Columbus, OH — Matt Pasternack has been named the Chief Product Officer of Aware, after serving as the Director of Product Management for nearly a year and a half.
As he steps into his new role, Pasternack is tasked with building out the product team and driving the strategy of Aware’s platform moving forward, unlocking key features that will bring better insights, governance and compliance to enterprise workplace collaboration tools.
“Matt has a proven track record of leading world-class product teams that deliver valuable and compelling customer experiences,” said Jeff Schumann, Co-Founder and CEO of Aware. “His leadership has helped fuel our current success, and as Aware enters our next phase of growth, Matt is the ideal leader to help drive innovation throughout our product portfolio.”
Pasternack joined the Aware team in August of 2017 as Director of Product Management. Since then, he has mastered bridging the gap between business, marketing and engineering, leveraging his visionary thinking and product management experience to navigate product-market fit and gain recognition from leading research analyst firm, Gartner.
“Since joining Aware, I’ve been fortunate enough to become part of a team that’s not only passionate about the work they do and the product they’re creating, but one that’s focused on building a great company culture,” said Pasternack. “I'm extremely excited to build on the momentum our team has already established and look forward to building a world-class product team here in Columbus."
Early on in his career, Pasternack founded a boutique experience design agency, which built award-winning product experiences, package design and scalable brand systems. He led both product design and marketing efforts at InfoMotion Sports Technologies, a startup focused on innovation for the Internet of Things, where he joined a talented product team that built the world’s first Bluetooth smart sensor basketball, later named among Time Magazine’s Top 25 Invention of the Year and Best of CES 2015. Pasternack played a key role to expanding InfoMotion’s IoT sensing technology into the B2B manufacturing space, building product experiences for customers such as Toyota.
Immediately prior to joining Aware, Pasternack joined the product team at Olive, formerly known as CrossChx, where he was responsible for the Connect for Hospitals product suite and led concept validation and build-out of the Olive platform, Olive’s current core product line.
About Aware
Aware delivers AI-infused governance, compliance adherence for enterprise organizations deploying today’s leading collaboration and messaging platforms, including Workplace by Facebook, Microsoft Teams and Yammer. Aware offers organizations the ability to control and protect the unstructured conversational data that lives within collaboration platforms, with solutions for legal holds, data retention, eDiscovery, GDPR compliance and data loss prevention. The platform goes beyond DLP and offers organizations the ability to safeguard its employees and reputation through advanced culture protection. Aware serves as an enterprise collaboration unblocker for a wide variety of organizations such as those with front-line employees or in highly regulated industries. Aware proudly serves clients such as Oxfam International, AstraZeneca, AIG and more. As a Microsoft and Workplace by Facebook partner, Aware is both Microsoft Co-Sell-Ready and accounts for two of the 50+ SaaS integrations recently announced by Workplace by Facebook in the integrations directory. Leading research analyst firm Gartner recently announced Aware as a Gartner Cool Vendor based on the September 11, 2018 report titled, “Cool Vendors in Unified Communications and Collaboration Technologies.” The company is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio — a city recognized by Forbes as the #1 rising city for startups.
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