Executive Team

Ivan Koon, Chief Executive Officer

Ivan Koon is CEO of YouSendIt, Inc. the trusted global leader in digital content delivery, where he manages the company's core operations, business growth, strategy and key partnerships.

In this role, Koon has transformed the company from an ad-based to a subscription-based model and has played an integral role in solidifying YouSendIt's leadership in digital content delivery.

Koon has a proven track record of more than 20 years of operational and management success. Prior to joining YouSendIt, Koon was senior vice president of the Acrobat Intelligent Document business unit at Adobe, where he more than doubled Acrobat's revenue in less than three years and created an Enterprise Document LifeCycle Server business that grew to over $100 million in revenue.

Before Adobe, Koon was president of the New Technologies Division at BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. Under his leadership, his team quickly became the fastest growing business unit in the company. Earlier in his career, Koon also served in a variety of executive management roles at S2 Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Stratus Computer, including president and COO.

Ranjith Kumaran, Founder and CTO

Ranjith Kumaran is the founder and Chief Technology Officer for YouSendIt, the trusted global leader in digital content delivery. In this role, he manages the Customer Service, IT, and Ops teams to guarantee optimum customer service, and efficiency in the IT and Ops departments.

Prior to YouSendIt, Kumaran held marketing positions at Verisity Design, a key provider of verification process automation (VPA) solutions, where he managed product marketing for the software tools of Access Systems. Previously, he was the director of sales engineering at Celoxica, a leading provider of C-based design and behavioral synthesis tools, where he built the company's sales applications and established its engineering team.

Kumaran also was a software systems engineer at Red Hat, one of the largest and most recognized companies dedicated to open-source software and the largest distributor of the GNU/Linux operating system.

Kumaran received a bachelor of engineering degree in computer engineering from McGill University and is an active member of TiE Silicon Valley.

Renee Budig, Chief Financial Officer

Renee Budig manages YouSendIt’s financial, human resources, facilities, and administrative functions.

During her over 25 year career, Renee has held multiple executive level positions. Prior to joining YouSendIt, Renee was vice president of finance at Netflix. Her responsibilities included all aspects of accounting and reporting, treasury, and tax. She successfully raised $200 million in public debt offering for Netflix in addition to rebuilding the company’s finance team.

Before Netflix, Renee held several vice president roles at VERITAS Software. As vice president of investor relations, she developed a strategic investor relations program and was the primary point of contact with the financial community. Her role later expanded to include treasury responsibilities where she created and implemented a profitable investment portfolio strategy that resulted in increased yields on a $2 billion cash and investment portfolio. Renee then became vice president of finance, worldwide sales where she managed a global staff of 65 employees. When VERITAS merged with Symantec, she played a vital role in communicating the merger to the financial community.

Prior to VERITAS, Renee was the vice president of finance at Quantum Corporation where she was responsible for investor relations and overseeing the company’s worldwide treasury initiatives.

In addition to her tenure with Quantum Corporation, Renee held various related positions with Murdock & Associates, Price Waterhouse and Alexander Grant.

Gary Chevsky, Vice President, Product Development and Operations

Gary Chevsky is vice president of product development and operations for YouSendIt, the trusted global leader in secure digital file delivery. In this role, he drives and executes the technology roadmap to ensure product and service excellence and provide customers with the highest level of quality.

Chevsky is a founding architect of Ask Jeeves, now known as Ask.com, one of the Web's most popular search engines. He was the only engineer working with the company's two founders when the organization began in 1996 and rose to become vice president of Ask Site Technology. Chevsky architected and developed the Ask Jeeves natural-language processing engine and the first generation of the Ask.com Web site, obtaining one patent with a second pending.

Most recently Chevsky was vice president of engineering for Norton at Symantec Corporation, where he led global teams responsible for a new generation of Web-based applications and services for Norton consumer products. He and his teams were responsible for creation and delivery of Norton Insight and Norton Safe Web, among other apps.

Chevsky began his career in 1992, while a computer science major at University of California at Berkeley, serving as a software consultant for Desktop Software and Raster Graphics. He subsequently went to work for Informix Software. At Ask Jeeves, Chevsky served as principal software engineer and architect, chief architect and senior director of engineering before being appointed as a vice president.

Chevsky received his early education in the Soviet Union and graduated from high school in San Francisco, before attending Berkeley.

Arun Prakash, Vice President, Marketing & Product Management

Arun Prakash is the Vice President of Marketing & Product Management for YouSendIt, the trusted global leader in digital content delivery. In this role, he is responsible for Marketing, Product Strategy, and leading company's end-to-end Product Management processes from concept to market launch. Additionally, Arun continues to establish YouSendIt as the innovative leader in global digital delivery.

Prior to YouSendIt, Prakash was Senior Director of Product Management at Ketera Technologies where he led solution strategy and product management for the company's on-demand spend management systems. Prakash successfully contributed to Ketera's solution expansion strategy and helped secure Ketera's position as a leading spend management solution platform provider. Previously, he held positions as Director and head of Product Management at i2 Technologies, as well as various management positions at Aspect Development and Ramco Systems. Arun holds a Masters Degree in Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University, India.

Josh Stevens, Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Josh Stevens is responsible for accelerating demand for YouSendIt's products and services through growth in sales and marketing. In addition, Josh is responsible for YouSendIt's Customer Support team.

Prior to joining YouSendIt, Josh was senior vice president of corporate development and business affairs at TicketsNow, where he was responsible for growing demand through online and offline distribution channels and the company's corporate sales team. While at TicketsNow, Josh more than doubled the company's distribution through partnerships with The New York Times, Yahoo!, the USTA, and the Baltimore Ravens, among others. TicketsNow was sold to Ticketmaster in 2008.

Previously, Josh spent 10 years at AOL. While at AOL, he held a variety of roles in corporate development and business affairs, specializing largely on mergers, acquisitions and investments. During his last five years at AOL, Josh focused on e-commerce and online direct marketing, which included launching and managing AOL's owned and operated online dating service Love.com, online sales of sports and music tickets, and mobile category e-commerce.

Josh is a graduate of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. For 20 years, he has served as a coach for the Special Olympics, and has also served as a trustee, vice chair, and treasurer of Oatlands, an historic site that is part of the National Trust of Historic Preservation's portfolio of historic properties, in Leesburg, Virginia.

Brian Curry, Vice President, Product and Business Strategy

Brian Curry is responsible for new market penetration, key partnership development, and product strategy at YouSendIt.

Brian brings 15 years of experience to the position and most recently was vice president of corporate partnerships at Yahoo!, where he oversaw the business unit that operates Tier 1 partnerships. While at Yahoo!, Curry managed partnerships with Comcast, Ebay, Walmart, Turner Broadcasting and Adobe among others.

Prior to his tenure at Yahoo!, Brian was a vice president of AOL's Premium and Subscription Services unit, where he was responsible for AOL businesses involving licensed access to the AOL network, integration of AOL services in third-party products, and development of subscription services. In this capacity, Brian created and operated strategic relationships with Microsoft, IBM, Reuters, and WebEx to name a few.

Before joining AOL Premium Services, Brian was part of the AOL Instant Messaging unit where he managed AIM Network licensing and was a member of the AOL Strategic Development team. He joined AOL through its 1999 acquisition of Netscape Communications where he managed the Design Center practice for Netscape Professional Services.

Brian taught advanced design and information architecture at the University of Illinois before joining Netscape, and participated in Web-related research at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

He holds both Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Design and Technology from the University of Illinois.