The team at Saasu have an outstanding reputation and a range of skills in management, software development, finance, customer support, sales, marketing, accountancy, design and consulting. Below is a brief introduction so you can get to know a little more about the members of Team Saasu.
Marc Lehmann
CEO and Founder
Marc founded Saasu.com back in 2000 using a slow funded approach in order to create an extremely good value online accounting engine. Previously, Marc was a Director of Principal Finance and Credit Trading Risk at Deutsche Bank. His latest goal is to build a web application that helps business owners remove the operational glass ceiling from their business life.
Marc is a naturalist and a minimalist at heart believing the human race should be spending more time exploring and discovering and less time dealing with the paperwork of life.
Super Skills : Being upfront and seeing ahead of the product lifecycle
Not my strong suit : I can’t do a hard sell to save my life
Leah Maclean
Head of Customer Experience
Leah’s range of business experience in corporate roles and small business ownership provides a solid set of skills that make her the ideal conduit between the business and technology parts of Saasu. She has over 15 years experience in business management and over 25 years in IT&T industries.
At Saasu she is responsible for creating and managing Learning resources and the Partner Certification process. You will also find her manning the Service Desk in her Level 2 Support role as well as contributing to the website, newsletters and user experience.
Super Skills : Translating geek-speak to plain English, problem solving, planning, music and rugby
Not My Strong Suit : Stepping away from the computer, disorganisation, chick-flicks
Community Team
Tony Hollingsworth
Chief Happiness Officer
Tony has over 20 years experience in the information technology and data industries, working with leading players including IBM Cognos, Dun & Bradstreet and The Nielsen Company. He is passionate about the Internet and excited about the way it is changing society and business.
Tony’s primary passion is people – sharing his knowledge and experience to make them and their businesses more successful. A prolific and influential user on social networks including Twitter and an open networker, Tony has been blogging since 2003.
Super Skills : connecting people, sharing and helping people with recommendations for other people, technology, food and coffee
Not My Strong Suit : paperwork, reading manuals, confrontations
Christine Colcol
Client Manager
Christine provides first line telephone and email support to our global customer network. She liaises with the developers where required on technical product issues. She holds CPA Associate status and is currently undertaking the CPA Program “Professional Level”. She graduated university with a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) – Bachelor of Computing (Software Engineering) from University of Technology Sydney.
Prior to Saasu, Christine worked for a leading software provider in the Australian mortgage industry and a large FMCG organisation.
Super Skills : Numbers, Fashion, Good intuition
Not My Strong Suit : Worrisome, Boredom
Emma Lehmann
Management Account
Emma’s background is as a Management Accountant in the Technology sector at Computer Associates. She was responsible for preparing monthly management accounts and folding the company accounts of purchases completed via M&A into the organisation. At Saasu Emma looks after management accounts and reporting. As she is using the Saasu app everyday, Emma is a great resource for feeback and usability.
Emma loves the art of dessert cooking and beachside summer holidays with the family (when she can get them).
Super Skills : Starting projects early and finishing them properly
Not My Strong Suit : Printers!
Anna-Claudia Nassif
Operations Manager
Claudia has over 15 years experience in a diverse range of industries, with a professional experience in accounts receivable, event management, office management and as an executive assistant. This has enabled her to to hone her skills as an organised, responsible multi-tasker who thrives in a busy, dynamic environment.
Her role at Saasu as the Operations Manager involves account management, accounts receivable and events management.
Super skills : organised, perfumery, cooking, painting and a creative flair
Not my strong suit : Chocolate
Labs Team
Paul Glavich
Chief Technology Officer
Paul is a long time computer nerd and has been in the software industry for over 20 years. He is primarily focussed in the Microsoft technology space and has close ties with Microsoft itself. Paul worked initially as a developer and software engineer, then through the ranks to software consultant, team leader, solution architect, and currently with Saasu as the Chief Technology Officer.
Paul has also written 3 books and has been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award by Microsoft for the last 6 consecutive years.
Super Skills: Software design and architecture, anything in the web space, performance and optimisation of software, “corny dad jokes”
Not my strong suit: Hair care, tolerance of people who disrespect others, triple back somersaults, “corny dad jokes”
Jusa Chin
Head of Product & Experience
Jusa has over 8 years experience in the software industry and has been with Saasu from the early days. He plays a pivotal role in understanding the needs of Saasu’s customers, bookkeepers and accountants, translating their requirements into a simple well designed user experience. He is also responsible for the clever business logic layers that make Saasu tick.
Jusa gets excited about taking a complex situation and coming up with a simple and elegant solution. When he steps away from the computer at Saasu, you will find him behind another computer crunching data for his trading models. Jusa has a Bachelor of Computing from University of Technology Sydney.
Super Skills : “The All Round Designer/Developer”, coffee
Not My Strong Suit : Writing profiles like this, beer
Kasun Amarasinghe
Senior Developer
Kasun is a senior software developer at Saasu; a true geek at heart with an entrepreneurial itch. You can find him plugged-in at a corner desk in Saasu Labs crafting source code by day, and (sometimes) fighting to save mankind on planet Sera by night.
A Microsoft fan boy that loves Apple products, he sees himself as a jack of all trades with skills including software development and architecture, user interface and experience design, troubleshooting, customer service and sales. He’s passionate about being part of a team that is building an innovative product to help businesses and individuals. Kasun has a bachelors degree in computing from Swinburne University and a masters degree in information systems from Macquarie University.
Super Skills : Software design and development, Interweb stuff, Horde 2.0 Expert, the other Master Chef
Not My Strong Suit : Loud people on public transport
Daniel Hamilton
Senior Developer
Daniel has over 11 years commercial experience as a web developer across a broad range of industries, working for various software consultancies, software service companies, and many freelance projects. Daniel has a keen interest in user experience and the usability of software, in addition to his Microsoft .NET development skills.
At Saasu Daniel works in our development team as a senior developer, delivering new product features and continuing to improve the overall user experience of the Saasu product. Daniel is looking forward to the promise of HTML5 and mobile computing.
Super Skills : ASP.Net, user interface development, project management
Not My Strong Suit : Early Mornings, surviving without caffeine
Investor/Advisor Team
Grant Young
Grant has a background that crosses strategic design, social network engagement and web application development. With a practical understanding of the shifting economic and cultural currents of the networked and socially-aware economy, Grant offers a unique perspective on how businesses, services and products can thrive within it.
He lives and breathes social networks, and knows how to best engage them to create tangible business value.
Super Skills : user experience, empathic design, coffee, jamming out the tunes
Not My Strong Suit : fuzzy people, typing on iDevices, switching off my brain
Daljit Bahia
Dal has 25+ years of experience in the International markets as a senior executive. He has had assignments with some of the largest organisations in the world (Rolls Royce Aerospace, Ford, GEC Westinghouse, Landrover, etc). In Australia he was the head of business and strategy for Australasia with Prime Computers, followed by senior roles at Keycorp and Intellect Pty Ltd specialising in Payments Systems.
Recently Dal has been involved with start-up organization as Director for Bakof Pty Ltd and MD at E2 Power, specialising in compliance and renewable energy. He was the first investor in Saasu. Dal has an MBA from University of Birmingham (UK), and is a member of the Australian Institute of Directors.
Super Skills: Think outside the box
Not My Strong Suit: Patience
Martyn Dominy
Martyn is one of the pre-eminent Saasu partners and is very proud to have been invited to participate as a shareholder. He has a broad range of experience and knowledge around business and cloud solutions. He has migrated many hundreds of clients to Saasu.
Prior to be involved with Saasu, his career spanned 15 years across the Asia Pacific Region as a CFO, in industries including aviation, property development, information technology and professional services consulting.
Super Skills : An insatiable appetite for wanting to understand a clients business and help them achieve great success
Not So Strong Suit :Not enough hours in the day to achieve everything he wants to
Raj Patel
Raj has been in IT for the last 30 years, a highly experienced Professional Services Executive who has demonstrated the ability to lead diverse teams of professionals to new levels of success in a variety of highly competitive industries, cutting-edge markets, and fast-paced environments. Strong technical and business qualifications with a track record of more than 15 years of hands-on experience in strategic planning, business development, project and product management, and system engineering strategies.
He founded Rita’s Foundation after his wife Rita who died of Brain Tumour in 2008, and is now working as a mentor, lifestyle and career counsellor, and meditation teacher for various organisations.
Super Skills : Synergising IT with Business, Mentoring, Life Style Counselling, Meditation (Mind Cleansing Study) Teaching, Author
Not My Strong Suit : Lounging around and wasting time
