an international block-chain FinTech focused on payments from emerging countries using a proprietary gold backed digital token, where he was responsible for building up the international finance and tax organization. Jasprit was a VP of Finance at Redbubble Inc., a global online art / consumer products marketplace, where he led the team from inception through an IPO. Prior to Redbubble, Jasprit served in various financial leadership roles in the Silicon Valley. He is a California CPA, who began in career at Ernst and Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Jasprit graduated from the Haas School of Business from the University of California at Berkeley.
RORY BYRNE
General Manager Fintech
Rory has over 20 years experience in enterprise software sales, payments strategy, and business development, and leads Sikka’s FinTech business. Prior to joining Sikka, Rory was EVP of Business Development at Billtrust, where he was responsible for B2B payments strategy, strategic partnerships, and M&A. Rory brings expertise from a variety of executive and leadership roles in sales, marketing, and business development including Visa, Yahoo!, Hyperion, and Kofax. Rory is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, and qualified as a Barrister-at-Law in Ireland. He also holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, California.
LEWIS GOLDMAN
Insurance Business Consultant
Lewis Goldman has over 20 years of experience in insurance and financial services, leveraging data for disruptive innovation across a variety of products and services, and is leading Sikka Software’s Insurance business. Before working with Sikka, Lewis served as executive of LendKey Technologies, a FinTech company. Prior to LendKey, Lewis worked for several years in insurance, including as head of marketing and product for Global Life Distribution and the MetLife direct to consumer life insurance business. He brings a track record of success nurturing and scaling businesses through marketing, new products, new channels of distribution, partnerships, and cross-sell at companies where he worked including Citigroup, LinkedIn, 1800flowers.com, Amazon, New York Life, and several FinTech and InsurTech startups. Lewis currently teaches marketing at St. Johns University, and is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Business School.
DON APGAR
Director of API and Marketplace Sales
Don is a seasoned sales and business development executive with many years of leadership experience in API, platform integration in fintech and electronic transaction processing. In addition to leading solutions teams for both enterprise and SMB markets with industry leaders such as First Data, Citigroup and Bank of America, Don has also held senior management and advisory roles with several start-up ventures and regional ISOs.
RYAN LAWSON
Optimizer Business Leader
Ryan Lawson has over 20 years of management level business development, operations, value creation and customer success experience all within the healthcare sector. Prior to joining Sikka, Ryan serviced as the Director of Value Creation for a large dental industry DSO. Ryan possesses a deep understanding of how to create lasting value within the group dental space. He previously held leadership positions in both the wound care and pharmacy services space. During his free time, Ryan enjoys spending time with his wife, Nancy, and son, Noah enjoying the outdoors and participating in sports.
SALLY TAKEMOTO
Vice President of Human Resources
Sally Takemoto has worked as VP of Human Resources for Network General Corporation and Proxim, Inc. and held management positions at Vitalink Communications Corporation and NCR. She holds a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Management from Santa Clara University. She has extensive HR and Facilities management experience for companies of 1,000 employees in over 20 countries.
ROGER TELEGAN
Privacy Officer and Director of Information Technology
For over 10 years, Roger has worked as the Director of Information Technology and Privacy Officer at Sikka Software. Prior to this, he worked in a busy dental office in Central California and at AT&T in Data Network and Networking Security. Roger has strong domain and cloud infrastructure experience as well as a deep understanding of data security and HIPAA compliance.
