Management Team

Our Firm

Accelerain was founded in 2015 to remove the pain experienced with legacy outbound tactics.

Our Founders have helped realize $5+ BN in pipeline revenue. Our network extends from our F100 pedigrees, together with our backgrounds and relationships at firms like Morgan Stanley, CEB (now Gartner), and Goldman Sachs.

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Andrew Frank
Founder & CEO

Andrew Frank is a Founder of Accelerain, where he has grown the company into one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the region. Andrew previously worked in Equity Capital Markets and investor sales and marketing at both Morgan Stanley and BMO Capital Markets. Previously, he was the top sales development professional at Corporate Executive Board (acquired by Gartner for $2.6BN), where he sold to Fortune 100 C-level executives. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Brown University, an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and attended Harvard Busines School online. Andrew was a nationally ranked squash player growing up and has a passion for Philadelphia sports, arts, and traveling to Chile.

Christine Ross
Chief Operating Officer

Christine Ross has been the EVP for the U.S. and Europe for Accelerain since 2015. Christine previously held management roles at Mercer Global private equity and currently as a partner in Source EQ, an AI powered company that matches candidates based on emotional intelligence in partnership with Accelerain. She holds an undergrad degree in Media Arts from James Madison and an MBA from EDHEC in France. Christine resides in Los Angeles and has a passion for hte outdoors.

Casey Kerr
Advisor

Casey serves as an Advisor to Accelerain and currently works at the the $3BN private equity firm, Bregal Sagemount, which invests $40 - $400 million in growth companies in SaaS, B2B and B2C, FinTech, Digital Infrastructure, Healthcare IT, eCommerce, and enterprise software.

Chris Cummings
Marketing Advisor

Chris serves as a Marketing Advisor to Accelerain and is a Strategic Advisory to FalconStor, a leader in hybrid cloud data protection solutions for the F1000. Chris has 20 years of leadership experience in cloud, software and hardware technology concerns. His expertise spans all aspects of strategy and marketing, including product and solutions management, technology ecosystem development and go-to-market to drive strategic growth. Chris' experience includes serving as CMO of Datera, a software-defined storage leader, CMO and SVP of Strategy at Cleversafe, the leading cloud object storage company acquired by IBM's Cloud Group, and in a variety of executive leadership roles at NetApp (NASD: NTAP). Chris holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he is a frequent lecturer on go-to-market strategy, and a BA from Stanford University.

Joe Braun
Business Development & AI

Joe handles Business Development at Accelerain and is a graduate of Tufts University, where he participated in Varsity Soccer. Joe is responsible for assessing the IT software industry, identifying potential clients for Accelerain, and implementing new AI strategy that has resulted in increased conversion rates for scheduling new business meetings for Accelerain's clients. Joe was instrumental in developing data and language frameworks for the AI sales platform.