Our origin story

Martin leads the Jirav team. He’s a career finance & accounting professional, specializing in high-growth tech companies. Previously he was the Finance Director at Limeade and Zephyr Health and a Controller at Atlas Accelerator CFO firm. Over his career, he set up dozens of finance functions and has helped raise over $200 million in funding. Martin founded Jirav to build the tool he wished he’d had available for him during his whole career as a finance leader at high growth companies.

Steve leads technical architecture and the Jirav Engineering team. He started his career as a software developer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory implementing signal processing tools and algorithms. At Genesys and Alcatel-Lucent he was focused on product development and had the opportunity to manage globally distributed teams delivering a product portfolio generating well over $100M in annual revenue.

Alex Balva is a seasoned software engineering executive with a passion for solving tough business challenges with technology. His background includes 20 years of innovation in commercial software product design, development, and operations, with emphasis on building and mentoring highly performing teams, which achieve extraordinary results.

At Jirav, Alex is focused on expanding the technology team, optimizing how the product is built and operated for scalability and the end user experience. Prior to joining Jirav, Alex had held similar positions across a broad set of industries, including FinTech, ride-sharing, enterprise applications, predictive analytics, distributed systems management, banking, and telecom, with one IPO and three acquisitions under his belt.

Alex’s received MSCS and MSEE degrees from Kiev Technical University where he has been a Ph.D. student for 2 years prior to relocating to the U.S.

Ryan McDonald is the VP of Sales and Business Development at Jirav. Having joined Jirav in its earliest stage, Ryan has an understanding and passion for delivering on the expectations of the Jirav customers.

Ryan is active in building Sales, Customer Success, and Business Development globally for Jirav. He is known for building positive, customer focused cultures and regarded for being accessible and eager to help to customers and partners.

Ryan holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Washington and has spent his career in strategic sales and business development roles for Concur, DocuSign, and Conga. Ryan lives in Seattle, WA, with his family and their two Instagram famous cats, Simon and Layla! (@siberian_simon)

Mike Triantos is head of Partnerships at Jirav where he advises accounting firms on their financial planning and analysis (FP&A) strategy. Mike works closely with the product, engineering, and professional services team at Jirav to provide world-class PF&A solutions that are purpose-built for accounting firms. Prior to Jirav, Mike served in multiple executive roles at three HR industry disruptors—Gusto, where he served as Head of Partnerships and Business Development and was instrumental in building Gusto for Partners, TriNet where he served as Chief Client Officer and played an integral role in developing TriNtet's sales, marketing, and channel strategy, and Zuman, where he was c0-founder and Chief Revenue Officer.

Before Evan joined Jirav, he was one of our first customers! Evan has been a Director of Finance, CFO, and Advisor to Bay Area companies spanning industries including manufacturing, consumer electronics, mobile application development, and enterprise SaaS. Exits include Abe AI (acquired by Yodlee), Lighthouse AI (acquired by Apple), and PayTollo (acquired by Automatic Labs, a SiriusXM company). He got his start as an auditor at PwC. Evan is a chess enthusiast and was also the TIME Person of the Year in 2006.

Eric Wong is the VP of Marketing at Jirav. As a career marketer who has often secretly wanted to be a part of the finance team and loved every second spent working on business models and operating plans across numerous companies, Jirav is the perfect home. Having held leadership roles at DocuSign, Conga, Tier 3 and other companies during the $1M-$100M+ growth years, his true passion is in working with or simply helping growth companies such as the ones that comprise Jirav's core customers. With the honest belief that success comes through the success of others, much pride is taken in building a customer focused organization where the growth of our customers becomes the ultimate objective.