Aron Ezra is an innovator and entrepreneur. He has served as CEO of multiple software companies, all of which he grew over 20x and were acquired in multimillion-dollar exits.

His previous company, OfferCraft, won the Platinum Award from the G&L Roundtable for best new technology; was named Startup of the Year by the Best in Biz Awards; was named one of the Top 20 Most Innovative Technologies; and was profiled in over 200 news stories published in places like The New York Times, Forbes, Quartz, and Business Insider. It was acquired by NRT, a Canadian FinTech company that processes over $20 billion annually.

Earlier, as CEO of MacroView Labs, a mobile software startup used by hospitality, healthcare and retail customers, Aron grew the startup into a powerhouse with tens of millions of users, and dozens of industry awards. It was acquired by Bally Technologies (now part of Light & Wonder).

Additional past highlights include serving as an SVP at Hill & Knowlton (part of WPP); and as a Director at The Advisory Board Company, a healthcare consultancy (part of UnitedHealth). As a thought leader on many business and future technology topics, Aron has been invited to give more than 1,000 presentations at industry conferences. He has won dozens of honors, including being named one of the Most Intriguing People in Las Vegas by Seven Magazine, and a Top 10 Rising Business Leader in the city by the Las Vegas Business Press.

Aron is also an investor and advisor to several startups and middle-market technology companies. He has a bachelor’s degree with honors from Princeton.

Over the last 20 years, Slav Kulik has led dozens of software development teams serving both startups and Fortune 500 companies, and has won many awards for his work. He is a passionate leader who loves technology, his customers, and his teams.  

Early in his career, Slav was an engineer for several large international eCommerce and customer support companies, where he helped design and implement things like fraud prevention tools, data warehousing, and platforms that continue to process millions of dollars of daily transactions. He repeatedly designed fast, reliable, massively scalable architectures that earned him increasingly senior engineering roles, including serving as SVP of Engineering at multibillion-dollar companies.

Eventually, Slav co-founded a few startups, including OfferCraft and MacroView Labs, where he was Chief Technology Officer and Chief Software Architect — each of these software companies were acquired in 8-figure deals. During this time, Slav gained deep, hands-on experience building up and running diverse teams of engineers around the world.

Slav launched Plan A with many of the developers and creatives who have worked alongside him for years. He still enjoys personally jumping in to write code any chance he has.

Rob brings over 25 years of leadership experience within technology organizations, serving in executive roles across commercial sales, marketing, product management and operations. He has led both startups and P&L business units with over $1b of annual revenue, successfully executing commercial sales, marketing, and product life cycle management strategies across a wide range of products.

Rob has collaborated with many top technology thought leaders across the globe and has been recognized by Vegas Inc. Top 40 Under 40, Casino Enterprise Management’s Top People to Watch, and received an American Business Awards Gold Stevie for Leadership in NextGen Technology. Rob earned his undergraduate degree in finance and economics and his master’s degree in business administration from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Rob was a scholarship athlete on the UNLV Football Team from 1994-1998 (QB), and a three-time academic all-conference honoree.

Iwona ‘Eva’ Skornicka is Vice President of Account Management & Customer Success. With a 20+ year background in operations, product development, and business strategy, she has an impressive track record of managing diverse teams and achieving stellar results.

Eva has led software development initiatives across many industries, including financial services, high tech, gaming and more. Prior to joining Plan A, Eva worked as a senior executive at several different organizations: she ran a major credit underwriting technology company; she led the design and implementation of digital wallets for a US FinTech company; and she managed financial transactions at a large California casino. Eva started her career while working at a European telecom company, where she was given responsibility for setting up new local offices in Eastern Europe, recruiting the initial team, and training the newly-hired managers. She is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and an active member of ACAMS, the largest global membership organization dedicated to fighting financial crime. (She co-authored the 6th Edition of ACAMS Study Guide, a textbook used by AML compliance specialists worldwide.) Eva graduated from Radom University in Poland with a degree in Business and Finance.

Dmitry Shapar is Vice President of Solutions at Plan A Technologies, where he focuses on architecting technical solutions for our customers that are elegant and easy-to-manage. His expertise across multiple programming languages and approaches allows him to solve even the most complex challenges.

Prior to joining Plan A, he tackled over 100 different development projects for clients spanning multiple industries across the United States and Europe. He has been a developer, a chief software architect, and a CTO, and has worked for some of the largest private and public software development shops in the world. Dmitry enjoys creating solutions for both startups and multibillion-dollar companies with complex infrastructure, security, and regulatory requirements.

Dmitry has been passionate about software since he was in high school, when he won a prestigious computer science Olympiad and represented the Ukraine in the International Computer Science Olympiad. He graduated with honors and holds a bachelors and masters degree from Karazina National University in computer programming. He also holds several professional software certifications from organizations ranging from Carnegie Mellon to Google, and works hard to stay updated on the latest cutting-edge technologies.

Jonathan Hagerman is Vice President of Special Projects at Plan A Technologies, working out of our Las Vegas office. He has designed and implemented solutions for over 25 years across multiple industries including gaming, finance and e-commerce.  

Jonathan is passionate about helping companies integrate new technologies into their organization to solve their most pressing business issues. He has developed an impressive range of software while working at companies like  Zappos, Everi, Bally/Scientific Games, OpenTable and more. He has co-designed and helped launch both land-based and online casino solutions and payment platforms in Europe, Canada, and the United States. He also has extensive experience across the ecommerce world with everything from creating new integrations, to building fulfillment tools, to improving data platforms for clients. He is well-versed in architecting and coding solutions in .NET, TypeScript, Java, and Go, and enjoys both building new solutions from scratch and improving legacy systems. He has a joint MBA and master’s degree in computer science from DePaul University and a bachelor’s degree in MIS from the University of Notre Dame.

Vitaliy Polyanskiy is Vice President of Project Management at Plan A Technologies, where he runs the project delivery side of our business. All project managers across the company report to him, and he is ultimately responsible for overseeing the on-time, on-budget delivery of our award-winning custom software solutions for our clients around the world. Vitaliy is a gifted communicator, planner and project leader, and loves mentoring our other project managers to ensure that Plan A consistently earns outstanding feedback from our clients. He has spent more than a decade developing and managing high-performing tech teams for both startups and multinational enterprise clients.

Prior to joining our team, Vitaliy held several leadership roles across the tech world. He was as a CRO manager, a product manager, and (of course) a project manager. Vitaliy holds a master’s degree with honors in engineering from the Zaporozhye National Technical University in Ukraine.

Anna Prokopenko is Director of Operations at Plan A, where she manages a broad range of internal initiatives for the company. Anna has a rich and diverse set of project leadership experiences running recruitment, marketing, development, and talent management efforts in her prior roles at companies such as Gameloft, AppAve, and TapMedia.

Anna is a highly organized operational leader who blends the latest operational efficiency best practices with her warm approach to the human side of running a software business. She is a creative thinker and driven executive with a degree in Economics and Business from the A. N. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Municipal Economy, and a second degree in Practical Psychology from the H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University. She has also completed additional HR certifications and is a licensed Professional Coach.

Ingrid Cordeiro manages our recruiters, and leads company-wide efforts to find the best engineering and creative talent in the world.  

She started her career in HR and search more than twenty years ago as an intern, and quickly realized that she loved helping her employers find just the right talent for all kinds of different roles. She worked in several Brazilian businesses, had the opportunity to work in both Chilean and Chinese multinational corporations, and ran her own successful talent consultancy for more than a decade.  

Ingrid holds multiple degrees and is an expert in behavioral analysis and technical recruiting. She and her team work hard to identify, recruit, and inspire brilliant people to join the Plan A community.

Loremar Guimarães manages our engineering team in Central and South America. He has over 20 years of software development experience working across in many different platforms and managing teams. Over the years, Loremar has designed and developed solutions for several verticals including ERP systems, healthcare/biotech, financial services, digital marketing, hosting, and automation for desktop and web applications. His work in the digital marketing industry has helped companies to dramatically improve results by combining rigorous sales funnel testing with the best analysis and automation tools. He also created custom CMS solutions, working closely with sales teams to achieve the best conversion rates possible for every new lead. While working in the ERP industry he helped with the redesign and refactoring of huge legacy codebases.

Loremar is a natural leader and enjoys training, motivating, and inspiring people. In his career, he mentored dozens of developers, and enjoys helping them to improve not only their careers but also their work as team members. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer and holds a degree in Systems Analysis.

Andrey Belikov supervises our engineering teams spanning the Ukrainian and Russian-speaking world.

With dual masters degrees from Zaporozhye National Technical University in Computer Science and from Zaporozhye State Technical University in electromechanical automation, Andrey is a hard-driving technology leader who has spent over 20 years as a software engineer and senior architect.

He has developed solutions for a broad range of industries and companies, including:

*A software platform for universities to learn about and communicate with alumni
*Real estate software to analyze new investment opportunities
*Point of sale and accounting tools for several retailers
*A retail market-analysis solution to uncover customer and employee insights
*A tool to analyze social media posts and blogs in real time
*A massively scalable, secure online document management system
*A gamified customer loyalty system

Andrey loves creating new solutions and solving problems, and enjoys inspiring both his team and our clients. His never-give-up attitude and attention to detail ensure that each project he manages is a success.

Ali Azizoğlu oversees our teams in Turkey and Africa. Ali loves working with clients to produce high-quality software, and loves mentoring other team members.

Ali has deep development experiences across industries like tourism, insurance, banking, gaming, civil defense, and more. As a fullstack developer, he codes in multiple languages including .NET, C, C++, Node, Angular, React, and more. Ali has worked on very high profile projects for companies like IBM as an engineer, a project manager, a project architect, and a leader. He has developed hundreds of software tools and applications from scratch has also had enhanced many existing software platforms in accordance with the best system architecture approaches. Ali is passionate about a broad range of topics, and when he’s not in front of the computer, he can usually be found with a book in his hands.