Board of Directors

Mike Paradis – Founder & CEO, Demand Chain
Board Chair

Mike is a nationally recognized entrepreneur known for his expertise in B2B sales, marketing, service excellence, and channel management. While working for GE to build and lead a new CRM division, Mike and his team worked with Cargill – on customer-centric initiatives.  They partnered closely with Waycrosse, the holding company of Cargill, to design and build an innovative information distribution platform for shareholder financials. Through this effort, Mike formed a close partnership with a Cargill founding family, the MacMillan’s.  Members of the family shared his vision for creating the first consulting services company, BenNevis, in 2001, dedicated to increasing the growth and profitability of businesses by providing a strategic customer-centric framework. Demand Chain was created as the technology arm to focus on CRM technology implementations.

Recognized as a premier Salesforce Partner, Demand Chain has completed nearly 2,000 engagements, becoming a trusted advisor to hundreds of customers worldwide by transforming their businesses with CRM consulting and technology. Mike received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Management, Finance, and Economics from St. Cloud State University.

Steve Snyder – CEO, Schuman Cheese

Steve has served in leadership roles (CEO, President, COO, and board member) for a range of companies for nearly 25 years. He is currently the CEO of Schuman Cheese—an $800mm specialty cheese company based in New Jersey.  He also founded and has maintained a successful corporate growth and business consulting practice for the past 5 years, including strategy work at Demand Chain. Prior to that, Steve led organizations in industries as diverse as specialty cheeses (Whitehall Specialties, Inc.), food safety testing (Neogen), and biotech (Senomyx).  Earlier experience included extended stints at Fortune 500 companies Cargill and Monsanto. Steve has a BA in chemistry and an MBA degree from Harvard University.

Scott Anderson – President & CEO, RevenueForce LLC

Scott is the founding principal at RevenueForce LLC. He is co-author of the book “Reignite-How to Rekindle your Passion for Selling.” He has spent his entire career leading, training, and coaching sales teams to achieve performance improvement. He has worked with some of the world’s best sales organizations, including Danaher, Salesforce, Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group, Andersen Windows, Wells Fargo, The Hartford, and numerous private equity firms. He was a signature contributor to The Huffington Post, is a seasoned speaker, and authored numerous articles on sales effectiveness. Scott received his Bachelor of Science degree from Minnesota State-Mankato in Communications, Sociology, and Business Administration.

Shana Finnegan – Principal, RITE Advisory

As a seasoned executive business leader, Shana developed and honed a broad skill set that includes digital and business transformation, acquisitions, business integrations, change management, and corporate turnarounds resulting in long-term value and growth. These were developed through COO, CSO, and other leadership roles in industries as diverse as SaaS and consulting solutions in the education sector (TIES/Sourcewell), digital transformation solutions (Bswing) agency/consultancy, and technology and professional services (Xerox, Loffler, Gartner). She is committed to creating people-focused cultures that inspire innovative thinking and differentiated solutions in an environment where divergent thinking is encouraged. Shana received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dave Magnani – Co-Managing Partner, M&A Executive Search

Through a career spanning 30+ years, Dave has demonstrated a consistent ability to grow various professional services organizations. More recently, Dave’s career has focused on aligning clients with highly experienced business executives with requisite skills as a Managing Partner at M&A Executive Search. His career includes years of increasing P&L responsibility in B2B and start-up businesses, plus years of strategy and operational consulting experience (including 5 years with McKinsey & Company) in a broad number of industries. Dave earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s in Management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Ben Oehler – President, Bashaw Group

Ben has been a professional advisor to owners of businesses and philanthropic organizations for over 30 years. From 1999 to 2007, he served as the President and CEO of Waycrosse, Inc., advisor to the owners of Cargill Incorporated, one of the largest private companies in the world. He completed work at Waycrosse in 2007 and founded a consulting firm that morphed into Bashaw Group, Inc. – a strategic advisor to privately owned businesses wrestling with the complex and interlocking concerns of financial strategy, capital structure, liquidity, governance, education, and philanthropy. Ben received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Minnesota.

Advisors to the Board

Chad Koebnick – Manufacturing Tax Director, Wipfli

Chad is an experienced domestic and international tax professional with in-depth technical and application skills. For over 30 years, he’s provided executive-level advice and solutions to a wide range of companies. Areas of expertise include transaction planning and implementation; tax due diligence; tax rate mitigation; treasury planning; capital structure, liquidity, governance, and ASC 740 (accounting for income tax).  He is an accomplished tax advisor who has demonstrated abilities to develop and implement tax plans.

Chad received his Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Master’s degree in Taxation from the University of Minnesota.

Andy Boettcher – CTO, Demand Chain

With over 25 years of systems, networking, software development, and business support with a current focus on cloud platform services/enablement – Andy Boettcher, a 20x Certified – Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame member, has been instrumental in building Demand Chain over the last decade into a powerhouse of delivery and technical excellence. Andy leads, develops, and drives technology innovation within Demand Chain and throughout the Salesforce community. Andy has an innate ability to take complex requirements, create a simplified/streamlined architectural approach, and communicate solutions clearly to a project team.

Andy Moldenhauer – VP of Customer Engagement, Demand Chain

Andy has 25+ years of deep Salesforce experience, including five years at Salesforce and over a decade as the primary customer of Salesforce at 3M–one of the world’s largest and most respected manufacturing companies.

As a Salesforce Enterprise Software Engineer, Andy was a highly successful pre-sales engineer and business advisor. He specialized in rapid solution prototyping to enable an understanding of solution benefits and value realization. At 3M, he served as Director of Global CRM. He designed and deployed Salesforce CRM across 3M’s 27,000 users in 83 countries. He managed a global CRM support organization of 70+ CRM admins, business advisors, and product owners. He also served as a highly visible Ambassador for Salesforce, including speaking at Dreamforce, being featured in Salesforce videos, and serving as a key member of several industry advisory boards and product development teams.