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Leadership Team

PowerSchool is proud to have a leadership team that believes every student deserves the best opportunities in life. Our team boasts deep education experience as well as broad enterprise software knowledge to deliver PowerSchool’s strategic direction, innovation, operations, and service to our customers.


Antonio Pietri, Chief Executive Officer, PowerSchool

Antonio Pietri

Chief Executive Officer

 


Brent Bowman, Chief Financial Officer, PowerSchool

Brent Bowman

Chief Financial Officer

 


Devendra Singh

Chief Technology Officer

 


Shivani Stumpf

Chief Product and Innovation Officer

 


Manish Chawla

Manish Chawla

Chief Customer Officer

 


Michael Bisignano

Chief Legal Officer

 


Satish Shetty

SVP, Chief Technology Infrastructure and Security Officer

 


Perry Hardt

Chief Marketing Officer

 


Michèle Haddad

Chief People Officer

 


Darron Flagg

Chief Compliance Officer & Chief Privacy Officer

 


Grayson Williams

Chief Information, Technology & Security Officer

 

Antonio Pietri, Chief Executive Officer, PowerSchool

Antonio Pietri
Chief Executive Officer

Antonio Pietri is the CEO of PowerSchool, leading the company’s overall mission, strategy, and growth. Antonio has a wealth of experience leading large, global software companies and a core belief that education is one of the most powerful forces for positive change.  

With 30+ years of success in delivering strong market, financial, and operational results in domestic and international markets, Antonio brings deep operational expertise across functions, a sharp focus on innovation, and a proven ability to scale product-led, customer-centric organizations. 

Prior to PowerSchool, Antonio served as President and CEO of enterprise software company, Aspen Technology, where he developed the corporate strategy, target operating model, and plan to run one of the best-in-class and most profitable public companies in the U.S. Also serving on the AspenTech board of directors for over a decade, Antonio scaled operations globally, established a strong culture of innovation, collaboration, and execution, and grew shareholder value.  

Antonio received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Tulsa (in Chemical Engineering) and his MBA from the University of Houston. Antonio resides in Dallas, Texas, with his wife and enjoys spending time with his family. 

Brent Bowman, Chief Financial Officer, PowerSchool

Brent Bowman
Chief Financial Officer

Brent Bowman is the chief financial officer at PowerSchool. He is responsible for the finance, accounting, financial operations, treasury, facilities and information technology functions.  Brent brings more than 30 years of public and private company corporate and operational finance experience across the technology industry, including software (SaaS), semiconductors and hardware sectors.  Brent has built high performing teams and has successfully led finance organizations at large scale and industry specific companies.

Prior to PowerSchool, Brent was at Veeva Systems (VEEV), where he served as CFO since 2020.  While at Veeva, the business nearly doubled in revenue to ~ $2.7 billion and operating margin grew to ~ 40% with a market ca p of over $30 billion.  Over his career, Brent has also held financial leadership positions at [24]7.ai, Intel, Altera, and Sun Microsystems.

Brent received his Bachelor of Arts degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.   Brent started his career with EY and obtained his CPA license in the state of California.

Brent is a California native and a sports and outdoor enthusiast.  He and his wife, Julie, have two sons, who both live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area.  They enjoy traveling, the ocean, the mountains and wine country.

Devendra Singh
Chief Technology Officer

As Chief Technology Officer for PowerSchool, Devendra is responsible for all Product Development and Cloud Operations within the company. He brings more than 20 years of experience in building enterprise-class software and cloud solutions for managing mission-critical business processes at Fortune 1,000 companies. Prior to joining PowerSchool, Devendra was Vice President of Product Development at Oracle where he led global development teams to build best-in-class Product Lifecycle Management solutions for customers in High Tech, Industrial Manufacturing, and Life Science industries. Before Oracle, he held senior positions in Product Development and Product Management at Agile Software and participated in major business transformation initiatives as a Management Consultant with A.T. Kearney.

Devendra earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

In his spare time, Devendra is a road biking and hiking enthusiast. He has hiked rim to rim to rim in the Grand Canyon, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, summited Mount Whitney, reached several 14,000 feet peaks in the Sierra Nevada, and hiked to 21,000 feet on Aconcagua in Argentina. His next challenge is always just around the corner.

Shivani Stumpf
Chief Product and Innovation Officer

Shivani Stumpf is the Chief Product and Innovation Officer at PowerSchool. She is responsible for developing PowerSchool’s strategic product vision and managing the company’s overarching product roadmap and product innovation. Stumpf is an innovative leader with over two decades of experience and a strong track record in guiding product, technology and business strategy for SaaS companies and leveraging data and AI to drive transformative growth. 

Since joining PowerSchool in October 2020, Shivani launched the first education data-as-a-service platform, Connected Intelligence, to forge equitable pathways and economic mobility for all individuals. Prior to her current role, she was Senior Vice President of Analytics at PowerSchool, following the acquisition of Hoonuit, a K12 Edtech Analytics business where she led product and technology strategy as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Hoonuit, Shivani held technology and product management leadership positions at SPS Commerce, a $400M publicly traded cloud-based supply chain management SaaS company, and at Sport Ngin (now SportsEngine), a cloud-based sports management solution for sports-event organizers, which was later acquired by NBC Sports. 

Shivani is a Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Executive Finance graduate. She holds a Master of Sciences degree in Computer Science from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota with a 100% scholarship and a Bachelor of Science and Engineering degree from the Manipal Institute of Technology in India.  

Manish Chawla

Manish Chawla
Chief Customer Officer

Manish Chawla is the Chief Customer Officer at PowerSchool, overseeing PowerSchool’s Professional Services, Customer Success Management and Customer Support teams. Manish is responsible for growing the the organization’s capabilities and the company’s customer-first culture, focusing on customer adoption and value sustainment for PowerSchool’s market-leading solutions. Manish brings over two decades of leadership experience, including improving customer retention rates and increasing NPS above industry benchmarks, as well as driving predictable growth and efficiency.

Previously, Manish was the Chief Customer Officer at AspenTech, where he drove growth by establishing lasting partnerships with strategic customers alongside scalable & effective mid-market GTM models, transformed professional services to deliver customer and financial excellence, and led the development of a customer success model that aligned all functions around the customer. Manish also served as the Chief Revenue Officer at AspenTech. Prior to that, he was the Global General Manager, Industrial Sector at IBM, among other leadership roles at the company.

Michael Bisignano
Chief Legal Officer

Michael Bisignano joined PowerSchool as Chief Legal Officer in August 2021. He is responsible for all legal, compliance, governance, and risk management functions. Michael brings more than 20 years of experience assisting publicly traded, technology-driven companies as they undergo strategic transformations. His background includes serving as a strategic advisor to boards and executive management on critical matters, including strategic financial and commercial transactions, complex litigation portfolios, and shareholder engagement issues.   

Before coming to PowerSchool, Michael served as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Terminix Global Holdings, Inc. (f/k/a ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc.), where he supervised the legal process associated with the $1.5 billion divestiture of the ServiceMaster business unit. He also served as the Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of CA Technologies, a $4 billion revenue enterprise software provider that was sold to Broadcom in 2018. Prior to that, he was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Blackboard, Inc., an education technology provider that he helped take private in a leveraged buy-out transaction in 2011.  

Michael began his legal career at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, performing international project finance transactions. Previously, Michael was an investment banker in the Structured Finance Group at Morgan Stanley. 

Michael received his J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, his B.S. in Economics/Finance from the Wharton School of Business, and his B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C., and Tennessee. Michael has served as a member of the Board of Trustees at St. John’s Community Services, providing innovative, community-based services to people with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities to search for the most effective ways to include people into the living fabric of the community. 

Michael has three high-school-aged children whose extracurricular activities occupy the vast majority of his time. He is also an instrument-rated pilot and an avid athlete. 

Perry Hardt, Chief Marketing Officer

Perry Hardt
Chief Marketing Officer

As Chief Marketing Officer, Perry Hardt oversees the global marketing organization, responsible for for articulating PowerSchool’s brand story, cultivating customer communities and attracting customer demand. 

With over two decades of experience leading business-to-business marketing teams, Perry brings a deep understanding of the expectations of the modern buyer across all engagement touchpoints. Perry is passionate about making it easy for PowerSchool’s many stakeholders to fully understand the value of our solutions and community. 

Prior to joining PowerSchool, Perry spent 7 years at Deltek as Senior Vice President and CMO, where he scaled modern marketing capabilities to drive impactful brand and demand generation initiatives that helped the company double revenue during his tenure. 

Perry has also held leadership roles at Oracle where he spent 14 years leading North America Marketing efforts to expand market offerings across all product lines and enhanced brand visibility.  

Early in his career, Perry worked in the K-12 space as Vice President of the School Partnerships Division at Summit Educational Group, a leading provider of personalized educational support services.  

Perry is from Israel where he has family and has proudly served in the Israel Defense Forces in the Marine Infantry Brigade. 

Perry lives in the Washington DC area with his four school-aged children, who are daily users of PowerSchool. Outside of work, Perry enjoys spending time with his family, which includes visiting the beach, traveling, and supporting their shared passion for ice hockey. 

 

Michèle Haddad
Chief People Officer

Darron Flagg
Chief Compliance Officer & Chief Privacy Officer

Grayson Williams
Chief Information, Technology & Security Officer