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  • Sean M. Thompson

    President and Chief Executive Officer

    NAVEX

    Sean M. Thompson

    President and Chief Executive Officer

    NAVEX

    As President and CEO, Sean serves on NAVEX’s board of directors and leads the executive team. He started his tenure at NAVEX as president and chief operating officer where he led initiatives in strategy, product development, sales and marketing.

    Before joining NAVEX, Sean served as executive vice president of the SAP Ariba Network, the world’s largest third-party procurement network with over five million suppliers. Prior to SAP, Sean co-founded the natural language processing and artificial intelligence company, Nuiku, which was sold to Nortek (NASDAQ: NRTK) in 2016.

    Sean also served in leadership roles at Microsoft as the managing director of corporate alliances and as group product manager for Microsoft SQL Server Database, an $8 billion business. He joined Microsoft from Nimble where he was the executive vice president of sales and service for the XML virtual data warehouse technology company backed by Madrona Venture Group.

    Earlier in his career, Sean led M&A efforts as a director at Drugstore.com; he also played an integral role on the pre-IPO team for this leading online pharmacy backed by Kleiner Perkins. Sean’s career began with 10 years at Deloitte Consulting where he was one of the firm’s youngest practice leaders in ERP.

    Sean earned an MBA from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Business Administration with high honors from Gonzaga University. He is also a CPA in the State of Washington.

  • Andrew Bates

    Chief Financial Officer

    NAVEX

    Andrew Bates

    Chief Financial Officer

    NAVEX

    Andrew is responsible for NAVEX finance, accounting and financial risk management, and plays a principal role in the company’s mergers and acquisitions activity. With more than 20 years in senior finance roles, Andrew has a disciplined, data-driven approach to decision making. As an experienced SaaS finance executive, his focus is on customer acquisition, retention and ARR growth.

  • Steve Chapman

    Chief Customer Officer

    NAVEX

    Steve Chapman

    Chief Customer Officer

    NAVEX

    As chief customer officer, Steve Chapman is responsible for customer success efforts including professional services, implementation services, data services, customer support, operations and customer success management teams. With more than 28 years of experience, he has successfully led customer-focused teams driving growth, retention and exceptional customer experiences. In additional to Customer Success, Steve oversees NAVEX’s Global Contact Center and Telecom operations.

    Prior to NAVEX, Steve worked as a change management consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where he specialized in the implementation of enterprise software products and solutions. Steve also founded and contributed to the successful startup of Aon Safetylogic.com, a SaaS provider of integrated risk control management solutions for Fortune 2000 corporations, loss prevention firms and the insurance carrier markets.

  • Julia Mair

    Chief Marketing Officer

    NAVEX

    Julia Mair

    Chief Marketing Officer

    NAVEX

    Julia leads NAVEX marketing and communications, bringing over 20 years’ experience working at the intersection of strategy, communications and corporate culture. As a marketing and communications leader, she has been quick to harness the power of emerging technologies for corporate storytelling and was an early adopter of Agile marketing to test and iterate on initial concepts of marketing automation, social media and content management.

    Prior to NAVEX, she served as Chief Marketing, Communications and Sustainability Officer at Clarivate, a publicly held global data, analytics and insights company. She also served as head of global enterprise marketing for Dow Jones, Vice President of Acquisition Marketing at the Wall Street Journal, and Chief Marketing and Sales Officer for Sterling, a mid-sized HR technology company, which was acquired by Goldman Sachs.

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Andrew Bates

Chief Financial Officer

NAVEX

Andrew is responsible for NAVEX finance, accounting and financial risk management, and plays a principal role in the company’s mergers and acquisitions activity. With more than 20 years in senior finance roles, Andrew has a disciplined, data-driven approach to decision making. As an experienced SaaS finance executive, his focus is on customer acquisition, retention and ARR growth.