PowerSchool Appoints New Leadership Positions to Lead Continued Company Growth
07 November 2022 - 10:20PM
Business Wire
Executives bring large-scale enterprise
experience to the cloud-based education technology leader as the
company aims to expand U.S. and International Market share
PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based
software for K-12 education in North America, today announced the
promotion of Eric Shander, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), to the
position of President and CFO, effective immediately. In addition
to his CFO responsibilities, his role will expand to include
PowerSchool’s global customer renewals and success functions.
Shander’s successful leadership of the finance, accounting, human
resources, investor relations, and information technology functions
for PowerSchool over the past two years has been instrumental in
the company’s success. Prior to joining PowerSchool, Shander held
financial and operational leadership roles at Red Hat, IBM, and
Lenovo.
“I couldn’t be more excited about the journey we’re on at
PowerSchool especially in this expanded role as President and CFO,”
said Eric Shander, President and CFO at PowerSchool. “Taking on
these additional responsibilities, I’ll have the opportunity to
apply even more of my experiences and skills to critical parts of
our business that will help us realize our company growth.”
In addition, PowerSchool announced today that Tony Kender joins
the company as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Kender brings with him
30+ years of experience in applications software and information
services, as well as leadership of sales, global marketing and
channels teams across all industries and selling motions.
“Joining PowerSchool as the new CRO is a meaningful opportunity,
both personally and professionally, as I’m committed to fulfill the
company’s mission to power the education ecosystem and help
educators and students realize their full potential,” said Tony
Kender, CRO at PowerSchool. “I look forward to the work ahead and
I’m confident that together with the entire PowerSchool team we
will exceed our goals.”
Prior to joining PowerSchool, Kender was CRO at FinancialForce
where he was responsible for all go-to-market teams from sales to
marketing to channels. There he led the business back to revenue
growth and delivered their best growth year in company history.
Before that, Kender served as Senior Vice President & General
Manager of North America Human Capital Management Sales at Oracle.
In this role, he led the Oracle Enterprise go-to-market sales
strategy and execution, transforming the organization from
on-premises offerings to the cloud business with a SaaS value
proposition. In addition, Tony also held sales and marketing
leadership roles at CorpU, Intralinks, SAP, and ADP.
“With Eric’s promotion into his expanded role as President and
CFO, and simultaneously bringing such a seasoned CRO as Tony onto
the team, it gives me great confidence that we will continue our
momentum and growth as a company,” said Hardeep Gulati, CEO of
PowerSchool. “Their incredible backgrounds and expertise in these
critical areas of our business sets us up perfectly to serve even
more educators and students around the world.”
About PowerSchool
PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC) is the leading provider of cloud-based
software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to
power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps
educators and students realize their full potential, in their way.
PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and
parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From
the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and
districts efficiently manage state reporting and related
compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent,
registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading,
assessments, and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool
supports over 45 million students globally and more than 15,000
customers, including more than 90 of the top 100 districts by
student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in
more than 90 countries. Visit www.powerschool.com to learn
more.
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