Meet the ActiveState Leadership Team

Favorite part of my job: Getting the right people in the right roles at ActiveState so they can excel and we can build and grow a great company
I got hooked on tech: Because of the amazing people, rapid change, endless opportunities.
I love to also: Spend time with my sons & amazing wife, stretch my physical limits through sports, mentor and invest in tech companies
Leaders who inspire me: My Father, Warren Buffet, Eric Schmidt, Jimmy Pattison, Morgan Sturdy
Fictional Alter Ego: Gandalf
Superpower: Seeing the Future

Bart has over 32 years in tech spanning roles from VP Corporate Strategy, GM to CEO. He’s had the privilege of leading ActiveState since 2006. Bart drives our strategic direction with three tenets: happy Activators, solutions ‘geeks’ love to use and making open source languages easy for the enterprise. He also helped define and lead the private PaaS market with the ActiveState product, Stackato. Bart subsequently negotiated the successful sale of the Stackato product to HPE in 2015.

Bart is the keeper of the ActiveState culture and the reason why culture is considered our best product. He holds an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from UBC.

Favorite part of my job: Developing and implementing new concepts for overcoming obstacles, complexities and achieving scalable growth.
I got hooked on tech: It’s as close to magic as you can get! I love the innovation, fast pace, and of course, the people.
I love to also: Spend time with family and friends, volunteer as a hospice and palliative caregiver, resistance train, and travel
Leaders who inspire me: Queen Victoria, Mary Barra, and Melinda Gates
Fictional Alter Ego: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Superpower: Seeing things others cannot

A senior financial and business operations leader dedicated to making the impossible possible, Jacqueline brings over 20 years of experience across a variety of industries. As a highly creative, conceptual thinker, Jacqueline brings a unique blend of vision, critical thinking and technical expertise to problem solving, increasing profitability and maximizing return on investments.

She has spent the majority of her career working with companies to build financial and operational infrastructure to create strong foundations for sustainable growth.

In all roles, what Jacqueline values most is building teams and mentoring others to support them in realizing their full potential.

Favorite part of my job: Finding the right combination of channels, audiences and messages and experimenting until we hit an optimization ceiling.
I got hooked on tech: Because of the challenge of selling complex products to technical buyers.
I love to also: Read, do yoga, go wine tasting and spend lots of time with my dogs and husband adventuring and watching movies.
Leaders who inspire me: Ingrid Newkirk, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Patrick Rothfuss, my Dad.
Fictional Alter Ego: Dana Scully.
Superpower: Putting it all together.

Claudia loves marketing products that drive the bleeding edge of technology and innovation and ultimately change the world. She has been playing the marketing game on hard mode since the start of her career, marketing deeply technical products to developers and technical executives for over a decade. During any work week, you will find Claudia analyzing metrics dashboards, creating models and tinkering in the backend of ad platforms to help her team drive growth.