About AHEAD

Eric Kaplan

Eric Kaplan joined AHEAD in 2010 as the Chief Technology Officer managing AHEAD’s consulting and service delivery organizations. In this capacity, Eric guides his team in evaluating clients’ business and technological requirements in a rapidly evolving landscape. In turn, his team develops and delivers solutions for enterprise organizations looking to drive adoption and accelerate the move to agile and cost-efficient platforms within their own data centers and the cloud.

Additionally, Eric manages AHEAD’s Lab environment, its internal IT department, and AHEAD’s technology partnerships.

Prior to joining AHEAD, Eric served in many IT-oriented roles at EMC, a technology industry market-leader, where he was responsible for architecting next-generation data center solutions and driving technology strategy.

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.