Meet the Estarei Leadership Team

  • Melissa Shepard - Co-Founder

    Melissa Shepard

    Managing Director Architecture & Delivery

    Co-founder

    Melissa is a Salesforce CTA, 32x Salesforce certified, a B2B & B2C Solution Architect and a DF21 Golden Hoodie recipient with 17 years of Salesforce experience.

    She has been a speaker at many Salesforce events and will be speaking this year at Dreamforce 2023. Melissa is the founder of ScaleUp Archs and the Architect Ohana Slack group, a Mulesoft Ambassador, and co-leads the Boston Architect Community Group.

    She is a Trailblazer Mentor as well as a Ladies Be Architects Ambassador, a Well-Architected Ambassador, a Marketing Champion, the Architect Dreamin Co-Founder/organizer and a Northeast Dreamin organizer.

  • Ryan McDonough

    Managing Director Sales & Business Development

    Co-founder

    Ryan brings over 8 years of experience in the Mar-tech industry, and leaves Salesforce after close to 5 years as a Marketing Cloud Account Executive, focused across the Healthcare and Life Sciences vertical.

    Ryan has assisted hundreds of customers to scale and to evolve their marketing technology and first party data strategies, all while advising clients as they navigate the Salesforce partner ecosystem.

    He has experienced the complexities customers often face implementing Salesforce technology, along with the challenges in finding a trusted and experienced Consultancy to handle their digital transformations - and the criteria needed to ensure a successful project end to end.

  • Andy White

    Managing Director Solutions & Operations

    Co-founder

    Andy brings his Salesforce leadership in solution engineering coupled with his entrepreneurial experience and technology background of 25 years to Estarei.

    He joined Salesforce in 2014 as a solution engineer working across many different industries.

    Andy built and led the Health & Life Sciences (HLS) solutions teams for mid-market in North America and was awarded the Sales Engineering Leader of the Year in 2018. He helped to grow the HLS solutions engineering team alongside his leadership counterparts, growing from a team of 10 to over 30.

    He is an expert in consulting, solutioning, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud and can work with any customer to understand their business goals, challenges, and technology needs.

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