Our leadership team

Jenny Brook is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Poppulo. She serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Team with global responsibility for all legal operations and functions. Jenny has over 25 years of business and legal experience, including intellectual property, software licensing, contract management, data privacy, cyber security, corporate governance, and employment law. In her role, Jenny helps guide the company in responding to the wide range of matters across the legal technology and business spectrum, in rapid growth and increasingly complex regulatory environments. Prior to joining Poppulo, Jenny was a shareholder and top litigator at the law firm of Greenberg Traurig. Repeatedly recognized by Super Lawyers Magazine while in private practice, Jenny was named by Law Week of Colorado as one of the top 10 influential women lawyers. Jenny earned her JD from Notre Dame Law school and her Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College.

Mairéad brings extensive strategic marketing experience to her role as Chief Marketing Officer of Poppulo, having worked across a range of diverse industries and sectors over three decades, from national media to FMCG and SaaS. In 2017, she spearheaded the rebranding and repositioning of Poppulo, a key driver in the company’s journey to becoming the global leader in employee communications. Mairéad leads brand strategy along with the strategic marketing of the group and its brands, as the company continues to scale internationally. Based in Ireland, with responsibility for teams globally, Mairéad also servesas GM EMEA, to propel success and integration into the global business.

Edward brings over 25 years of finance and leadership experience to Poppulo, having worked across various growth sectors, including retail, healthcare, hospitality, media, and software.
With experience working with several private equity firms, including as CFO at TOMIA, another Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, he has extensive experience in financial strategy, operations, and driving growth and expansion plans. Edward has successfully led and executed multiple transactions, refinancings, restructurings, and exits.
Edward holds a B.A. in Classics from the University of Cambridge as being a qualified accountant in the UK.

With 20+ years of sales leadership experience, Lance is well placed to guide Poppulo’s global sales team through the company’s next phase of revenue growth. Lance has developed his career selling to enterprise, mid-market and SMB organizations, working at tech giants such as Oracle, Sage, and Dell, as well as scale-ups including Apttus. Consequently, he has extensive experience in value-based and solution-led selling and strives to create a culture for the sales team to follow this approach—always seeking to deliver value for Poppulo’s customers.

With 20+ years of experience in technology, Glenda is a trusted, inclusive, and compassionate business leader with a strong passion for building high-performing teams and an appetite for solving complex problems. Throughout her career, Glenda has transformed customer-focused teams; driving retention, growth, NPS, CSAT, call reduction, and operational efficiencies while also ensuring customer delight was at the core of the business strategy. She is a diversity champion—during her time at LinkedIn, she led both the Women in Technology Group & Investing in Women Lead, and during her time at Indeed, she held Global IRG roles championing women in business.

Tess is an accomplished technology and operations leader with a strong track record in driving success across engineering, product, project, and operations teams, while fostering high-performing, diverse global teams. She's recognized as both a technologist and an award-winning strategic leader, known for leading successful enterprise projects and guiding technology transformations.
Before joining Poppulo in 2023, Tess served as Chief of Staff for Global Technology and Product at Iron Mountain. In this role, she managed a team of 750 employees in 26 countries and oversaw a partner and vendor ecosystem of 320+ strategic partners, including industry giants like Google, AWS, and Microsoft.
Tess's experience extends to the public sector, where she led Program Management and Governance for the City of Boston. She also brings insights from roles at Wayfair, Fuld + Company, and early-stage financial and solar industry startups, including a U.S. Department of Energy-funded fintech startup.
Tess holds dual undergraduate degrees in Economics and Environmental Science from Boston University and is a graduate of Harvard Extension School's Full Stack software engineering program.