Our Leaders

John Borland

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

John Borland is Chief Executive Officer of Perceptyx, where he leads company strategy and daily business operations. In this role, John is the steward of Perceptyx’s mission to be trusted by the world’s leading organizations, helping them leverage their people and business data to create positive employee experiences and greater organizational success.

Since co-founding Perceptyx in 2003, John has worked in nearly every area of the company’s business. Creating an environment where people can thrive has been one of John’s primary goals in building Perceptyx. He is both the company’s historian and visionary, lending a unique hands-on “operator perspective” that emphasizes the importance of innovation, collaboration, and culture across the business. Before being named CEO in 2017, John served as Perceptyx’s Chief Operating Officer. His successful track record in driving significant business growth and product investment helped Perceptyx become the acknowledged industry leader in delivering people analytics at enterprise scale.

John is deeply passionate about the relationship between employees feeling empowered to share their voice and knowing they’ve been heard, and the impact on advancing successful world-class organizations. He is proud of the role Perceptyx plays in helping great companies, including ABInBev, Ascension Healthcare, Citi, FedEx, Hitachi, and more than 625 other organizations across the globe achieve greater success by providing a better employee experience.

A native Californian, John and his wife have been married for 23 years and have five children. In his free time, John enjoys relaxing on the water with family and friends or building something new in his workshop. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management from California Polytechnic State University.

Danielle Wanderer

Chief Marketing Officer

Danielle Wanderer, serving as Chief Marketing Officer for Perceptyx since October 2020, has brought a wealth of experience in marketing and strategic planning spanning three decades. She has played a pivotal role in the organization’s marketing strategy by encouraging team building, enhancing cross-disciplinary collaboration, promoting innovation, and delivering quality pipeline to drive top-line growth.

Before joining Perceptyx, Wanderer’s career journey was marked by several positions with companies at key inflection points in their history. As CMO and the first non-founder executive hire at Qualtrics, Dani was instrumental in repositioning the company to CX and building out its first marketing team. Following Qualtrics, she served four years as the Chief Marketing Officer at Quiq, a start-up focused on revolutionizing high-volume consumer-to-enterprise communications through messaging. Starting at $0 in revenue and helping to capture the first 200 enterprise customers in a new category was a great experience.

Dani acquired her passion for B2B SaaS software in 2000 upon joining early-stage RightNow Technologies. After nearly 11 years starting, leading, and building out several new marketing functions at RightNow, going through an IPO, and running global marketing, she helped to ensure a smooth transition following RightNow’s acquisition by Oracle in 2011.

Wanderer’s career began at Hewlett Packard, where she gained foundational expertise in finance, product management, and strategic planning, enriched by her global exposure as a Finance & Marketing Operations Manager in Bergamo, Italy. Wanderer holds an MBA in Finance and a BA in German from the University of Arizona.

Jon Nguyen

Chief Financial Officer

As the Chief Financial Officer for Perceptyx, Inc, Jon is accountable for the daily operations of the company. Jon oversees performance measures for the delivery team, and plays an active role in setting the tone and direction of the business. Jon dedicates a significant portion of his time towards paving the way for future system enhancements to meet emerging client needs.

Jon is instrumental in fostering employee alignment throughout the business, allocating resources to meet strategic goals, improving efficiency and maximizing quality. Jon brings deep technical know-how regarding the system, which is coupled alongside strong leadership skills. Combined with his academic background in Business Management, Jon provides a constant source of thought leadership.

The sheer number of clients that Jon has worked with means that he brings a unique perspective on the industry. For example, Jon has partnered with companies such as: Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Dell, NBCUniversal, Microsoft, and many more.

Lisa Sterling

Chief People Officer

Lisa Sterling is a forward-thinking, engaging leader who has been disrupting the business and HR landscape to create cultural and organizational for the past 20 years. As a Chief Administrative, HR, Culture, and People Officer, as well as an HCM product expert, Lisa led one of the most radical cultural transformations for a fast-growing, technology company. Now with Perceptyx she is leading the growth and transformation of our people and culture, as well as serving as a thought leader to HR and Tech professionals within global organizations.

Kirsten Helvey

Chief Customer Officer

Laura Setlak

Chief Revenue Officer

As Perceptyx’s Chief Revenue Officer, Laura brings a wealth of B2B software experience and a proven track record of scaling, motivating, and retaining high-performance sales teams. Her approach to leadership is rooted in open communication and a deep understanding of organizational culture, making her a key contributor to Perceptyx's growth and expansion. In her current role, Laura manages Perceptyx’s global enterprise sales teams spanning both new business and customer segments, as well as revenue operations, sales enablement, and solutions consulting.

Before arriving at Perceptyx, Setlak held sales leadership positions with JobVite and Alert Media. Foundational to her sales career in the HR technology sector was a more than 11-year tenure at Cornerstone OnDemand, a holistic talent management solution. There, she excelled in various roles, working her way up from an Enterprise Regional Sales Manager to Vice President of Strategic Accounts. Her time at Cornerstone was characterized by her ability to build foundational sales processes and infrastructure, and effectively guide teams through periods of transformation and change. Earlier career stops included sales and account management roles with ADP and SAP SuccessFactors.

An Omaha, Nebraska native, Setlak lives in the greater Chicagoland area.

Vinod Malhotra

Chief Technology Officer

Vinod Malhotra is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Perceptyx. He leads the company’s technical strategy, end-to-end software development, technology infrastructure, and cloud operations to deliver Perceptyx's multi-channel AI-powered enterprise-grade Employee Experience (EX) platform. He is a global technology executive with over 25 years of experience in scaling, transforming, and growing B2B SaaS through technology innovation, product mindset, building high performance teams, and mergers/acquisitions.

Prior to joining Perceptyx, Vinod served as SVP of Engineering at BlackLine, responsible for the delivery of a cloud based Financial Close and Invoice-to-Cash automation platforms that brought in annual recurring revenue of over half a billion dollars. He previously held leadership roles at ICE Mortgage Technology, Tally Solutions, Finastra, and Microsoft.

Vinod holds M. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Delhi and a US patent.