Sam Chandler

Founder & CEO

Sam started his first company at 16, while still in high school, and his second at 21, while attending university. After founding Nitro with several friends in Melbourne in 2005, the once-tiny startup has gone on to become a Silicon Valley success story. Today, Sam leads a team of over 200 Nitronauts across the US, Australia, Europe and Asia, and every month, millions of people in nearly 200 countries use Nitro products.

Sam was the Ernst and Young Australian Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year for 2014. He's on a permanent leave of absence from Melbourne's RMIT University, where he studied business, after moving to San Francisco to establish Nitro's global headquarters. On the weekends, depending on the weather and the season, you’ll typically find him motorcycling, cycling or skiing.

Gina O’Reilly

COO

Part of the Nitro team as COO since 2008, Gina has global responsibility for the Business Operations, Marketing, and People functions, including Employee Experience and Talent. With over 15 years of software industry experience, Gina seeks to attract, retain, and cultivate the best talent at Nitro. In order to accomplish this goal, she is passionate about developing a creative, challenging, fun, diverse, and inspiring work environment that makes every Nitronaut feel that his or her contribution helps grow the business. Prior to Nitro, Gina oversaw global sales and marketing at activePDF, a leading provider of server-side PDF solutions and developer tools.

Fluent in French, Gina holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix as well as a BA International Marketing & Languages from Dublin City University, Ireland. In her spare time, Gina loves good food and wine, keeping fit, travel, and plenty of California sunshine.

Barry Sowerwine

CRO

With over 30 years of experience in sales and sales leadership, Barry joins Nitro as the company’s first CRO. Globally responsible for Sales and Customer Success, Barry focuses on optimizing revenue generation across Nitro sales channels and the complete customer lifecycle—from acquisition to retention. Prior to joining Nitro, Barry spent seven years at Tableau, where he helped build the Enterprise Sales function from three employees and $7 million in bookings to 300 employees and over $300 million in bookings. His impressive resume also includes Vice President Sales positions at companies like PeopleSoft, Unica, and FiberTower, just to name a few.

A former Texas A&M Yell Leader, Barry lives near Dallas with his wife and three children, and fosters an affinity for motorcycles and CrossFit (though preferably not together).

Jeff Kreutz

VP, Product

Jeff leads the development of Nitro’s Smart Document platform with global responsibility for Product Strategy, Engineering, Product Management, and User Experience. Jeff has more than 15 years of experience leading teams that build customer-centric, well-crafted, market-winning products. Before joining Nitro, Jeff led Product at several companies including RightNow Technologies, where he helped grow the company from $30M to over $225M before Oracle’s $1.5B acquisition in 2012. Jeff was previously Director of Product Management at Siebel Systems during its rapid growth to $1.3B before Oracle’s $5.8B acquisition in 2005.

Jeff holds an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, and a BA in Psychology (which he uses daily) from DePauw University. He lives north of San Francisco and enjoys travel, skiing, hiking and cooking with his wife, two daughters, and one-eyed beagle named Pippa.

Janelle van de Velde

Chief of Staff

Janelle joined the team in March 2017 as Nitro's first Chief of Staff. Janelle has extensive global travel experience while performing executive roles in both privately and publicly listed companies. Prior to joining Nitro, Janelle was globally responsible for stakeholder management, corporate communications, operations, and corporate governance at an Australian organization, which she helped expand and grow from an early-stage business of five staff members to a multinational, diversified business of over 400 employees. She has also supported Boards on both the Australia and Singapore Stock Exchanges.

Janelle is currently completing her Executive MBA at Bond University, Australia. When she's not studying, she enjoys wining and dining, experiencing new travel destinations, and spending quality time with family and friends.

Richard Wenzel

VP, Strategic Operations

One of Nitro's founders, and now serving as VP of Strategic Operations, Rich is responsible for corporate operations, compliance, corporate governance, key treasury functions, and legal and shareholder affairs.

Prior to joining Nitro, Rich was an advisor at the Kerry Packer-controlled Challenger Group, in Melbourne. Rich returned to Melbourne from Milan, where he managed funding requirements for the Italian office of Bankers Trust (now part of Deutsche Bank AG), prior to which he was in London, where he worked as a trader in the treasury department.

Rich holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Gerry Treacy

VP, EMEA Sales

Gerry is responsible for leading and accelerating Nitro’s revenue growth across the EMEA region. With years of experience at high-growth software companies, he has a proven track record of building sales teams from the ground up. Prior to Nitro, he led global revenue growth as VP of Sales at Severalnines. In his five-year tenure at MongoDB, Gerry—the first employee outside the U.S.—cultivated the EMEA business from scratch and ultimately managed corporate sales for both the EMEA and APAC regions. Gerry also helped scale MySQL in EMEA, leading the global corporate sales groups after the acquisition by Oracle.

Outside of work, Gerry enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, as well as playing football and golf (albeit badly).

Roland Tritsch

VP, Engineering

Roland leads, builds and runs our world-wide, world-class engineering organisation and ensures that R&D, Infrastructure Engineering, Data Engineering and Platform Engineering are aligned to build our next-generation Smart Document Management platform. He is passionate about software engineering as a craft and likes to build scalable systems that make users smile.

In the last 25 years Roland has held various technical leadership positions. Before Nitro, Roland was the VP Infrastructure Engineering at Gilt Groupe, where he scaled the infra and tech ops for Gilt Groupe's flash sale platform. He also led the buildout of their Dublin engineering team, and was a key contributor in transitioning Gilt's tech stack to Scala. Before Gilt, Roland spent 9 years at IONA Technologies, a Dublin startup success story where he managed Professional Services and Technical Services for their EMEA operation. He’s also held roles as CTO, Chief Architect, Chief Open Source Strategist, and most recently served in an operations role coordinating a cross-functional, global Business and Application Services team at Fujitsu.

Candice O’Meara

VP, Finance

Part of the Nitro team since 2006, Candice leads the global finance organization with teams in San Francisco, Melbourne and Dublin overseeing the accounting, business support, financial planning and analysis, risk management, corporate finance, audit and compliance functions at Nitro.

Candice attended Monash University in Melbourne, Australia where she received a double Bachelor’s degree in Business (Accounting) and Business (Management). Candice is also a Chartered Accountant.

In her spare time, you’ll find Candice spending quality time with her family, enjoying the outdoors and (long) lunching with friends.

Steve Bower

VP, Customer Success & Solutions

Steve brings an incredible wealth of experience to Nitro as VP of Customer Success & Solutions. With 25 years of Engineering, Sales Engineering & Professional Services experience, Steve is an integral part of driving global revenue and product adoption across all regions at Nitro. Previously, as Nitro’s VP of Engineering, Steve oversaw the global expansion of the Engineering team and the launch of many Nitro Pro & Nitro Cloud product releases.

Prior to joining Nitro, Steve directed organizations for both large and small companies including Autodesk, where he drove Enterprise Application development in the office of the CIO.

Having lived and worked in Boston, San Francisco, Paris, Milan, and Rome, Steve brings a global perspective and experience driving international teams and businesses. Steve prides himself on building world-class teams that deliver and delight customers across the world.

Steve enjoys hiking, swimming and walking on beaches with his wife in Marin, where they live. He also enjoys keeping up with cultural happenings at San Francisco's museums & galleries.