About ProjectManager
ProjectManager is an award-winning software company who is transforming how businesses get work done. Our cloud-based project portfolio management platform enables world-class collaboration for thousands of customers globally, with tools for project planning, workflow management, resource management and time tracking across the entire work lifecycle.
ProjectManager provides in-depth features for leaders to make data-driven decisions and for businesses to manage projects of all levels of complexity on one, accessible SaaS platform. Organizations such as NASA, Marriott and AT&T rely on our software to manage their teams, their projects, and do amazing things together. ProjectManager is headquartered in Austin, with offices in Auckland, Seattle and other great cities across the globe.
Meet our Leadership Team
Kevin Riegelsberger
CEO & Chairman of the Board
Kevin has a 40-year track record of leading software companies to significant growth and profitability. Over the course of his career, he has been known as a strong hands-on leader, with effective operational skills and a style focused on results oriented performance. His ability to dive deep into the details to understand a business and its strategic levers is coupled with his experience building and managing strong, performing teams. His primary focus was on early stage companies’ growth to significant enterprises. He is a well-known and highly respected executive, both in the software industry, as well as with several Seattle and Silicon Valley Venture Capital firms. Currently retired from operational roles, he serves on a number of boards and enjoys mentoring early stage CEO’s.
Pascal Van Dooren
CRO
Pascal has over 25 years experience with helping high growth tech companies reach their potential. He focuses on building & managing GTM growth via profitable operations that drive exceptional customer experience. He has a proven track record of managing sales and marketing teams at major tech companies such as Epicor, Sage and Avalara. Pascal is a board member, investor & technology executive with broad geographic experience, including North America and international markets like APAC, EMEA and LatAm.
Lauren Petter
CMO
Lauren is a seasoned marketer and technologist with a special focus in software marketing & product strategy. Lauren has a passion for helping companies transform to product and marketing-led growth models. Prior to ProjectManager, Lauren led initiatives and teams at Avalara, Zillow and later founded her own marketing consulting firm focused on helping grow software startups.
Stephanie Ray
VP of Product
Stephanie leads the product team to deliver the best software for our global customer base. Stephanie has over 15 years experience leading innovative cross-platform content products, was the co-founder of two magazines and was on the launch team of several mobile app products. She is passionate about producing amazing content, driving product innovation, engaging audiences and discovering new ways people can work together. She is based in Austin, TX, where she lives with her husband, two kids, two cats, a bearded dragon and their very barky Corgi.
Ted Spence
Head of Engineering
Over a thirty-year career, Ted Spence has led development teams across a wide variety of startups, established businesses, and video game companies. A talented IT and engineering leader, he built renowned websites in the Web 1.0 era, designed Avalara’s automated returns filing business, and designed the AvaTax REST API. He has built successful engineering teams from the ground up at Lockstep (now Sage) and EEDAR (now NPD), and delivered world-class developer tools at Facebook. Ted teaches Data Analytics at Bellevue College and lives in West Seattle with his wife and daughter. You can find him biking to Alki beach whenever the clouds break.
Kathy Thal
Head of Customer Success
Kathy serves as Head of Customer Success, with over twenty years of experience working in customer service. Kathy specializes in a proactive approach to helping customers use products while increasing loyalty and retention. She started her career as an art teacher working with differently-abled children, and is a proponent for the acceptance and understanding of individuals with developmental and learning differences. Kathy is inspired daily by her husband and her 17-year-old daughter. In her free time, Kathy likes to read, draw, and seek treasures in vintage stores.
Sara McConnell
VP of People and Culture
Sara has served in the HR space for nearly 20 years. She has had the great opportunity to serve as a communication hub for C-suite leaders, staff, partners, and managers for several companies. Working in a people-centric field, it is so important to create space for each member of the team to be able to find the space they need to share, inquire, learn, innovate, and thrive. She finds that her greatest skill is building confidence in relationships with cross-functional partners. She also finds it incredibly important to allow her colleagues to know they have the time and the space to be a person, that your career doesn’t make up the sum of who you are as a person, and it should be additive to your life as a whole. Sara lives just outside of Austin, TX with her husband, sweet son, and 2 dog children.
Tracy Jones
Director, Sales
Tracy serves as the Director, Sales, and has spent his entire 30 years of experience leading sales teams in the software and data industries, primarily with early stage and mid-market companies. Prior to joining ProjectManager, Tracy served as a Director of Sales with Avalara and as an Enterprise Team Leader with Dun & Bradstreet. Tracy received his undergraduate degree from the University of Richmond, where he also received a Mini-MBA.
Global approach. Years of experience.
Trusted by 35,000+ users worldwide.
“The reporting feature is outstanding – lets you personalize the reporting, and export it.”
“It has an excellent price if we think about all the functions that ProjectManager has.”
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Experience ProjectManager
ProjectManager was founded in 2008 with ambition, hard work and a desire to become the best online project management software with advanced features on a SaaS platform.