Cleo Names Sameer Katiyar Chief Financial Officer

June 20, 2023 at 09:00 AM EDT

Cleo, the pioneer and global leader of the world’s Ecosystem Integration software category and provider of the Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC) platform, today announced it has appointed Sameer Katiyar as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

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Sameer Katiyar, Chief Financial Officer, Cleo (Photo: Business Wire)

Katiyar brings more than 20 years of experience in the software and technology sectors, holding CFO and other finance leadership positions spanning financial planning and analysis (FP&A), treasury, corporate development, operations, and business transformation in public company and private equity (PE) environments.

Before joining Cleo, Katiyar served as CFO at SAI360 in Chicago, and prior to that was CFO of Infogix, Inc. based in Naperville. He was instrumental in driving successful growth initiatives at both of these SaaS businesses. Katiyar also held several strategic finance positions during a 15+ year career with Sabre Corporation in Dallas, Texas. He holds a BE degree from the University of Gorakhpur (India) and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

At Cleo, Katiyar will oversee the company’s global Finance, Accounting, Legal, and Corporate IT functions. He will report to Mahesh Rajasekharan, Cleo’s President and CEO.

Rajasekharan said, “Sameer has precisely the right acumen and background for a rapidly scaling global SaaS business like Cleo, and we are thrilled he’s joining us. I have every confidence he can partner across the organization and further strengthen our strategic focus, capital allocation, and operational execution as we continue to innovate aggressively to meet our customers’ needs and drive Cleo’s profitable growth.”

For his part, Katiyar said, “I joined Cleo because I see a well-run business poised for accelerating long-term growth as it shapes and leads the rapidly evolving Ecosystem Integration software category. I’m looking forward to working with all my new colleagues as well as Cleo’s 4,100+ customers, partners, suppliers, and other stakeholders as we work tirelessly to unlock Cleo’s full potential.”

For more information about Cleo and our leadership team, please visit our company website.

About Cleo Integration Cloud

Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC) is a cloud-based integration platform, purpose-built to design, build, operate and optimize critical ecosystem integration processes. The CIC platform brings end-to-end integration visibility across API, EDI and non-EDI integrations that gives technical and business users the confidence to rapidly onboard trading partners, enable integration between applications, and accelerate revenue-generating business processes. On the platform, businesses have the choice of self-service, managed services, or a blended approach – ensuring complete flexibility and control over their B2B integration strategy.

About Cleo

Cleo is an ecosystem integration software company focused on business outcomes, ensuring each customer’s potential is realized by delivering solutions that make it easy to discover and create value through the movement and integration of B2B enterprise data. Cleo gives customers strategic, “outside-in” visibility into the critical end-to-end business flows happening across their ecosystems of partners and customers, marketplaces, and internal cloud and on-premise applications. Our solutions empower teams to drive business agility, accelerate onboarding, facilitate modernization of key business processes, and capture new revenue streams by reimagining and remastering their digital ecosystem through robust application, B2B, and data integration technologies. For more information, visit www.cleo.com or call +1.815.282.7695.