Management Team

Tim Miller
Chairman and CEO

Tim Miller is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rally Software. He joined Rally in 2003 to transform the way organizations solve problems with technology by using Agile and Lean practices. He steered the company to its current position as a Forrester-recognized Agile leader in both Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and in Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Rally was also named a leader in Gartner’s ALM Magic Quadrant.

Tim is focused on making Rally Software a great company. With a combination of personal   humility and competitive drive, he draws out the best from a carefully selected leadership team while maintaining an unwavering vision for Rally’s success.

He led Rally to its prestigious place as one of the best places to work in the U.S. In 2012, Rally was named Fortune Magazine’s No. 8 Great Place to Work® (“Best Medium-Sized Workplaces”), and the Wall Street Journal’s No. 18 “Next Big Thing”. Over the past few years, Rally has been honored three times as a Best Place to Work by Outside magazine and one of the best companies to work for in Colorado every year since 2006.

Tim is distinguished by his servant leadership style, which defines Rally’s culture and is core to building highly effective and collaborative teams. Rally’s culture of innovation, collaboration, transparency, and individual empowerment serve as the lifeblood of the business and are keys to its competitive edge.

Before Rally, Tim spent four years as CEO of Avitek (which was acquired and became BEA's highly successful Portal Development Group) and then served as Vice President of BEA's Accelerated Development Centers.

Tim holds a master’s degree in Management Science and Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as an MBA from Arizona State University.

When he is not at the helm of Rally, Tim can often be found steering a sailboat. In 2001, he took a sabbatical and sailed across the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean with his wife and two daughters.

Ryan Martens
Founder and CTO

Ryan Martens is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Rally Software. Ryan started Rally to change the technology industry by moving it from a slow, wasteful product model to a fast, sustainable service model. He is an expert in helping companies adopt Agile and Lean practices, loosely defined as methods for delivering small batches in quick cycles to speed learning and innovation. Ryan heads the Office of the CTO team, which manages Rally's strategic steering process as well as professional services innovation.

In 2012, Ryan launched Rally For Impact, whose mission is to mobilize citizen engineers to solve the world’s toughest problems. Ryan’s vision of a tech company with a social mission led to Rally being placed on B Lab’s Best For The World list (2012), Rally’s status as a certified B Corporation, and Ryan’s talk at TEDx MileHigh, among others.

Before founding Rally, Ryan directed the corporate Intranet within US West Communications. He also co-founded Avitek, a custom software development firm where he served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Ryan's successful efforts at Avitek culminated in an acquisition by BEA Systems, where he served as Director of Product Management for the eCommerce applications division.

Ryan is a founding board member with Entrepreneur’s Foundation of Colorado, a member of the engineering entrepreneurship efforts at the University of Colorado, and a mentor at the Unreasonable Institute.

Ryan received a bachelor’s of science degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ryan lives in Boulder with his wife, son, and a menagerie of animals, gardens and outdoor toys.

Jim Lejeal
CFO

Jim Lejeal is the Chief Financial Officer of Rally Software. He was an angel investor in Rally in 2002 and joined the company in 2008 after spending the previous five years as a board member. Jim has a long history as an effective fundraiser for software startups and has deep expertise leading companies through the rapid growth stage and the IPO process. A successful entrepreneur, Jim has founded and managed multiple companies, including several software and technology companies and a private equity firm.

Jim is currently a board member of VictorOps, a SaaS startup building a collaboration platform for software operations teams. Jim was co-founder and CEO of Oxlo, a company focused on delivering cloud based, real-time integration services to the health-care and automotive industries where he has served on the Board since 2004. Prior to Oxlo, Jim coordinated his own angel investing activities at Lejeal Investments.

In 1997, Jim co-founded Raindance Communications, a publicly traded company, where he held the positions of COO and CFO.  Jim led operations, customer support, sales, marketing, finance and fundraising efforts culminating in Raindance’s IPO.

Jim has an MBA from Loyola Marymount University and is a Military Distinguished Graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy where he received a bachelor’s degree in management.  Jim lives in Boulder County with his wife and three sons.

Don Hazell
EVP Worldwide Sales & Field Operations

Don Hazell has over 25 years of experience taking technology companies into new markets and establishing leadership positions. During his six years at Weblogic and BEA Systems, Don was a SVP/GM responsible for strategic planning, new business penetration and major account management.

Don’s experience includes 12 years at Unisys Corporation and four years in the relational database and tools marketplace as a Director- Telecom Industry Sales with Sybase and Ingres. Don received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his MBA from California State University, Long Beach.

Don and his family enjoy all the great outdoor activities that Colorado has to offer, including skiing, golfing and camping. And, as a New Orleans native, live music and cooking are his passions.

Richard Leavitt
EVP Worldwide Marketing

Richard is a seasoned software executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience launching successful development lifecycle products and enterprise applications. Richard joined Rally in November 2003 as a consultant and became Vice President, Marketing and Sales in January 2004 and Vice President, Product Marketing in November 2004.

Richard has served as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing since November 2008. Richard was co-founder of Software Edge, the 1993 Jolt award-winning creator of Defect Control System purchased by Serena and now called PVCS Tracker©. He went on to help start Requisite, Inc. and the RequisitePro© product line before IBM/Rational acquired it in 1997. Most recently Richard was Vice President of Product Management for Insightful Corp. (NASDAQ:IFUL) a vendor of data mining and text analysis products. Prior to this, Richard founded the sales, marketing and business development organizations for enterprise startup Mobilize, Inc.

Richard began his career with Hewlett Packard’s test and measurement group and received his BSEE from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Richard loves the sound of a Strat through a Fender amp and the feel of a trout on a fly. He is an avid hockey player, mountain biker and skier.

Chris James
Vice President, Customer Success

Chris brings to Rally more than 20 years of experience in IT training and education, including international expertise supporting IT change and organization development programs. He has proven leadership in development, deployment and growth of global professional services businesses that build IT organization skills and drive rapid software adoption.

Chris joined Rally as VP of Customer Success in October 2012. Prior to joining Rally, Chris was a Vice President at Oracle University, where he lead the successful integration of Sun Learning Services following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. It was there that he built his skills in analysis of workforce development and training needs related to major change programs and system integration projects. His earlier role at Sun Microsystems was Senior Director and Chief Learning Officer for Americas, and later Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Chris received his undergraduate degree from Bristol University in the UK and his Computer Science degree from the UK’s Open University.

Originally from the UK, Chris is now based at Rally’s headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and a Fellow of the UK Royal Society of Arts. He and his wife Karen, and son Nyall enjoy the Colorado lifestyle, and he brings to Colorado his passion for rugby and cricket.

Jay Littlepage
Vice President, Engineering and Operations

Jay Littlepage has over 25 years experience developing some of the most sophisticated enterprise information technology infrastructures in the world. Prior to joining Rally, he was Vice President of Infrastructure for all of Amazon’s businesses including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Retail,  Digital (Kindle) and Marketplace.  In his role at Amazon, he led one of the largest and most successful cloud infrastructure deployments on the planet. He is applying the experience gained at Amazon to lead the build-out of a web-scale SaaS application platform for Rally.

Prior to Amazon, he enjoyed a 16-year tenure at Sun Microsystems, where he held leadership roles including vice president of IT operations, CIO of Sun’s services division, and vice president of Sun’s customer network services group. Jay was chosen by Sun’s CEO and Board of Directors to receive the Sun President’s Award for technical leadership in 1998.

Jay holds a BS in Information Systems from California State University in Hayward, Calif. Other than a brief detour to Seattle, he’s lived in Boulder since 1997 and has raised two Coloradoans while enjoying the active lifestyle we know and love here.

Bert van der Zwan
Vice President, EMEA

Bert van der Zwan is Rally's Vice President of Rally Europe, Middle East, and Africa, focused on Rally's strategic expansion throughout these regions. Before joining Rally, Bert held similar roles at 3COM and WebEx, and was the CEO of Twinfield, a SaaS Financial Accounting application company. Bert was instrumental in the growth of Webex and Twinfield toward their acquisitions by Cisco and Wolters Kluwer, respectively.

Bert lives in Utrecht, 15 miles from Amsterdam. He is married with two sons, ages 20 and 22. He is a fanatic football fan, and enjoys playing golf and running.

Liz Andora
Vice President, People

With more than 20 years of human resources experience, Liz has a strong background in leading Human Resources for large and small technology companies.  She has a history of aligning people strategies with business imperatives creating a diverse, engaging and collaborative culture.  Most recently, Liz was Vice President of Human Resources for Webroot Software, a provider of industry leading security solutions.

Prior to that, Liz enjoyed a nine year tenure with Sun Microsystems holding various leadership positions, most recently the role of Director, HR Mergers & Acquisitions.  In this position, Liz created and executed a global HR M&A strategy to support the company’s strategic objectives.  Prior to Sun, Liz spent seven years with Hewlett-Packard developing and implementing HR strategies in support of various hardware and software organizations.

Liz received her BA in Political Science and her MBA in Marketing from the University of Colorado in Boulder.  Liz and her husband Chris and their two daughters enjoy spending time in the Colorado outdoors skiing, hiking, biking and many other activities.