Meet the WildApricot Team

Scott Collison

CEO

Over the last 25 years Scott Collison has held CEO and General Management positions at some of the world’s leading technology companies.

Most recently he was CEO at Anaconda, a market leading data science and AI company, where he rapidly grew product revenue and helped build a great company culture that was recognized as a Top Ten Employer in Austin by local media. He was also named one of Top Ten CEOs among companies in the Data Science and AI space in 2019.

He has led organizations at large software companies and startups, including Microsoft, VMware, Salesforce, and SourceForge. He has been a founder at three startups. One of them, Signio, wasacquired by VeriSign in 1999 in a transaction exceeding $1 billion.

He is a former Fulbright scholar and holds a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts with special honors from the University of Texas, Austin.

Scott continues to serve as a board member, investor and advisor for a number of early stage start-ups. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and cycling the Texas Hill Country on the weekends.

Shawn Klerer

General Manager

Shawn has been with the organization since 2016, most recently as Chief Financial Officer, WildApricot. Shawn has served in multiple executive roles, including being the CEO for a publicly traded education company, as well as holding CFO and GM roles in the financial services and travel industries.

Shawn holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University and is a CPA. He lives in Toronto with his wife and four children.

Katya Tyukina

Product Manager

Katya has over ten years of product management experience. She started at WildApricot in 2008 as a QA engineer and has advanced in her career since. During her time here, she has amassed vast product knowledge (and has rightfully earned the title the WildApricot Wikipedia). She holds a master's degree in Computer Science, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, reading, and solving puzzles.

Ranojoy Ghosh

Director of User Onboarding

Rano started at WildApricot in 2016. Over the years, he has spoken to hundreds of organizations personally as the Director of User Onboarding. He has learned a lot from those conversations and now spends most of his time coming up with the best ways to share that knowledge. He currently oversees a team of five, who are responsible for helping customers make the most of their WildApricot account.

John MacKenzie

Director of Support

John started at WildApricot in 2019. He is responsible for leading Wild’s Apricot customer support team. Prior to this, he held a customer support-related role at various companies, including CoinSmart, FreshBooks and Flight Centre.