Leadership

About Mike Schumacher

Michael Schumacher is the founder of Lakeside Software and currently serves as its CEO. Prior to founding Lakeside, he served in roles as director of software engineering at Cubix Corporation building high density compute platforms, director of network engineering at Telebit Corporation building routers and networking equipment, and in other software engineering positions.

Mike has served on numerous ANSI (American National Standards Institute) committees and has represented United States interests on ISO (International Standards Organization) committees in computer networking and factory automation. He holds a BSE in Computer Engineering and an MSE in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering both from the University of Michigan.

About Todd Elliot

As Chief Revenue Officer, Todd is responsible for driving Lakeside Software’s revenue growth strategy and execution. He has more than 20 years of executive sales leadership and field operations experience driving customer value within the IT sector. Todd is a strategic sales leader with a proven track record of building and leading exceptional sales organizations.

Prior to Lakeside, Todd held sales senior leadership roles at Alfresco, OpenText, PTC and EMC.

About Kimberly Kaminski

Kim has more than 30 years of global technology marketing, go-to-market, and operational leadership experience. She joins Lakeside from NS1, where she was previously the CMO and helped drive the company’s recent acquisition by IBM. Before joining NS1, Kim was VP Global Marketing at Amplitude, where she was accountable for demand and growth marketing. Earlier, Kim was VP Marketing at ServiceNow, where she led both integrated campaigns and sales development teams.

Kim’s broad expertise spans the full lifecycle of marketing, and her passion is aligning marketing, sales, product, and partners to accelerate business growth. She has a BA in Journalism/Advertising from Northern Illinois University.

About Suzie Anthony

As Chief People Officer, Suzie is responsible for leading our global strategic people initiatives and delivering a growth-focused and inclusive culture. Suzie joins Lakeside from SessionM, where she was the global People & Culture leader. SessionM was acquired by Mastercard in 2019, and Suzie led the people integration over the last two years, focused on change management, culture, and communication.

Prior to that, Suzie spent her career partnering with business leaders to build out people functions at high-growth start-ups and scale-ups including Flywire, Core Security, and Zmags. Suzie holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Marketing Communications from Simmons University.

About Brian Benson

As Chief Financial Officer, Brian is seasoned finance and operations executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience in entrepreneurial, fast-growth technology companies. Brian combines a collaborative style and partnership with executive teams to help drive operational change to support growth initiatives and enhance shareholder value. Prior to joining Lakeside Software, Brian served as CFO for Primacy, a digital experience marketing agency where he restructured the finance department and support team and positioned the team to scale over the next several years. Previously, Brian was CFO of Intellinet Consulting, a leading boutique digital consulting and software development business, where he led the successful acquisition and integration of Innovative Computer Systems helping to accelerate growth and financial performance.

Brian has a BS in Accounting from Loyola Marymount University.

About Guy Lever

As SVP Customer Success of Lakeside Software, Guy brings over 15 years of experience in high tech executive leadership and a strong track record of pulling together the people, processes, and systems driving improvements in customer retention.

Lever previously served as SVP Customer Experience at Automox, SVP Customer Success at Tricentis, Chief Customer Officer at QA Symphony, and lead global renewals and account management teams at both Verint and Infor.

Lever holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Vanderbilt University. He also has a Master of Business Administration from The Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

About Robert Hobbs

Bob is Senior Vice President, Strategy & Products at Lakeside Software. With more than 20 years of experience leading product and strategy teams, Hobbs most recently served as Lakeside’s vice president of business development, where he was instrumental in scaling the company’s growth and shaping strategic initiatives that have positioned Lakeside as an industry leader. Prior to joining Lakeside, Hobbs held leadership roles at LHS Communications, Digiquant, and IBBS.

About Ed Wegryn

Ed is the Vice President of Engineering at Lakeside and has almost 30 years of experience in enterprise software development. Coding since high school, Ed has a strong programming background and a love of all things technical. He built the current Lakeside engineering team and is involved with all aspects of the development cycle.

Ed has a Computer Science degree from the University of Michigan. Prior to Lakeside, Ed held several roles at Comshare, later Infor, a global leader in business cloud solutions, where he was the architect of their Performance Management applications.

About Geoff Hixon

Geoff is the Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Lakeside. Although he started his career in criminal justice, Geoff has since gained nearly 20 years of experience working in IT operations and advising on end-user computing challenges.

Geoff, who attended Ferris State University and Capella University, now leads a team focused on helping clients to leverage Lakeside’s vast data collection and tools to solve issues impacting employees, the workplace, and business outcomes. He worked as a systems administrator for Kenwal Steel before coming to Lakeside, where he has held multiple key roles.