Meet Our Team
Billy Sarracino
Chief Executive Officer
Billy brings over 20 years of operating, investment banking and corporate finance experience across technology, consumer and retail industries, spanning multi-billion dollar enterprises to start-ups. Billy joined Turvo in 2019 as Chief Financial Officer, where he developed the Company’s financial organization, secured financing from strategic partners, and led the sale of Turvo to Lineage Logistics and Bay Grove.
Prior to joining Turvo, Billy was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Securities and at Morgan Stanley in the Global Consumer Retail Investment Banking Group. Billy began his investment banking career at Citi in 2007. Additionally, Billy worked at Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ: “CENT”) where he was the Manager of Corporate Finance & Treasury.
Billy holds a BA in Political Science from UCLA, and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Terri Stynes
Chief People Officer
Terri Stynes serves as Chief People Officer for Turvo Inc. In this role, Terri is responsible for leading Turvo’s overall people strategy, including talent acquisition, employee experience, leadership development, diversity and inclusion, organization design and cultural development, and compensation and benefits.
Terri has more than 20 years of HR experience with a variety of tech companies. Before joining Turvo she was the CHRO for Corsair Gaming, Inc. and Silver Spring Networks Inc. where she and led the HR, Global Real Estate, and Corporate IT functions. Before that, she held leadership positions at Sun Microsystems, supporting various engineering organizations.
Terri holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration and M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from SF State University.
Luis Pajares
Chief Customer Officer
Luis Pajares serves as the Chief Customer Officer at Turvo. He brings over 30 years of experience in software and cloud technologies in both large publicly traded and start-up companies.
Luis’s career has been focused on finding and developing disruptive technologies that modernize industries. At Turvo Luis is focused on applying his knowledge and experience in digital transformation to the logistics industry to create the world’s first collaborative logistics solution to unify every person, system and organization in the supply chain. In his previous role as Group Vice President for Oracle Communications, he was a senior member of the leadership team responsible for strategy with oversight of worldwide sales, alliances and partnerships.
Luis holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Florida and an MBA from the University of Dallas.
Samanatha Foley
Chief Marketing Officer
Samantha Foley serves as Turvo’s Chief Marketing Officer with oversight of brand positioning, product marketing, digital marketing, lead generation and campaigns, events, communications, and press and analyst relations.
Samantha has advanced in her career by building industry leading marketing and product marketing programs for fast growing, complex enterprise software solutions in the energy and smart building sectors. Most recently, Samantha served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at Ikon Science, the leading provider of geophysics software for upstream oil and gas. At Ikon she built a global team and led the company’s brand transformation during a transition of the business model from consulting services to SaaS solution delivery.
Prior to Ikon, Samantha served as Vice President of Marketing at Cenergistic, an energy conservation and sustainability company, and as Chief Marketing Officer at Entouch, a smart building software provider. Samantha spent the first ten years of her career in sales, marketing and product marketing roles at Allegro Development, a global provider of commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) software.
Samantha holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism with concentration in Public Relations from Northwestern State University and an MBA from Texas Woman’s University.
Chris Kennedy
SVP Technology
Chris Kennedy serves as Turvo’s SVP of Tehnology where he is responsible for the reliable and secure operation of the Turvo Software-as-a-Service platform and underlying infrastructure and systems. At Turvo, Chris oversees the global Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Engineering (DevOps), Release Engineering, Information Security, and Information Technology teams. Chris is passionate about enabling Turvo to efficiently scale its technologies, operations, observability and processes to smoothly handle exponentially growing volume and global scope.
Chris brings more than 20 years of global technology, devops and engineering leadership expertise with established success guiding global $MMM technology, engineering operations and security functions. Chris is a former Federal Government Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the Presidio Trust, Associate CIO of Computing Operations at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory operated at Stanford University, CISO at SAP SuccessFactors, and most recently led Cloud Engineering at a healthtech startup.
Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, with a concentration in Bioinformatics and Biological Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Go BEARS!
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdken/
Rajesh Srivastava
SVP of Engineering & Managing Dir of India
Rajesh Srivastava serves as the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Managing Director of India. He leads a global team responsible for product engineering. He has 20+ years of product and technology management experience.
Before joining Turvo, Rajesh spent more than 10 years with Microsoft bringing to bear several strategic products and capabilities in both the US and India. He was one of the key members of the team at the time of launching Bing Search. Most recently, after relocating to Hyderabad India, he was instrumental in setting up and managing several global Bing Local Search markets from Hyderabad, setting up a Skype team for emerging markets and driving innovation across the whole team. Prior to Microsoft, Rajesh held various Technology Management positions in the US, leading global charter and delivery responsibility in Credit health, Investments and Automotive aftermarket domains.
Rajesh holds a B. Tech. degree from IITBHU, Varanasi. His expertise extends to a broad spectrum of products, technologies and architectural styles – Microservices, Cloud, machine learning, big data and web search products.
Brett Williams
Vice President, Sales
Brett Williams serves as Turvo’s Vice President of Sales, where he is responsible for all new customer acquisition and new logo revenue. At Turvo, he oversees the Sales and Solutions Engineering teams. Brett joined Turvo in 2022 with two decades of transportation and logistics SaaS sales execution and leadership experience, and a deep understanding of systems integration across the supply chain in both start-up and enterprise environments. Prior to joining Turvo, Brett held various sales leadership positions with supply chain tech companies including FleetMatics (pre and post IPO, and through a successful $2.3B exit to Verizon Telematics), FourKites, Trimble Transportation, and project44.
Brett’s knowledge and understanding of transportation management systems (TMS) and emerging technologies for the entire supply chain ecosystem – including freight brokers, third-party logistics providers (3PLs), shippers and carriers – help Turvo to create value up and down the supply chain for its customers.
Brett holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Communications from Millikin University.