Our leadership

Renée La Londe founded itD in 2005 with the vision of forging a new paradigm in tech consulting. In 2019, itD added SaaS to its expertise by launching three first-in-class SaaS products, an accomplishment that led to her being named Tech Innovator of the Year by Golden Bridge Awards in 2020.

Renée’s groundbreaking contributions to the industry through itD have won her company more than twenty Stevie® Awards, two Forrester Groundswell Awards, five Lithy Awards, two Best in Biz Awards, the Cisco Diversity Award, and many other accolades.

Renée La Londe has devoted herself to helping women find their voice in the tech industry and closing the gender gap in STEM throughout her career. In recognition of her efforts in this area, she was named Most Inspiring Executive in STEM by Women in STEM.

She is the founder of GLAM (Girls Leadership Academy Meetup), a nonprofit initiative that teaches girls aged 8-12 business acumen, leadership, and computer coding skills, to address the root causes of the gender gap early in life.

Renée was named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech by the National Diversity Council, is the recipient of an Enterprising Women of the Year Award and the National Mentoring Awards STEM Mentoring Award, and was named to the prestigious CRN Women of the Channel List. She also won a Stevie® Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year, and participated as an expert speaker at Global Telecom Women’s Network and Women4Tech during Mobile World Congress, among other industry conferences. She co-wrote the book, Social Knowledge: Organizational Currencies in the New Knowledge Economy.

Mr. Wilkinson, our Chief Financial Officer, has over 30 years of accounting and financial reporting and audit experience, as well as mergers and acquisitions, and international business. He has both master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Texas and is a Certified Public Accountant in Texas. While Mr. Wilkinson joined our company in early 2025, he has been advising our CEO, Renee LaLonde informally for over 15 years.

He recently served as Chief Financial Officer for Amelia Holdings, Inc., which was sold to SoundHound, Inc. (Nasdaq:SOUN) in August 2024. Mr. Wilkinson served as Chairman of the Board of Directors at SideChannel, Inc. (OTCQB:SDCH) from August 2019 until he retired in December 2022. He served as CEO of Sonim Technologies (Nasdaq:SONM) from October 2019 to May 2021. Mr. Wilkinson was the Chief Executive Officer of Xplore Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq:XPLR), an international rugged tablet company, leading up to the sale of the company to Zebra Technologies in August 2018.

Prior to his tenure at Xplore, he served as Chief Financial Officer for Amherst Holdings, a financial services company focused on real estate and real estate financing. In this role, Mr. Wilkinson took part in the successful sale of Amherst’s broker dealer subsidiary, significant capital generation for new strategies and the spin-off of one of the largest single-family equity businesses in the United States.

Mr. Wilkinson was the co-founder and Managing Partner of PMB Helin Donovan, a multi-office regional accounting firm where he led the growth of the firm both organically and through acquisition to one of the top 200 firms in the United States. His clients at PMB Helin Donovan included a large number of domestic public companies and international businesses. Previous accounting firm experience included work at KPMG in their Austin office.

Valerie is an accomplished technology leader, delivering business development and innovation through technology planning, management and architecture consulting. After working at First Union National Bank, she pursued a consulting career that focused on business and technology requirements and architecture, as well as technology process, development, integration, deployment, planning and management for Fortune 500 companies. A few of these include BB&T, Duke Energy, Kimberly Clark, and Lowe’s.

In 2004, she founded her own business focused on assisting Fortune 500 companies with technology initiatives. She also implemented technology planning programs for a variety of localized businesses such as municipal non-profits, as well as executive recruitment, M&A, legal, medical, life sciences and technology start-ups.

Since joining itD in 2013, Valerie continues to provide technology and strategy direction for Fortune 100 organizations as the Enterprise Content and Collaboration Practice Leader. She demonstrates remarkable technology and business acumen, understands the value of process management, and has an ability to lead efforts in situations of ambiguity, shifts in technology, and organizational change.

Peter is a highly accomplished, dedicated technology leader with over 15 years of experience at start-up, mid-level, and complex Fortune 500 companies. His breadth of expertise spans business and technical strategy, program/portfolio management, agile product development, release management and business intelligence.

His accomplishments since joining itD in 2006 include impacting over US$3 billion in total purchase volume as the lead for PayPal’s C-Level initiative (Voice of the Customer), establishing a technical Project Management Office, successfully deploying Cisco’s largest business intelligence release, and launching itD’s first service-delivery transformation project, which spawned itD’s award-winning Enterprise Collaboration practice.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Business from Santa Clara University. He loves spending time with his family and spends his spare time involved in sports leagues as well as coaching kid’s football & basketball.

Matt Propeck-Silva leads itD’s customer and partner strategy, ensuring exceptional experiences and building strong, collaborative relationships that drive growth. With more than 12 years of experience in enterprise software and services, Matt brings expertise across the full customer lifecycle from value selling and solution design, to delivery and ongoing customer success.

Before stepping into his current role, Matt founded and scaled a global Customer Solutions Design team that supported over 3,000 enterprise sales opportunities and influenced more than $170 million in ARR. He launched a services product management program, drove pricing strategies, and managed professional services portfolios to improve efficiency and customer outcomes. Matt also led cross-functional teams through major change initiatives and managed programs to deliver $12M in services ARR for some of the biggest brands on earth.

Matt holds an MBA from Willamette University and a B.S. from the University of Oregon. He is passionate about collaboration, innovation, and creating lasting value for customers and partners, reflecting itD’s core values of trust, teamwork, and relentless innovation. He lives and works on a sailboat and loves spending time with his dog, wife, and completing boat refit projects.

Cody Blue Gardner is a strategic operations leader with more than 15 years of experience driving large-scale transformation and operational excellence across global enterprise environments. He is known for building scalable systems, strengthening execution, and aligning teams around clear priorities that support sustained business impact.

His career includes leading major programs at Meta, where he scaled the company’s flagship New Hire Orientation and GMS Orientation programs to support more than 500 new employees each week, strengthened enterprise vendor ecosystems, and designed operating frameworks and workflows that improved accuracy, accelerated execution, and established consistent delivery standards across distributed teams.

At itD, Cody leads both the Account Management and Recruiting functions. He drives the redesign of delivery workflows, elevates operational standards, and implements process improvements that reduce friction, increase velocity, and strengthen outcomes for consultants and clients. He also contributes significantly to the PMO Community of Practice, advancing project management capability and reinforcing operational excellence across the organization.

He is known for creating clarity in complex environments, aligning teams around the work that matters, and building the operational infrastructure that enables consistent, high-quality execution at scale.

Alan is a highly accomplished community industry leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling enterprise communities for global brands. His breadth of expertise spans community platform strategy, thought leadership, business development, customer engagement, and turning community insights into measurable business outcomes.

His accomplishments include leading eBay’s community platform—one of the most engaged online communities on the web—and co-hosting the eBay for Business podcast. At Robinhood, he served as the company’s first community strategist and helped navigate the company’s response during the GameStop trading saga, including leading the highest-engagement brand AMA in Reddit history. As Director of Community at Splunk, he led a team of experienced Community Managers and drove significant growth across the company’s community platforms.

Since joining itD, Alan has lead our community strategy and thought leadership initiatives, and positioned the company as a trusted advisor to enterprise clients.

Alan’s work across continents has equipped him with deep cross-cultural expertise in community development. Originally from Ireland, he now lives in Nashville with his family.

Cecilia Landeros leads Human Resources as well as ESG and DEI efforts throughout itD, with a strong focus on creating positive impacts in our communities. Prior to joining itD, Cecilia held a variety of management roles at Apple, Infraworks, and SystemOne Technologies. Cecilia is also the Director of Operations for Girls Leadership Academy Meetup (GLAM), one of itD’s two non-profit organizations.

GLAM is a global nonprofit organization that offers two-day in-person and online STEAM education and leadership development programs which are free to attendees through corporate sponsorships and donations. GLAM events provide girls aged 8-12 and young women mentors aged 13+ with empowerment, inspiration, and support to believe in themselves and reach for their goals in business, STEAM, and leadership. GLAM’s award-winning curriculum includes the tools and scaffolding to help them find their voice, build their business acumen, and gain skills they need to become future global leaders! By learning from high level female leaders, participating in lively Q&A sessions, and exploring their superpowers in hands-on STEAM activities, attendees and mentors engage with positive role models and experience what’s possible for them, regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances.

Vikas has 25+ years of experience in providing architectural, technical & functional leadership in development, configuration, delivery of CRM, integration, custom application, business intelligence & enterprise search, for global organizations like Netapp, HP, Finastra, Global Foundries and other hi-tech companies. He brings extensive experience in delivering solutions from conception to production using global teams.

As the VP of Product Engineering at itD, he is responsible for shaping and implementing the product vision, strategy and design. He is passionate about adopting technology to solve business problems. He holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics from University of Mumbai, India.

Purpose-driven and collaborative, Kevin Yee brings over 16 years of experience as a technology consulting leader. He has passion for partnering with the world’s most influential organizations to solve their most pressing challenges. Kevin operates at the cross-section of strategy and execution with a demonstrated history of client satisfaction across numerous enterprise initiatives. Kevin and his team have been the recipients of multiple client awards for delivery excellence.

As Director of Business Operations, Kevin’s goal is to bring the best of itD to clients through developing client relationships, delivery management, and client and Ambassador satisfaction. He is responsible for aligning itD’s operational functions to set goals, design scalable processes and ensure business are on track.

Kevin joined itD in 2018 after 7 years at a global consulting firm. Some of his most recent accomplishments for a leading retailer include standing up the enterprise data platform to enable marketing segmentation and personalization initiatives, program management of ML models for customer insights, establishing agile practices across technical projects, and deploying point-of-sale upgrades to over 450 stores in North America.

Kevin holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and Engineering degrees from the University of California at Davis and the University of Southern California. He resides in the Bay Area and loves spending family time persuading his kids to try different cuisines and then perfecting new recipes at home.

Ramesh has over 15 years of IT experience. Prior to joining itD in 2015, Ramesh held a variety of senior technology roles at Digi International, Effone Technologies and Sharper Logics, Inc.

His outstanding technical knowledge in the software industry, combined with his managerial skills, enables him to build successful development teams that can deliver positive results. “Get it done” is his mantra at work, and he influences the team at Hyderabad Development Center with the same energy.

Ramesh has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Andhra University.

Ryan leads a global team of data professionals who help clients unlock the value of their BI, Data & Analytics solutions. With over 20 years of experience in management consulting, he has an extensive track record for incubating and scaling new capabilities with clients across several industries; most notably, retail, high-tech, life sciences, biotech, financial services, insurance and higher education.

His specialties include defining data strategies, building high-performing teams, overseeing the delivery of business objectives, and providing thought leadership on emerging data and AI trends. Ryan is passionate about creating data-driven cultures, enabling data governance, driving business intelligence, adopting AI and machine learning, and exploring new generative AI, GPT, data mesh, and data fabric design patterns.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Illinois State University. He enjoys fly fishing, exploring other cultures, and spending time with his family.