Leadership

Jeremy Parker leads Blue Marble Geographics with a focus on scaling operations, accelerating growth, and building the commercial foundation for the company’s next chapter. He joined Blue Marble in April 2025, bringing a track record of operational leadership at high-growth software companies.

Before Blue Marble, Jeremy served as Chief Operating Officer at Jitterbit, a workflow automation platform, and as Senior VP of Revenue Operations at Perforce Software. He began his career in telecommunications and infrastructure, where he held leadership roles spanning product management, customer service, and business operations.

Jeremy is a Colorado native and spends his downtime outdoors with family and friends.

Rahul Gandhi brings analytical depth and operational rigor to Blue Marble’s growth strategy. Before joining Blue Marble, he served as CEO of CodeLogic, a software development intelligence startup. Prior to that, he was Director of Analytics, head of quantitative research, and a member of the management committee at Ascend Capital, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund.

Rahul began his career at Mars & Co., consulting for Fortune 100 companies across health insurance, consumer products, energy, and automotive sectors. He holds a B.S. from Harvard University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.

Patrick Stevenson leads product strategy at Blue Marble, directing the platform’s next phase and defining how geospatial professionals move through the full office-to-field workflow. He brings two decades of experience building and scaling global software products.

Patrick spent ten years at Trimble, most recently as VP of Product Management, and held a senior product leadership role at Salesforce during a period of significant commercial growth. He holds a degree in Human Geography and GIS from Northern Michigan University and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School (GMP24). Patrick is based in Colorado.

Leslie Lafferty leads Blue Marble’s people strategy, building the systems, programs, and culture that enable the company to scale while supporting an exceptional employee experience. She partners closely with leaders across the business to align people strategy with organizational goals and foster a high-performing, engaged workforce.

Leslie brings 20 years of HR leadership experience spanning financial services, energy, technology, managed services, and nonprofit organizations. She has built and transformed HR functions from the ground up, leading initiatives across talent management, organizational development, leadership coaching, employee engagement, total rewards, and compliance.

Leslie is based in Massachusetts and enjoys traveling, discovering great food and wine, and spending time with her family and dogs.

Joe Pappalardo leads global revenue across the Blue Marble portfolio, joining during a period of commercial expansion with a mandate to build a disciplined, repeatable sales organization. He brings deep experience from senior revenue leadership roles at high-growth software companies, guiding teams through periods of expansion and market development.

He builds teams around clear process and consistent execution, with a focus on results that hold up over time. Joe is based in Plum Island, Massachusetts.

Eric Bogard leads brand, positioning, product marketing, and go-to-market strategy at Blue Marble. He brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling marketing organizations across software companies, with a focus on accelerating growth, strengthening market position, and connecting product innovation to business outcomes. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Marketing at a SaaS AI, helping guide the company through 8.5x ARR expansion.

Eric is based in Hoboken, New Jersey, and enjoys spending time with family and friends, travel, and all things food.

Jared leads finance for Blue Marble Geographics, bringing over two decades of financial leadership experience in high-growth software and technology companies.

Before joining Blue Marble, Jared served as Vice President of Finance for a legal-tech company backed by private equity, where he oversaw financial operations for two business units and led finance for a fast-growing embedded payments business. During his tenure, he supported multiple acquisitions and successful exits. Earlier in his career, he held accounting leadership roles within a public Fortune 500 company. Jared is a CPA (inactive).

Jared is based in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he enjoys spending time with his family and playing golf.