Our Mission: To Fix Globalization

Evan Smith

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Evan Smith has worked his entire adult life on solving difficult, world-scale systems problems in order to benefit the environment, national security, and economic development. Prior to Altana, Evan served as a founder, investor, and leader in supply chain, clean technology, and renewable energy businesses.

Aaron Libbey

Chief Revenue Officer

Chief Revenue Officer

Aaron Libbey oversees sales and partnerships at Altana. Prior to Altana, Aaron spent four years at Palantir leading a variety of public and private sector business development initiatives. Prior to Palantir, Aaron was an M&A attorney at Paul Weiss in New York. Earlier in his career, Aaron founded Adage, a geothermal power plant developer, and worked in Africa for the Clinton Foundation.

Ian Cadieu

Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer

Ian Cadieu leads the technology, data, and engineering teams at Altana, utilizing technology to push the boundaries of what is possible for our customers via ML, software and data. He previously spent 15 years at asset management firm Bridgewater Associates starting as a developer and eventually leading the trading technology department where he was responsible for all order management, position keeping, execution risk and algorithmic trading strategies and market connectivity.

Katherine Moan

Chief Financial Officer

Chief Financial Officer

Katherine Moan oversees Altana’s financial health, building and collaborating with all parts of the business to enable efficient growth. Her responsibilities also include leading Altana’s people team, fostering a culture of inclusivity where our employees can do their best work. With various experiences scaling start-ups and finance functions to support growth from both public and private companies, Katherine’s expertise in strategy, data, metrics and policy pulls from her time at EMC, Dell Technologies, and Cybereason.

Jonathan Prince

Chief Marketing Officer

Chief Marketing Officer

Jonathan Prince leads marketing, communications, government affairs, and public policy for Altana. He has more than thirty years of experience in marketing, public policy, strategic communications, technology, government, and crisis management. Jonathan has served in senior positions in the Obama and Clinton Administrations, several presidential campaigns, and with technology giants Slack and Spotify.

Peter Swartz

Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer

Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer

Peter Swartz leads the application of modern AI at Altana. He is motivated by complex systems analysis and decision support across global scale datasets to facilitate public and private sector operation in a turbulent world. Peter has spoken on global trade and machine learning at the World Trade Organization, World Customs Organization, US Court of International Trade, and other leading industry events, and holds a number of patents in machine learning and global trade. Previously, Peter was Head of Data Science at Panjiva.

Raphael Tehranian

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer

Raph co-founded Altana after failing and succeeding to build several clean technology, market intelligence, and supply chain businesses. He has dedicated his career to catalyzing a more sustainable, resilient, and secure commerce – and believes supply chains are a massive lever for global impact. At Altana, he leads, integrates, and works across all aspects of the business to advance our strategy and mission. He draws on broad experience investing, advising, and operating across stages and markets including energy, agriculture, transportation, and financial services.

Aashish Patel

VP, Technology Infrastructure & Security

VP, Technology Infrastructure & Security

Aashish Patel leads Altana's Technology Infrastructure and Security teams, where he and his team advance Altana by building innovative and secure technology infrastructure. Before joining Altana, Aashish led transformative initiatives across the financial and technology sectors; building scalable security architectures at LinkedIn, launching comprehensive security programs at Bridgewater Associates, and directing critical regulatory compliance efforts at JPMorgan Chase.

Amy Morgan

VP, Head of Trade Compliance

VP, Head of Trade Compliance

Amy Morgan leads Altana’s global trade and compliance solutions for the enterprise and public sector alike. Amy is a Licensed US Customs Broker with over two decades of experience working in international trade and compliance. Prior to Altana, Amy created Avalara’s cross-border business unit, and has managed global trade and customs compliance operations for Amazon, Costco Wholesale, Nordstrom, and Microsoft.

Ferhan Elvanoglu

VP of Platform

VP of Platform

Ferhan is an experienced technology leader with engineering, product and program management experience built in companies like Microsoft, Apple, Lyft and Affirm. He leads platform teams at Altana that help us innovate and build our portfolio of applications rapidly and efficiently.

Jenny Cox

VP of Product Management

VP of Product Management

Jenny brings 18 years of experience to managing the Product and Design teams at Atlana. Her career began in Deloitte’s federal practice, focusing on Transportation Security Administration and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Later, she spent 8 years in-house at startups, notably working as VP of Product at AppNexus during its AT&T acquisition. For 5 years, she's led product strategy and design at her studio, specializing in scaling global offerings and building top-tier product organizations.

Mike Smith

Head of Financial Services Technology

Head of Financial Services Technology

Mike Smith leads Altana’s product and technology strategy in financial services, deriving insights from observed and simulated supply chain network behaviors to facilitate risk selection, risk pricing, and portfolio management for insurance and banking enterprises. Mike has an extensive background in applying analytics and machine learning to support decision making, working with companies large and small like Citibank, Verisk, Fastspring, and Everstream Analytics.

Saurabh Khanwalkar

VP of AI and Machine Learning

VP of AI and Machine Learning

Saurabh brings 20 years of experience leading AI innovation in diverse industries including US DARPA programs on global media analytics, consumer electronics at Bose, and more recently at a Silicon Valley EdTech unicorn. He leads the continued expansion of our AI product innovation that is core part of our mission to revolutionize supply chain networks.