We are an ambitious team with a shared vision of global commerce rebuilt around collaborative, resilient, secure, and sustainable value chains.
Trusted Value Chains
Globalization 2.0
While this period of change and dislocation presents danger and insecurity, it also presents an opportunity to preserve many of the advantages created by Globalization 1.0 while addressing its most painful deficiencies. Through trusted value chains, Globalization 2.0 will deliver a more resilient, secure, inclusive, and sustainable globalization than the unbridled globalization of the last 75 years.
We seek, surface, and communicate reality with our stakeholders, while working relentlessly to pull reality to our vision. Embracing this tension enables learning and adaptation; ignoring it results in failure. We constructively address the uncomfortable truths, and have the hard conversations, welcoming learning as necessary for growth.
We focus on value creation, not value capture.
We develop positive-sum relationships with our customers, our partners, and our teammates. We convene and align stakeholders around meaningful, valuable opportunities, and always play the long game. We share credit, we partner well, and we focus on the mission.
We go on offense.
We have the courage to imagine and build transformative, world-scale solutions. Incrementalism will not fix globalization. We value “first principles” thinking and “ownership” behaviors over process and hierarchy. We have a bias towards action, even amidst uncertainty.
We foster diversity and embrace differences.
We believe that a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives is essential to building a global, multi-stakeholder platform.
Altana Leadership
Shaping The Next Era of Supply Chain Intelligence
Evan Smith
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Evan Smith
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.
Peter Swartz
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer
Peter Swartz
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
Raphael Tehranian
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.
Aaron Libbey
Chief Revenue Officer
Aaron Libbey
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
Ian Cadieu
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.
Jonathan Prince
Chief Marketing Officer
Jonathan Prince
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.
Katherine Moan
Chief Financial Officer
Katherine Moan
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.
Aashish Patel
VP, Technology Infrastructure & Security
Aashish Patel
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
Amy Morgan
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.
Cassie Milici
VP of Product Marketing
Cassie Milici
VP of Product Marketing
Cassie leads Product Marketing, helping to shape how new innovations get into the hands of Altana’s customers. Prior to Altana she held Product Marketing and Marketing leadership roles at a number of technology companies across the advertising, commercial real estate, and legal industries.
Ferhan Elvanoglu
VP of Platform
Ferhan Elvanoglu
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
Jenny Cox
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
Mike Smith
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
Saurabh Khanwalkar
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.
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Leaders in trade, law enforcement, national security, logistics, financial services, business, and technology.
Alan Bersin
Chairman of Advisory Board
Former Commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency
Amy Chang
Board Director: Disney, Procter and Gamble, Marqeta
Anne Glover
CEO and Co-Founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, Director, Bank of England
Benn Bekic
Former Chief Strategy Officer, WiseTech Global
Cindy Allen
Former Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance, FedEx Logistics; Former Executive Director of the ACE Business Office at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
David Gauthier
Former Director of Commercial Operations, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Dawn Meyerriecks
Former Deputy Director of CIA for Science and Technology
Greg White
Former Senior Executive at INTTRA, Ports America, Maersk, and UASC
John Wissler
Lieutenant General, United States Marine Corps (Retired)
Jonathan Pressman
Founder & CEO, First Chair Partners
Khoo Boon Hui
Former President of Interpol
Lanny Breuer
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney General
Lisa Robins
Former Head of Global Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered Bank
Matthew Jackson
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Niloofar Razi Howe
Senior Operating Partner, Energy Impact Partners
Paul Robson
CEO MYOB; Former President at Benchling; President International at Adobe
Paul Twomey
Former CEO of ICANN
Teresa Shea
Former SIGINT Director, National Security Agency
Thomas Keane
Senior Advisor for Insurance at Squire, Patton, Boggs LLP
Tobias Larsson
Former CEO of Resilience360, later Everstream
Webb Stevens
Former Head of Product at Carta, Qualtrics, and Avalara