Team | Opti

Meet the talented team behind Opti.

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David Rubinstein

CEO

David Rubinstein

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Rubinstein brings over 35 years of experience in building and scaling high tech startups. At Opti, he leads all day-to-day operations and is focused on aligning the organization structure and teams to scale the business. Prior to joining Opti, he held senior executive roles and was responsible for setting the strategy, operations, and structure at several high-growth SaaS organizations, including DataXu, Inc., Resolve Technology, and Invoke Solutions. He was also instrumental in leading Convergent Group to a successful IPO and the subsequent sale of the company to Schlumberger. Mr. Rubinstein brings a customer-centric point of view to business operations, helping his organizations bring strategically valuable offerings to its customers. He began his career at Accenture and shortly co-founded a systems integration consulting firm that was rated as one of the top 10 boutique systems integrators by Gartner Group in 1990. Mr. Rubinstein graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with a BS in Management with Computer Science, and served as Student Body President.
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Chris Holden

CFO

Chris Holden

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Holden is a strategic finance and operations professional with over 15 years experience. At Opti, he oversees finance, accounting, human resources, legal, and real estate functions. Prior to Opti, he spent over 12 years at Eze Castle Integration, a hedge fund technology and cloud services provider, where he finished his tenure as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer. During his time at Eze Castle, he managed the company’s US financial operations and spearheaded the establishment of international operations in both Europe and Asia. He has also held the role of Vice President, Finance and Operations, at Forward Financing. He began his career at The Parthenon Group, a global strategic advisory firm. Mr. Holden holds an AB, Magna Cum Laude, in Mathematics from Dartmouth College and a Postgraduate Certificate in International Finance and Accounting from The University of Liverpool.
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Alex Bedig

VP of I&T, Co-Founder

Alex Bedig

VP of Information and Technology, Co-Founder

Mr. Bedig leads Product Development and R&D at Opti. He is driven to deploy market-valued, observation-based environmental information services because he believes developing new valuations of verifiable environmental behaviors can improve environmental justice outcomes. Mr. Bedig joined Geosyntec Consultants in 2009 to lead research and software development on the project that would become the Opti Platform. Since 2010, he has been simultaneously working on Opti and pursuing a doctorate in Hydro Informatics at Tufts University. His doctoral research started with a focus on discovery of publicly available hydrologic data sets, and has since pivoted to focus on the challenges involved in scaling smart stormwater systems. Mr. Bedig holds an MS in Water Resources Engineering and a BS in Engineering Science from Tufts University.
Bobby Abraham

Product, R&D
Isaac Balinski

Deployment & Support
Gabe Bamforth

Project Delivery
Seth Bryant

Deployment & Support
Vanessa Centeno

Marketing
Taylor Eyerman

Operations
Amanda Hess

Project Delivery
Austen Higgins-Cassidy

Product, R&D
Viktor Hlas

Sales
Conor Lewellyn

Project Delivery
Dayton Marchese

Sales
Darcy Parker

Product, R&D
Pavel Patino

Product, R&D
Matt Rea

Strategic Partnerships
Keisha Ricketts

Operations
Zoë Schmitt

Deployment & Support
Scott Simpson

Deployment & Support
Kevin Smith

Product, R&D
Micah Strauss

Project Delivery
Kaitlin Vacca

Project Delivery
Hari Vasupuram

Marketing

Opti enables communities and businesses to continuously improve stormwater management by delivering real-time visibility, adaptively controlling assets, and supporting smart city initiatives.

Meet the talented team behind Opti.

David Rubinstein

Chief Executive Officer

Chris Holden

Chief Financial Officer

Alex Bedig

VP of Information and Technology, Co-Founder

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