About Trovata

Brett Turner

Founder & CEO

After starting out as a CPA at Deloitte, Brett spent his early years as a financial reporting & GAAP specialist in Controller roles prior to his time at Amazon managing its SEC reporting. After leaving Amazon in 2005, Brett developed a strong track record for building, financing, and growing tech startups as a CFO. Prior to starting Trovata in 2016, he raised over $100M through equity and debt financings with successful exits at 3 enterprise startups generating over $500M in shareholder value. Outside of work, Brett enjoys time with his family, the beach, playing golf, and watching the Seahawks.

Joseph Drambarean

CTO

Joseph is one of the founding members of the company and the first engineer. Before Trovata he worked with companies like Capital One where he was at the forefront of digital transformation, leading product management as head of the innovation labs and mobile banking teams. Joseph is driving innovation around rapid deployment and customer onboarding, bank-grade security, and machine learning at Trovata, creating a more consumerized user experience for customers from small businesses to enterprises.

Catrina Zhang

CFO

Catrina brings 17 years of finance experience to Trovata, including financial leadership in high-growth publicly traded and privately held companies. She held multiple leadership roles at Amazon that helped drive hyper-growth while improving profitability. Most recently, Catrina was CFO at Apollo Graph, a Bay Area fast-growing SaaS start up. During her time at Apollo, Catrina was instrumental in scaling the business into a tech unicorn and raising over $150M in equity through funding rounds. Catrina holds an MBA degree in Finance and Strategy from University of Michigan. Outside of work, Catrina enjoys traveling, hiking and skiing with her husband and son.

Kelly Walsh

VP Customer Success & Global Services

Kelly brings 10 years of senior executive experience with almost 20 years in cloud and financial tech industries at both high growth and public companies. Most recently, Kelly led the Post Sales functions at Astronomer, a hyper growth data pipeline company that she helped scale from $5m to $50m ARR in 3 years. Kelly uses a data and outcomes focused methodology to refine and scale the ability to provide continuous value to all customers. Outside of work, Kelly enjoys spending time with her husband, 2 sons, and their golden retriever up and down the East Coast, primarily on the coast of Maine.

Matt Bramson

VP Sales

Matt brings 20 years of multi-vertical tech expertise across the entire customer lifecycle—spanning sales engineering, opportunity execution, and value delivery. Most recently, he led global sales at Manta Data Lineage, acquired by IBM in 2023. Prior, Matt was VP of Sales at Narrative Science, an AI Natural Language innovator acquired by Salesforce in 2021. Matt utilizes his technical acumen and leadership experience to optimize organizations with both enterprise and channel go-to-market strategies. Outside of work, Matt enjoys spending time with his family, coaching youth sports, live-music and the Chicago Cubs.

Henry Ball

VP Business Development

Henry leads Trovata's business development by spending his time engaging with Trovata's strategic partners and executing on the company's key priorities. Prior to Trovata, Henry spent over a decade at BlackRock across investment strategy, operations and finance teams. Living on the east coast, you might find him and his wife chasing after a toddler, who is chasing after their dog, who is chasing after a squirrel.

Paul Bramwell

Enterprise Treasury Lead

Paul is Trovata's Enterprise Treasury Lead and brings over 3 decades of experience in the corporate treasury world. Paul has worked for two of the largest treasury system vendors in various senior roles and was a Partner in Ernst & Young's treasury advisory service. Paul has worked with some of the largest and most complex global treasury groups in all aspects of the treasury function. Originally from the UK, Paul has lived in the US since 2003 and is a self-confessed gadget addict.

Vladimir Pintea

VP Engineering

Product executive driven by innovation and technology. Was leading Open Banking initiatives supporting clients and partners including the largest Tier 1 US and EU Banks, Lenders, Credit Bureaus, FinTechs, EMIs, Merchants, Accounting/ERP vendors as Head of Open Banking Gateway at Salt Edge Inc.
Graduated Technical University of Moldova with bachelor degree from an English taught Honors Program in Computer Science.

Katie DiMento

VP Marketing

Katie brings 20 years of experience building and scaling marketing functions across enterprise technology and blockchain infrastructure. Most recently, Katie led marketing at Blockdaemon, the institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure platform, where she served as VP of Marketing since 2018 and was one of the company's first ten employees. Her experience spans across brand, content, growth, events, and product marketing, leading teams through multiple stages of company growth, major product launches, and global market expansion. She also sits on the board of the MPC Alliance, helping raise industry awareness and adoption of multi-party computation. Outside of work, Katie enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, her kid’s sports tournaments and the Florida Panthers.