The Stride Difference

Debbie Madden

Co-Founder + CEO

Debbie has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry and is passionate about helping businesses improve through software.

As CEO, Debbie has unparalleled leadership experience in the technology space since she built five companies from the ground up prior to co-founding Stride.

With a reputation as a passionate woman executive in technology, Debbie is a sought after writer and speaker. She has appeared in popular media outlets such as Huffington Post, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal.

Prior to Stride, she was the CEO of Cyrus Innovation, which she helped grow into a 5-time Inc. 5000 winner and Crain’s Best Places to Work.

Rex Madden

Co-Founder + Board Member

Rex has over 20 years of software development and leadership experience and is one of the original Agile adopters in 2000.

As Technical Co-Founder of Stride, Rex is passionate about the technology space and helps teams improve using software as a competitive advantage.

Rex is a serial entrepreneur and a 5-Time Technical Founder and has extensive experience running startups in the NYC tech community.

Prior to Stride, he was the owner and COO of Cyrus Innovation, which he helped grow into a 5-time Inc. 5000 winner and Crain’s Best Places to Work.

John Galioto

President

John brings to Stride nearly 30 years in IT consulting experience and a proven track record of helping clients realize business value from strategic systems development and integration projects. He is passionate about leveraging the best of Stride on each and every customer engagement.

John has worked with a variety of clients on 6 different continents ranging from start-ups building mission critical products to transformations of large multi- national organizations.

Prior to Stride, John held various leadership positions in the agile consulting industry including COO of ThoughtWorks and CEO of Valtech. John began his career with American Management Systems (now CGI), where he was a Vice President in their Financial Services Group.

Ken Judy

COO

Ken is an Executive Manager, Coach, Product Owner and Developer with over twenty years experience building software, the last fifteen of them coaching and working on iterative and collaborative (Agile Scrum/XP) teams. He is committed to the quality of work, professional development and well being of Stride's consultants.

In his career, Ken has assembled tech organizations, coached process transformations, and lead projects building corporate and content websites and intranets, systems for text annotation and entity extraction, e-commerce, content and asset management, and on-air scheduling. He has been accountable for PCI-DSS compliance and privacy issues and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional US.

Before joining Stride, Ken was Chief Technology and Product Officer at The Daily Beast (an IAC Company), VP of Technology at Simon & Schuster (a CBS Company) and Oxygen Media (now part of Comcast NBCUniversal), and Product Manager for the Common Customer Gateway at NYSE Advanced Technologies.

Evan Walczak

Director of Business Development

Evan brings extensive experience scaling high growth technology companies to Stride. As the Director of Business Development, Evan is responsible for Stride's sales, marketing, and recruiting efforts.

Prior to Stride, Evan ran a sales team at Shopkeep, a venture backed start-up in NYC. During his time at Shopkeep, they experienced a 500% growth in recurring SAAS revenue.

Adam

Director of Service Delivery

Adam has been writing code on and off since birth and has over 15 years of professional development experience. As the Director of Service Delivery at Stride, he is responsible for ensuring that Stride partners with clients with whom we are mutually aligned and helps enable Stride consultants to deliver maximum value to our clients. In this role, he combines his diverse experience with his passion for teaching and his desire to help companies deliver great products.

Prior to Stride, Adam worked as a developer for many companies and organizations, including The New York Times, Celmatix, American Society for Engineering Education, and CVISION Technologies. In his time, he has seen many different ways to build software and has learned from all of them.

Chloe Summers

Client Principal

Chloe’s passion lies at the intersection of business and technology. Understanding both is critical to build market relevant software and forming high-performing teams. As a Client Principal at Stride Consulting, her primary goal is to strengthen client relationships on strategic accounts. Chloe seeks to embody account management best practices and help her clients succeed -- whether it be adapting to shifting market trends or taking advantage of new innovations and emerging opportunity.

Prior to joining Stride, Chloe was a Client Principal at ThoughtWorks.