PlaniFi Leadership Team
Jon Essig
Biography
Jon is a business leader and enterprise architect with focus on planning, analytics and consolidation solutions. He is a recognized industry expert, speaker and author.
Jon has years of experience advising companies on their business processes and IT solutions. In addition, to holding leadership roles in sales, finance and IT.
Jon has architected many successful programs, working with c-level execs, corporate finance, regional business units, and IT to create and implement a companywide vision. Jon holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Henner Schliebs
Biography
Henner is an EPM veteran with over 20 years of experience driving Go-To-Market through marketing and selling sophisticated FP&A solutions to the office of finance. He started as a financial consolidation consultant in 2000 in Europe and later transitioned into customer success roles, immigrating to the US in 2010. He has spent a few years in the Silicon Valley before he moved his family to Austin, TX.
Having gained vast customer success experience across the globe, Henner’s strengths include translating business challenges into technology building scalable programs and structures that help technology organizations build trust with their (prospective) customers. These strengths have provided him with the ability to work closely with C-Level executives from SMB as well as F100 organizations.
Henner attended the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he majored in Marketing and Finance.
Beth McBreen
Biography
Beth has 10+ years’ experience architecting and designing robust SAP planning, analytics and consolidations solutions and over 15 years of overall finance experience. She has multiple many large engagements and has a proven track record of success. She has been involved with SAP BPC since version 4.2, and has expertise in Microsoft, NetWeaver and Hana versions of the tool.
Beth is also an early adopter of the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) solution. After participating in the original SAC product beta 5+ years ago, Beth’s SAC experience includes pre-packaged solution build (including SAP 2019 2nd place Hackathon winner), multiple end to end implementations (including the first large planning deployment in the U.S.), and advisory services with many clients to help them realize value since the product’s inception.
Jhanvi Patel
Biography
With over 20 years of experience working with BI and planning solutions, Eric Blondin leads SimpleFI’s Platform and Technology practice. During his career, Eric managed teams of experts to help organizations define their BI strategy and roadmaps.
On top of the U.S., Eric has provided expertise to SAP customers in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, he was also involved in the academic sphere, teaching Business Intelligence to masters students at the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and SAP Education BW classes (France). With his great customer mindset and excellent communication and team-playing skills, Eric also lead the team that won first place in the 2019 SAC Planning Hackathon.
Corrine Caridi
Biography
Michael brings over 20 years of experience selling data, analytics, and planning solutions to the organization, where he started as an analytics consultant in 2003 and later transitioned into a sales role in 2007.
Some of Michael’s strengths include strategic planning, creatively thinking outside of the box, and relationship management. These strengths have provided him with the ability to work closely with C-Level executives, Finance, IT, and Business Groups across the enterprise within numerous small-market, mid-market, and large enterprise companies.
Michael attended the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, where he obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics.
