Leadership Team

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Brian Thomas

President and CEO

About Brian Thomas

Brian creates a unified mission to protect and serve all students — and guides all divisions within the company toward achieving it.

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Kirk Orgeldinger

CFO/COO

About Kirk Orgeldinger

Kirk uses his decades of financial and operational experience in high-growth tech companies to drive Lightspeed’s continued growth and rapid scalability.

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Brook Bock

Chief Product Officer

About Brook Bock

Brook Bock, Chief Product Officer, leads Lightspeed’s product strategy and growth, ensuring educators and school staff are set up to succeed in keeping their students safe and enhancing learning outcomes.

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Craig Chanoff

CRO

About Craig Chanoff

Craig aligns the go-to-market functions, better positioning the company to serve customers and further differentiate in the edtech category.

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Carson McMillan

CTO

About Carson McMillan

Carson crafts a vision of Lightspeed Systems solutions that give schools what they need — and things they didn’t know they needed.

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Chris Travis

EVP, Sales

About Chris Travis

Chris ensures that every purchase schools make is for the right solutions that will drive them toward their goals.

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Jamie Ryan

EVP, Operations & General Counsel

About Jamie Ryan

Jamie uses his operational, corporate development, and legal experience to ensure fantastic customer service and enable transformative growth.

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Amy Bennett

Chief of Staff

About Amy Bennett

Amy uses her decades of experience in ed-tech and over ten years at Lightspeed to coordinate communication across departments, keeping everything running smoothly — even in the midst of rapid growth.
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Rob Chambers

VP, Platform Strategy

About Rob Chambers

Rob makes sure from implementation through ongoing use, schools get the greatest, quickest results from our solutions.

Mike Durando

VP, Strategic Partnerships

About Mike Durando

Mike drives the industry relationships that make it easy to buy our solutions with your devices or through your favorite partner.

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Kevin Chiang

VP, Finance

About Kevin Chiang

Kevin ensures every department remains data-driven and focused on the metrics that drive our growth and success.