Strattam is excited to announce the recipients of the 6th annual Golden Armadillo Awards.
This prestigious accolade celebrates high-impact leaders from within Strattam’s portfolio companies, recognizing those who demonstrate remarkable perseverance and flexibility to achieve significant business results. Selections are made through a confidential vote, and the honorees’ names are etched onto the distinguished Golden Armadillo trophy showcased in our Austin office.
This year, we’re honoring five exceptional individuals whose contributions have been crucial to their organization’s overall success. Please join us in celebrating these worthy winners!
Liz Murray
CFO, Trax Technologies
Liz Murray brings more than 25 years of experience in financial management, strategic investment and M&A activity, with a particular focus on technology and internet companies.
Working alongside the Trax leadership team, Liz helps bring industry expertise and a focus on innovation, guiding the company to deliver effective spend and compliance management solutions and drive success in a dynamic market.
Bill Strogis
CRO, Trax Technologies
Bill Strogis is a seasoned professional with three decades of experience in enterprise software sales. He’s honed his skills in empowering start-ups with effective training that goes beyond the “What,” and digging deep into the “How” and “Why.”
Bill understands that modern buyer behavior is paramount in today’s competitive landscape. Drawing from his experience, Bill decodes customer preferences and motivations, equipping teams with tailored sales strategies.
Bill currently serves as the CRO of Trax Technologies, a global leader in Freight Audit, driving innovative solutions and propelling the company forward in its mission to empower their clients to succeed.
With dual expertise in sales execution and leadership, Bill is passionate about mentoring, coaching, and enabling teams to achieve their highest potential.
Brian Austin
CTO, Affinaquest
As an Information Technology Executive, Brian Austin has extensive experience driving the implementation of short-term and long-term strategies, work plans, and projects that provide for the orderly and cost-effective development, installation, and operation of information systems, network, and communications technologies.
Brian identifies opportunities for the appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development to streamline all internal operations and optimize their strategic benefits.
Throughout his career, Brian has consistently promoted and overseen strategic relationships between internal technology resources and external entities, including vendors, and partner organizations.
People leadership is very important to Brian as a leader; therefore, he takes pride in managing, coaching, developing, and mentoring leaders and teams of individual contributors, providing needed technical guidance to grow organizational capabilities.
Brian directs continued development and innovation of IT infrastructure to ensures appropriate systems and skills are in place to align with overall strategies.
Barry Kukkuk
Co-Founder and CTO, Netstock
Barry Kukkuk is the technical founder of Netstock, and his focus is on go-to-market activities, which include marketing, sales, and product. His core role is to ensure the business is aligned with its customers, market trends, and business partners.
Barry is the wizard who has been driving the AI evolution at Netstock, as he has strategically implemented and revolutionized generative AI in supply and demand planning.
“For us, one of the real promises of AI is taking that drudge work, that repetitive day-to-day stuff that people in supply chain do, and get a machine to do that kind of stuff. That enables the humans to look up and say: ‘Okay, strategically, how can we improve our business?”
Pramilla Sundaresh
VP, Professional Services of SciShield
*SciShield now merged with eLabNext to create SciSure
Pramilla Sundaresh believes in SciShield’s mission to be the cornerstone of unburdened scientific advancement: to enable scientists to accelerate their discoveries and for laboratories to exist as safe places of learning and development for the bright minds of today and the scientific results of tomorrow.
Pramilla and the SciShield team have had an unwavering commitment to mitigating risk in science. They do so through continuous investment in software development, acquisitions, and infrastructure security to improve and expand our enterprise system to support organizations and their scientific endeavors.
The SciShield organization is comprised of researchers, scientists, engineers, and EHS professionals who come from several different backgrounds and have the knowledge and experience necessary to improve lab safety and compliance across various industries.
