Leadership

Jonathan Blackburn

Chief Revenue Officer

Jonathan is a proven executive with 20+ years creating record-breaking, high-performing sales and marketing teams in technology-based businesses.

Prior to joining AbacusNext, Blackburn served as the chief revenue officer for Therapy Brands, a mental and behavioral health software and integrated payments company, where he drove rapid growth and expansion of the platform both organically and through M&A. He previously served as chief revenue officer and general manager of Daxko, a leader in software and integrated payments for the health and wellness industry. Before Daxko, Jonathan was vice president of sales for major accounts at ADP, a global provider of cloud-based human capital management.

A customer-centric strategist utilizing people, process, and products to deliver exceptional experiences and drive value. Blackburn is responsible for leading AbacusNext’s commercial strategy across its industry-leading portfolio of practice management, document automation and digital payments solutions.

Fred Cohen

Chief Legal Strategy Officer / Chief Executive Officer Zola

Fred is the founder and Chief Executive Officer at Zola Suite. He is focused on developing state-of-the-art technology to enable law firms to massively scale their operations. He has been a leader, product visionary, and innovator in the legal technology space for over 10 years. In that role, he is the inventor of 2 patents with the USPTO. Fred has led the company from its founding to becoming one of the fastest-growing businesses in the U.S. two years in a row as recognized by Inc Magazine. He is also a former practicing attorney as a partner at a New York Trusts & Estates firm. His interests include anthropology, tennis, art, user experience design, and business process optimization.=

Fred holds both an Economics and a Political Science degree from Queens College of the City University of New York and a JD from Hofstra University School of Law.

Mike Skelly

Chief Financial Officer

An entrepreneurially-minded, results-­oriented Chief Financial Officer, Mike has experience in venture capital and accounting as well as both publicly traded and privately held companies. Mike helped facilitate the sale of The Active Network to Vista Equity Partners in 2014, working on all facets of the transaction, and most recently worked at Trio Health, provider of Carelogic, a Data-as-a-Service company that utilized a proprietary system to collect and publish research on specialty pharmaceuticals.

Perry Steinberg

Chief Product Officer

Perry has over 20 years of experience leading document and data initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. Prior to AbacusNext, Perry was GM and VP Product at Medidata Solutions, where he led business and technology development for multiple Business Units including document management, risk-based monitoring and payment processing. Earlier in his career, Perry was VP, Product Strategy and Corporate Development at INTTRA, the largest global supply chain platform for ocean shipping. Perry led the development of the companies algorithmic based solutions to solve artifact challenges within the global supply chain. Perry is an innovative technology and product leader, with a track record of success building and leading teams to deliver new products and experiences that result in higher user engagement and improved operational efficiency.

Thomas “TJ” Schoessow

VP, Technology Infrastructure

As VP of Technology Infrastructure, TJ oversees the cloud and engineering teams to ensure high-availability for all cloud clients. With an expansive career in IT, TJ understands the evolving needs of virtual systems and creates pragmatic strategies and implementation designs that deliver maximum return on investment. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from UCSD, and a wide array of technical certifications. TJ’s specialties are virtualization, data protection, MS Exchange, and SAN tech administration.

Sharon Roen

VP, Client Support

As VP of Client Services, Sharon is responsible for overseeing all support services post on-boarding. Sharon champions a culture that prioritizes the customer and acts quickly to resolve open issues and deliver world-class service. Sharon is an experienced executive who has driven strategic efforts for global organizations. She is responsible for award winning multi-channel contact centers in multiple countries and languages. Prior to AbacusNext, Sharon directed technical support and service efforts for J2 Global, an industry leader in business cloud services and digital media brands. Sharon was a pivotal member of the M&A team responsible for integrating companies that were purchased and assimilated into the J2 family. Sharon has a unique ability to envision what an organization is capable of, working tactically to assure that everyone on her team shares in her vision and can clearly see how they fit in.

Melinda Davila

Head of HR

Melinda joined the AbacusNext team in March 2018 to lead the HR function. She is committed to building the infrastructure necessary to support a global workforce and oversees initiatives that enhance the employee experience. Leveraging her background in business management and human resources administration, she is passionate about utilizing technology in order to streamline processes. Previously, Melinda was a Human Resources Manager for a multi-national corporation in the manufacturing industry. There, she gained experience in leading HR process and policy development, benefits design, compliance, employee relations, performance management, HR strategy implementation, recruitment and compensation analysis. Recognized for her collaborative approach, Melinda’s focus is on providing custom HR solutions in order to maximize business outcomes across organizations.

Sophie Leguillette

VP, Marketing

Over the past 18 years Sophie has developed strong overall global marketing and channel marketing experience in the high-tech and biotech industries. She has a passion for building strong, high-performing marketing teams who leverage the latest marketing technologies. A few highlights of her career include: building strong marketing operations support teams; globalizing the marketing organization at Epicor; and implementing marketing automation solutions at both MSC Software and Sage. Sophie’s leadership approach focuses on evolving teams into modern marketers—finding in them the right mix of creativity and science.

Brian Bell

Controller

As Corporate Controller, Brian is responsible for ensuring the completeness and accuracy of financial statements, enabling the business to make decisions and ensure that operational accounting processes and outputs are as efficient and trustworthy as possible. Brian started his career at PwC in New York, and has recently worked in various roles in Southern California, including at Intuit, Illumina, The Active Network, Cymer, and most recently as Assistant Controller at Snapchat. Notable accomplishments include implementing a mandatory purchase order process at Cymer, improving DSO by ~20% at Snapchat, and creating a cross-functional Implementation Review Committee at Illumina to ensure that “Go to Market” was successful for new product and marketing initiatives. Brian’s leadership approach is based on servant leadership, working alongside employees to help them achieve company and career development goals. Brian believes that the best customer outcomes occur when his team can help internal business partners achieve their goals more efficiently while minimizing the burden of operational accounting requirements—so the business can sell and create more.

Eric Hart

General Counsel

Eric joined the AbacusNext team as General Counsel in January 2015. Prior to that, he worked as a litigator, handling large contract disputes for a variety of companies, copyright and other intellectual property disputes, and employment law matters. Eric graduated from California Western School of Law in 2002. While in law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Richard Haden (Ret.) of the San Diego Superior Court.