management team

Chris Baker is both a seasoned entrepreneur and a Fortune 250 senior leader. He has been a member of SoftServe’s Board of Directors since 2012, and became CEO in 2015. Chris has led high growth technology companies for over 20 years.

Most recently, Chris has served both as President and CTO of 360incentives.com, a leading incentive management company based in Toronto, Canada. Prior to that, he has been an active angel investor after serving as President of Group 1 Software, a leading enterprise class software company based in Lanham, MD (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes.) While with Pitney Bowes, he participated in multiple acquisitions and integrations and was a member of the Chairman’s Council and the Strategic Leaders Council.

Earlier in his career, among other startups, Chris founded and built MailCode Inc. into a leading global provider of technology solutions for mail processing via optical character reading, which was later sold to Pitney Bowes. Mr. Baker holds multiple patents, including one for Differential Weighing, a method to increase the speed and efficiency of weighing mail pieces.

Chris holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering Technology, with honors, from Purdue University and has been honored as a Distinguished Purdue Alumnus.

Harry is a seasoned business leader with a 25+ year track record of helping customers achieve their goals as a consultant, sales leader and product development leader. Prior to joining to SoftServe in 2008, Harry founded and sold two software companies and was CEO of a non-profit social services company. Harry holds a BS in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology.

As Executive Vice President of Client Success, Harry is responsible for all aspects of SoftServe’s service delivery, leading engineering and customer facing teams globally while growing and developing a strong Client Solutions team – all focused on assuring our client’s success by providing a premium experience.

Steve provides leadership in our delivery organizations and go-to-market teams to create a premium experience for our clients. He is responsible for growing our North American business as well as key industry verticals, including: Healthcare, Financial Services, Insurance, and Media. Steve is passionate about innovation, design thinking, and leveraging new technologies to address client needs.

Prior to joining SoftServe, Steve served as SVP and head of the Insurance Business Unit for Virtusa Corporation, a global consulting and technology firm. Steve has held leadership roles within the Healthcare and Insurance practices for Price Waterhouse, KPMG, and BearingPoint. He has worked with companies of all sizes as a consultant, trusted advisor, and IT and business leader. He holds a BS in Business Administration from Bucknell University.

Brian is a proven business leader with more than 20 years’ experience in Business Operations, Product Marketing, Business Development, Channels, Business Planning and Sales. His expertise comes from a wide range of technology companies ranging from Enterprise Software to Networking to Consulting. Prior to SoftServe, Brian was with BMC Software, where he managed global operations for their largest division and led the project that brought BMC outsourcing to Ukraine. In addition to BMC, Brian has worked at Enterasys Networks, Austin Ventures, Accenture and was the co-founder of an Austin based infrastructure software startup, so he brings a wealth of experience to SoftServe. Brian is located in our US headquarters in Austin, TX and travels to all of our locations. He holds a BA from University of Michigan and an MBA from The University of Texas.

Andriy joined SoftServe in August 2010 after almost 10 years of financial management experience with the technology companies in Ukraine.

Andriy is responsible for managing SoftServe`s finance and treasury functions, and accounting and reporting, budgeting and controlling, cash management, and international tax management issues. Under his leadership the finance organization of SoftServe is being transformed to comply with the highest standards and best practices in the profession.

He graduated from the Department of International Relations of Lviv National Ivan Franko University with a major in International Finance. Afterwards Andriy continued professional education and became a member of ACCA (UK) in 2000.

Stuart is a broad based global HR leader with over 15 years of Technology and Transformation experience. He is accountable for supporting and accelerating company’s investments into SoftServe’s globalization and growth strategy by implementing world class HR systems, tools, and processes that can better serve SoftServe associates and it turn SoftServe customers.

His key areas of focus include organizational effectiveness, change management, compensation and benefits, employee relations, executive recruitment, learning and development, HR systems and processes, and leadership/management development.

Stuart brings a proven track record of success in the transformation of Human Resource functions by using HR data, systems, and processes to leverage key people decisions in order to support scalable and sustainable growth areas. Prior to SoftServe, Stuart served as VP Human Resources for Tata Communications, a global telecommunications company. Earlier in his career, he also worked in HR leadership roles at Avaya, and Cisco Systems.

Andrew is a seasoned, omni-channel marketing executive with a track record in building global marketing strategies and functions from the ground up.

Prior to SoftServe, Andrew led teams to drive digital transformation at Cisco, Proffer, GfK, and Drexel University. While at Cisco, he served at board level and led the Emerging Markets Services marketing organization, contributing to the 30% CAGR that fueled business growth to more than $750M annually. Additionally, Andrew drove the development of the company’s first mobile sales enablement platform, putting marketing collateral and sales support in the hands of sellers as far back as 2009.

Andrew holds a master of science from the London School of Economics and a bachelor of arts from Drexel University.

Oleh is responsible for leading SoftServe`s Legal, Public Affairs and Office Administration in accordance with industry standards and company objectives. He has been successfully managing these areas for SoftServe for the last 20 years.

In 1996, Oleh joined SoftServe as a company Director, and since 2010 he has served as EVP of Administration. Oleh graduated from Lviv Polytechnic National University and obtained a degree in Systems Engineering. Afterwards he continued professional education and obtained his degree in Managerial Economics, and completed the MBA program at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.