Meet the leadership team that is guiding Spinnaker Support’s dynamic growth, solid balance sheet, consistent profitability, and best-in-class customer retention. These executives bring experience from highly recognizable brands including Accenture, SAP, Xerox, Deloitte, and Siemens.
Matt Stava
Mr. Stava founded Spinnaker Support to provide organizations that run Oracle and SAP enterprise software an alternative to vendor-provided support. His mission was and remains today to simply to deliver exceptional customer-service at significantly less cost. Through innovative and certified processes, employing the best people, and always respecting the vendor’s intellectual property, Spinnaker Support is a leading influencer in the third-party support market.
Matt Stava began his career at Andersen Consulting, now Accenture, where he helped clients architect and restructure their supply chains. He then joined Solutions Consulting, subsequently acquired by Perot Systems, to launch and lead their supply chain practice. In 2002, he co-founded Spinnaker Management Group, which began as a supply chain consulting business but has grown and evolved into a holding company with several different practice areas.
Mr. Stava lives in Colorado and enjoys family time, golfing, and skiing. He is currently involved in several local charities including 9 years as a Board Member and Trustee of the Denver Area Council of Boy Scouts. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Finance from University of Kansas.
James R. Nollsch
Mr. Nollsch’s career spans roles in finance, management consulting, and investment banking, enabling him to a bring a holistic operational perspective to the finance organization. Earlier in his career, he held executive roles in product management, strategy, and operations in the technology industry at companies such as eCollege and McDATA. He also worked as a management consultant at Everest Group. Most recently he has served as CFO for companies ranging from pre-revenue startups to private-equity backed growth companies.
Mr. Nollsch lives in Denver with his family and is an avid skier, golfer, and sailor. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Kurt Moydell
Kurt Moydell is a 31-year veteran in the consulting, third-party support, and managed services industries. He is an expert in business development and organization management. Mr. Moydell began his career at the Xerox Corporation during which he spent 16 years in various leadership roles in Sales and Marketing, planning and executing delivery strategies for the company’s breadth of offerings. Prior to joining Spinnaker Support, he spent 9 years in the ERP space holding executive positions at Fujitsu, BORN Information Services, and Oracular West. During that time, he was focused on business development and delivering world-class services to the SAP and Oracle user communities in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Mr. Moydell lives in Colorado and enjoys spending his time in a variety of high country outdoor activities including fly fishing, hiking, and hunting. He graduated with honors from California State University, receiving joint degrees in information studies, economics, and political science.
Bob Harland
As Spinnaker Support’s Senior Vice President, Global Support Services, Mr. Harland is responsible for the global Oracle, SAP, SaaS, and Tax and Regulatory operations teams. His focus is to ensure that the global support services team continues Spinnaker Support’s tradition of delivering excellence to clients.
Bob Harland is a results-oriented leader with more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of Oracle E-Business Suite implementation, business process transformation, application development process life cycle, managed services, and support. He started his career at Arthur Andersen where he worked for twelve years, four of which working as an auditor in the Andersen attestation business and the remaining eight years implementing ERP packages and building his Oracle application and technology skillset. Mr. Harland was acquired out of Arthur Andersen by Hitachi Consulting where he worked for nine years, focusing exclusively on Oracle applications and technology. Prior to joining Spinnaker Support, Mr. Harland worked for an Oracle focused integrator that had significant support related work in addition to implementation-related services. Mr. Harland has worked across many industries in his career and has worked with a wide variety of global clients from Fortune 100 to mid-market companies.
Mr. Harland lives in Colorado and enjoys spending time in the outdoors with his family, fishing, hiking, and mountain bike riding. He holds a Masters of Science in Accounting and Information Systems from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Iain Saunderson
Iain Saunderson has over 30 years of experience implementing complex technologies across a wide variety of commercial and government verticals. He has served in leadership roles in organizations including Oracle Corporation, P2 Energy Solutions, and DBAK. Iain’s experience is in leading enterprise architecture, development, and managed services organizations.
Mr. Saunderson lives in Colorado and enjoys spending time trail running and skiing in the mountains. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Business Information Systems from the University of Natal in South Africa.
Shawn du Plessis
Shawn du Plessis is an SAP veteran with more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of SAP Sales support, SAP management, implementation, business process re-engineering, development process life cycle, managed services, and third-party support. He has extensive knowledge of SAP applications and processes with a strong emphasis in software engineering concepts, design principles, and implementation and support methodologies. Mr. du Plessis began his SAP career as an SAP configuration analyst for Siemens designing and developing new systems for Siemens South Africa. He also spent over 20 years at a consulting company based out of Orange County, California providing implementation leadership and support for many fortune 500 companies. Mr. du Plessis has spent the last 9 years developing third-party support and maintenance practices. Just before joining Spinnaker Support, Mr. du Plessis was at Rimini Street where he built their SAP third-party support practice.
Mr. du Plessis lives in Arizona and enjoys spending time in the outdoors with his family, cycling, boating, camping, and hiking. He holds a Higher National Diploma (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering equivalent) from Johannesburg Technical College, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Mark Kreutz
Mark Kreutz has over 26 years of JDE experience. He began his JDE tenure in 1991 as a programmer analyst for JD Edwards designing and developing new systems for the Energy and Technical Foundation applications for the World Software product line. In 1996 he was promoted into JDE management where he led several World development teams covering all technical foundation applications. He continued in this capacity for 10 years through the PeopleSoft and Oracle acquisitions and as a Senior Development Manager over the Technical Foundations products. Mr. Kreutz has led third-party JDE global support teams for the past 12 years.
Mr. Kreutz lives in Colorado and enjoys spending time in the outdoors with his family. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Computer Information Systems and Management Science from Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado.
Chad Stewart
As Spinnaker Support’s Vice President, Global SaaS Support Services, Mr. Stewart is responsible for all SaaS business development activities, consulting delivery, and organizational development. His focus is to ensure that the SaaS support services team delivers excellence to clients.
Chad Stewart is an experienced practice leader and architect with over 10 years’ experience delivering exceptional outcomes to clients by bringing together business, technology, data, and people. With expertise across the enterprise SaaS landscape and a specialty in the Salesforce platform, Mr. Stewart focuses on how enterprises overcome resourcing challenges to get the most value out of their strategic platforms. Mr. Stewart began his career as a Salesforce configuration consultant for Accenture before joining Slalom Consulting. At Slalom, he provided implementation and technical architecture leadership across Salesforce cloud solutions. As a practice leader, Mr. Stewart focused on building client relationships, growing practice offerings and capabilities, learning new technologies, and building engaging teams of professionals.
Mr. Stewart lives in Colorado and enjoys being active with his family. From hiking, biking, skiing, and camping to enjoying a hazy IPA at a local brewery, he is always ready to enjoy the Colorado sunshine. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Colorado State University.
Devan Brua
Prior to joining Spinnaker Support, Devan Brua spent over 10 years as an international tax professional assisting multinational companies in navigating the complexities associated with global tax and regulatory compliance. She began her career in Milwaukee, WI as an international tax professional at Deloitte Tax, LLP. She then spent over four years serving non-U.S. based multinational companies out of Deloitte’s Belgian office, working closely with tax professionals from around the world to help clients remain globally compliant.
Ms. Brua lives in Colorado with her family and enjoys spending time hiking and traveling. Ms. Brua is a graduate of Marquette University, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marquette University Law School, where she received her Juris Doctor.
Lee Mashburn
Lee Mashburn has focused his 20+ year marketing career on delivering value to the business through high-tech software and service solutions. Mr. Mashburn began his career as a process engineer before moving into a marketing role at Honeywell. He then joined SAP directing an industry marketing team before being promoted to Vice President of Americas Solutions Marketing. He spent over 4 years at SSA global as Global Vice President of Marketing and Product Management driving tremendous growth preceding the acquisition by Infor. Prior to joining Spinnaker Support, he led worldwide marketing efforts for SaaS startup Cogniti, a supply chain performance management solution provider.
Mr. Mashburn lives in Colorado and enjoys golf, hiking, and spending time with his family. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Pulp & Paper Science and Technology from North Carolina State University.
Shaun Forshey
As Spinnaker Support’s Vice President of Customer Success, Mr. Forshey is responsible for leading our Customer Success Team, focusing on customer lifecycle management and WOW customer experiences.
Shaun Forshey is an experienced business leader passionate about helping people and organizations achieve more. In his 20+ year career in customer success, renewals, and account management, he has worked across multiple industries, diverse technologies, Fortune 100 to mid-market companies, and global theaters. This experience has formed Mr. Forshey’s professional and relational approach to customer advocacy, problem-solving, process improvement, organizational development, and delivery of exceptional results. Prior to joining Spinnaker Support, Mr. Forshey most recently held leadership roles at Oracle, Microsoft, and Ivanti where he achieved markedly improved customer satisfaction, retention, revenue, and growth.
Mr. Forshey lives in Colorado, where he enjoys time with his wife and two teenagers, outdoor activities, and faithful service in the community. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Baylor University.
Jae Sam Lee
As Spinnaker Support’s Vice President of Asia-Pacific Support Operations, Mr. Lee is responsible for regional expansion, service delivery, and customer satisfaction. His focus is to ensure that the Asia-Pacific support services team continues Spinnaker Support’s tradition of delivering excellence to clients.
Jae Sam (JS) Lee most recently served as Vice President and Head of Maintenance Go-to-Market for SAP Korea, leading strategies designed to support customer operational excellence while driving their digital transformation and innovations. He was responsible for protecting and growing SAP support revenue. Mr. Lee was the first employee of SAP Korea, where he established the legal entity in 1995. He took over the Korea Maintenance Go-to-Market business in 2008 and contributed to creating and growing SAP support businesses in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Prior to joining SAP, Mr. Lee served in senior level Finance and HR positions with Monsanto and Motorola.
Mr. Lee lives in Seoul, South Korea and enjoys spending time in the outdoors including traveling, golfing and growing vegetables. He holds a Master of Business Administration in Financial Management from Hanyang University and a Ph.D in Management Information Systems from Hoseo University.
Bob Ludlam
As Spinnaker Support’s Vice President, Sales – Americas, Mr. Ludlam is responsible for driving sales and operational management of SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce services in North, South, and Central America.
Bob Ludlam has more than 30 years of financial, IT, and sales experience. During his career, Mr. Ludlam has excelled in direct sales and management positions, including over 9 years at PeopleSoft (Oracle). He has also held various sales and management positions at SAP, NET(net), Rimini Street, and most recently at Mipro Consulting, an Oracle Partner, where he directed the Central Region selling PeopleSoft implementation, upgrades, optimization, and training services.
Mr. Ludlam lives in Illinois and enjoys family time and outdoor activities including golfing, hiking, camping, and cycling. He holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Dayton, with a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance and Management Information Systems from Central Michigan University.
Martin Biggs
As Spinnaker Support’s Vice President and General Manager – EMEA, Mr. Biggs is responsible for driving the sales and operational management of SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce services in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
Martin joined Spinnaker Support after a career of 19 years at IBM where he worked in various sales and leaderships roles in IBM’s services business across Asia Pacific and the United Kingdom. He has developed and grown business units within IBM that span networking, security, resilience, managed infrastructure, and latterly IT maintenance and support. It was in this capacity he drove IBM’s expansion into maintaining third-party enterprise software before joining Spinnaker Support. Having recently spent a decade working for IBM out of Singapore, he has been successful in developing and expanding IT Services revenue across many diverse cultures and challenging economies.
Mr. Biggs lives in South West London, where he enjoys spending time with his wife and three young children, looking forward to the time when they can travel and explore far flung locations of the world together as a family. To relax, Martin enjoys listening to jazz and playing the saxophone. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Warwick, England.