About AHEAD

Eric Kaplan

Eric Kaplan is the Chief Technology Officer at AHEAD, a leading provider of IT consulting and enterprise solutions focused on enterprise service management, cloud, DevOps, security, and data center infrastructure. A 20-year industry veteran, Eric has seen the impact that innovation in these domains has on clients—making them more nimble, transformative, and customer-focused.

With expertise in infrastructure, automation, storage, virtualization and enterprise cloud, Eric helps to define and execute AHEAD’s go-to-market strategy, as well as establish and expand its technology and emerging startup partnerships through his relationships with the venture capital community in Silicon Valley and Israel.

In addition to managing both the AHEAD Services and Pre-Sales organizations, Eric oversees the AHEAD Lab and Briefing Center, a highly dynamic and sophisticated multi-vendor lab environment. The lab offers a hands-on experience, enabling clients to explore innovative and emerging technologies and interact with industry experts to help find a guiding strategy for executing cloud solutions in the enterprise.

Prior to joining AHEAD in 2010, Eric served in Sales Engineering, Product Management and Strategy roles at Dell EMC (formerly EMC). Eric began his career at InstallShield Software Corporation.

Tim Frank

Tim Frank joined AHEAD in 2008 to help build the company’s sales organization. As the Executive Vice President of Sales, Tim is responsible for AHEAD’s revenue growth and execution, partnerships, and most importantly, customer satisfaction. Prior to joining AHEAD, Tim spent 7+ years with EMC, a technology industry market-leader, in both sales management and account management positions leading sales and engineering teams all across the United States. In these roles, he received several national awards for leadership and achievement as a top performer year after year.

Tim has also been a guest lecturer for sales management in the MBA program at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois

With over 20 years of experience in sales, sales management, and revenue execution, Tim’s proven track record and vision have been invaluable to AHEAD’s growth as a premier technology company.

Andrew Szafran

Andrew Szafran joined AHEAD in 2016 as the CFO overseeing finance and operations. He has over 25 years of financial management experience and has acted as a CFO for both privately-held and public companies since 2002.

Andrew brings a wealth of experience from a variety of industries; most notably, business services, value-added distribution, telecommunications, and private education.

He has a strong track record helping enterprises grow successfully while delivering the highest levels of service and value to their customers.

Tom Pohlmann

Tom Pohlmann joined AHEAD in 2017 as CMO responsible for brand, messaging, demand generation, events, and media relations.

Highly regarded in the technology sector as an innovator and thought leader, Tom excels at guiding businesses through transformations in their strategy and go-to-market efforts. He has 25 years of experience, including leadership roles at data and analytics solutions providers, as well as 14 years at Forrester Research, where he ran the IT research and advisory business unit, plus corporate strategy and marketing.