Our origin story

Martin leads the Jirav team. As a career finance and accounting professional, Martin specializes in high-growth tech companies. Previously, Martin was the Finance Director at Limeade and Zephyr Health, and a Controller at Atlas Accelerator CFO firm. Throughout 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 during his entire 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, Steve focused on product development and had the opportunity to manage globally-distributed teams, delivering a product portfolio generating well over $100M in annual revenue.

Amy Travis is the Chief of Staff at Jirav. Previously, Amy held many roles in finance and operations at companies including NXP Semiconductors, Senseye, and Tata Consulting. As a career finance professional, Amy had been searching for a “better” business planning solution when she found Jirav. After becoming a Jirav customer, she was impressed with how the solution was changing business planning and FP&A.

Amy later decided to join the Jirav team managing business operations and was eventually promoted to chief of staff. Supporting her passion for finance, Jirav has become her platform for helping other financial professionals evolve their role as strategic leaders in their respective companies.

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 an emphasis on building and mentoring high-performing teams that 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 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 received MSCS and MSEE degrees from Kiev Technical University where he was a Ph.D. student for two years prior to relocating to the U.S.

Nate has a diverse background across industries and roles with time spent in capital markets, finance, sales, and product management. His experience includes spending over a decade in corporate finance followed by joining NetSuite in 2012. Over several years with NetSuite he built out a newly-created global team, developed and launched the NetSuite Planning and Budgeting product-line, and grew it to be a market leader. During his tenure, NetSuite revenues grew 10x and the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation.

At Jirav, Nate’s focus is ensuring we continue to release products and features which are simple to use and understand, make financial processes easier and more efficient, and enable faster time-to-value when adopting our solutions. Nate is also responsible for scaling the product organization as we continue to grow and expand our offerings.

Prior to and during his career he earned his Bachelor of Science in Corporate Finance and Master of Science in Analytical Finance from the University of Denver, and MBA in Consulting and Finance from the University of Notre Dame.

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 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 teams at Jirav to provide world-class FP&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 co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer.

Evan is the VP of BizOps and Services at Jirav. Before joining Jirav, Evan 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.