Cathryn Furrow
Advance Auto Parts
Sr. Asset Protection Analyst
Cathryn has been an integral team leader in asset protection for over 10 years at Advance Auto Parts. She is an experienced coordinator in multi-faceted, multi-layered financial reporting and analytics. She has effectively managed the technical difficulty in data reconciliation and forecasting.

Cathryn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Western Governors University.

Dale Foster
Advance Auto Parts
Director, Asset Protection

Joe Bassett
Advance Auto Parts
Asset Protection Manager

Jeroen Fischer
Jumbo
Internal Auditor

Sam Van Poppelen
Jumbo
Fraud Analyst and Expert

Steve Prebble
Appriss Retail
President

Cheryl Blake
Appriss Retail
Vice President, Loss Prevention Portfolio
Cheryl Blake oversees all loss prevention products. She has balanced her 40+ year career between being a retail loss prevention practitioner and working with software solution providers, beginning her LP journey as a store detective in Detroit and progressing through leadership positions with several large retailers. Cheryl is an active member of the loss prevention community.

Jim DeJohn
Appriss Retail
Leader, Client Success User Consultants
Jim and his team partner with customers to train and consult, helping them fully utilize all aspects of our products. He has worked with leading retailers throughout the world over the past 11 years with Appriss Retail.
Prior to joining Appriss Retail, Jim worked as a corporate analyst for Delhaize. He administered their store analytics and point of sale fraud detection systems. He created reports to detect fraud and operational wastes, as well as conducted loss interviews on some of those he discovered.
Earlier in his career, Jim worked as a financial analyst for a global media company and as an inventory auditor for a convenience store chain.

Jim earned his MBA from the State University of New York at Albany and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Avinash Jain
Appriss Retail
Director, Customer Support

Matt Kamminga
Appriss Retail
Development Manager

Vishal Patel, PhD
Appriss Retail
Chief Technology Officer
In this role, Vishal is responsible for all engineering functions, building and supporting the product suite, and helping bring new products to market that better serve Appriss Retail’s customers. He has more than a decade of software and programming experience working with a variety of different technology stacks, database solutions, and cloud providers. Previously, as the director of data science R&D for Appriss, he was responsible for building and deploying data application and machine learning models for retail customers as well as customers of Appriss Health and Appriss Insights.

Vishal has a PhD in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine where he focused on machine learning and data integration challenges and published more than a dozen peer reviewed research papers. He has also taught professional classes in data science.

Katy Scheldberg
Appriss Retail
Sr. Customer Success User Consultant

Nathan Smith
Appriss Retail
Senior Vice President of Products

Holly Villanueva
Appriss Retail
Leader, Customer Success Managers

Liz Webster
Appriss Retail
Customer Success Manager

Eric York, LPC
Appriss Retail
Sr. Customer Success User Consultant

David B. Speights, PhD.
Appriss Retail
Chief Data Scientist