About Us

Bart de Graaff

Chief Executive Officer

Prior to joining ngena in May 2019, Bart spent over 20 years working with global consultancies and IT powerhouses. He served as Managing Director at Accenture for 12 years, leading Cloud Sales, Solutions, and Operations, as well as creating digital and data-driven client programs. He also worked in enterprise architecture at Perot Systems Corp. Bart has a passion for helping companies and teams to exceed their own expectations, and he has been delivering on this philosophy at ngena, establishing it as the premiere SD-WAN as a Service provider in the industry

Ariel Cruz

Chief Commercial Officer

Ariel Cruz is an accomplished Multinational Channel Executive with over 20 years of experience. He excels in channel development, sales management, and channel campaigns, having successfully established new markets both in the US and internationally. His leadership has led to exceptional growth and heightened corporate value. A strategic thinker, who possesses remarkable business acumen, adept networking skills, and strong negotiation prowess. Notably, he has been recognized and awarded for his role in designing, launching, and managing top-tier channel organizations and programs.

Matus Radvanec

Chief Business Officer

Matus Radvanec is an adept leader with a diverse background in project management, spanning finance to telecommunications. A proven track record of effectively overseeing and completing projects for global clientele. Skilled in team cultivation, fostering growth, and inspiring individuals to excel. In his role as CMD, he showcases exceptional leadership prowess, steering the ship for ngena Slovakia and ngena Hungary. Matus is not only responsible for the supervision and direction of local operations, people, and ventures but also plays a crucial role in maintaining ngena's thriving business landscape.

Ondrej

Chief Technology Officer

Ondrej Vereb joined ngena in 2016 as an Infrastructure Architect and Lead, overseeing the architecture and development of the Backbone, OOB, platform, and network security. In 2020, he established the Technical Architecture team, which is responsible for network automation and orchestration frameworks, SDWAN configuration templating, and public and private cloud architecture. In 2023, Ondrej was promoted to VP of Architecture, where he became responsible for aligning network architecture strategies with business objectives. As of 2024, he has accepted the role of Chief Technical Officer. Ondrej holds an Engineer’s degree in Multimedia Telecommunications from the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia.

Shivaraja Gowda

Chief Delivery Officer

Shiva Gowda joined the ngena team in early 2017 as Lead Enterprise Architect to roll out its platform and is now responsible for its global delivery and rollout of ngena’s products and services.. Prior to joining ngena, Shiva worked with Orga Systems/Redknee Inc., a leading vendor of customer care and billing solutions, where he helped the organization establish Consulting & Delivery Centers in Malaysia and India and delivered projects globally. Shiva holds Master’s in Business Administration from Edinburgh Napier University and Bachelor’s in Computer Science & Engineering from University BDT College of Engineering, Davangere.

Adrian Ertorteguy

Chief Marketing Officer

As a seasoned marketing professional with over a decade of experience in the dynamic world of technology, Adrian is passionate about driving innovation, delivering results, and spearheading impactful marketing strategies: his expertise encompasses all aspects of marketing, including digital marketing, branding, demand generation, product marketing, and customer engagement. Adrian played a pivotal role in shaping ngena's brand identity, user experience, and user interface design for ngena's platform and products.

Andrew Hartland

Chief Financial Officer

Andrew Hartland is a creative and results-driven executive with combined experiences directing finance, administration, operations, human resources, and information system organizations. He has over 30 years of financial and operational management experience in telecommunications, hardware and semiconductor manufacturing, software development, nanotechnology, and banking. He is rounding up his expertise in start-up, turnaround, merger/acquisition, and high growth organizations.

Jan Host

VP Platform & Development

Jan Host has joined ngena in May 2019 as Lead Architect in deployment area. After a year, he became a Team Leader in the same area. In this position, he got to understand most of ngena technical components. In 2022, he took over Horizontal Testing team and later on NSO Function Pack development, which widened the range of understanding of the ngena platform. Prior to joining ngena Jan was working in multiple start-ups in technical and managerial positions-streaming services, zero-knowledge platforms, application development and more. Jan holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Pavol Jozef Safarik in Kosice, Slovakia.