Meet our leaders

Noel Goggin is Chief Executive Officer of Conga, where he is responsible for directing the company’s growth at scale and furthering its leading position in the digital transformation of businesses processes. He is a highly accomplished tech executive with nearly 30 years of leadership and management experience within the software industry that includes CEO, EVP, and SVP positions. 

Prior to joining Conga, Noel served as the CEO and Culture Leader at Aptos, where he successfully transformed the culture and performance of the business and directed its spin-off as a fully independent company. Previously, he was the General Manager of retail strategy at RedPrairie. He has a proven record of operational experience in product strategy and innovation, organization and business transformation, and building enduring teams and cultures.

Noel holds a BS in Engineering from Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland.

Robert is Chief Financial Officer of Conga, where he manages the financial and accounting aspects of the company as well as provides the leadership team and board of directors with financial and strategic guidance. He has a proven track record of driving growth, operational improvement, and advanced business insight and analytics for public and private companies.

Prior to Conga, Robert was EVP and CFO for Servicesource, a publicly-traded global leader in outsourced inside sales, customer success, and recurring revenue growth and retention solutions for cloud / SaaS and hardware companies. During his 29 years of operational finance, mergers and acquisitions, and investment banking, Robert has held executive positions at Teletech, T3 Media, Alpine Access, Mix 1, and CSG Systems International. He has also closed over 25 merger and acquisition transactions and raised over $3 billion in debt and equity capital.  

Robert holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA from the University of Rochester. He has also been a member of the board and executive committee for the Epilepsy Foundation of America in Washington D.C. and is currently on the Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado.

Sam Zayed is Chief Revenue Officer of Conga, where he is responsible for driving revenue growth and customer expansion on a global scale. He brings more than 20 years of experience building and leading high performing enterprise software sales teams. 

Prior to joining Conga, Sam was a member of the Apptio leadership team that completed a successful Nasdaq IPO in 2016 followed by a PE-led private transaction in 2019. At Apptio, Sam led sales teams as SVP, Americas and SVP, Global Account Management. In his career, Sam has held various sales and consulting leadership roles at PwC, Commerce One, Hubwoo, Perfect Commerce, and Bank One Capital Markets.

Sam holds an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a BA from DePauw University in Greencastle, IN.

Chris Bishop is Chief Customer Officer of Conga, where he ensures that customers have valuable interactions with Conga at every stage of their engagement. He brings more than 20 years of experience with aligning all post-sale customer functions to focus on product adoption, time to value, and customer satisfaction. 

Prior to joining Conga, Chris served as head of global services and support at Plex Systems, helping customers maximize the value from their deployments. In this role, he was responsible for the global leadership of all professional services, education, and customer support operations. Before Plex Systems, Chris held a number of senior leadership roles at various software companies, including Vice President of PeopleSoft’s North American Supply Chain consulting organization. He also has held leadership and operational positions at Oracle and Ford Motor Company.

Chris holds a BA in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University.

Praniti Lakhwara is Chief Information Officer of Conga, where she is responsible for IT solutions and the company’s internal security program. She is driving a comprehensive strategy that will help scale the company rapidly, build a world class IT organization, deliver innovative solutions globally, and create a secure robust infrastructure for customers.

Prior to Conga, Praniti was the VP of IT at Nimble Storage, running the teams responsible for infrastructure, applications, security, and data platforms. Under her leadership, the Nimble IT team repositioned the IT strategy, revitalized their brand, established a “Customer 0” program, and executed a roadmap that doubled from prior years. Praniti has also held senior roles at Guidewire Software and Align Technology. As a result of her work, she was named the Bay Area CIO of the Year in 2017 by Silicon Valley Business Journal and the San Francisco Business Times. 

Praniti holds a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Arizona State University.

Omer Rafatullah is Chief Legal Officer for Conga, where he oversees legal matters including advising based on changes in the law, minimizing legal risks, and ensuring the company remains in compliance with regulatory codes. He has been practicing law for over a decade and runs a pro bono practice with a focus on civil rights, social entrepreneurship, and community engagement.

Prior to Conga, Omer served as a Corporate Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, focusing on meeting the needs of private equity sponsors in a variety of complex business transactions. He also advised on corporate governance, executive compensation, and general corporate matters.

Omer holds a JD from the University of Michigan Law School and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Koti Reddy is Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Conga, where he ensures that the company’s reputation for innovation and industry-leading solutions in the digital transformation of commercial operations is unparalleled. His expertise in engineering, research and development, and other critical operations is essential to growing Conga's business. 

Prior to Conga, Koti served as SVP of Engineering at CallidusCloud where he was responsible for all product development and cloud operations. During his nearly 20-year tenure at CallidusCloud, he held various leadership positions in the engineering department.

Koti holds a BS in Electronics and Communications from Sri Venkateswara University and a PG Diploma in Computer Science from RMIT University.

Ashish Shah is the General Manager of India Operations at Conga, where he leads the day-to-day operations across three offices. As a member of the senior team, he supports strategic initiatives and is passionate about the deployment of new technologies, developing products that exceed customer’s expectations, and building a world-class team that drives business growth.

Prior to Conga, Ashish was General Manager at GE, where he spent 21 years of his career. He previously served as Managing Director of NextGen Healthcare, leading the build from the ground up, scaling the operation to a few thousand employees, and encouraging cultural transformation to strengthen the value proposition of the India center.

Ashish holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Bradley University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from L.D. College of Engineering.

Grant is the Chief Product Officer at Conga, where he is responsible for the vision, design, and delivery of Conga's products and commerce platform. He is a deeply experienced product and engineering leader with more than 22 years as a technology executive and more than a decade as an technical architect.

Prior to Conga, Grant served for more than a decade as CTO at DocuSign, where he was responsible for the product definition, development, architecture, innovation, engineering, and technical operations leading to the industry leadership position in automated document transactions. Previously, he was the VP of Litigation Product Development at LexisNexis and VP of Product Development at Primus Knowledge Solutions.

Randy is the Chief Marketing Officer at Conga, where he is responsible for driving market leadership as a strategic catalyst for growth. He is a deeply experienced marketing leader with more than decades of experience working with high growth software companies.
 
Prior to Conga, Randy worked in both private (including a prior Thoma Bravo backed company), and public companies. He has extensive experience in leading cross-functional teams, managing change, defining business strategies and driving execution to meet business objectives. Over the past 11 years, Randy served as the SVP of Marketing at Flexera and CMO and SVP of Global Expansion at NICE inContract, where he helped lead the companies to doubling in size.