Our executive team

Jim Ryan is obsessed with candor, passion, professionalism, keeping score, celebrating success and giving back. He is known for driving change, developing talent and encouraging transparency, leading to Flexera consistently being named a "top workplace".

He guides our company as its chief executive and provides strategic vision as we move forward. Jim has been with the company since 1998, spending seven of his years overseas running our international operations. Prior to becoming CEO in 2016, Jim was Flexera’s Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to that, his roles have included everything from leading global sales and services, running our Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region and managing many other functions within the company. Jim was instrumental in leading the spin out of Macrovision’s software business unit to the private equity firm of Thoma Bravo and, of course, our subsequent investments with Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan (OTPP) and TA Associates. Before that he held roles with Reliant Data Systems and Unison Software (now IBM Tivoli).

David Zwick keeps our financial health on course.

David leads the global financial strategy and operations of the company and is responsible for capital and operating budgets, taxes and investor relations. He also provides oversight of procurement, IT and facilities.

David has a global background in both publicly traded and private equity-held companies and has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions. David has served as CFO at Transworld Systems, Hilco Global and Inteliquent, Inc. Prior to that, he was a senior investment banker at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers. David began his career at Arthur Andersen.

David is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has a BA in finance. He also has an MBA from Northwestern University and is a certified public accountant.

Elizabeth Lages is a change agent. El, as she is known, has spent her time building operational excellence throughout the organization. She is known for increasing employee engagement, driving rigor in our sales processes, and building relationships with her optimism and warmth.

She is instrumental in making Flexera a “top workplace” through performance management, manager training, and continuous employees feedback. El has been with the company since 2004 in various sales and operations leadership roles before moving into organizational effectiveness in 2017.

Born and raised in New York City, El has a B.S. in communications at State University of New York.

As Chief Revenue Officer, Ken is responsible for driving Flexera’s global revenue streams. In this role, he brings extensive expertise in driving transformational outcomes with an obsessive focus on customer success and delivering the highest level of business value for our customers with every interaction. He leads high-performance teams, builds high value partner ecosystems, and leverages bold customer-first thinking to help our customers maximize their full potential with Flexera One SaaS platform.

Ken brings over three decades of experience building and transforming high-growth software and cloud businesses. Prior to joining Flexera, he was the Global Vice President of Commercial at Splunk where his theater led the company’s SaaS transition and new logo acquisition. During his tenure at Splunk, the commercial theater experienced exponential revenue growth with ARR growth of greater than 60% every year while overall company revenue grew from about $800M to almost $2.5B. Ken has built and led world-class go to market organizations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, VERITAS (Seagate Software) and more- where he has helped customers leverage cloud technologies to maximize their agility while driving unmatched business value.

Ken has been named the Tech Awards Circle Winner for Executive of the Year and a finalist for the American Business Awards Executive of the Year.

As Chief Technology Officer, Brian Shannon leads Flexera’s global technology team. 

Prior to joining us, Brian led Platform Engineering at ServiceNow, successfully executing many global strategic initiatives for a large global engineering team. Before that, he led teams building workforce management software for some of the world’s largest healthcare systems at GE Healthcare.

He’s passionate about leading transformation across organizations, encouraging innovation and delivering at scale. Brian studied computer science at UC San Diego where he graduated cum laude.

As Chief Growth Officer, Eric is responsible for driving top- and bottom-line growth, including corporate, business, go-to-market and product strategy, mergers and acquisitions, partnering and business development, business operations and insights, business integration and transformation, and cross-company execution. He has more than two decades of experience in the technology industry, with a strong focus on growth, new businesses and business transformation.

Prior to joining Flexera, Eric served as a vice president of Intel Corporation, where he was a senior executive and general manager in the company’s Internet of Things (IoT) group. There he developed Intel’s consumer IoT strategy and spearheaded the company’s entry into new consumer and enterprise markets. Before that, he co-founded and drove products and services for Intel’s digital home division.

Prior to Intel, Eric served as executive vice president, product development for Rovi Corporation (formerly Macrovision Corporation), where he was responsible for designing and building the company’s software and services.

Eric earned a BS in engineering from Duke University, an MS in engineering from Stanford University, an MA concentrating in International Affairs from Georgetown University, and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Brent is our Chief Customer Officer for both Flexera and Revenera divisions.  He is responsible for ensuring all parts of our company are in sync when it comes to our customers.

Brent is obsessed with operational excellence and passionate about delivering world-class results.  He’s known for driving accountability, organizational change and developing leaders. Prior to his current role, which also includes serving as GM of Revenera’s operations, Brent was Senior Vice President of Strategic Growth for Flexera.

Since joining Flexera in 2000, he has held a variety of customer- and employee-focused roles across the company ranging from running Flexera’s global services organization to integrating the companies Flexera acquires.

Roy is our Chief Marketing Officer responsible for shaping Flexera’s relationship with prospective and current customers. Throughout his career, Roy has led engineering, go to market and strategy, but his passion lies in customer value and helping them be successful with the solutions they buy and deploy.

Prior to joining us, Roy was Vice President of Go To Market for Cloud Management at VMware. Before that, he was with Hewlett Packard and MicroFocus as the head of Marketing for its IT Operations software business, which spanned the cloud, data center and IT.

Roy began his career as an electrical engineer at IBM in Toronto after graduating from Canada’s McMaster University. He and his wife have five children, some of whom are at home and some out in the world.

Marie is an accomplished product executive who brings deep knowledge of commercial software solutions that power the Fortune 1000. Her expertise includes building global product management, strategy, business operations and R&D organizations. She’s led customer advocacy and customer-facing initiatives, including launching Net Promoter Score (NPS), lab advocate programs and strategic customer advisory councils.

Prior to joining Flexera, Marie was senior vice president of product management at Syncsort, a global leader in data management. Before that, she founded Excellence in Product Management, a consulting firm advising software companies on today’s product management discipline and the evolution of product managers as business leaders. She also held senior positions at CA Technologies where she successfully led various businesses, including workload automation, mainframe security and compliance, and infrastructure management.

Sean is chartered with Flexera's Customer for Life vision. He partners with departments across the company to ensure that all decisions include a persistent focus on the customer. As the leader of our customer success, consulting services, partner enablement, support services and renewals functions, he manages teams that are passionate in delivering customer satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy.

Sean champions a culture that embraces the voice of the customer, with an emphasis on the customer journey and celebrating their achievements. He is known for empowering Flexera’s leaders and team members in their roles as customer evangelists.

Having worked at Flexera since 2012, Sean has held a variety of responsibilities across strategic growth, M&A, customer success, solution engineering and enablement. Prior to joining Flexera, Sean was a senior vice president at PTC, where he was responsible for solution engineering, business value consulting and the corporate briefing center. Sean graduated with distinction from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

As General Counsel, Kraig serves as a strategic advisor while overseeing the full range of Flexera’s global legal activities and policies, including a major focus on Flexera’s software, data, IP, M&A, litigation, and cybersecurity matters. Having long detested “legalese”, he takes pride in leading and driving the company forward with a pragmatic and business-savvy approach to legal issues. Within Flexera he is known for building from scratch an outstanding global legal team that partners with our internal teams around the world to provide legal support and solve problems in a collaborative, efficient, simplified way that moves the company forward with the customer front and center.

Kraig joined Flexera in 2010. Prior to Flexera, he had the pleasure of learning deeply in Cisco’s fantastic legal department and with two large international law firms. Kraig is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and earned a BA in Biology and Business Administration from Saint Louis University.

Conal is responsible for leading all things IT, including security, at Flexera.

Previously our Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), as CIO Conal continues to ensure we have the best data practices in place to protect our intellectual property and customer data, while also leading our overall IT strategy.

Conal has held IT leadership roles in the corporate sector for 10 years, with another decade focusing on the security realm, leading security and compliance efforts at companies like Genesys and Rovi.

Conal has a BS in Computer Science Systems from Wentworth Institute of Technology, an MBA from Regis University and holds a multitude of industry certifications, including Certified Chief Information Security Officer (CCISO), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and Project Management Professional (PMP).