Accounting
Chrome River Appoints Financial Software Veteran Sunil Kayiti as CTO
Prior to joining Chrome River, Sunil was Managing Director at Boston-based investment management software provider, Eze Software Group, where he led a team of more than 170 people and directed all strategy design, business vision, and innovation ...
Apr. 30, 2018
Chrome River, a provider of expense and invoice management solutions, has appointed Sunil Kayiti, a financial software technology leader with more than 25 years of industry experience, as Chief Technical Officer. In this role, Sunil will lead a global team of more than 100 engineers who design and develop Chrome River’s solutions, and oversee the company’s technology infrastructure.
Prior to joining Chrome River, Sunil was Managing Director at Boston-based investment management software provider, Eze Software Group, where he led a team of more than 170 people and directed all strategy design, business vision, and innovation initiatives related to technology. Sunil previously spent 20 years in a variety of technology leadership roles at Fidelity Investments.
Sunil succeeds founding CTO Mike Vargo in the role. Mike, who has played a key role in Chrome River’s technology team for the past 11 years, is moving to a new role as Fellow, Engineering, where he will focus on ensuring that Chrome River takes advantage of the latest software engineering innovations and developments.
“Sunil is a respected leader in the financial software industry with a track record in cloud software applications,” said Alan Rich, CEO and co-founder of Chrome River. “Sunil will focus on our technology roadmap to help us maintain our leadership in technology and innovation. Knowing Sunil’s previous accomplishments, I am confident that under his guidance we will continue to build on our reputation as a strong software engineering organization.
“I’m also thankful to Mike for his role in bringing the company to its current leadership position in the industry. Mike is one of the pioneers of the SaaS industry and is a key member of our team” continued Rich.
“It was clear that Chrome River’s market opportunity, technology investments and business vision have positioned the company very well for success with companies around the globe, and this made my decision to join the company very simple,” said Sunil Kayiti, CTO at Chrome River. “Chrome River already has very happy customers and excellent technology infrastructure, and I look forward to applying my previous experience to build upon this with innovative, scalable solutions that will help to continue the company’s success for many years to come.”
Sunil holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Mangalore University in Karnataka, India; an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina; and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.