About Pangea

Product, Marketing, Growth

Aeron Sullivan

Chief Executive Officer & Founder

Aeron Sullivan has worked across public, private, and non-profit spheres in his career. He served in the Marines for 8 years before departing as a Captain. He led two startups prior to Pangea, one where he was named to Inc. Magazines 30 entrepreneurs under 30, and the second where he became the visionary behind the #1 Religious education app in the world. Aeron is passionate about solving problems through innovative solutions and driving organizational growth.  Aeron resides in San Diego with his wife and two daughters.

Finance, Risk Management

Robert Sentinella, Ph. D.

Chief Risk Officer & Co-Founder

Robert Sentinella started his career in the aerospace industry as a satellite test engineer for Boeing. His love of mathematics drew him back to academics where he earned a PhD in Applied Math from UC Santa Barbara. He was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study complex fluid dynamics, and his dissertation was based on a new method for solving multi-scale models for liquid crystalline polymers. Immediately following his PhD, Robert was drawn to quantitative finance where he has held multiple research roles, including portfolio analytics and trade execution. His last role was at BlackRock where he was the lead risk manager for the US ETF and Index Investment business. This book of business totaled over $3.5 trillion in assets and contributed to over 40% of US 401Ks & pensions. Robert’s love of finance, expertise in risk management, and a deep desire to do work that has positive impact on people have led him to Pangea.  Robert and his wife and children live in the Bay Area.

Revenue, Marketing, Customer Success

Bob Doustdar

Chief Revenue Officer & Co-Founder

Bob Doustdar is no stranger to driving revenue, delivering results, and executing on customer success. He has held senior roles such as Managing Director of Business Applications at Microsoft and VP of Sales at Salesforce. As well as previous leadership positions at Cisco, IBM, and Sprint.  Bob has built and led world-class sales teams throughout his career working with clients such as Intel, HP, Apple, Amazon, Google, Disney, Dell/EMC, and others.  He is now applying his empathetic leadership and white-glove approach to Pangea. Bob resides in San Diego with his wife and  twins.

Global Operations, Strategy, Process Improvement

Carlos Arnero

Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder

Carlos Arnero is a Global Operations Executive with expertise building and leading international, multi-site, cross-functional teams that drive growth and profitability through operational excellence. Prior to joining Pangea Technologies, Arnero served in multiple CEO/COO roles in which he drove global operations in the design and delivery of technology solutions in support of a $500m IDIQ contract with the US DOD; founded and led a Systems Integration company responsible for providing over $20m in tactical surveillance platforms to the US Army, and spearheaded new product designs for next-gen communications platforms that resulted in a $53m contract for Federal Law Enforcement. His specific business area expertise includes driving startup operations, scalable operational process design, cost containment, strategic planning, and the execution of core business strategies.

Engineering and Architecture

Joel Worrall

Founding Advisor

Joel Worrall has worked in technical and product leadership for multiple companies, including Stripe, New Relic, and a large multi-national non-profit. He’s the co-founder of one the first OpenJS Foundation-sponsored open-source applications; he’s also one of the architects behind Pangea’s impact.

Hedging, Finance, People

Peter Ahlin

Founding Advisor

After finishing his undergrad (math, economics) and MBA at Duke, Peter Ahlin spent 15 years in a variety of strategic finance leadership roles. He co- led Chatham Financial's global analytics practice, advised clients in real estate, private equity, and corporate sectors on structuring/executing interest rate & currency derivatives, designed an optimized multi-currency investment vehicle, and traded FX spot/forwards/options.  Peter and his wife and kids reside in North Carolina.