BDNA's leadership team is composed of successful technology veterans from a variety of disciplines.
- Constantin Delivanis - Chief Executive Officer, Director
- Michael Riley - Vice President, North America Field Operations
- David Appelbaum - Vice President, Marketing
- Walker White - Chief Technology Officer
- Abdel Kander - General Manager, Europe
- Stéphane Lhenry - Vice President, PS'Soft
Constantin Delivanis – Chief Executive Officer, Director
Prior to cofounding BDNA in 2000, Delivanis cofounded Sand Hill Group LLC to invest in and provide management advice to emerging enterprise technology companies. He also cofounded EnaTec Software Systems, where he served as Chief Executive Officer until its acquisition by Wonderware Corporation, now a part of Invensys Systems.
Earlier in his career Delivanis held a number of executive positions in marketing, engineering and business development. He has been listed in Forbes' "Midas 100 List" as one of the most influential investors in technology. Delivanis holds an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University, an M.S. from Stanford University and a B.S. from the University of Alexandria.
Michael Riley – Vice President, North America Field Operations
Mike Riley leads the North American direct and channel sales organizations for BDNA. Riley joined BDNA in 2008 from HP, where he led the communications, media and entertainment (CME) vertical for HP Software. Prior to HP's acquisition of Mercury, Mike spent seven years at Mercury, contributing in various roles ranging from sales management to emerging business to sales operations. Prior to Mercury, Mike spent six years at CA where he opened CA offices in Honolulu and Sacramento and led increasingly larger teams during his tenure. He has also held sales management positions at Network Associates (now McAfee) and Savvion. Riley is a graduate of California State University, Chico, and is based at BDNA headquarters in Mountain View.
David Appelbaum – Vice President, Marketing
David Appelbaum leads the world-wide marketing organization for BDNA. Appelbaum joined BDNA in 2010 from BigFix where he oversaw significant market awareness and brand recognition in the highly competitive IT security market through the award winning use of rich media and guerilla marketing campaigns. Prior to BigFix, David spent three years with his own consulting firm with clients that included Salesforce.com, Antenna Software, Banter, Mohomine, Kofax, and many other pre-ipo companies. Before his consulting, David spent 3 years with Autonomy where he headed up North America marketing and participated in their IPO's on both the NASDAQ and London Stock Exchange. These were some of the most successful public offerings in 2001 and positioned Autonomy to be the leader in unstructured information management and meaning-based computing. Before Autonomy, David spent 5 years at Oracle where he managed the marketing and technical programs for the Windows NT group which became one of the most profitable overlay groups at the company and saw Oracle overtake Microsoft as the database leader for Windows NT. David has also held marketing positions at both Informix and Borland. He is a graduate of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY, and is based at BDNA headquarters in Mountain View.
Walker White – Chief Technology Officer
Walker White is responsible for the technical aspects of all customer-facing activity, from sales to service to support. Additionally, he provides direct guidance to the BDNA engineering about product direction and customer needs. Prior to joining BDNA, he was a 12 year veteran of Oracle Corporation. During his tenure at Oracle, he held positions as Vice President of Applications Technology, Chief Technologist of Oracle Service Industries, Product Line Manager for Hewlett-Packard and other technical management positions. White is a regular speaker at many commercial, government and educational information technology forums. White is a graduate of University of California, San Diego, with a B.S. in Computer Engineering.
Abdel Kander – General Manager, BDNA Europe
Abdel is in charge of the European operations of BDNA. He joined the company in 2006 as its European Technical Director and managed the pre sales and services teams. Prior to BDNA, he led the London-based office of Esmertec, a provider of embedded software for mobile and multimedia devices, and supervised the field technical activities. Earlier in his career Abdel was a member of the original Business Objects team where he held various technical roles before relocating to the Silicon Valley as its director for mergers and acquisitions.
Abdel holds a masters degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris
Stéphane Lhenry - Vice President, PS'Soft
Stéphane Lhenry has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, mostly in sales and management positions. Stephane Lhenry leads the direct sales and channel sales organizations for PS’Soft in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to the acquisition of PS’Soft by BDNA Corporation, Stéphane Lhenry was the co-founder of PS’Soft in Europe. He is one of the pioneers in IT Asset & Service Management in France and has contributed to the adoption of ITIL best practices in Europe. Stéphane is a graduate of French Business School, and is based in PS’Soft’s European headquarters in Paris, France.

