Meet our team of supply chain domain experts and operational excellence professionals committed to disrupting and redefining fulfillment for the age of immediacy.

Our always-solving culture and commitment to customer success help us create long-term relationships with market-leading companies focused on making and keeping more promises to their customers through modern fulfillment innovations.

Samay Kohli

Chief Executive Officer

As Chief Executive Officer, Samay leads our strategic direction globally and works alongside our visionary customers to imagine and create the future of fulfillment. His passion for robots and AI began while still a student at BITS (Pilani), India where he drew notice as part of a team that created AcYut, one of India’s first indigenous humanoid robots. Samay and teammate Akash Gupta began competing in robotics competitions across the globe, winning many honors including Gold Medalists at the renowned ROBOlympics. Together, Samay and Akash decided to direct their AI and Robotics expertise toward “solving a big enough problem.” They chose fulfillment, bootstrapping GreyOrange with investments from friends and family.

Today GreyOrange is a global leader in fulfillment, with customers, employees and investors around the world. Samay has shared his insights as a keynote speaker at prominent technology conferences around the world and was named to MIT Technology Review’s global list of “35 Innovators under 35.” Leading publications such as Forbes Asia, The Economic Times and Fortune have featured Samay’s story, which continues to expand through customer success across the globe. Samay leads GreyOrange from its US headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Akash Gupta

Chief Technology Officer

As Chief Technology Officer, Akash is central to our culture of innovation. His primary focus is driving research and development and attracting the brightest talent globally as the company uniquely blends Artificial Intelligence, software design, robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and data science to transform fulfillment for companies worldwide. Akash leads innovation across three R&D centers in the United States and India from our Delhi headquarters.

While still a student at BITS Pilani, India, Akash teamed up with fellow student Samay Kohli to begin winning global robotic competitions, success that led he and Samay to found GreyOrange. He proceeded to build an R&D engine able to unite multiple software and robotic technologies to transform the fulfillment operations of companies around the world. Akash has led mentoring sessions and workshops at more than 25 educational institutions globally, including Stanford University, Louisiana University, MIT, IITs, and IIIT. Akash was named to MIT Technology Review’s global list of “35 Innovators under 35,” has designed and implemented an active underwater Sonar Stabilization System at the University of Louisiana and served on the Chief Organizing Committee of RoboCup 2011-2012.

Alex Carvalhal

Chief Financial Officer

As Chief Financial Officer, Alex directs financial and legal operations globally from our greater Atlanta area headquarters. Alex draws on his extensive experience driving international profitability for SaaS technology companies to help shape GreyOrange’s global growth strategy and performance. Having served in key financial and global business strategy roles at leading enterprises such as SAP, Lenovo and Motorola, Alex has led a variety of key growth initiatives in Latin America and Asia, including serving three years as CFO and Vice President of Finance and Representative Director of SAP Japan. There he led strategies that triggered more than 90 percent growth in cloud business while also improving profitability and customer Net Promoter scores. Alex is an alumnus of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and has two MBAs from the University of São Paulo, one focused on Finance and Risk Management and the other specializing in Controllership. He also holds Six Sigma Black Belt Certification.

Deborah Surrette

Chief Commercial Officer

Deborah leads commercial strategy and activities focusing on sales and customer success to drive growth and market share in current and new markets. Ms. Surrette has extensive experience in revenue growth and go-to-market strategy for retail, SaaS, cloud, and mobile solutions and is integral to our global expansion strategy. Ms. Surrette’s experience includes executive positions leading enterprise sales, solutions consulting, demand generation, and operations for global teams at Oracle Retail, Tulip Retail, IBM, and Sterling Commerce. Through her role as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations for Sterling Commerce, Deborah drove market growth in supply chain software, ecommerce, and customer experience, leading to Sterling’s successful acquisition by IBM.

Jeff Cashman

Senior Vice President

As Senior Vice President, Jeff shapes strategies to drive global customer acquisition. He leverages the deep supply chain technology expertise he has built working with global enterprise customers to advance our customer-first relationship strategy.

Jeff brings 30+ years of supply chain technology experience to GreyOrange, most recently as the CEO of Ally Commerce, an e-commerce service provider for brand manufacturers. He also spent 12 years as an executive in Accenture’s Supply Chain Strategy Practice as well as 13 years as SVP of Business Development at supply chain solution provider Manhattan Associates. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Management Information Systems from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Vartul Jain

Senior Vice President, Certified Ranger Network

As Senior Vice President, Vartul Jain leads the Certified Ranger Network (CRN) business unit in GreyOrange, which certifies a network of hardware and software solutions to meet the market-leading parameters in performance, efficiency, safety, compliance and total value already established by GreyMatter software and Ranger robots from GreyOrange. Unique in the industry, the CRN streamlines integration of modern fulfillment automation solutions and ongoing operating costs in multi-vendor fulfillment environments. Vartul previously led Financial and Legal Operations globally as SVP and Chief Financial Officer for GreyOrange. He has extensive expertise in shaping business and financial strategy for multinational companies, including Samsung Electronics, Wipro GE Healthcare, and General Electric. Named to the “Top 100 CFOs in India” by CFO Magazine, Vartul played an instrumental role in setting frameworks for successful global business operations for GreyOrange. In addition to completing Advanced Corporate Finance from IIM – Ahmedabad, Vartul holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and an Associate degree from The Institute of Charted Accountants of India.

Terrie O’hanlon

Chief Marketing Officer & Vice President

As Chief Marketing Officer, Terrie leads corporate and solution brand positioning strategy and demand generation worldwide. Terrie has driven marketing strategy as CMO for leading companies in both emerging and established markets, including supply chain, financial ecommerce, healthcare, enterprise applications and cybersecurity. Her supply chain experience includes orchestrating a successful brand transformation for Manhattan Associates, a global leader in supply chain commerce, inventory optimization and omnichannel solutions. She sits on the Board of Directors for Revved Up Kids, a US non-profit dedicated to the safety of children.
Terrie holds a Master of Business Administration in Marketing from Columbia University, New York, and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the University of Florida, where she graduated as valedictorian.

Ramya Sampath Sharma

Chief People Officer

As Chief People Officer, Ramya leads human resource strategies in support of the most important asset at GreyOrange – our people. Ramya serves as the company’s culture ambassador and a passionate champion for the talented team members at GreyOrange who are transforming the fulfillment industry. Ramya drives programs globally for talent acquisition, learning and development, performance management, compensation and benefits, and HR data & analytics, equipping GreyOrange as a foremost employer in technology that attracts, retains and grows the best talent. A proven people-first leader with 24 years of experience, Ramya most recently served as Chief People Officer for Microland, a leading global infrastructure services company. Her extensive experience includes driving human resource strategies for global tech powerhouses Intel Corporation and Accenture Technology. Ramya holds a Master of Business Administration from Xavier’s Labour Relations Institute and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Jyoti Nivas College.

Abhi Ravishankar

Vice President – Customer Success

As Vice President, Customer Success, Abhi heads our Customer Success division focused on creating exceptional experiences that drive long-term business value for our customers.  Abhi’s global team of professional services, support and transformation experts employs Customer-First best practices that shape our role as trusted advisors to the world’s leading brands. Ravishankar has more than 12 years of leadership and engineering experience both as an advisor to C-suite executives and as an operator driving rapid growth. At Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Abhi served as Managing Director and Partner in the firm’s San Francisco office where he focused on high-impact transformational changes, fast-growth initiatives, go-to-market strategy and scaling operations in high-growth markets.  Prior to BCG, he managed operations in the Middle East for Schlumberger, a leading oilfield services and technology company. He is an alumnus of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and BITS Pilani.

Lesley Simmonds

Vice President, Global Business Development and Alliances

As Vice President, Global Business Development and Alliances, Lesley leads our Alliance Ecosystem initiative focused on driving global growth and scalability. Her team aligns a community of consultancies, complementary technology providers, and channel partners to augment our global go-to-market strategy, furthering our substantial technological competitive advantages and solution scalability. Simmonds has 20 years of global experience in executive leadership roles focused on go-to-market and product strategy, business and alliance development, and channel growth. Her background includes leadership at established market leaders such as Oracle, Retek and XCCommerce as well as early-to-mid-stage disrupters such as Theatro.

Gautam Pande

Vice President – Strategic Initiatives

As Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Gautam works in tandem with leadership team members and discipline-specific resources to define the operating goals and structure of strategic initiatives addressing market expansion, customer value, operational readiness or other focus areas important to our long-term success. Gautam brings to bear 13+ years of cross functional leadership experience in eCommerce, technology  and consulting on teams in India, the United States and Europe. As a previous food tech venture founder, a founding team member at Jabong (Rocket Internet) and head of marketing and business intelligence at Goibibo (Naspers), Gautam brings to our teams his multidimensional experience as an entrepreneur establishing global best practices for designing and scaling  previously unstructured start-ups so they can become data- and process-driven organizations. Gautam holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and a Master of Business Administration in Strategy & Finance from ISB Hyderabad, and while at Naspers completed the Harvard University executive program on eCommerce.