PowerSchool announced the promotion of Eric Shander, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), to the position of President and CFO, effective immediately. In addition to his CFO responsibilities, his role will expand to include PowerSchool's global customer renewals and success functions. Shander's successful leadership of the finance, accounting, human resources, investor relations, and information technology functions for PowerSchool over the past two years has been instrumental in the company's success.

Prior to joining PowerSchool, Shander held financial and operational leadership roles at Red Hat, IBM, and Lenovo. In addition, PowerSchool announced that Tony Kender joins the company as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Kender brings with him 30+ years of experience in applications software and information services, as well as leadership of sales, global marketing and channels teams across all industries and selling motions.

Prior to joining PowerSchool, Kender was CRO at FinancialForce where he was responsible for all go-to-market teams from sales to marketing to channels. There he led the business back to revenue growth and delivered their best growth year in company history. Before that, Kender served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of North America Human Capital Management Sales at Oracle.

In this role, he led the Oracle Enterprise go-to-market sales strategy and execution, transforming the organization from on-premises offerings to the cloud business with a SaaS value proposition. In addition, Tony also held sales and marketing leadership roles at CorpU, Intralinks, SAP, and ADP.