Michael Gold leads Intermedia, a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and business cloud email provider that delivers easy-to-use and secure communication and collaboration solutions. Gold joined Intermedia in 2011 when he and former SAVVIS CEO Phil Koen partnered with private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners to acquire the company from its founder. In February 2017, Oak Hill Capital Partners, with the assistance of Gold and the other members of senior management, completed the sale of the company to current private equity sponsor, Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP), and management.

Under Gold's leadership, Intermedia has more than tripled revenues, operating profits, users and product offerings. The company has transformed from a business email and web hosting company to a leading provider of a broad yet tightly integrated suite of cloud applications. Furthermore, Intermedia has evolved from being a mostly direct-to-business provider to a channel-first company with more than 80% of Intermedia’s new sales now coming from its partners. As part of the MDP family, Gold and Intermedia management will accelerate growth and Intermedia's leadership position, while identifying opportunities to best support businesses and the channel partners that serve them.

Gold has 20+ years of senior management experience in cloud services and channel development. Before joining Intermedia, Gold was CEO of Zlago, a cloud services company he founded and grew via a nationwide network of managed service providers, VARs, and other channel partners. Intermedia acquired Zlago in 2011. Previously, Gold was a Senior Vice President at cloud automation provider, Parallels. Gold came to Parallels through its acquisition of Sphera, a cloud services company where he served as CEO.

Gold has held a variety of other executive roles in the industry, including CEO of software company, Vicorp, and Senior Vice President of Qwest Communications, where he had P&L responsibility for the Internet Products business and launched Qwest's CyberCenter datacenter and hosting business. Gold holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Stanford University.

Jason Veldhuis is responsible for all of Intermedia’s global financial functions, including the company’s accounting, financial planning and analysis, treasury, tax and corporate development functions.

Veldhuis joined Intermedia in 2011 as part of the acquisition of the company by Oak Hill Capital Partners, taking on the role of Director of FP&A & Corporate Development. He was most recently VP of Corporate Development & Strategy. Prior to Intermedia, Veldhuis was an Associate at Oak Hill Capital Partners, responsible for investments in the technology sector. Veldhuis began his career as an investment banking analyst in the financial sponsors group at Citigroup. Veldhuis earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Jonathan McCormick manages all aspects of operations, client services, and sales for Intermedia. McCormick pulls from his 20+ years of experience to provide 24x7 managed services support to customers and partners. With Intermedia since 2007, McCormick has played an integral role in bringing a number of industry firsts to market for the company including securing Intermedia's Assisted Technical Support certification from J.D. Power and Associates and TSIA – a first for the cloud software industry.

As Intermedia's CRO, McCormick oversees all aspects of Intermedia’s direct and partner sales, including inbound sales, field sales, sales enablement and engineering, distribution and strategic communities, sales operations, and business and partner development. In 2019, he was named as one of CRN's "Most Influential Channel Chiefs."

Prior to Intermedia, McCormick managed all global operations and customer service as an SVP of Operations at SAVVIS, the global provider of managed hosting, network, and collocation facilities. While there, McCormick was one of the key individuals responsible for building SAVVIS' Managed Hosting business, taking it from conception in 2001 to the leading position in Gartner's Magic Quadrant.

McCormick is frequently sought after as a thought leader in the business communications space to add commentary on industry trends and events. McCormick’s leadership viewpoints have been published in such outlets as Network World, eWeek and SC Magazine, to name a few. McCormick holds a double major in Psychology and Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Scott Anderson is responsible for Intermedia global marketing, including product, brand, direct, channel, demand, and digital marketing, as well as internal/external communications. Anderson joined Intermedia in Fall of 2018.

With 25 years in B2B tech marketing, Anderson has made a career of building technology brands, accelerating business demand, driving go-to-market strategies, and increasing customer loyalty for companies that have ranged from start-ups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

Most recently, as Chief Marketing Officer for marketing cloud company, Sitecore, Anderson transformed the brand to achieve industry leadership in both the web content management and digital experience platform categories. Anderson has served in marketing leadership roles at Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), Bazaarvoice, Weyerhaesuer, and CNN International. He was named a Top Digital Marketer by BtoB Magazine (now Ad Age) two years running, and was listed as a Top 100 North America B2B Marketer by HotTopics.

Anderson holds a Master of International Management degree in Marketing and European Studies from Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Western Washington University. 

Andrew Gachechiladze leads Intermedia’s product development and engineering groups, overseeing all software development for Intermedia’s cloud platform.

With the company since 2001, Gachechiladze has set the foundation for Intermedia’s cloud management and partner portal platforms. He’s been directly involved in scaling the broad suite of integrated cloud applications Intermedia offers today, including third-party products such as Microsoft® Office 365® and proprietary offerings like unified communications, SecuriSync all-in-one backup and file sharing, and our security services portfolio. Further strengthening Intermedia’s solution portfolio, Gachechiladze has also played an integral role in two successful acquisitions.

Under Gachechiladze’s leadership, the development team has grown from a group of less than 10 individuals to 100+; from a single office to four different development centers using multiple technologies, including Mountain View, CA, Bellevue, WA, St. Petersburg, Russia and Bristol, UK.

During his tenure with the company, Gachechiladze has previously been a senior software developer and a product manager for cloud-based Exchange. Prior to Intermedia, Gachechiladze has held technical and software development roles with a range of companies, including ThinkWave, a cloud-based school administration system. Gachechiladze has a Masters degree in Physics and Computer Science from Tbilisi State University.

Irina Shamkova is responsible for designing and driving Intermedia's product strategy. Over Irina's 17+ year tenure at Intermedia, she has built and led high-performance Product Management, Project Management, UI/UX, and Customer Experience teams and processes.

Under Irina's leadership, Intermedia's proprietary product portfolio has expanded to cover a broad yet tightly integrated suite of cloud applications, including Cloud Voice, SecuriSync^® backup and file sharing and Intermedia Email Protection. Shamkova was also integral to Intermedia’s significant UCaaS market expansion with the February 2018 launch of Intermedia Unite™.

Irina has helped establish Intermedia as a leading channel provider of business cloud applications by overseeing the development of key differentiators that allow partners to sell services under their own brand. This includes pioneering the first brandable web-based control panel to centralize and automate account management and service provisioning. Through integrated portals, partners can educate themselves, generate leads, drive sales and support customers from a single source throughout the customer lifecycle. Irina is a CRN Power 100, along with being one of CRN's Women of the Channel several years running.

Irina holds a Masters in Applied Mathematics from Saint Petersburg State University in Russia and has completed the General Management Program at Harvard University.

Jonathan Levine joined Intermedia in 2015, bringing with him 25+ years of experience in information technology, cloud operations, data analytics, software development and corporate strategy. Levine is responsible for the company’s technology strategy, ensuring that Intermedia continues to deliver the security, availability, and value that customers and partners depend on.

Prior to Intermedia, Levine served in a wide variety of senior leadership roles at Japanese leading e-commerce and internet service company, Rakuten. Most recently, he was the Vice Managing Director of Rakuten Group’s Development Unit, where he was responsible for global technology and corporate infrastructure and established Rakuten’s Next Generation Data Center, Private Cloud, Backbone Network and Global Development and Operation Center. Levine was also a board member of Fusion Communications, Rakuten’s telecommunications carrier, ISP and public cloud subsidiary. Previously, he served as Board Director, Chief Operating Officer, co-President and CTO of Rakuten’s Online Advertising Subsidiary LinkShare. During his tenure, Rakuten expanded from fewer than 50 employees to more than 10,000. Prior to his long career at Rakuten, Levine was co-founder and VP of Engineering at ePhysician. Levine has also held management positions at PointCast, IBM, and Lotus Development.

Levine holds a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Pennsylvania and is the Board Director for the New York Theatre Ballet. He has five online marketing and database technology patents and is the co-author of two books on e-commerce and Java technology.

Jeff Eisenberg joined Intermedia in October 2014. Eisenberg is responsible for all of Intermedia’s legal affairs, including commercial agreements, intellectual property strategy, litigation, regulatory compliance, M&A transactions and corporate governance.

Before joining Intermedia, Eisenberg spent over seven years with KLA-Tencor Corporation, where he oversaw the company’s corporate legal matters, including securities law compliance, M&A activity, corporate governance and a diverse range of other areas. Prior to that, he served in a corporate legal role with Mercury Interactive Corporation, which eventually included managing the sale of the company to Hewlett-Packard Corporation.

Before moving in-house, Eisenberg focused on corporate and securities law and M&A at law firms Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and O’Melveny & Myers.

Eisenberg obtained his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and his bachelor’s degree in Economics (with a minor in Business Administration) from the University of California at Berkeley.

Urvashi Sheth is responsible for Intermedia’s Global Client Services including Onboarding, Technical Support, Customer Service, Strategic Client Service Management. Sheth joined Intermedia in September 2019.

Urvashi Sheth is a leader in Global Customer Support with over 20+ years of experience building and directing multi-tiered, omni-channel customer support and service operations for startups to Fortune 500 companies. Previously Sheth managed Global Customer Care for Western Digital & SanDisk managing global Support and Warranty Operations.

Sheth has vast experience in B2B, B2C, retail and enterprise support. Her passion is developing innovative, AI based cost-effective, culturally appropriate, customer friendly solutions that not just improve the bottom line, but also enhances the customer experience for a rapidly growing global customer base.

Sheth earned her bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Mumbai and her MBA from the University of San Francisco’s Graduate School of Management.

Responsible for service availability at Intermedia, Gagan Pabla leverages his extensive experience to ensure that the company delivers on its promise to provide partners and customers with a leading cloud platform. In this capacity, he works collaboratively with various teams, including Operations, Engineering, Product, Information Security, and Client Services, to ensure that Intermedia's cloud communications services remain secure, highly available, and globally scalable, enabling the company to meet the increasing needs of its partners and customers.

Gagan has 20+ years of technical operating experience in both the telecommunications and cloud communications industries. He has served in technical operations leadership positions for numerous companies, including RingCentral, Cisco Webex, Comcast, and AT&T.

Before joining Intermedia, Gagan was the VP of Telephony Operations at RingCentral, where he led a global team of nearly 200 individuals responsible for the 24x7 operation of the company's global UCaaS product. He also managed carrier services, fraud, monitoring/tooling development, and data analytics. Prior to that, Gagan spent six years at Cisco WebEx, where he led a global team of several hundred individuals responsible for the operations and service delivery of the global Webex platform. He also held technical operations leadership roles for Comcast and AT&T, where he led large teams responsible for monitoring, incident response, repair, and remediation of multiple critical production and customer network services.

Gagan earned his M.S. from Barry University and his B.S. from the University of Southern California.

Elizabeth Mye is responsible for Intermedia’s global human resource function with a focus on attracting top talent, upskilling employees, developing our leaders of tomorrow and fostering a culture of learning, accountability and respect. The human resource operation encompasses organizational development, workforce staffing, planning and recruitment; executive and total compensation management and rewards; training and professional development; core values and culture; benefits management; employee relations and performance management; corporate policy development; immigration and work authorization management and regulatory compliance. Mye joined Intermedia in November of 2011.

With over 25 years' human resource leadership experience, Mye has made a career of building human resource success in high growth emerging companies as well as Fortune 100 national and international organizations in the technology, technology consulting services, biotechnology, healthcare and consumer products industries. Her focus and success have been in the ability to build scalable and practical corporate human resource solutions in high change, rapid growth start-up business environments. 

Previous to Intermedia, Mye held human resource leadership roles at NetSuite, Berkeley HeartLab, Computer Sciences Corporation, Cambridge Technology Partners and Thinking Machines. Mye’s leadership viewpoints have been published in such outlets as Authority Magazine, Buzzfeed, CIO Dive and Tech Target. Mye holds a bachelor’s degree (with economic studies) from the University of Massachusetts.

Makoto Omi joined Intermedia in 2021, bringing with him 30+ years of experience of a wide range of expertise in unified communications.

Omi is responsible for the company’s business development in Japan.

Prior to Intermedia, Omi served in a wide variety of leadership roles at Japanese leading IT and network manufacturer and systems integrator, NEC Corporation and its subsidiaries.

Most recently, he was SVP of NEC Platforms, where he was responsible for global operations of the unified communications line of business including 11 consolidated overseas subsidiaries. Previously, he held leadership positions in NEC Corporation of America and several divisions in NEC  Corporation. He was engaged in sales, marketing, product management, and financial planning in the unified communications line of business, Americas business management, and retail solutions business management in Japan.

Omi holds a BA from Sophia University in Japan and an MBA from Boston University.