What this team brings to the work
- Strategic alliances and ecosystem development
- Channel sales and partner revenue growth
- Cloud, ISV, marketplace, and hyperscaler partnerships
- Go-to-market strategy, commercial execution, and revenue acceleration
- Enterprise sales growth
- Executive stakeholder alignment
- New global market entry (US included)
- Global OEM and other complex agreement negotiations
Meet the team.
Banimo brings together senior leaders with deep experience across partnerships, channels, alliances, GTM, and growth transformation. Each has operated inside high-growth or highly complex business environments and understands what it takes to turn partnerships into stronger business performance.
Chris Westfall is Banimo’s founder and a revenue and GTM executive with deep experience in partnerships, channels, and ecosystem strategy across software, SaaS, AI and cloud. He has built and scaled partner models that drive double-digit percentage new revenue growth, strengthen go-to-market execution, and support growth across public, private equity-backed, and venture-backed companies worldwide,
Vita Stramaglia is a senior partnerships leader experienced in channel sales, alliances, strategic planning, and account management. She has held leadership roles at KPMG, IBM, Oracle, and Domo, driving growth across major accounts including Google, PayPal, Wipro, and BearingPoint. At Oracle, Vita led the company’s top partner accounts. Most recently, as Vice President of Partners & Ecosystem at D
Marc Yasuda is a commercial executive with experience scaling go-to-market organizations across early-stage, growth-stage, and public companies, including Ezra AI Labs, Headspace, and LinkedIn. He is known for building partnerships teams that turn strategy, execution, and cross-functional collaboration into profitable growth channels.
Rob Vandenberg is a growth-focused SaaS executive and two-time venture-backed CEO with a track record of category creation and scaling high-growth technology companies. He has served in CEO, CRO, founder, and channel leadership roles, building revenue from zero to more than $25 million, raising about $40 million in capital, and driving growth across enterprise software and partnerships. Rob is kno
Emeka Obianwu is a partnerships and ecosystem executive with deep experience building alliances, channel programs, and corporate development initiatives for high-growth technology companies. He has held senior leadership roles at Testlio, SourceDay, Ping Identity, IBM, and others, helping companies unlock new revenue through ecosystem strategy and strategic partnerships. Emeka currently advises fi
Sudhir Setty is a global technology and partnerships executive with 20+ years of experience driving cloud growth and digital transformation. As Worldwide ISV Partner Sales Leader at AWS, he helps ISVs and systems integrators grow through co-sell, Marketplace, and cloud go-to-market strategies. Across AWS, MST Solutions, Rezilyens, UST Global, and Intel, he has built teams, led transformation, and
Sachin Menon is an alliances executive who led partner organizations at Cloudflare, Zscaler, Citrix, Anomali, and GE Digital. He builds partnerships that generate revenue — aligning systems integrators, ISVs, resellers, and cloud partners to corporate strategy and turning that alignment into market expansion. His expertise spans cybersecurity, cloud, SaaS, and industrial IoT, giving him the range