Meet The Datis Team

Erik Marsh

President and CEO

Erik is passionate about constantly learning and applying his knowledge to help clients better fulfill their missions and serve our communities. Erik is fluent in German and frequently visits family and friends in Germany. Erik also enjoys vacationing in the mountains, hiking, and snow skiing. He would love to visit Australia and New Zealand one day.

Brian Kennedy

Founder and Chief Software Architect

Brian is passionate about building and continually enhancing software that meets the needs of all users. He prefers collecting experiences over things and likes to spend time lifting, biking, and walking his two boxer dogs. He also enjoys discovering a new IPA on hot days, and knows how to order beer in several different languages.

Sridhar Duggireddy

Senior Director Application Development

Sridhar is a huge sports enthusiast who enjoys both playing tennis and watching football. In addition to sports, Sridhar enjoys watching movies and would love to one day travel the world. His favorite place to visit is New York because of the energy and ambience there.

Eric Berg

Senior Director Application Development

Eric enjoys exploring Florida with his wife and kids and especially likes spending time outdoors. His favorite vacation spot is a cabin with a nearby river for tubing, but he has also been on an Alaskan cruise and would like to visit Australia or go to Germany for Oktoberfest.

MaryJane Craig

Director of Marketing

MJ enjoys spending time at home with her two dogs, Bear and Izzy, while working on DIY projects and watching movies or old episodes of Friends. She also loves to travel and even studied abroad in Barcelona for six months while in college. She is a baking enthusiast and huge Harry Potter fan. Family is very important to her, and she is the youngest of five children.

Lezlie Garcia

Support Manager

Lezlie’s favorite vacation spot is Key West, but she would one day love to visit the ancient ruins of Pompeii. In her free time, she enjoys watching The Office and collecting cat tchotchkes from various places she visits. She is also an international country line dance gold medalist.

Willie Dixon

Product Manager

Willie is most passionate about health, fitness, and the beach. When not at work, he can be found practicing golf, playing basketball, or investing. Willie wanted to become a soldier when he was a kid, and prior to DATIS he served overseas during Operation Iraqi Freedom for the Army. His travels have taken him as far as India, and he would like to one day visit Antarctica.

James Holland

Manager of Tax & Compliance

James enjoys playing golf and lifting weights in his free time. James’s travels have taken him as far as Vietnam and Tokyo, and he couldn’t live without a variety of good food in his life. An avid sports fan as well, James enjoys rooting for the UCF football and basketball teams. Go Knights!

Stephanie Kaselis

Marketing Operations Manager

Dylan Kane

Account Executive

Dylan is passionate about coaching youth lacrosse and is an avid Eagles fan. When he’s not working, he enjoys destressing at the gym, relaxing at the pool, going to concerts, and traveling to the mountains to snowboard. He also has an extensive vinyl record collection and particularly enjoys classic rock.

Kristen McPherson

Digital Content Specialist

Kristen enjoys traveling to different countries, exploring new cuisines, and taking photos. When not at work, she can typically be found at jiu jitsu class, playing with her parrots at home, or riding around on her scooter. She has plans to upgrade to a motorcycle in the near future.

Skyler Nickols

Marketing Coordinator

Skyler enjoys cooking and spends her free time recreating food videos she sees online. She also enjoys watching The Office and spending time with her family. Skyler recently crossed skydiving off her bucket list and dreams of one day returning to Ireland on vacation.

Alicia Coburn

Multimedia Designer

Alicia is passionate about creating a better world and making an impact through design and interactive experiences. In her free time, she enjoys reading, cooking, DIY projects, and woodworking. Alicia also likes to build her own furniture and work on her house. She would love to one day backpack through Europe to see famous landmarks, artwork, and architecture.

Kishore Cherukuri

Application Developer

Kishore enjoys playing cricket and watching movies in his free time, and he couldn’t live without the internet or his cell phone. He would like to one day go bungee jumping. Kishore has traveled as far as Shimla, India, and his favorite vacation spot is Venice.

Zuhdi Mansour

Application Developer

Zuhdi likes to spend his free time with his family, play soccer and football, and root for the Green Bay Packers. He also enjoys traveling the world, and his favorite place to visit is Rome, Italy. If he could have any superpower, he would choose flying, just so he could do more traveling.

Mithil Majety

Application Developer

Mithil enjoys watching sci-fi movies and cooking in his free time. Mithil also likes to travel, especially to India to visit family, and would like to travel the world one day. He also enjoys daredevil activities like skydiving and is willing to try out just about any adventurous activity you can think of.

Denil Parmar

Application Developer

Denil enjoys spending his free time learning new techniques on his guitar and ukulele. He is also passionate about 80s rock music and sports, including the Tampa Bay Lightning and Golden State Warriors. He has backpacked through the majority of India and would like to eventually visit all 50 states in the U.S.

Ramesh Rapaku

Application Developer

Ramesh enjoys learning about new technologies and running outdoors on the weekends. One of his favorite places to visit is New York because the subways remind him of Mumbai. His bucket list includes going to a live A.R. Rahman concert, which he has done, and going on a tour of Europe, which is up next.

Ankita Shrivastava

Quality Assurance Analyst

Ankita is an avid reader and can often be seen with a book or Kindle in hand. She also enjoys writing in her free time and collects different diaries and journals to jot down her thoughts and experiences. Ankita also enjoys music, and in particular is a die-hard fan of Taylor Swift.

Piyush Patil

Application Developer

Piyush enjoys cooking new foods and watching tech and travel channels on YouTube in his free time. He also likes to go on road trips over the weekends and loves visiting more distant destinations as well. He recently visited Lake Tahoe, CA, and has plans to eventually travel to more places around the world.

Eric Ribeiro

Application Developer

Eric spends his free time drawing and painting, playing the guitar and drums, and playing video games. He is also the proud owner of two cats, Sushi and Cleo. One bucket list item that he hopes to cross off the list one day is skydiving.

Nimesh Rijal

Application Developer

Nimesh enjoys watching movies, going to concerts, and hiking, along with more adventurous outdoor activities like bungee jumping, skydiving, and rafting, all of which he has done in the past. Nimesh is passionate about sports, including soccer and cricket, and enjoys vacationing in Key West and LA.

Suraj Nagaraj

Application Developer

Suraj enjoys playing video games, traveling to new places, taking photos, and learning about the latest technology. He is most passionate about playing cricket and soccer and couldn’t live without his PlayStation. He would one day like to see the Northern Lights. 

Dinaker Kolipaka

Application Developer

Dinaker enjoys swimming, listening to music, riding his bike, cooking, and reading novels. He is most passionate about food, from inventing new recipes to trying different restaurants. He also enjoys watching movies and TV shows, including Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and everything Marvel.

Rishab Khandelwal

Application Developer

Rishab enjoys learning about new technologies and watching comedy shows in his free time. He also likes going to the beach and has visited Niagara Falls. When he was a kid, he wanted to be a professional cricket player. These days, he enjoys doing adventure sports instead.

Rohini Maskar

Application Developer

Rohini likes to spend her free time watching movies and tv shows, cooking, and spending time with family and friends. Her interests include fashion design, and she enjoys learning different techniques for doing hair and makeup. When she has a chance, she would like to one day go skydiving as well as visit Paris and Switzerland.

Nagarjuna Yendluri

Application Developer

Nagarjuna is passionate about coding. In his free time, he enjoys going for a run or hiking on sunny days, and one day would like to visit Switzerland. Fluent in Telugu, he would love to have the ability to travel anywhere in the blink of an eye – especially to get around Tampa traffic!

Yazan Mansour

Application Developer

Yazan is passionate about playing soccer and even wanted to be a professional soccer player when he was a kid. He would like to one day watch a World Cup final live and is also a huge Green Bay Packers fan. He is most proud of graduating from University of Florida with a degree in computer engineering and considers his father his hero and role model.

Allissa King

Solution Specialist

Allissa loves exploring new places and trying new foods. She would one day like to go to Oktoberfest in Germany. When she’s not making travel plans, Allissa enjoys spending time on the beach, outdoors, and cheering on the WVU Mountaineers.

Liz Blaney

Solution Specialist

Liz enjoys playing video games, attending video game conventions, cooking, and spending time with her cat Ouija in her free time. As someone who once participated in theater and acting competitions, she would love to meet her personal hero, Tina Fey.

Peggy Eden

Solution Specialist

Peggy is an Army Veteran and avid sports fan who loves cheering on her Cleveland hometown teams – the Browns and the Cavaliers. She dreams of one day getting the opportunity to cage dive with great white sharks and couldn’t live without red wine, Oreos, and most importantly, her son Rocket.

Stephanie Trinidad

Solution Specialist

Stephanie loves her family, especially her twin girls! Her family also includes her pet tortoise Ruby that she’s had since high school. When not at work or spending time at home with the family, her favorite vacation spot is Hawaii.

David Stauter

Solution Specialist

David enjoys spending his free time taking his daughters to fun places like Disney, and he would love to one day see Domus Aurea in Rome. At home, David enjoys watching Game of Thrones, Bojack Horseman, and various sports. In particular, he likes watching football and baseball and is a die-hard Cubs fan.

Katie Olivencia

Solution Specialist

Katie enjoys family activities in her free time, including going to the park, beach, museums, zoo, and movies. Her travels have taken her to places as distant and diverse as Dubai and Thailand, and she is also a huge foodie. She loves trying out new restaurants and different foods.

Kristie Ali

Solution Specialist

Kristie is passionate about personal development and strives to help herself and others reach their highest potential. To help expand her perspective and step out of her comfort zone, she makes sure to do something that scares her each year on her birthday. She also keeps a box of random gifts to remind herself that life is full of treasure.

Breanne Henninger

Solution Specialist

Breanne is proud to be the first in her family to graduate college. She enjoys playing video games with her husband and friends and has two rescue cats, Summer and Autumn. Her favorite vacation spot is anywhere tropical, and she is happy to have crossed off her bucket list item of moving to Tampa.

Kelsey Grimes

Solution Specialist

Kelsey is passionate about running and would like to run a 10k in every state. She also enjoys reading and owns more than 250 books, with favorites including Frankenstein and the Harry Potter series. She also enjoys spending time with her two cats, Grettel and Meatball, and she owns an extensive collection of cat art.

Alex Montoya

Solution Specialist

Alex enjoys playing video games and online gaming with friends as a way to relax and stay connected. Colombia is a big part of himself and his family, and he’s passionate about the food, music, soccer teams, and culture. He would love to one day attend a World Cup event. Alex couldn’t live without his family, including his wife and son here in Tampa.

Ian Kennard

Solution Specialist

Ian’s favorite hobbies include camping and kayaking along rivers. His favorite spot is along the Chassahowitzka River, where he proposed to his fiancée. Ian is also passionate about hockey. He’s a diehard Tampa Bay Lightning fan who would like to attend a game in every NHL stadium. At home, he enjoys spoiling his cat and watching Star Wars, which is his favorite movie series.

Deegan Miller

Solution Specialist

Deegan couldn’t live without coffee and a good book. At home, she has a rottweiler named Rose and a cat named Cat. Deegan’s favorite vacation spot is anywhere that she can be outdoors and enjoying nature, and she’s always up for an adventure. She would love to one day travel to every continent and visit as many different countries as possible.

Hani Saleh

Solution Specialist

Hani likes to run to de-stress and has completed two half marathons. He also enjoys playing video games and couldn’t live without his PS4. He has an impressive comic book collection, and his favorite show to watch is The Office. Family is very important to him, and he considers his dad and brother his heroes for teaching him to work hard and never give up on each other.

Emily Bedinghaus

Solution Specialist

Emily is passionate about living a healthy lifestyle, but she also loves food, including tacos, pizza, and cookies. She also couldn’t live without coffee. In her spare time, she enjoys lifting weights, going for walks, lounging by the pool, and going to Tampa Bay Lightning games. She would love to travel around the world and hopes to visit Europe in the near future.

Tai Lam

Payroll Tax Accountant

Tai enjoys traveling all around the world and has already visited more than 15 countries. He would like to one day travel to Europe and vacation in Hawaii as well. Tai enjoys watching football and is an avid USF Bulls and Buccaneers fan. He could eat sushi every day and speaks three different languages – English, Vietnamese, and Chinese.

Danae Argudin

Accounting Intern

Danae enjoys reading, listening to music, and spending time out in nature. Her favorite place to visit is Andalucia, Spain, and she has also crossed Paris and Rome off her bucket list. Family is very important to her, including her daughter as well as her mother and grandmother who are her role models.

Kacie Lonsdale

Accounting Intern

Kacie is passionate about sports and is currently a sprinter on the University of Tampa track and field team. In her free time, she enjoys going to the gym, watching scary movies, and playing with her puppy, a toy poodle named Lilly. Her favorite vacation spot is Oia, Greece, and she would like to one day travel to Australia. One thing she couldn’t live without is peanut butter!

Christina Fong

Marketing Intern

Christina is passionate about animals. She currently volunteers with various animal rescue organizations and has a cat named Milo. In her free time, she also enjoys drawing, painting, and watching Netflix. Christina’s been to eight different countries and plans to add Thailand to the list soon after she graduates. Two things she couldn’t live without are hair gel and music.