is now Work.com.
About Us
We work to make work better.
Our mission is to create delightful software that helps people advance their careers, teams achieve their goals faster, and companies retain their top performers.
A feedback-driven culture
Work.com combines social software with performance management to help managers and teams learn faster and perform better. Companies have been automating their various functions for years; we thought it was time to bring HR and performance management into the mix.
Our Work.com team has held senior roles at some of the world’s most respected technology companies. We’ve combined our experiences to create a product that capitalizes on the positive practices—and eliminates the negatives.
How do we know? Because we rely on it internally, too. We have regular 1:1 meetings. We thank people for great work. We offer constructive feedback all the time. And we always complete our quarterly performance summaries.
Work.com has helped our own team perform, appreciate, retain, and advance. We know it can do the same for yours.
Meet the Work.com team
- What I do:
- Lead the team that's delivering a new category of enterprise software, based on the social enterprise.
- What I did before:
- I've spend 25 years building enterprise software across ERP, CRM and numerous industry applications at places like Ross Systems, Oracle and SAP.
- What I do for fun:
- Hike and camp in the Sierras and spend time with my family.
- What I do:
- Lead the vision and market strategy for Work.com.
- What I did before:
- I've spent 10 years in business software, co-founding Workbrain, which was acquired by Infor and Work.com, which was acquired by salesforce.com.
- What I do for fun:
- Play music on my bass, read, and hang out with my family.
- What I do:
- Grow the business and make our customers wildly successful with Work.com.
- What I did before:
- I've spent 15 years in software building and growing companies; first as a co-founder of Workbrain (acquired by Infor), then as co-founder of Work.com, recently acquired by salesforce.com.
- What I do for fun:
- Spend time in the country with my family, play golf, watch movies and dabble in wine collecting.
- What I do:
- Define the products.
- What I did before:
- 20 years in the IT industry managing products, marketing, people, and operations. Lived and worked in Europe twice.
- What I do for fun:
- Sailing and anything involving a toolbox.
- What I do:
- Focus on increasing our market share among a base of thought-leading clients while building out a direct sales team and partner ecosystem.
- What I did before:
- I served in key executive roles at several successful technology start-ups including Workbrain and Ariba.
- What I do for fun:
- Running, playing tennis, and torturing myself on the golf course.
- What I do:
- Lead the engineering team.
- What I did before:
- I’m a veteran of both Salesforce and start-ups and want to use technology to change the way people work.
- What I do for fun:
- I enjoy raking bunkers and searching for errant tee shots on (sometimes) the golf course..
- What I do:
- Imagine how to use software to build lively interaction systems between people.
- What I did before:
- Development for startups including Aardvark and Social.IM. Personal projects including Gpokr, Kdice, and Easy Message. Authored Google Web Toolkit Applications book..
- What I do for fun:
- Spend time with my two daughters and work on farming skills.
- What I do:
- Lead Customer Success. My mission is to ensure every customer has an outstanding experience with Work.com.
- What I did before:
- I was an early contributor at Endeca, and played a number of leadership roles, including in professional services, sales engineering and marketing. I helped lead Endeca's expansion into Europe.
- What I do for fun:
- I’ve got a high-spirited thirst for knowledge of scotch whiskey. I’m an active member of the Toronto Symphony's Young Leadership Council, and enjoy playing piano. I played outfield for the Canadian Junior baseball champions and am an aspiring golfer.
- What I do:
- Design.
- What I did before:
- Studied industrial design and interaction design. Consultant at IDEO. Co-founded IMVU, a successful social entertainment startup. Joined Work.com in late 2010. Teaching, advising startups.
- What I do for fun:
- Build and ride shiny, lightweight bicycles.
- What I do:
- I build the future.
- What I did before:
- I spent most of my career building social software that is used by some of the largest organizations in order to improve business productivity and employee performance.
- What I do for fun:
- I take pictures with fancy cameras.
- What I do:
- Lead the corporate sales team, help onboard new Work.com clients.
- What I did before:
- Director Sales Operations at Varicent, Director Solutions Consulting at Workbrain.
- What I do for fun:
- I love cooking, playing hockey, and spending time with my kids.
- What I do:
- Drive our marketing efforts at Work.com
- What I did before:
- I’m an experienced product marketer and most recently was working for Salesforce’s Radian6 team.
- What I do for fun:
- Hang out with friends, ski, swim, play water polo, write French poetry
- What I do:
- Product management, bridging the gap between business and engineering.
- What I did before:
- Built web based scheduling solutions for big box stores and large enterprises.
- What I do for fun:
- Snowboarding, hacking, martial arts and long walks on the beach.
- What I do:
- Drive the market. Communicate the vision, benefits, and path to becoming a Social Enterprise.
- What I did before:
- Investigative journalist at Fortune magazine, the CBC, and other national media outlets.
- What I do for fun:
- My obsession with great espresso has taken me to South America, Trieste, and even Vietnam. When I’m not at work or home with my kids, I can often be found on the golf course, hacking away.
- What I do:
- Lead our online marketing team.
- What I did before:
- I’m a veteran of Salesforce and recently came to Work.com from Salesforce Web Analytics and Testing team.
- What I do for fun:
- Spend time with my wife and two daughters, mountain bike, play golf, and enjoy an occasional fly-fishing trip.
- What I do:
- Manage marketing campaigns for Work.com.
- What I did before:
- I’m a marketing veteran and most recently worked at blah blah blah
- What I do for fun:
- Volunteer for the Salesforce foundation, run competitively
- What I do:
- I am on my first co-op work term here. I started off with level 1 support and now I am on the production team.
- What I did before:
- School.
- What I do for fun:
- I like to swim and read (fiction usually) during my free time. I am new to Toronto so I usually spend my weekends exploring the city.
- What I do:
- I drive technical operations and IT.
- What I did before:
- I spent close to a decade at Aeye, spearheading the design and development of distributed environments, computational clusters and elastic cloud infrastructure.
- What I do for fun:
- I enjoy canoeing and basketball and am an aspiring skier. An avid environmentalist, I have volunteered on many different campaigns, including animal rehabilitation centres and conservation organizations.
- What I do:
- Shout Work.com from the rooftops (aka Marketing).
- What I did before:
- After getting degrees in math and business, I worked at Fritolay, PWC, McCain, and TELUS.
- What I do for fun:
- Board Games, Salsa, Call of Duty, Happy Hour, TMZ, and Travel! Fun Fact: I once complimented the tie of the German Minister of Agriculture during Oktoberfest in Munich (it was lime green with little tractors)!
- What I do:
- Software development.
- What I did before:
- Graduate student in computer science at Laval University in Quebec.
- What I do for fun:
- I like photography and take photos whenever I get some free time.
- What I do:
- Deliver a great user experience that changes the way people work. I code in an agile environment that makes me re-think the way I code.
- What I did before:
- I delivered software solutions to industries like mortgage, house insurance, travel and tourism, heath care.
- What I do for fun:
- I ride my bike across the universe, spotting interesting places to have a good meal with friends, to drink a decent glass of wine with my wife, or to taste a different beer.
- What I do:
- ava development, occasional IE wrangling.
- What I did before:
- I d Spent a non-custodial period with the Western Australian police service, wrote code for miners then moved to Canada and into medical research computing before happily landing with Work.com.
- What I do for fun:
- Unpaid service work for a 1 year old tyrant and occasional adventures in the snow.
- What I do:
- Software engineering with a focus on architecture, scalable infrastructure, development process, and security.
- What I did before:
- Senior software engineer at Offermatica and Omniture, which was acquired by Adobe.
- What I do for fun:
- ontribute to open source projects, play guitar and piano, and hit the gym.
- What I do:
- Help our large and in charge clients get the most out of Work.com. Share their stories and success. Build relationships and learn from key users from across our client base.
- What I did before:
- Business Consultant for Asia-Pacific and Australia. Short lived radio host for CBC.
- What I do for fun:
- Play lots of music loudly and drink coffee. Life is too short for bad coffee. Nerd out on new technologies, businesses, and learn about empires that haven't been created just yet.
- What I do:
- Sales and community.
- What I did before:
- Account executive at SuccessFactors.
- What I do for fun:
- Get creative in the kitchen and explore the city that I love, San Francisco.
- What I do:
- Work with prospective customers 24/7 to educate them on and delight them with the art of the possible with Work.com.
- What I did before:
- Serial high growth innovative software companies (Zuora, Workbrain, Commerce One...).
- What I do for fun:
- Yoga, running, reading, and soccer.
- What I do:
- Help our strategic customers get the most out of Work.com.
- What I did before:
- I have more than a decade of experience in talent development as a global training consultant focused on coaching, feedback, and team development.
- What I do for fun:
- I’m an avid traveler, and have explored 42 countries in the last 7 years.
- What I do:
- I'm our technical support manager and an advocate for our customers.
- What I did before:
- In a former life I was a wedding and event photographer.
- What I do for fun:
- I am an avid maker of pies.
- What I do:
- Work with our enterprise clients to help them understand how Work.com will help their people.
- What I did before:
- Worked in the SaaS arena for many years and recently made a couple of babies.
- What I do for fun:
- Play with my family and squeeze friends in for dinners, while quaffing wine throughout.
- What I do:
- Software engineering focused on making things simple, robust, and fast.
- What I did before:
- On the team of Tungle, which was acquired by RIM.
- What I do for fun:
- I was a varsity soccer player at the University of Waterloo and am a big fan of table tennis. I also love to cook on the weekends.
- What I do:
- I build new product features and improve existing ones.
- What I did before:
- I built web based software for RIM's Blackberry Enterprise Server.
- What I do for fun:
- Travel and soccer. I'm a big supporter of Toronto FC.
- What I do:
- Pave the path to massive growth at Work.com by riding the three horses of Content, Process and Product. No, I don't ride all three horses at the same time. I ride one at a time and switch between them quickly.
- What I did before:
- Prior to Work.com, I worked as a management consultant for big companies and was a pro bono advisor for tech startups.
- What I do for fun:
- I’m a tennis player, chess player, and an avid reader. I love all things geek.
- What I do:
- Focus on business development at Work.com.
- What I did before:
- I worked in Sales and Service for the Toronto Raptors and as a licensing manager for the Bob Marley brand at ABG.
- What I do for fun:
- Enjoy hitting the links, shredding powder and frequenting The Burger's Priest.
- What I do:
- Application development, analytics, and product design.
- What I did before:
- I worked on the back end of some extremely high traffic web applications, including Canada's largest newspaper and an e-commerce platform powering the world's largest online flower shops.
- What I do for fun:
- I spend my free time monkeying around at the gym, gaming it up on my comfy sofa, or honing my sport-bike skills on the tracks of NorCal.
- What I do:
- Help customers address all their questions and concerns. I'm like a modern day Dear Abby except I don't get involved in relationships, just Connections.
- What I did before:
- Programming online surveys for a market research company. I moved to Work.com shortly after my end of year performance review - paper was used, how archaic.
- What I do for fun:
- Work.com is my life and the middle name of my first born — if I had one. I also like to read.
- What I do:
- Software developer on the Infrastructure team.
- What I did before:
- I worked at IBM Research, helping professors write papers about online games. I also had various jobs working on a system to automate porting Java applications between mobile devices.
- What I do for fun:
- I enjoy competing in dragonboat regattas, running the occasional marathon, and playing Magic: The Gathering. I am also a vegan.
- What I do:
- Share current customer stories to communicate the Work.com value proposition to prospective new users.
- What I did before:
- Over the past 10 years I have worked with executives and HR leaders to implement and maintain benefit products that create a unique offering that enhances the quality of life for employees.
- What I do for fun:
- When I’m not hanging out with my loving wife, I love to get in the gym and mix it up with cardio, heavy lifting, and long swims. On the weekend it is very important to play a round of golf, or a game of soccer with friends..
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