Management

Krassen Draganov
CEO and Co-Founder

Mr. Draganov co-founded Netage Solutions, Inc. in 1998.  As the company's Chief Executive Officer, he leads its management team and defines its vision and long-term strategy.  In the three years prior to Netage, Mr. Draganov was the Technology Director at Summit Partners, a leading global private equity and venture capital firm with a capital base in excess of $5 billion and offices in Boston, Palo Alto and London.  Prior to Summit, Mr. Draganov ran a desktop publishing company he founded in 1991.

 

Dilian Pavlov
President and Co-Founder

Mr. Pavlov co-founded Netage Solutions, Inc. in 1998.  A founding member of the Board of Directors, he is responsible for the strategic planning and management of the entire company and for the concept development of its flagship products.  Mr. Pavlov has extensive experience in the financial industry.  Before co-founding Netage, he worked at KPMG Barents Group, at the Bulgarian-American Enterprise Fund (a venture capital group), and as an investment manager with the Europa Capital Management (ECM) Bulgarian Post-privatization Fund. 

 

Stuart Sheppard
Managing Director, Sales and Marketing

Mr. Sheppard brings over 20 years of experience to this role at Netage, having held management positions at Putnam Investments and MetLife Investments as well as at two of the world's largest financial software companies – Thomson Financial and SunGard Systems.  He began his career as an investor relations consultant, serving as Director of the Investor Relations Practice for Ketchum Communications in New York.  His writing and research on investor relations issues has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Industry Week, the American Management Association Finance Review, and several other publications.  He is also a past winner of Miller Heiman's National Sales Award.