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Jay Larson is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. Jay has an impressive track record as a successful CEO, transformation driver, and value-creating leader of world-class enterprise organizations. He served as CEO at Optimizely, a venture-backed software company that he and his team grew and ultimately sold to a PE-owned software company. Before Optimizely, Jay was the CEO at Birst Software, another venture-backed firm that was sold to a large application software company. Jay also has an outstanding record as a leader of sales organizations. At Mercury Interactive, he spent seven years building the go-to-market team that drove Mercury’s revenue from $300 million to over $1 billion. During his five-year tenure at SuccessFactors, he built a global sales team that drove revenue from $80 million to over $360 million when SuccessFactors was acquired by SAP. Jay also held sales leadership positions at Oracle, Siebel Systems, and Jive Software. He is passionate about helping companies sell more and sell more efficiently. Jay has a BA degree in Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Sukaran Mehta serves as Chief Financial Officer at Cority, leveraging his extensive experience in technology, financial services, and strategic financial leadership to drive the company’s financial strategy and operational excellence.

With over 17 years of expertise spanning private equity, venture capital, and public markets, Sukaran has played a pivotal role in guiding high-growth businesses through complex financial landscapes. Before joining Cority, he served as CFO at Docebo, a Nasdaq-listed company, where he contributed significantly to its expansion over five years. Prior to that, as Vice President of Finance at Finastra, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, he led key finance operations, including business planning, systems implementation, and revenue operations. Earlier in his career, he worked at RBC, where he was instrumental in major finance initiatives, including the acquisition of City National Bank.

Sukaran started his professional journey at PricewaterhouseCoopers and holds a degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is a distinguished finance leader with professional designations including CPA, CA Ontario, and FCA Ireland, underscoring his commitment to financial excellence and industry leadership.

Eric Olson is the Chief Marketing Officer at Cority, where he leads the company’s marketing strategy, brand development, demand generation, and customer engagement efforts. With a deep understanding of high-growth technology businesses, he drives initiatives that enhance Cority’s market presence and fuel its continued expansion.

Eric brings nearly two decades of experience as a senior go-to-market leader, having built and scaled marketing organizations in fast-growing software companies. Prior to Cority, he served as Chief Marketing Officer at Quick Base, where he spearheaded go-to-market strategies and brand development. Before that, Eric was Chief Marketing Officer at Sovos, where he built the private equity-backed software business’ brand, growth strategy, and marketing function from the ground up.

His career also includes leadership roles in event technology, where he led a high-growth division of Active Network as its general manager, helping the business enter new markets and establish itself as a market leader. Later, as CEO of Zerista, he guided the mobile startup through growth and acquisition, driving go-to-market strategies and assembling a high-performing cross-functional team.

Ted Kail is the Chief Product Officer at Cority and oversees the Product Management, Solution Marketing & Enablement functions that serve Cority’s customers throughout the globe. For the past 15 years Ted has led Product organizations at Start-Ups & Fortune 500 companies within the Higher Education, Federal & State Governments, and Healthcare Markets. Most recently Ted was the Chief Product Officer at Gordian, which is a Fortive Operating Company (FTV). In this role, he was responsible for determining the strategic direction of all products across Gordian’s product portfolio that included both SaaS and data product offerings.

Ted holds a Bachelor of Science in business as well as an Executive MBA from Northeastern University.