Management Team

PowerSteering is backed by such leading institutions as Hudson Ventures, Advent International and MMV Financial, and run by a group of seasoned executives with an average of over 20 years of experience.

Every member of PowerSteering's team is personally involved with our clients and engages with them directly to ensure their success. Our leadership team regularly visits customers to solicit their product and support feedback, recommend ways to increase user adoption and share best practices.

Stephen Sharp
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Sharp leads PowerSteering Software in the evolving enterprise project and portfolio management (PPM) improvement market, building on our clear leadership in Lean Six Sigma program management and solid foundation of customer success and financial discipline. In addition to setting the strategic direction, he oversees all company operations.

Mr. Sharp has a proven track record of building international high-tech businesses. He brings over 20 years of senior executive leadership experience in executive management, strategic planning, sales, marketing, business development and services.

Previously, Mr. Sharp served as CEO for Frictionless Commerce, a leading provider of supplier relationship management solutions. He also has held executive management positions at Context Integration, Siebel Systems and Sybase.

David Boghossian
Founder

A founder of PowerSteering, Mr. Boghossian was responsible for the product vision and the company's early leadership in the emerging strategy execution category. He is personally involved with PowerSteering customers worldwide, helping them drive strategy and accelerate results.

Mr. Boghossian has over 25 years of experience in performance improvement and has authored numerous articles on using innovative tools to drive improved business results, accelerate innovation and deliver more focused strategic information to decision makers.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Boghossian co-founded Story Street Partners, where his work won the 1998 Internet Commerce Exposition for the "Best in Class" financial services application. In addition, he pioneered the use of hoshin kanri, lean manufacturing and strategy deployment tools for the rapid execution of corporate strategy. Hoshin methods, in turn, became one of the core tenets of the PowerSteering product line.

Mr. Boghossian earned AB and MPA degrees from Harvard University. He also held a year-long appointment as a Lucius Littauer Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, focusing on business/government relations.

Michael Roberts
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Mr. Roberts is responsible for running PowerSteering's global sales operations, including the partner and reseller channels. He has over 25 years of success selling enterprise portfolio management software to Global 2000 and federal accounts.

Mr. Roberts previously worked at Primavera (formerly ProSight), where he had P&L responsibility and oversaw North American sales, including all field sales for ProSight. He grew the commercial business 573% in three years, created a financial services vertical, and successfully penetrated the federal market while establishing it as a beach head. He also has sales management experience at IBM, Sequent and Unisys.

Mr. Roberts earned his BS and MBA degrees from Virginia Tech.

Tibor Vais
Senior Vice President of Products

Mr. Vais is responsible for defining PowerSteering's products and implementing the company's product vision. He brings a blend of experience in software management and product development.

Mr. Vais has spent over 25 years managing software development, from building tools for other developers (e.g. commercial DBMS and fourth-generation language products) to building enterprise-class applications. He has put together software engineering teams from scratch at early-stage companies and managed offshore teams of over 200 people from Russia and India.

Prior to PowerSteering, Mr. Vais was CTO at NewRiver, VP of engineering and CTO at ChannelWave Software, COO at Damirus Corp and CEO at WebSecure. He also worked for 14 years at CompuServe and spent over a decade in academia at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Harvard University.

Mr. Vais received his master's degree from Moscow University and PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Doug Riseberg
Vice President of Client Services

Mr. Riseberg is responsible for delivering solutions and building long-term relationships with PowerSteering's customers. He has over 10 years of operations experience in high technology and professional services, including over five years in various professional services roles at PowerSteering.

Mr. Riseberg has helped lead and manage nearly 120 PowerSteering deployments. He has also developed the proven PowerSteering implementation methodology and numerous programs to deliver solutions to our customer base. His team of professional services consultants deploys new solutions and delivers add-on professional services to existing customers.

Prior to joining PowerSteering, Mr. Riseberg was a client manager for CRM solutions at Navisite (formerly Surebridge). There, he helped build and deploy CRM solutions for both Siebel and SalesLogix software packages targeting mid-market firms.

Mr. Riseberg holds a BA in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from Babson College.

Paul Novak
Vice President of Hosting Operations

Mr. Novak leads PowerSteering's global hosting operations, IT and application infrastructure areas, and is responsible for our rigorous SLA and system availability requirements.

Mr. Novak brings over 15 years of experience managing IT initiatives in a variety of industries. Prior to joining PowerSteering, he was director of information technologies and facilities at Egenera, a worldwide data center virtualization software and hardware manufacturer. There, he oversaw the corporate-wide infrastructure to support G&A, engineering, service, sales and marketing.

Mr. Novak studied electrical engineering and mathematics at Northeastern University. He later attended Boston University as a computer science major.

Linda Duchin
Vice President of Marketing

Ms. Duchin oversees all facets of marketing, including demand generation, inside sales, sales operations and public relations. She brings over 20 years of high-tech and financial services experience with an emphasis on direct response marketing effectiveness.

Ms. Duchin was most recently the director of marketing at MarketSoft, a leader in the enterprise software marketing automation space. There, she launched innovative B2B prospecting techniques that yielded a 90% improvement over traditional methods. As director of database marketing at BayBank/BankBoston/Fleet, she created a database marketing practice and led a team that pioneered the use of behavior- and event-based marketing strategies.

Ms. Duchin also ran marketing for Data General's direct division and managed their aftermarket supply catalog program, which generated over $30 million in annual revenue. She holds a BS in communications from Boston University.

Jon Choate
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Choate leads the finance and administration functions at PowerSteering. He has over 25 years of financial management experience in both the software and publishing fields.

Prior to joining PowerSteering, Mr. Choate served as VP of finance and administration at Syncra Systems, Inc., where he facilitated the sale of this supplier of collaboration software to Retek, Inc. (acquired by Oracle). Earlier in his career, he directed finance and administration for Lewtan Technologies, a leading provider of information and technology solutions to the global asset securitization industry.

Mr. Choate has also held several positions in the book and newspaper publishing industries. He earned an MBA from Babson College and BS in communications from Ithaca College.