Leadership Team

Steve Kickert, Co-Founder / CEO

Steve has over 20 years of experience in the software industry. Steve most recently served as Chief Technology Officer of HighJump Software. During his 16 years with HighJump, he held a wide variety of roles but was primarily responsible for all product development activities. He also was the principle architect for their entire suite of supply chain products. As part of the executive team, he helped sell the company to 3M in 2004. Mr. Kickert earned his bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of North Dakota.

Denis Ahearn, Co-Founder / CTO

Denis enjoys architecting and building software to solve problems that people have. He has over 19 years of experience in the software industry, primarily building enterprise-class software products for the Sales Force Automation market. Prior to joining Riverock Technologies in February 2007, Denis served as the Director of Product Development at Superior Edge, Inc. When not sitting at his Mac, Denis can be found spending time with his wife and two young sons, or standing atop a baseball mound trying to figure out how to sneak a pitch past the hitter. Mr. Ahearn earned bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Mankato State University.