Inoca

Team

Built by technology investors and operators

Team

Chris Sheffert

Managing Director & Founder

Chris Sheffert

Managing Director & Founder

csheffert@inoca.com
  • Founded Inoca in 2012 after a career in private equity, turnarounds and restructuring.
  • Helped build a services firm to more than 3x its revenue in under three years as a Partner.
  • M.B.A., Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Private equity · Turnarounds · Technology services

Cole Paraday

Vice President

Cole Paraday

Vice President

cparaday@inoca.com
  • Joined Inoca in 2026 after about four years in private equity and investment banking covering IT and next-gen cloud services.
  • Previously invested in minority and growth equity deals at a family office, and executed sell-side M&A at Guggenheim Partners.
  • B.A. in Finance, Illinois Wesleyan University.

Growth equity · Cloud services · M&A

Dan Rudolph

Operating Partner

Dan Rudolph

Operating Partner

  • 15+ years as a hands-on private equity operating partner for small, high-growth companies.
  • Former Associate Dean and COO of Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he still teaches entrepreneurship.
  • Previously a Silicon Valley CEO and marketing executive who built and sold multiple software businesses.

Strategy · Value creation · Operations

Amelie Morgan

Analyst

Amelie Morgan

Analyst

amorgan@inoca.com
  • Leads sourcing and diligence on Inoca's recent Data + AI growth equity investments.
  • Olympic bronze medalist in gymnastics for Great Britain (Tokyo 2021) and captain of the University of Utah's NCAA gymnastics team.
  • B.S. in Finance, University of Utah.

Sourcing · Diligence · Data + AI

Advisory Board

Our advisors are investors in Inoca. They have built and sold technology services businesses like the ones we back, and give our team industry insight and connections.

Rich Lyons

Advisory Board

Rich Lyons

Advisory Board

  • Founded Lyons Consulting Group in 2003 and built it into the leading Salesforce Commerce partner worldwide.
  • Sold the firm to Capgemini, where he served as Global Head of Commerce until 2021.

Digital commerce · Customer experience · Growth

Lori Williams

Advisory Board

Lori Williams

Advisory Board

  • Founder of Throughline Consulting and former CEO of Caylent, one of AWS's fastest-growing AI services partners.
  • 20+ years scaling global cloud and AI services organizations at Appirio, Traction on Demand and Gigster.

Cloud & AI services · Customer delivery · Global operations

Tom Johnstone

Advisory Board

Tom Johnstone

Advisory Board

  • Senior Vice President of Data & AI at Genpact, following its acquisition of XponentL, which he founded and led as CEO and Chairman.
  • Previously ran Accenture's data and AI practice, a $3B business with 2,000+ employees.

Data & analytics · Cloud solutions · Growth

Vincent Letteri

Advisory Board

Vincent Letteri

Advisory Board

  • Previously Senior Managing Director at Blackstone, leading growth equity and heading its San Francisco office.
  • 15+ years in technology, media and telecom growth equity across Blackstone and KKR, after starting his career at McKinsey.

Growth equity · Investing · Global operations

Dan Rudolph

Advisory Board

Dan Rudolph

Advisory Board

  • 15+ years as a hands-on private equity operating partner for small, high-growth companies.
  • Former Associate Dean and COO of Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he still teaches entrepreneurship.
  • Previously a Silicon Valley CEO and marketing executive who built and sold multiple software businesses.

Strategy · Value creation · Operations

Let’s build what’s next.

If you’re a founder looking for a partner, not just capital, we’d love to hear your story.

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