Archives: Leaderships

Jason Lyon serves the Customer Success team by enabling the group to deliver the immediate and lasting value of Touchplan to drive retention and expansion.

He also works cross-functionally with the Sales, Product, and Marketing teams to advocate for customers. Jason joined Touchplan in 2018. He and the customer success team ensure construction teams have the support they need beginning with onboarding to make sure their user experience with Touchplan allows them to achieve all the construction goals.

Before joining Touchplan, Jason was a Strategic Sales Consultant for a SaaS company called Buildium. Buildium is an all-in-one, cloud-based property management software that allows property managers to oversee all aspects of a building. Prior to joining Buildium, Jason worked in retail banking for seven years and managed two bank branches during his tenure.

Jason holds a bachelor of business administration from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Jimmy Suppelsa leads Touchplan’s global sales, marketing, and partner development strategies. He is a highly-skilled, sales and product management leader with close to 30 years of experience in SaaS technologies. Jimmy began his career at FactSet, where he helped the company grow from less than $20 million in revenue to over $1Billion in revenue over 21 years.  Over that time, he contributed to many different roles – including sales, sales management, and product strategy.  

Before joining Touchplan, he was the Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Product at Coleman Research Group, an Expert Network company.  It was a $38 million company with 200 employees globally and was struggling to grow.  During his time, he improved revenue growth from 4% to 34% year over year. He also was part of the team that developed an investor pitch which eventually led to the sale of the company to VisasQ.

Before Coleman Research, Jimmy was the co-founder of data company called Best Credit Data (BCD), whose product is US Municipal Bond Evaluated Prices, which essentially involves estimating (calculating) a price for securities that don’t trade on a given day.  

Jimmy is an active supporter of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Junior Achievement. Over the last 20 years, Jimmy raised over $1.2 million for Dana Farber, starting in 1999 with the PanMass Challenge, a 210+ mile bike ride across Massachusetts.  Since 2008, he has been running a golf tournament on Cape Cod as his primary means to raise money for Dana Farber (raised $110k in 2021). Jimmy has also served on the board of Junior Achievement’s New England chapter for over 10 years and also volunteers his time during the year to teach Junior Achievement programs to students in the Boston area.  

Jimmy holds a bachelor of science in management information systems and finance from Boston College.

Sandy Hamby is the Chief Executive Officer of MOCA Systems,  provider of owner’s representative services, and Touchplan. She oversees all company operations and continues to build our reputation as a global leader in construction project delivery through the continued development of innovative solutions for collaborative planning that reduce project risks, protect stakeholder financial positions and keep projects on schedule. 

A widely respected construction industry trailblazer, Ms. Hamby has thirty years of experience in programming, design, and construction management. Known for her thoughtful and effective approach to forming high-performance teams and industry collaborations to deliver complex projects, she is a frequent speaker and thought leader on the topic of successful project delivery.

In addition to holding senior executive positions at MOCA since 2010, Hamby has lent her expertise in roles with Jacobs, Carter Burgess, 3D/I, and the United States Air Force. As chief executive officer, she will provide the strategic vision and oversight for the company’s entire services and software commercial operations. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from the University of Oklahoma.

Dan is a founding member of Touchplan’s parent company MOCA Systems, Inc. and is currently responsible for Touchplan software architecture. Prior to the Touchplan product, Dan led the design and development of MOCA’s construction simulation software.

Before joining MOCA Systems, Dan spent several years as an independent consultant working with Boston area software companies in various technical capacities. Dan has also held positions at Applied Parallel Technologies, Sybase, and Oracle. He is a coauthor of six US software patents.

Dan holds a Bachelor of Science from MIT where he also completed Ph.D. coursework in the philosophy of logic and mathematics.

Dave Frankel is responsible for Touchplan’s global marketing growth strategy, including communications, revenue marketing, product marketing, and business development.

Dave has over 25 years’ experience providing executive leadership in sales, marketing, business development, and product management at data, analytics, and technology companies in various stages of their growth cycles. He brings a high-energy, abstract thinking approach to solving business problems to drive growth.

He previously served as chief marketing officer at alternative lending startup Capify, where he led the branding and cultural alignment efforts, as well as operationalizing and digitally transforming the business across four different global markets. Additionally, he was president and general manager of EDGAR Online, overseeing its financial data and analytics business. He originally joined the firm as its chief marketing officer. He developed and implemented sales, marketing, and product marketing strategies to refocus and reposition the publicly held (NASDAQ: EDGR) and private equity-backed (Bain Capital) company for growth. He was a member of the management team that executed the sale of the firm to RR Donnelley in August 2012.

Before EDGAR Online, Dave spent over five years on the executive team at Silicon Valley-based, VC-backed (Oak Investment Partners) business analytics startup, FirstRain. He also spent time as VP of Sales at BNY Jaywalk, the Bank of New York’s independent research consultancy, and over 11 years at FactSet Research Systems (NYSE: FDS), a leading financial data and analytics firm.

At FactSet, as one of the original fifty employees, he helped the company go public in 1996 and served in several senior leadership capacities. FactSet grew from $35mil to $250mil in revenues (50 to 1500 employees globally) during his tenure.

Dave is a graduate of Boston College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and Political Science.

Daniel Eddy manages all aspects of Touchplan’s sales process and is responsible for leading, mentoring, training, and coaching inside/outside sale teams ranging from three to thirteen personnel. He also helps the team close challenging deals while maintaining a book of business and customer-facing consultative selling skills while collaborating with other department heads.

Before joining Touchplan, Daniel spent fourteen years in the United States Marine Corps, finishing with a Gunnery Sergeant’s rank. He began his Marines career as an Explosive Ordnance Technician and an Element Team Leader before becoming a sales and recruiting manager. He managed all Marine Corps Recruiting aspects, from lead generation to sales and marketing strategies for the Marines Boston Regional office.

Josie Cutts serves the Customer Success team by enabling the group to deliver the immediate and lasting value of Touchplan in order to drive retention and expansion.

She also works cross-functionally with the Sales, Product and Marketing teams in order to advocate on behalf of customers. She has worked at Touchplan since 2016 and is passionate about equipping construction teams with the right software in order to achieve their goals – ahead of schedule, under budget and safely.

Before joining Touchplan, Josie worked in corporate finance at RBC Capital Markets before transitioning into Boston’s tech startup scene.

Josie holds a BA in Economics from Bates College.

Charlie Simmons leads Touchplan’s global sales, marketing and partner development growth strategies. He is a highly-skilled, executive-level sales leader and consultant with over 35 years of sales, marketing and operations experience with a range of companies spanning start-up; mid-size and F-500 companies. He has successfully led global sales and marketing teams for both public and private companies and has extensive global go-to-market sales leadership experience having spent time in both the UK/Ireland and EMEA theatres.

Prior to joining Force Management, Charlie served as Chief Revenue Officer at G/O Digital, a digital marketing services company, where he oversaw revenue growth from $10M to $100M over a 3-year period. Prior to that, Charlie had global executive sales leadership roles with Harte Hanks, Experian Marketing and Standard Register, all in the marketing services space; a senior sales leadership role at a hyper growth technology start-up named divine, inc. and numerous sales leadership and sales roles over an 18-year career at Dun & Bradstreet.

Prior to joining Touchplan, Charlie spent 5 years at Force Management as Senior Partner responsible for sales and business development. He sold to and advised C-level executives at global, scaling technology software companies in the areas of Sales Channel optimization; Go-to-market approach/structure; Sales process development; Sales effectiveness assessment; Sales management coaching; Demand Gen and lead flow management as well as Deal flow qualification.

Charlie has extensive corporate leadership experience with companies in business consulting; SaaS software; digital marketing and B2B/B2C data, analytics, and database management.

Charlie is a graduate, with honors, from Boston College with a BA in Economics and Communications.

Dan Feldman leads all of Touchplan’s platform expansion, software design, implementation, and product development strategies. Dan has over forty-six years of industry experience and has held several key executive leadership positions at leading technology firms that include Hewlett Packard, IBM, Synetic, Sybase, and Thomson Financial.

Before joining Touchplan, Dan was Vice President of Operations for KAYAK. He oversaw teams responsible for computer and network operations, release engineering and release management, quality assurance, performance, and capacity planning for KAYAK’s global operations and many brands.

Dan is a graduate from Harvard University with an ALB in Social Sciences.

Michael Sullivan oversees Touchplan’s global business expansion. A principal at MOCA Systems since 2006, has served in several executive capacities within the Touchplan organization for over six years. He is a LEAN construction expert and has coached construction project teams and owners to identify process improvements to deliver construction projects to reduce waste and increase efficiencies. Through the implementation of Touchplan, he has helped project teams reduce overall project time, improve team communication, run smoother projects.

Before joining Touchplan, Michael was a Vice President of Operations at WALL USA, Inc. He was responsible for urban planning, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, installation, service, and maintenance. He also oversaw operations of the company’s St. Louis operation, including contractor and employee safety, environmental compliance, procurement, product quality, UL recognition, city compliance, state, historic and landmark approvals.

Michael is a graduate of Clarkson University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Master’s in Business Administration.