The former chief strategy officer of San Antonio-based software-as-a-service company Chargify has been appointed CEO of Austin-based software company Pingboard, according to a Thursday announcement.
The new CEO, Laith Dahiyat, most recently served as general manager of Weedmaps, a software and data company focused on the legal cannabis industry. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software and e-commerce. Before his role at Weedmaps, he served for nearly two years in multiple roles at the San Antonio-headquartered billing and revenue management software company Chargify.
Also on his watch, Chargify acquired data analytics company Keen in March 2020. Both were under local venture equity firm Scaleworks Associates. During that time, Battery Ventures also made a $150 million growth-equity investment in Chargify and Atlanta-based SaaSOptics.
From 2019 to 2020 Dahiyat served as vice president of strategic initiatives at Chargify and from 2020 to 2021 as general manager of Keen. He also served from October 2020 to May 2021 and oversaw the company's successful exit to Battery Ventures.
Pingboard was founded in 2013 by entrepreneur Bill Boebel and has grown to more than 750,000 employees across 2,500 businesses internationally. The company first became profitable in 2020 and Boebel began his search for the person to lead Pingboard in its next stages.
Boebel will remain with the company as an advisor and member of the Board of Directors, while co-founder and chief technology officer Rob Eanes will remain, leading engineering.
Pingboard has raised $7.5 million in three seed rounds, the most recent of which was in 2018. San Antonio's Active Capital as well as Austin-based Silverton Partners and Capital Factory have invested in the company, as well as New York-based Betaworks and several Austin-area angel investors.
Dahiyat said Pingboard was an exciting tech company in the human resources tech space and he was looking forward to showcasing new products.
"The pandemic accelerated the adoption of software to help People Ops leaders retain and engage their newly remote workforce," he said. "The team at Pingboard has been working on some very important developments to further help companies."
