Kenneth serves as the driving force of our company’s strategic vision and execution. He leverages over 30 years of senior executive leadership in a variety of operational functions. Kenneth’s technology and product strengths are combined with significant scaled operational and go-to-market experiences in Private Equity, Venture Capital-backed and Public companies.

Most recently, Kenneth played numerous roles within Vista Equity Partners including CEO of Kibo Commerce, President/COO of Aptean as well as providing support for other strategic initiatives within its portfolio. Prior to Vista, he was President and member of the Executive Committee at Alcatel-Lucent responsible for its global solutions and marketing division. He had earlier roles at Masergy, Broadband Office, BellSouth and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Kenneth received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, his M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and his M.B.A. from Emory University.

Rich brings 30 years of accounting and finance experience to Turning Technologies. His background includes eight years with Ernst & Young working in the Entrepreneurial Services Group focused on assisting companies with growth. He specialized in serving high-tech clients and was the Senior Manager on two very successful initial public offerings. After Ernst & Young, Rich spent 11 years as VP of Greenville Tube Company, leading the team through its first ever system implementation and a period in which revenue growth nearly doubled. Shortly thereafter Rich spent time working with three different companies in the oil and gas industry, leading teams as large as 40 people and managing assets well over a billion dollars. Rich is a Certified Public Accountant and received a Master of Science degree in Finance from Carnegie Mellon University. As well as his responsibilities at Turning Technologies, Rich is an adjunct professor at La Roche College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumni.

Fares oversees all software development of both products and internal applications. His responsibilities include leading the research and development of software products, testing and proving new designs, assisting with product design and specifications, assigning responsibilities, creating timelines, defining objectives and assisting the team through product conception, planning and creation. Additionally, Fares is responsible for everything relating to information technology for both customers and employees. He consistently follows industry standards, best practices, convention over configuration and agile methodology. Fares started his career as a software engineer with a background in mobile development and server applications. He has a B.S. in Computer Science, an M.S. in Computing and Information Systems and an M.B.A. from Youngstown State University.

Kevin Herrholtz serves as the Vice President of Client Success at Turning Technologies. His responsibilities entail overseeing the Product and Client Success teams with the goal of ensuring clients have an optimal experience with Turning Technologies and its products. With more than 13 years of experience in education and training, he was instrumental in developing the training and implementation teams at Turning Technologies, as well as overhauling the client care process. Kevin served as a Regional Director for the Association of Talent Development (ATD) and is a current Board member. Kevin obtained his M.S. in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of North Dakota.

As the Vice President of Corporate and Government Sales, Chuck is responsible for growing our current customer base and driving ongoing customer satisfaction.  He works closely with partner organizations to leverage joint solutions with existing and new customers.  In his role, Chuck develops and executes growth plans to help the company achieve key milestones.  He coordinates with product development and marketing divisions to provide valuable customer and market insights, beneficial to the ongoing development of the business.

In this role, John is responsible for guiding the development of Turning Technologies’ software applications, providing hosting, site reliability and ensuring efficient operation of the internal IT team. John has over ten years of experience in technology leadership positions and possesses a proven record of increasing efficiency, system reliability and customer satisfaction while reducing cost and operational complexity. A strong proponent of the agile methodology, John has demonstrated the ability to introduce, adapt and enhance the use of agile processes in both software development and operations-focused teams. John possesses current certifications as a Certified Scrum Developer, Product Owner, Scrum Master and Scrum Professional from the Scrum Alliance. He has been certified as an Amazon AWS Solutions Architect and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Duquesne University and an M.B.A. from Youngstown State University.