Serguei Sofinski, Chief Executive Officer

Joining Intermedia in 1998, Sofinski has led the company’s rapid growth into the world’s leading provider of business email services. Starting in product management, he served as Intermedia’s VP of Operations, then as COO, before assuming his current role of CEO in 2006. With over a decade of experience in the software industry, Sofinski’s wide range of knowledge, from the product and technical side to operations and business development, has helped Intermedia to see continuous growth, year after year. Sofinski also serves as a thought leader, lending his expertise to the software and services industry as a whole. Sofinski holds a BS in geophysics from State Maritime Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Johnathan McCormick, Chief Operating Officer

As COO, McCormick manages all Intermedia hosting operations and all operations staff. Prior to joining the team at Intermedia, McCormick was employed as the SVP of Operations and Client Services for SAVVIS, a global provider of managed hosting, network and collocation facilities. In this capacity he was responsible for the management of all operations and customer service organizations globally. He has significant experience in rapid growth companies, which means he is eager to help Intermedia continue to provide great service while keeping up with its rapid growth.

Manlio Carrelli, Chief Marketing Officer

Manlio Carrelli serves as Intermedia’s chief marketing officer. He joined the company in May 2009. From 2005 through 2009, Carrelli served as principal and founder of The Carrelli Group where he advised CEOs, CMOs and heads of sales at Fortune 500 firms and a portfolio of venture-backed B2B technology companies. Carrelli previously ran marketing for TradeCard, a provider of online supply chain finance services with $20 billion in transaction volume and 5,000 customers in 50 countries. TradeCard experienced explosive revenue growth during his tenure, including a more than 100 percent year-over-year increase in 2004.

Prior to TradeCard, Carrelli served as a marketing director at Managed Objects, where he played a critical role in developing the concepts behind Business Service Management – an enterprise software market that today generates billions of dollars in annual license revenue. Managed Objects was acquired by Novell in 2008. Carrelli graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Robert E. Leibholz, Senior Vice President of Sales
and Business Development

Robert “Bob” Leibholz oversees Intermedia’s sales and business development activities as well as key partnerships. He is responsible for creating and expanding the company’s channel network to over 4,000 private label partners, as well as the extension of the program to Latin America and inking deals with Fortune 100-ranked Ingram Micro and Dell. He has lead Intermedia’s sales growth to become the industry leader in the business communication space.

In past positions at companies such as ASCAP and The Harry Fox Agency, Inc., Leibholz led licensing, sales and client relationship disciplines. Long a technology-focused business executive, he was the chief business driver for numerous technology projects, including an entertainment industry digital rights management system and many web-based client-facing applications.

A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, Leibholz served as editor for the American Management Associate course, The Art and Discipline of Managing Software Projects. A frequent speaker, he is sought after as a thought leader in business communications for small and medium size businesses.

Andrew Gachechiladze, Senior Vice President of Product
Development and Engineering

Gachechiladze leads the product development and engineering groups of Intermedia. With the company since 2001, he has been a product manager and, since early 2006, vice president of engineering. Prior to Intermedia, he was a software developer at ThinkWave, the California-headquarted software company, and at KomiEximBank in Moscow, Russia. Gachechiladze holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science from Tbilisi State University.

Brent Rich, Vice President of Operations

As Director of Technical Operations, Brent Rich oversees the senior support staff responsible for the daily and ongoing hosting operations.  Prior to joining the team at Intermedia, Brent was employed as the Director of Application Engineering for SAVVIS, a global provider of managed hosting, network and collocation facilities.  His responsibilities included research, development and productizing of new applications for SAVVIS’ product and service offerings.  Previous to being part of the Engineering department he managed the US Microsoft Operations team responsible for the daily administration of SAVVIS’ hosted solutions.  His experience in Operations and Engineering brings considerable value to Intermedia in how we support our rapid growth without sacrificing the quality of service being provided to our customers.