Meet the team

Alexa Guerra

Alexa runs Mode's demand generation efforts. Born in San Antonio, TX, she has taken her love of burgers and good Mexican food all across the country. After attending college in New York, she moved to the best coast in 2008 and has since worked in the marketing departments at Art.com and PagerDuty. Outside of the office, you can find her eating, reading, and embroidering, however, her true passion remains looking after other peoples' dogs while they're out of town.

Alli Cernoch

Alli is an Engineer on the Marketing Team. She began her career on the data analytics team at Burson-Marsteller. In 2014 she moved to San Francisco and learned to code. Before joining the team at Mode she worked as a full-stack engineer at BabyList. Now, she manages Mode's marketing sites. Her work playlist of choice is a comprehensive collection of Disney songs, and she holds both Martha Stewart and Rihanna as personal heroes.

Amber Zeise

Amber is Mode's Recruiting Coordinator, scheduling and orchestrating the recruiting process to ensure a stellar candidate experience. Before joining the People Team, she worked at UC Berkeley, contributing to several Sexual Violence Prevention teams and striving to create a campus free of harassment and harm. Outside of the office, Amber can be found dancing her way around the city with her friends.

Ambreen Hasan

Ambreen is a Software Engineer at Mode. In a previous life, Ambreen worked in sales but left it all behind when she discovered her love for programming. When she isn’t talking to computers, she enjoys discovering new coffee blends, reading YA fiction, and photography.

Annelies Husmann

Annelies is the VP, Direct Sales, at Mode. Previously, she led AdRoll's B2B Mid-Market team and has sold in fast-growing B2B sales teams at companies like Yammer (acquired by MSFT) and Opower (IPO'd as OPWR). When she's not helping her teams grow Mode's happy customer base, she is either backpacking through California's mountains or cooking her way through one of her favorite cookbooks.

Anthony Daniell

Anthony is a Product Manager at Mode. His role is to connect the dots. Before Mode, Anthony worked at Walmart in the data and analytics space. He is interested in art and architecture, especially in how these blend with technology.

Anthony Simone

Anthony is a Front-end Engineer at Mode. He has previously worked to create digital marketing solutions at Elevated Third and loves to work with component-based design patterns. Away from the computer he enjoys yoga, bouldering problems that are just out of reach, and coffee with absolutely any kind of baked good.

Asha Hill

Asha is a Customer Success Analyst at Mode, where she provides creative solutions to address customers' analytical technical problems. Before joining the Mode family, Asha worked in academia as an Assistant Mathematics professor. When not on the frontline providing support for customers, she is out traveling the world, hitting the gym, or attempting to become the next big DJ.

Austin Bell

Austin is a member of the Account Management team at Mode. Prior to joining, he worked at Sentieo, a financial technology company in San Francisco. A Bay Area Native, Austin is a passionate fisherman and also enjoys spending time with his pet reptiles and dog.

Bailey Douglass

Bailey leads the People Operations team at Mode. Previously, she built teams at companies including Affirm, Ripple, and Airware. When she’s not helping Mode’s people team ensure that Mode's employee experience is best in class, she is an active member of the Spinsters of San Francisco and volunteers for a variety of philanthropic organizations. Bailey is commissioner (and current defending champion) of Mode's fantasy football league.

Benn Stancil

Benn is the co-founder and Chief Analyst of Mode. Prior to Mode, Benn was an analyst at Microsoft and Yammer, where he helped lead product analytics. Benn also worked as an economic analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

Bindu Mohan

Bindu is on the Engineering Team at Mode. She has previously worked and led teams at Barclays Digital Marketplace, HBO & Company, and Con-way. She is an active member of Women Who Code and volunteers for a variety of philanthropic organizations.

Brian Libicki

Brian is on the Product team at Mode. He's humbled by the chance to help analysts and data scientists find signals in the noisy world of big data. Brian's approach has been shaped by experiences ranging from building enterprise digital marketing and SaaS solutions to localizing and scaling consumer ed tech products worldwide. These days, his product philosophy can be boiled down to a quest to find what matters, and to find the simplest path to deliver it. Brian wishes he was better at dropping witty puns but doesn't beat himself up over it.

Chloe Follis

Chloe is a Sales Development Representative at Mode. Prior to moving to San Francisco, she worked as a Field Guide for a Wilderness Therapy program in the North Woods of Wisconsin. When she’s not at Mode, you can find her on a quest for her next backcountry adventure or sitting down with a pair of knitting needles and a good podcast.

Chris Davis

Chris leads the Account Management Team at Mode. He was the first salesperson at Mode and previously worked at Yammer in a sales function. He is comfortable with silence and dreams of being a retired racecar driver.

Christin Price

Christin Price is the Strategic Finance and Ops Manager at Mode. Prior to joining the team, she co-founded Neat Capital, an eMortgage startup, then was an early hire at Point.com, a platform enabling homeowners to convert their home equity into cash. Despite labeling herself a generalist, her true love is numbers. For fun, Christin plays outside. Her favorite activity is scrambling: unroped low-grade rock climbing. She has summited 43 of the the 58 14,000-foot-plus peaks in Colorado, and two of the 15 14ers in California.

Claire Dickson

Claire is the Employee Experience Manager at Mode. Having a background in HR and office management in her hometown of London, she recently relocated to San Francisco to experience the famous start-up life first hand. Claire loves organizing events and volunteering experiences, and is an amateur photographer in her spare time.

Colin Buresh

Colin is a recruiter on the People Team at Mode. His background includes biology, then insurance, before pursuing recruiting over 6 years ago. His recent work in recruiting focused on helping pre-IPO companies identify and hire technical talent in the Bay Area. When he's not working, Colin loves spending time with his young kids, taking them camping, A's baseball games, and the outdoor parks throughout the East Bay.

Curtis Mitchell

Curtis is a software engineer at Mode. He was previously on the engineering team at Ayasdi and before getting into web development and data visualization he worked as a data analyst for an energy consultancy. When he isn't in front of a computer he is probably reading a good history or sci-fi book, walking his dog, or baking a new cookie recipe.

Darcy Ward

Darcy is Mode's Customer Support Manager. She works to make sure our support team continues to be one of the best in our industry! Previously Darcy worked in Support Operations at Uber, and Account Management Operations at Zenefits. Outside of work, Darcy loves going to the movies, exploring San Francisco and spending time with friends and family.

Derek Steer

Derek Steer is the CEO and co-founder of Mode. Prior to co-founding Mode in 2013, Derek was an early member of Yammer's Analytics team. There, he led sales and monetization analytics, drawing upon his experience on the monetization analytics team at Facebook and his background in antitrust economics. Derek's passion is training the next generation of analysts. He is the author of SQL School and a mentor at Insight Data Science. Outside the office, you can find him biking up Mt. Tam, checking out the latest exhibit at SFMOMA, or stuffing his face at the local taqueria.

Franklin Clark

Franklin is a Senior Software Engineer at Mode. Previously he built web-based applications at Prosper Marketplace and SF Station. He is interested in raw vegan food and finds that Mediterranean food translates well to the raw diet.

Grant Miller

Grant is a Sales Development Representative at Mode. He hails from Chicago and recently graduated from Santa Clara University with degrees in Economics and Political Science. When not at Mode, he is usually enjoying the outdoors, playing sports, or working towards his pilot's license.

Han Wei

Han builds things to click on and type into at Mode. Previously he wrote software at Postmates and Desmos. Outside work you can find him buried in Wikipedia, arguing over board game rules, or falling off plastic at Dogpatch Boulders. Han is the creator and maintainer of the JavaScript formula editor MathQuill.

Heather Rivers

Heather is the CTO of Mode Analytics, where she leads engineering, product, design, and security. She's been writing software for 15 years—from games on her graphing calculator in high school, to computational linguistics in college, to a variety of Bay area tech companies, including Yammer and Microsoft. In her free time she can be found backpacking, playing ukulele, building guerilla libraries, and hanging out with her dog.

Hunter Havens

Hunter is a Senior Account Executive, Vertical Lead, and senior member of the Sales Team at Mode. Before relocating from Dallas, he built his sales career in the analytics space at a variety of startups. When not in the office, he's out exploring the world with his wife Julia and Vizsla pup, Noah.

James Youn

James is a Backend Engineer at Mode. He started coding to better understand computers as a sales engineer and has yet to satisfy that curiosity. Some of his hobbies include learning about different cultures and climbing with friends.

Jamon Douglas

Jamon is a software engineer at Mode. Previously he has worked for Earnest Inc, Mindjet and AT&T. His current interests include but are not limited to functional programming, djing, Capoeira, and distributed systems.

Jason Alafgani

Jason is a Digital Marketing Manager at Mode. Before joining the team, he started a small professional networking app company called Leaf. He loves taking cheap trips internationally on weekends (recently, Iceland; shortly, Colombia), creating apps and grilling.

Jason Young

Jason is a DevOps engineer at Mode, building infrastructure and helping to make the lives of software engineers a little easier. He previously worked as an SRE at Oscar Health Insurance and Squarespace. Jason tries to keep his laptop closed when not at work, and instead enjoys the expansive natural beauty of the North Bay and organizes for health and housing justice.

Jefferson Leard

Jefferson is a Backend Engineer at Mode. He worked previously at Fandor and is always looking for ways to help those around him. When not at work he can be found playing with his pug Hobbes, having brunch, or if its a particularly good day, cheering on his favorite basketball team.

Jennifer Chu

Jenn is a Customer Success Analyst Team Lead at Mode where she provides customers with the resources to solve analytical problems and build killer visualizations. As someone who loves exploring San Francisco’s culinary diversity, she was previously in support operations at Caviar. Warm beaches, indoor gardening, event planning, and frozen desserts—these are a few of her favorite things.

Jesse Zackery

Jesse is on the Product team at Mode, crafting thoughtful, user-centered experiences to help users get the most out of the product for their data needs. Previously, he designed seller, investor, health device, and social media experiences for various startups in Silicon Valley, wearing many different design hats. Seeing technology and design enable people to do and be their best is what motivates him. In his free time, he loves to check his fitness tracker after a nice walk or bike ride, and volunteers his time by giving back to and sharing knowledge with underrepresented youth.

Jeuel Wilkerson

Jeuel is a Software Engineer at Mode. Before joining, he worked on teams that built out web-apps to help users discover insights from data science. In his free time, Jeuel likes to read, play video games, or perform music at sleepy cafes in the Richmond District on San Francisco!

Joel Carron

Joel is an Analyst at Mode, where he works with the Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to answer business questions and creates open-source reporting resources for customers. Before joining the Mode team, Joel was Data and Analytics Lead of Global Community Operations at Uber. A DC-area native, Joel moved to San Francisco in 2015. On the weekend, you're likely to find him reading crime fiction at one SF's many parks or playing chess.

Jon Krangel

Jon is the Director of Operations at Mode. Previously, Jon led Clever’s Mid-Market Sales & Customer Success teams and managed large analytics portfolios for Clever and LinkedIn. He’s had a variety of strategy, operations, sales, and analyst roles at technology companies of all sizes. When Jon isn’t helping Mode’s customers be wildly successful, he can be found eating his way through San Francisco or spending way too much time buying and tinkering with random gadgets.

Josee Smith

Josee is a People Operations Generalist at Mode, where she ensures that Mode's employee experience is best in class. Previously she supported the recruiting team at Mode, and prior to that she worked as a paralegal at a labor law firm. In her free time, she gets terrorized by her cat, Mindy, and aspires to read all the books in the world.

Josh Ferguson

Josh is a co-founder and Chief Architect at Mode. Previously, he built and managed the data engineering team at Yammer. Before that he spent about 10 years building web applications at a variety of companies. When he's not obsessing about data and visualizations you can probably find him taking a sip from a scorpion bowl or wandering around Disneyland with a corndog.

Josh Susser

Josh is a Senior Software Engineer at Mode. He got his start doing Smalltalk at Xerox back before OOP was cool, tends to write a lot, and founded and ran the Golden Gate Ruby Conference in San Francisco for a few years. He's fond of sci-fi novels, healthy cooking, and unhealthy puns.

Kara Quine

Kara does engineering at Mode; in past lives she's worked at Microsoft and run a software contracting business in Tokyo. Her interests include baking, queer interactive fiction, and human rationality. Ask her about her badger story!

Kathryn Meade

Kathryn works as a Recruiter at Mode. Previously, she has recruited heavily within the Technical, Creative and Product space for a number of years. Outside work, you'll find her either discovering new restaurants or boarding a plane to her next vacation destination.

Laurel Katz

Laurel is the Director of Design at Mode. Previously, she led design at companies including Fabric Genomics and Practice Fusion (acquired by Allscripts). She is passionate about building a design culture that fosters creativity and innovation, and creating impactful design systems across experience touchpoints. Outside the office you can find her crafting, exploring local eateries, and viewing the latest museum exhibit.

Lauren Pfeiffer

Lauren is a Recruiter at Mode, supporting growth on the engineering team. Previous to Mode, she was at OneSignal, Entelo, and Aerotek. In her free time, she is most likely eating sushi, cuddling by a fire, or at the Reno Rodeo.

Leqi Long

Leqi is a Customer Success Analyst at Mode Analytics. She helps answer a variety of questions coming from our customers while using Mode, which has her helping to write JavaScript for their reports. She previously worked at YouTube as Partner Monetization Support. She plays Chinese zither and currently enjoys playing Overwatch.

Liam Hausmann

Liam does Content Marketing at Mode. He began his career doing PR for enterprise software companies. Most recently, he built content marketing programs at analytics startups including Airware and Datahug. Outside of work, Liam enjoys making music, DJing, skimboarding and playing soccer.

Lindsay Hertz

Lindsay is a Software Engineer on the front-end team. Prior to joining Mode, she built web apps at Salesforce and Yerdle. Before that, she worked as a cheesemonger, and still loves sharing cheese knowledge with others. When she isn't coding, you'll likely find her halfway through a crafting project wondering if she should start another.

Marissa Gemma

Marissa is the Content Strategist at Mode. Before joining Mode, she earned a PhD in English, did research in France and Germany, and spent a year learning to code. When she's not at her desk, nowadays she spends as much time as possible with California's redwood trees.

Matt Knopp

Matt leads the Back-End Engineering Team at Mode. Previously he ran Infrastructure Engineering at Yammer/Microsoft. Outside of Mode, Matt spends his time raising two Tamaskan dogs, racing cars, cooking, and learning to draw.

Megan Hogan

Megan works on the Talent Team at Mode. In her previous position she helped Metaswitch grow their international sales and engineering teams. Along with a budding interest in floral design, she enjoys strength training in the gym and walking her dog through the streets of San Francisco.

Megan Kard

Megan is a pragmatist on the design team at Mode. Most recently she was working end-to-end with start-up clients and acting as ScrumMaster for product teams at Tradecraft. Passionate about UX strategy and novel user interactions, Megan can be found dissecting design structures and disappearing down research rabbit holes. When not at the office, she's playing instruments, frolicking in parks and going on photoshoots.

Michael Stock-Matthews

Michael is an engineer at Mode. He likes eating various foods and hiking in the East Bay.

Mike De Carlo

Mike is a Product Manager at Mode, and his coworkers call him 'MDC.' Mike spends his days shaping how the product should work, greasing the wheels of Product Design and Engineering, and ushering projects from conception to delivery, while the plant on his desk somehow manages to stay alive through all of it. Before Mode, Mike worked on multiple Operations teams at Facebook. While away from his keyboard, you can find him trying out different pasta sauce recipes, brewing beer, or exploring the incredible state of California.

Mike Yoon

Mike works as a Front-End Engineer at Mode, coding in Typescript. Previously, he has worked up and down the stack at companies including Airware, ScoreBig, and RazorFish.

Miro Kotzev

Miro is a senior DevOps Engineer at Mode and manages the cloud infrastructure. Previously, he led the DevOps efforts at Heighten and was part of senior engineering at NerdWallet, UrtheCast, and Anvato. Whenever he can find free time, he enjoys having a good sleep, often followed by breakfast.

Nate Festinger

Nate is a Customer Success Engineer at Mode, where he’s thrilled to help the talented team create a world-class customer experience! Nate comes to Mode from the Success team at Import.io. Before discovering code, Nate worked in music as a pianist, accompanist, and composer. He loves backpacking the California wilds and is happiest when at least 10,000 feet above sea level.

Nishi Patel

Nishi is on the Product team at Mode. Prior to joining Mode, she's worked on product teams in a wide range of industries and technologies, with her latest being in a direct-to-consumer subscription food company. The coolest product she worked on was an IoT device for tracking product movement on retail shelves; managing a large data science work stream was eye-opening for her to see all the gnarly things that could be built through data insights and analysis. Outside of work, she is always looking for the next best pizza place or finding the best spot for wine and cheese (carbs and cheese are her favorite food groups).

Oliver Sanford

Oliver is a Senior Software Engineer at Mode. A lifelong coder, he's been writing Ruby and JavaScript since 2007 for everyone from startups and agencies to Fortune 100 companies. When he's not at work, you can find him on cycling on the back roads of Marin or caring for an oversized collection of houseplants.

Patrick Menzel

Patrick is a DevOps Engineer at Mode and helps manage, maintain and develop infrastucture. Previously he worked for Roostify, an online home mortgage processing company, where he worked initially as a developer and then transitioned to DevOps. Prior to working in tech, Patrick worked as a senior paralegal for a private law firm. Outside of work, he enjoys being active, camping, hiking, playing basketball and a variety of other activities. He is also a DIEHARD Warriors fan.

Paul Thurlow

Paul shepherds the talented Front-End Engineering Team for Mode. His engineering career has woven through the likes of Microsoft, Yammer, and Yahoo to bring him here. His top life achievements include being a quarter finalist in an office Street Fighter tournament, finding a parking spot right under his apartment, and remembering to brush his teeth this morning.

Rafae Bhatti

Rafae is the Director of Security and Compliance at Mode. He has previously set up and managed security compliance programs at startups, first at New Relic (pre-IPO), and then at HealthTap. Prior to that, he has worked at larger companies (IBM, Oracle, Accenture, PwC) in technical and advisory roles. When he is not thinking about managing security and compliance risks, he is working toward a law degree, helping college students learn real world security concepts as a part-time educator, or planning the next travel destination to go explore with his family (most recently hiked the Great Wall of China).

Raffaele Gesulfo

Raffaele is a Designer at Mode, passionate about problem-solving through a user-centered design process and leveraging flexible and scalable design systems. He previously led the design effort on Hub at Narvar, an e-commerce startup. In his free time, Raff likes to discover new beautiful places around the US and play folk music with friends.

Richard Tu

Richard is helping provide companies with the right tools to analyze data as an Account Executive at Mode. Previously, he graduated from the University of California Davis with a degree in Managerial Economics. When he is not at Mode, he is either playing sports, getting brunch, or at a concert.

Roberto Salcido

Roberto is a Customer Success Analyst at Mode where he assists users with writing SQL Queries and creating interactive visualizations. He previously did similar work at an education technology company. His hobbies include playing/watching sports, camping, and traveling across Latin America.

Ryan Fogarty

Ryan is a Senior Account Executive, Vertical Lead, on the Sales Team at Mode. Prior to joining Mode as an early member of the team, Ryan built his sales career at Yammer-Microsoft, AnyPerk, and Kahuna. Outside of the office, you can find him on the golf course, basketball court, or hanging out with friends.

Ryan Kennedy

Ryan is a Senior Software Engineer at Mode. Born in the Silicon Valley, Ryan left town for college before returning to spend 18 years wandering the Silicon Valley. Ryan has shipped software at places like Excite@Home, Yahoo!, Netflix, Yammer, Microsoft, and YouTube, with roles in frontend, backend, and infrastructure teams. Outside of Mode, Ryan spends time with his family and jogs the Sawyer Camp Trail in hope of rediscovering the long distance running mediocrity of his youth.

Sadavath Sharma

Sadavath is a Pre-Sales Data Analyst at Mode. Previously he has helped decision makers at Fortune 500 companies make sense of the huge chunks of data they sit on. Outside of work, he enjoys being close to nature and trying spicy dishes with non-fizzy beverages.

Samantha Novak

Sam works on the Product Team to develop designs that keep both functionality and aesthetics in mind. Previously, she designed mobile and cloud solutions at TechSmith. She is determined to make analyzing data more approachable and collaborative for everyone, and to use design thinking to empower others. When she isn’t whipping up punny empty state illustrations, she’s likely cooking and eating cheesy concoctions or dressing up for impromptu nights of karaoke.

Sandra Liu

Sandra is passionate about solving customer problems and enabling customer success at Mode on the Account Management team. Previously, she worked at an open-source API integration company. She also loves tech gadgets and can never have enough Google Homes scattered around the house. On her free time, she stays active by going to kickboxing classes, riding bikes, and exploring her native city of San Francisco.

Shane Becker

Shane is a senior software engineer on the platform team. He loves Ruby, Rails, REST, and other things that start with the letter R. Like… raccoons! (They’ve got little bandit masks on their faces, paws that look like hands, and they’re always getting up to some mischief.) Previously: he lived in #LittleMisadventureTime, defeated cancer, and organized Farmhouse Conf. Currently on the side: he’s building Eefio, a REST API for Ethereum. (Red pandas, too!)

Stefanie Biaggi

Stefanie supports the Employee Experience and People teams at Mode. She previously was an admin for a non-profit agency and for an e-commerce company. For fun, Stefanie enjoys macrame and exploring new cities and countries with friends and family.

Suhas Deshpande

Suhas is a part of the Front-End Engineering team at Mode. He has spent over 6 years writing Javascript and yet he feels like he started doing it today. Suhas loves programming and finds that Javascript helps him communicate faster with computers. The speed at which the web is moving excites him. When he is not coding, Suhas loves to spend time with his wife and dog, Argo, travel to different places, especially national parks and places close to the sea, and try out weird food.

Tayler Mehit

Tayler is aiding the data driven in their mission as an Associate Marketing Manager at Mode. Previously, she built out an international specialty coffee program as Director of Wholesale for Four Barrel. When she's not at Mode, she's likely soldering silver jewelry, riding a bicycle, or drinking coffee while finishing a podcast.

Thomas Van Steyn

Thomas is an Account Manager at Mode, previously he was a member of our SDR team. Prior to joining Mode, Thomas worked in sales at Medrio and studied Dairy Sciences at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Ushashi Chakraborty

Ushashi is Director of Engineering, Backend, at Mode. She has previously led consumer web teams at Groupon and written accounting software at Microsoft. She has traveled through 17 countries, 7 of which she was solo, and plans on growing those counts but only as prime numbers. She is a Second City Training Center Chicago alum and loves comedy. However, she often tells jokes that only she finds funny.

Meet the team

Leadership

Analytics

Design

Engineering

Marketing

Operations

People

Product

Sales

Success

Alexa Guerra

Alexa Guerra

Alli Cernoch

Alli Cernoch

Amber Zeise

Amber Zeise

Ambreen Hasan

Ambreen Hasan

Annelies Husmann

Annelies Husmann

Anthony Daniell

Anthony Daniell

Anthony Simone

Anthony Simone

Asha Hill

Asha Hill

Austin Bell

Austin Bell

Bailey Douglass

Bailey Douglass

Benn Stancil

Benn Stancil

Bindu Mohan

Bindu Mohan

Brian Libicki

Brian Libicki

Chloe Follis

Chloe Follis

Chris Davis

Chris Davis

Christin Price

Christin Price

Claire Dickson

Claire Dickson

Colin Buresh

Colin Buresh

Curtis Mitchell

Curtis Mitchell

Darcy Ward

Darcy Ward

Derek Steer

Derek Steer

Franklin Clark

Franklin Clark

Grant Miller

Grant Miller

Han Wei

Han Wei

Heather Rivers

Heather Rivers

Hunter Havens

Hunter Havens

James Youn

James Youn

Jamon Douglas

Jamon Douglas

Jason Alafgani

Jason Alafgani

Jason Young

Jason Young

Jefferson Leard

Jefferson Leard

Jennifer Chu

Jennifer Chu

Jesse Zackery

Jesse Zackery

Jeuel Wilkerson

Jeuel Wilkerson

Joel Carron