Management Team

Noah Glass is our Founder and Chief Executive Officer. He has served as a member of our board of directors since the company’s inception in 2005. Prior to founding Olo, Mr. Glass held the position of International Expansion Manager for Endeavor Global, Inc., or Endeavor, a non-profit global organization leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement, where he launched the first African Endeavor affiliate. In addition to serving as our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Glass also serves on the board of directors of Portillo’s, a fast casual, chain based restaurant specializing in Chicago-style food, on the board of directors of Share Our Strength, a non-profit focused on ending childhood hunger in the United States, as well as the board of trustees for the Culinary Institute of America, providing guidance and advisory to the world’s premier culinary college.

Mr. Glass holds a B.A. in Political Science (International Relations) from Yale University.

Peter Benevides has served as our Chief Financial Officer since January 2020. Mr. Benevides previously held the positions of Senior Vice President from January 2018 until December 2019 and Vice President of Finance from April 2015 until January 2018. Prior to joining us, Mr. Benevides held the position of Vice President of Finance and Controller at UrbanDaddy, Inc., a digital media and e-commerce company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Benevides served as the Director of Finance at several companies, including Turntable.fm, Inc., a social music service, and Sony Music Entertainment, a global recorded music company. Mr. Benevides serves on the board of the University of Rhode Island’s College of Business, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program.

Mr. Benevides is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant and holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Accounting from the College of Business Administration at the University of Rhode Island.

Nithya B. Das has served as our Chief Operating Officer since January 2022 as well as our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary since November 2020. Ms. Das previously held the positions of General Counsel from October 2019 and Secretary from November 2019 until November 2020. Prior to joining us, from September 2011 to December 2018, Ms. Das served in several roles at AppNexus Inc., an advertising technology company, including as the Chief Legal and People Officer where she oversaw the company’s global legal, corporate development and human resources affairs. Prior to AppNexus, Ms. Das served as an attorney in the New York office of Goodwin Procter LLP where she represented public and private growth technology companies.

Ms. Das holds a B.A. in Business Administration (Finance) from the South Carolina Honors College at University of South Carolina and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

Andrew Murray has served as our Chief Technology Officer since joining us in July 2005. Prior to joining us, Mr. Murray held various technology positions at Internet Solutions and Dimension Data in Johannesburg, South Africa from 1996 to 2005.

Mr. Murray holds a B.Com Informatics from the University of South Africa.

Diego Panama is our Chief Revenue Officer. Mr. Panama has served as our CRO since July 2022, overseeing all aspects of the customer journey for our restaurant brands, from marketing brand awareness to sales, deployment, success, support, renewal, and expansion. Prior to joining us, Mr. Panama was Chief Commercial Officer at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), where he led sales, solutions engineering, partnerships, customer success, support, and professional services. Mr. Panama was also previously at Microsoft Advertising, where he helped pioneer programmatic ad sales through the Microsoft Advertising Exchange, first as a product manager and then as a sales executive. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Panama was a Director of Programs at Endeavor, a cutting-edge nonprofit working with high-impact entrepreneurs around the world.

Mr. Panama holds an MBA from MIT and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Yale University.

Priya Thinagar is our Executive Vice President of Technology. Ms. Thinagar has served in this role since October 2021, where she leads Product, Design and Engineering teams, and drives the technology strategy and vision for the company. She brings more than 25 years of enterprise software development experience, conceptualizing and delivering market leading products in the E-Commerce space. Prior to joining us, Ms. Thinagar was Vice President of Research and Development at Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ: MANH), where she led 300+ person engineering/data teams, managing an industry leading Warehouse and Logistics Management Solution. Earlier in her career, Ms. Thinagar served as Senior Vice President of Technology at Bank of America, where she built a high performing, inclusive Engineering team to deliver disruptive innovation to B2C customers, as well as served in various other research, development and engineering positions from 1995 to 2012.

Ms. Thinagar holds an MBA from MIT and a Masters in Computer Science from Bharathiyar University.