Trusted Salesforce^® Partner, Respected Salesforce Expertise

As CEO, Rich Rivara leads the firm’s go-to-market strategy, business development and marketing activities. With deep experience that includes 18 years with professional services firms including Appirio and Fujitsu, Rich is among the best in the business at delivering the value-driven solutions and outcomes-based results that lead to deep, trusted relationships with clients of all sizes, across all industries.

Rich holds a B.A. from Northern Illinois University. When he’s not on-site with clients, he spends his time with family and friends cooking, having fun – and laughing loudly!

Nate Shilling joins Wave6 as Senior Vice President.

He brings 15 years of Salesforce.com CRM Sales/Service Cloud, development and integration experience. Nate is a Salesforce.com Certified Technical Architect, a designation held globally by ~120 experts not employed at Salesforce.com.

In the past 7 years, Nate has delivered 30 Salesforce.com implementation projects and advised over 50 enterprise CRM teams on architecture and development best practice using Salesforce.com. He is recognized as an advisor to business and IT leaders in master data management, data integration and application lifecycle management best practices and is a past speaker at the annual Dreamforce user conference.

Prior to joining Wave6, held positions at McKinsey & Company advising executives on CRM and Cloud strategy and at Appirio he served the team of Technical Architects as the VP Solution Engineering.

Nate holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University and resides in the Kansas City area with his wife and 3 children.

Kevin brings more than 20 years’ experience leading sales, marketing and consulting organizations to his role as Senior Vice President of Sales. He is a proven sales leader with a tremendous track record of establishing true customer, partner and vendor relationships that deliver results and drive growth.

Prior to joining Wave6, Kevin held strategic sales roles at both Salesforce and Accenture. Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas, Dallas. In his downtime, you can find him immersed in playing, writing and recording music as well as exploring the outdoors.