G2Planet is led by a team of senior SaaS technology executives, with extensive experience in both the Enterprise and Event Technology spaces.

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Mark Granovsky
Founder and CEO

Mark is the Founder and CEO of G2Planet, and is one of the original thought leaders in event management technology solutions—inventing the concept of Data Driven Enterprise Event Planning (DEEP), which is still being used today. Prior to G2Planet he was responsible for new business development at NAVTEQ, pioneering map data-driven applications. Mark also served as the VP of Sales and Marketing for startup Athletic Technologies. Mark has forged long-standing client relationships with corporations like Microsoft, Federal Express, Oracle, Toyota, HP, Intel, IBM, and Nissan in addition to Channel partnerships.

After 26 years in the Bay Area, Mark and his wife recently relocated back to the Twin Cities where they are raising their 4 children, a Huskie / Australian herder dog, 6 chickens, 3 turtles and a hamster.

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Rick Lawson
President

Rick is a lifelong technologist, enterprise software developer and business entrepreneur. He started his career over 30 years ago at Lawson Software, which was founded by his father, uncle and two associates. At Lawson, Rick was a member of several ERP application development teams. He also had the honor of being a key member of the Advanced Technology group, a skunkworks team developing next generation application solutions. It was there Rick started innovating software for corporate event marketing, which he discovered was his passion. Lawson was acquired by Infor in 2011, for $2 billion.

Rick lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and is a devoted father to his 6 children. He is amazingly adept at being in multiple places at one time including hockey and football games, and karate tournaments.

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Demian Vincenty
VP, Strategic Accounts & Growth

Demian draws from his 20+ years experience in having a unique perspective on what it takes to connect events, people, data and business objectives into a cohesive fabric that enables new insights and time savings productivity. At RainFocus he supported complex event programs and implementations for SAP, ServiceNow, AWS, and Workday. At George P. Johnson he led client and partner event programs. His experience running events and teams at SPS Commerce, Quality Bike products and LifeTime Fitness built his foundation of insight into corporate event marketing operations.

Demian lives in Minneapolis with his family, where you'll find him on the sidelines of many soccer games, on the road on his bike, or walking Sadie (the dog) along the creek.

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Karen Granovsky
VP, Services & Delivery

Karen has 25 years of experience overseeing client implementations and support operations. During her career she has specialized in creating onboarding processes and playbooks with an objective of customer productivity and operational efficiencies. At PeopleSoft, Karen was a core member of the Select division who were responsible for developing SaaS implementations. While running services for Evolv, a San Francisco-based VC start-up, Karen built their client services department from the ground up. Karen brings a sharp focus on best practices, standardized processes and exceptional customer service.

Karen is based in G2Planet’s Minneapolis office, where she lives with her family. Away from work you’ll find her at the dog park, yoga studio, or gliding on the lake at the cabin on a paddleboard.