Executive Team

Executive Management Team

Business & Strategic Development

ShareFile Management Team

Jesse Lipson

A self-taught software programmer, Jesse has been involved in internet technologies since 1999. In 2001, he became President of Rapidata.net, a pharmaceutical market research company. In just two years, he helped grow revenues at Rapidata.net by over 500% and laid the foundation for the company's acquisition by Greenfield Online. Subsequent to Rapidata.net, Jesse co-founded and served as CEO for the web site development firm novelProjects.

Jesse founded ShareFile in late 2005. In just over 6 years, he has helped grow ShareFile from zero to almost 20,000 corporate customers, over 100 full-time employees, and over 3 million users. Jesse graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University with a degree in philosophy in 2000.

Peter Hebert

Peter oversees the development team and manages ShareFile's technical infrastructure. Before joining ShareFile, Peter spent seven years at MDeverywhere, where he served as technical lead for their Palm OS product line and software architect for their in-house document imaging and workflow system. Peter graduated from Duke University with a degree in Computer Science and Economics.

Nate Spilker

Nate Spilker joined ShareFile in 2007, to oversee all aspects of client services and the day-to-day operations of this quickly emerging company. Under Nate's leadership, ShareFile's customer base has grown by more than 500%, while his team has maintained a 99.6% customer satisfaction rate. Prior to joining ShareFile, Nate worked at MDeverywhere, a start-up medical software company, for 11 years. As one of its first employees, Nate served in many roles - developer, database administrator and Program Manager - and played an Integral role in designing and developing a leading medical charge capture solution. Nate graduated from Duke University in 1995.

Ed Cheely

Ed most recently helped build Yext, the "next Yellow Pages," in New York City, where he worked as overall VP of Sales and the President of multiple business units. Prior to Yext he managed and led campus sales for Ruckus Network, an online music company in Washington, DC. His time before Ruckus was spent in North Carolina. After graduating from Duke University with some kind of cum laude distinction (he's not exactly sure which one), Ed moved on to leadership positions in both the for-profit and not-for-profit arenas, working closely with his mentor, August Turak.

Pete Harvey

Pete joined ShareFile in October of 2010. Pete's responsibilities will include finance and operations for the Company. Prior to joining ShareFile, Pete was one of the founders of Active Data Services, Inc. (ADS) in RTP North Carolina. ADS formed as a business process outsourcing company via MBO in 2002. As the leader of the finance and administration team Pete's skills were instrumental in the Company's growth and successful sale to a Strategic Buyer in the fall of 2009. Prior to ADS, Pete held a variety of financial and accounting positions at Lason, Bell and Howell, Kraft Foods, and Price Waterhouse. Pete graduated from the University of Notre Dame.

Bill Carovano

Bill is responsible for product management & marketing for the ShareFile Enterprise product line at Citrix. He has been with Citrix for over 12 years in numerous roles, including customer-facing leadership positions in Consulting Services and Systems Engineering as well as Product Development & Marketing roles for the XenServer, XenDesktop, and XenApp product lines. Prior to Citrix, Bill spent 5 years with Accenture as an IT consultant and project manager.

Cat Allday

Cat Allday is responsible for product management for the ShareFile product, specifically representing the needs of the SMB and vertical markets and the Business Professional user. Cat previously led product management teams at Citrix Online Services Division, for the collaboration products: GoToMeeting, GoToTraining, GoToWebinar and GoView.

Juan Rivera

Juan is responsible for the ShareFile Enterprise Engineering group. He focuses on building enterprise solutions on the ShareFile platform. Juan is a Citrix veteran having joined the company in 2001. During the early years at Citrix, Juan worked on a wide range of products including Secure Gateway and Access Gateway. Juan then moved to lead the engineering team that created the HDX technologies. Most recently Juan led a global engineering team releasing XenDesktop 5.5. Prior to Citrix, Juan held R&D positions at Kodak and AT&T Bell Labs.

Meeghn Hanson

Meeghn is responsible for marketing at ShareFile, overseeing the team’s efforts across all online and offline marketing channels. Prior to joining ShareFile Meeghn was the VP of Marketing for lynda.com, the largest provider of online software training. While there she helped the business grow by 190%. Prior to lynda.com, Meeghn held brand management and CRM/loyalty marketing roles within the CPG firms of Mars, Inc. and Mattel.