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BEMO Welcomes One New Team Member
BEMO is proud to announce our newest hire of 2023: Vanessa Bejarano!
Vanessa has joined our team as a Technical...
The BEMO Team
BEMO is a global team of dedicated professionals with expertise and passion for helping our customers powered by Microsoft.
At BEMO, we've built our company completely remotely, thanks entirely to Microsoft 365 and Azure. We are a testament to how small and medium-sized businesses can successfully go mobile.
Click to meet our awesome team:
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Bruno Lecoq
CEO/CISO
Bruno lives in Washington (by way of France), but loves a warmer climate for his vacations; Bora Bora and Sydney top his list of favorite locales. He's a huge fan of soccer, espresso (his pup, whom you might recognize from our chat, is even named Mocha), and his two kids (can you spot his lookalike?)
In his off time, you can find him at his flying lessons.
📍 Seattle, USA | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
Joel Lachance
CFO
Joel grew up and attended university in Canada before moving to the U.S. He is the proud father of his eight-year-old trilingual daughter.
Joel has traveled and lived in Southeast Asia and loves the perspective travel provides. Currently, Joel is focused on growing our BEMO team. As for hobbies, Joel enjoys carpentry and playing the electric guitar.
📍 Seattle, USA | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
Brandon Lecoq
Director of Sales & Marketing
While working remotely over the last 4+ years, Brandon has lived in New Zealand, Costa Rica, Vail ski resort, and most major U.S. cities. Brandon grew up in Seattle but left after his undergrad years at the University of Washington. He spends his free time reading and skiing.
Brandon is working on his PhD in Microsoft licensing.
📍 Seattle, USA
Christophe Koehl
Director of Implementation
Christophe lives in Seattle, (by way of France) with his family. He loves the outdoors and never misses a chance to climb a mountain! He'd love to switch places for a day with someone at the International Space Station.
In his downtime, you can find Christophe foraging for mushrooms, skiing, hiking, DIY-ing or playing video or board games.
📍 Seattle, USA | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
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Sylwia Chmielewska
Director of People
Sylwia lives in Washington state (by way of Poland where she went to Law School!) with her husband and their two kiddos plus two pets: Sparkly the fish and Coco the bunny (who has quite the impressive following on Instagram!).
Sylwia loves getting creative with art and food. "I am passionate about painting. It helps me relax and be more creative in other aspects of my life."
📍 Seattle, USA
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Nina Cullen
Director of Customer Success & Support
Nina lives in sunny California with her husband and 3 kids. She loves homesteading and working as a volunteer at Vlada's Seeds of life where she can focus her passion of gardening and cooking towards a positive family life.
But that's not all...when the kids go to bed, Nina still loves to hop on for a dose of gaming!
📍 Wildomar, CA
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Cindy Oliveto
Director of Operations & Chief of Staff
Cindy joins us from Texas where she lives with her husband. She is an avid traveler and has traveled to 39 different countries and 37 different states! One of her favorite things to do during her travels? Ziplining!
When not traveling, you can find Cindy reading a great book or hanging with her dog, Fia.
📍 Texas, USA | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
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Josh Franklin
Sales Manager
Josh lives in Houston, where he was born and raised but when traveling, his favorite place to visit is Cabo San Lucas. He's a night owl who loves strong coffee and sci-fi and fantasy books and movies. He's also always up for a food challenge (ask him about it, you won't be disappointed).
Currently, Josh is working on getting the "quadfecta" of Microsoft certifications.
📍 Houston, USA | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
Kevin Jefferson
Account Executive
Kevin lives in Indianapolis but enjoys traveling & “living his life to the fullest.”
His most recent hobby? Gardening! Kevin began gardening during the pandemic and was immediately hooked.
When working, you can find Kevin reading, watching a good show, or maybe even attending an awesome concert!
📍Indianapolis, IN | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
Tanner Narkoff
Account Executive
Tanner lives in Pennsylvania, where he enjoys spending time outdoors.
Besides spending time outdoors, Tanner also has a self-proclaimed nerdy side! He enjoys comics, superheroes, and TV shows full of mystery & adventure.
One of Tanner’s passions? Music! He enjoys creating authentic pieces of art.
📍King of Prussia, PA | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
Domonic Lastoria
Customer Success Manager
Domonic joins us from his hometown of Cincinnati. He's a proud father to his 7-year old son who's his carbon copy and has a pint-sized pup bestie named KODA.
Domonic has always been an athlete. Out of the office, you can find him training for events like Tough Mudders and Spartan Warrior races. For his next vacation? Italy and Alaska, hands down.
📍 Cincinnati, USA | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
Lauren MacBlane
Customer Success Manager
Lauren is an avid cyclist who loves long rides and hill-climbing! Lauren hails from Richmond, Virginia where she lives with her perfect pup, Eloise.
In addition to her pooch, Lauren is also the mom of 19-year old twin daughters. Her favorite family tradition with them is to watch as they hang ornaments on the family Christmas tree.
📍 Richmond, Virginia
Sakshi Tomar
Technical Support Engineer
Sakshi joins the team from India. She is an avid traveler and while she loves a beachy vacation, the mountains are her favorite place on earth.
Sakshi loves dogs, hates slow internet and is a darn good cook (though you might not know it since it is her hidden talent!). Currently, Sakshi is learning how to solve a Rubik's Cube.
📍 Chandigarh, India
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Daleska Sanchez
Technical Support Engineer
Daleska joins us from Managua, Nicuragua. She loves traveling to new places and discovering beaches, volcanoes, lakes, and beautiful cities.
Aside from traveling, Daleska enjoys spending time with family and friends, including her adorable rescue cat Isa.
Her favorite place in the world? Anywhere as long as her cats are with her.
📍Managua, Nicaragua
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Julio Soza
Technical Support Engineer
Julio joins us from Managua, Nicaragua, where he lives with his girlfriend and son. Julio says his son is his biggest inspiration.
While Julio enjoys to travel, he said his favorite place is the mountains in his hometown.
The coolest thing he's working on right now? Moving into his new house with his family!
📍Managua, Nicaragua
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Kostadin Lukov
Technical Support Engineer
Kostadin lives in Poldiv, Bulgaria, with his wife, Elena, and his son, Matey. Kostadin is all about family - he says his son is his biggest success and his biggest inspiration is his wife.
If Kostadin could visit anywhere in the world, he would love to go somewhere in Southeast Asia. But his favorite place in the world? The Rhodope and Pirin mountains in Bulgaria!
📍Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Julia Chester
Marketing Manager
Julia joins our team via the wilds of Alaska where she lives with her husband and their Malamute pup.
A California native, she's been developing her AK green thumb. She loves all things outdoors and also enjoys the company of a good book and a cup of tea.
Julia is working on writing a book based on her blog about life in rural Alaska.
📍 McCarthy, USA
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Joseph Candelario
Business Development Manager
Joseph lives in Houston, Texas with his cat Luna. He's worked in everything from Personal Training and Supply Chain Management to Marketing and brings a wide range of skills to our team.
Joseph is a self-described "homebody" who also loves to travel. Next on his list? Italy and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! Joseph is passionate about seeing how things work. His latest passion is working on his car.
📍 Houston, USA
Jenna Jacobs
Marketing Intern
Jenna lives in the Fargo-Moorhead area where she currently attends school at Concordia College studying English Writing.
In her free time, she enjoys biking, hammocking (and avoiding the outdoors during the cold winter!), discovering new coffee shops, and taking care of her many houseplants.
📍Moorhead, Minnesota
Adam Janssen
Business Development Representative
Adam joins us from Michigan where he lives with his two kids, his biggest inspiration!
In his free time, Adam loves to go mountain biking with his kids, kayaking the rivers of Michigan, and making delicious homemade hibachi.
But that’s not all -- Adam also spends time building high-end keyboards!
📍Michigan, USA | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
Harpreet Singh
Implementation Engineer
Harpreet lives in India with his family and Golden Labrador. He's a night owl who wants to travel the world. First stop? America. Harpreet loves seeing local and touring bands on the weekends. His nickname means "Happiness" which we think is very fitting.
Hapreet is currently working on digging deeper into Office 365, Azure and Intune.
📍 Chandigarh, India
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Mohamed Sekrane
Implementation Engineer
Mohamed was born in Algeria. raised in Lybia, and got his first taste of the workforce as a Flight Simulator Instructor in the French Air Force.
He's lived in Bulgaria now for 3 years and takes nightly walks with his 6 feline friends (whom he must trust because if he could be any animal, he'd be a bird).
In his off time, he writes music, making both the beats and lyrics.
📍 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Diego Godoy
Implementation Engineer
Diego lives in Santiago, Chile by way of Venezuela. Diego loves all things technology, sports, travel, videogames, and...his dogs! He has two Schnauzers, Sascha and Shuito.
Diego's favorite place on earth is his hometown of Maracaibo but next on his bucket list? Greece and Egypt.
📍 Santiago, Chile
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David Ducolon
Implementation Engineer
David joins us from Auburn, Washinton, where he lives with his husband Tim. When not working, you can find David reading a good book, relaxing on his deck, or spending time in his garden.
A big traveler, David has enjoyed visitng many different countries. Up next? The Atlas Mountains. But that's not all. One of David's hidden hobbies? Doing his own plumbing and heating work!
📍Auburn, WA | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
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Kraig Rury
Principal Software Development Manager
Kraig joins us from Seattle, Washington, where he lives with his wife, Susan.
When not working, Kraig enjoys traveling with Susan.
When Kraig and his wife aren’t traveling, Kraig likes to grow, preserve, and cook. Kraig sometimes has over 60 tomato plants and tons of lettuce! He also enjoys fermenting pickles and peppers.
📍Seattle, WA | ✅ Ex-Microsoft
Ivan Molnar
Software Development Intern
Ivan joins us from Reuilly, Frane, where he attends school. He enjoys spending time with his friends and his adorable dog.
Ivan's favorite past time is working on anything computer related! In fact the coolest thing Ivan is working on right now? He's trying to create a reactive programming language!
📍Reuilly, France
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Catalin Alaci
IT Manager
Cata was born in Bucharest and now resides in Washington. He's passionate about cooking (and loves pasta), which is good as he has two teenagers under his roof (one human, one of the German Shorthaired Pointer variety).
If he could swap places with anyone for a day, it would be an astronaut which is fitting since his next item on his bucket list is to learn to fly.
📍 Seattle, USA
Ademar Amorim
Project & Documentation Manager
Ademar joins us all the way from Brazil, but if he could live anywhere, it'd probably have to be Lido di Jesolo, Italy. He's a huge fan of travel and experiencing new cultures and has the secret talent of being able to memorize different flags and capitols.
Another not-so-secret talent? Art. Ademar is a talented illustrator and has worked as a freelance artist in the past!
📍 Dourados, Brazil
Adrienne Munday
Financial Specialist
Adrienne joins us from Fall City, Washington. Adrienne has two dogs (Paco & Billie) and a cat (Belle AKA Murder Mittens) who she adores.
Adrienne also enjoys traveling. Her most recent trip was to Spain. Up next? Jordan, Africa, or maybe Petra!
📍Fall City, WA
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