Management Team

Dr. Deepak Kumar
Chief Technology Officer and Founder

Dr. Kumar is responsible for strategic product direction and leads the development organization. He was the lead program manager with Microsoft's Systems Management Server 2003 team and program manager with the Windows NT Networking team. Prior to Microsoft, he was a group manager for IP Telephony products at Nortel. Dr. Kumar has received five patents related to his work on SMS 2003 at Microsoft and has written more than 50 publications, including a book on Windows programming. While at Microsoft, Dr. Kumar also authored the Thinkweek paper for Bill Gates that became Project Greenwich, now known as Microsoft Office Communications Server / Lync.

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Todd Floyd
Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations

Todd is responsible for sales and business development for Adaptiva globally, as well as leading the software engineering and customer success teams, both directly and with partner organizations. Todd has over 20 years of experience leading sales, marketing and operations with both large and start-up enterprises. Prior to joining Adaptiva, Todd was responsible for sales and operations for BMC Software in the Pacific Northwest.  Todd has held various sales and marketing leadership positions both in the US/Canada and Asia Pacific-Japan for Siebel/Oracle, Endeca, Parametric Technology and Xerox Corporation. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Washington State University.

Jason Sandys
Director of Solutions Engineering

Jason is responsible for the delivery of Adaptiva solutions to our clients in both pre and post sales engagements, the development and deployment of test case scenarios and validation events for clients.  Jason is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for System Center Configuration Manager and has spent 17 years in the IT industry implementing and supporting Microsoft-centric solutions for a wide variety of customers. Jason has been a frequent presenter at Microsoft TechEd and the Microsoft Management Summit, is a contributing author on the “System Center ConfigMgr 2007 Unleashed,” and is working on his next publication for ConfigMgr 2012. Prior to  Adaptiva, Jason was a managing consultant for Catapult Systems where he worked directly with customers deploying and supporting their ConfigMgr solutions. Jason holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Chérie Wentz Blehm
Director of Marketing

Chérie leads global marketing and branding initiatives. She comes to Adaptiva with a solid background in marketing communications and product marketing with high tech companies—from early stage to established Fortune 500 firms. She has extensive experience driving awareness via traditional and social media channels, developing integrated online marketing communications and go-to-market activities for client server and cloud-based software offerings. Prior to Adaptiva, Chérie held senior marketing positions at TappIn, DocuSign, Lynx Medical and Microsoft. While at DocuSign, Chérie achieved a 74% share of total market reach and 56% viewership reach, helping propel DocuSign to its current leadership position. She holds an MBA with an emphasis in Marketing and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington.