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Jim Ryan and the price of not knowing
After nearly 28 years at Flexera, Jim Ryan has handed over the CEO role. His career connects two stubborn problems: companies that cannot see what they spend, and students who cannot see how to pay for college.
Steve Daheb Counted Computer Parts. Then He Learned How to Sell the Future.
Before Steve Daheb became Flexera's chief marketing officer, he wore three bargain suits to a manufacturing job and counted networking components. The career that followed has been an exercise in seeing the whole machine - product, proof, people and the story that makes them move together.
Eric Free
Eric Free is the Chief Growth Officer at Flexera, the IT lifecycle management platform used by enterprises to govern software, cloud spend, and technology assets. With a career spanning Intel, Rovi Corporation, and now Flexera, Free has spent two decades driving growth at the intersection of enterprise software, IoT, and cloud strategy. At Flexera, he oversees corporate strategy, M&A, business development, and go-to-market operations — steering a company with $221M+ in annual revenue and $5.85B in total funding toward what it calls the 'value era' of cloud.