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GRAX Wins Overall Data Tech Innovation of the Year
GRAX Data Value Platform Wins Overall Data Tech Innovation of the Year.
The #1 Data Value Platform
Helping you leverage your business continuity investment for growth & innovation.
What is Grax?
Adapt Faster with GRAX
GRAX is a Data Value Platform that helps you maximize the value of your organization’s historical data. We are building the fastest, most reliable and compliant way to backup, archive, restore and consume your SaaS application data anywhere.
Our manifesto
Why we built GRAX
It’s time we stood up for the past.
For looking backward.
Because the past isn’t the opposite of the future.
It’s part of it.
It’s the foundation that makes it possible.
And the more we reflect on it and understand its impact,
the more we can shape our journey ahead.
With each passing moment the past gathers a staggering,
illuminating, meaningful trove of new events,
new stories,
new experiences,
new surprises,
new interpretations and
new insights
that continually change our
understanding and perspective.
And even though the world revolves around “what’s next?”
answering that question is a lot easier if you can understand
“what just happened?”
Because the past is a map filled with
clues and suggestions and…
Answers.
The secret is keeping pace
not missing a thing,
And realizing that
the future is what you make of the past .
GRAX – Adapt Faster
Sincerely,
Never ceases to amaze me how simple problems can be challenging at scale – that’s why I love working in this space at GRAX.
Pedro Belo
Architect, GRAX
I get to work with Fortune 100 tech companies and solve interesting problems. Most importantly, GRAX has the best team!
Zoe Simanski
Solutions Engineer, GRAX
Supportive leadership & inclusive work culture – these are just a few aspects that make me excited to hop on my laptop in the morning.
Angel Andrade
Sr Software Engineer, GRAX
Our last team outing was to a virtual goat farm. Does your company do that?
Laura Lewis
Sr Demand Gen Manager, GRAX
GRAX encourages & empowers you to come up with your own ideas on how to best bring value to some of the largest companies in the world.
Sohil Sheth
Product Development, GRAX
GRAX has provided me so many opportunities. But what makes my job special is GRAX’s culture – it’s talent meets kindness!
Diane Deng
Sr Product Marketing Manager, GRAX
Our story
How we started
Having spent 20+ years helping some of the most iconic organizations in the world get more value out of their data, a handful of GRAXers saw an opportunity to change the game by building a new technology that combined SaaS Data Backup with modern, scalable DataOps.
Founded in 2017, led by multiple industry veterans who have built technologies and companies from zero to a billion, GRAX is the new standard for how customers turn their SaaS application data into strategic value.
leadership
Meet the team
Joe Gaska
Joe Gaska is the CEO and founder of GRAX. Under Joe’s leadership, GRAX has become the fastest-growing application in Salesforce’s history. He has been featured on the main stage at Dreamforce and has won numerous awards including the Salesforce Innovation Award.
Prior to founding GRAX, Joe built Ionia Corporation and successfully sold it to LogMein (Xively), which is now a part of the Google IoT Cloud.
Joe holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Maine at Farmington.
Morten Bagai
Morten Bagai is the Chief Technology Officer of GRAX.
Prior to joining GRAX, Morten spent 8 years at Salesforce where as Chief Technology Officer, Platform he helped drive the vision for custom application development with Lightning Platform and Heroku.
He joined Salesforce as a member of the leadership team at Heroku,the industry’s first cloud based Platform-as-a-Service, which was acquired in January of 2011.
Morten holds a Masters Degree in Media Studies and The History of Ideas from Aarhus University.
Anna Ravvin
Anna Ravvin is the Vice President of Customer Success at GRAX. She leads the company’s efforts to ensure that our customers have a seamless implementation and make the most of the GRAX platform. With years of experience leading high-impact, high-visibility projects, she has delivered millions of dollars of value while managing international, multi-function teams at Novartis, GSK and Alcon. She holds a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MA from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.
Tony Finocchiaro
Tony Finocchiaro is the Vice President of Sales and Alliances at GRAX. He leads the overall sales efforts and strategic partnerships programs globally. Finocchiaro is an accomplished Sales Executive with over 20 years of experience in helping technology companies develop and execute successful customer engagement strategies, drive significant pipeline all while creating long last strategic partner relationships, driving revenue growth. He spent 4 years serving with the Army and holds a Business Administration degree from Salem State University.
Chris Shakarian
Chris Shakarian is the Vice President of Marketing at GRAX. He leads all elements of the marketing function at the company. Shakarian has over 15 years of experience in helping technology companies hone their competitive advantage while using it to drive commercialization and growth. He has built world-class teams that have delivered over $100M in revenue impact with multiple exits to Fortune companies including Google, Medidata and RELX Group. He holds an MBA from Babson College.
Diego Bellalta
Diego Bellalta is VP of Customer Operations at GRAX. Diego has over 12 years of experience in the software industry, specifically in Salesforce.com team leadership, business process consulting and software implementation. As a Managing Partner of Ionia, Diego was instrumental in developing the business, leading to a series of successful exits, first to LogMeIn and subsequently to Google. Diego has also served as Chief Operation Officer of Sovereign, helping grow top-line revenue by 2.5x and leading to a subsequent acquisition by Ness in 2019. Serving in a management role through three acquisitions in less than six years, Diego’s operational expertise has driven high growth businesses to and through multiple successful exit transactions.
Diego holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame.
