We lead the charge with passion, innovation, and authenticity.

Chief Executive Officer

Geraint Waters began his career in technology and innovation as an IT Consultant for PWC in 1999. After advancing his leadership at UBS Investment Bank and Barclays, Geraint and his co-founders saw a high market need for a no-code Salesforce test automation and founded Provar in 2014. For nearly a decade, he has scaled his global teams as CEO/Co-Founder, while continuing to bring new solutions to enterprise customers. When not at work, Geraint enjoys rooting for Liverpool and spending time with his two children and wife in Beckenham, Southeast London.

Richard Oliver leads Provar’s Finance, Legal, and HR functions since joining Provar in early 2021. He was keen to join Provar due to its high growth, clear value proposition, and great people. Since joining, he's enjoyed particularly helping to evolve the company's processes and reporting, and interacting with prospects and customers to solve mutual business problems.

Richard (or "Oli,” as he is known in Provar) brings experience from over 20 years working as the CFO or COO of entrepreneurial international software companies in Cloud, Telco, and Banking solutions. Richard is a qualified accountant and has a BA in Business. He has 3 children and lives in Sussex, England.

Chief Customer Officer

An electrical and electronic engineering graduate, Ivan spent the first 16 years of his career in the aerospace and defence industry writing safety-critical embedded software.

During the past 20 years, he has held several C-level technology and product leadership roles helping B2B enterprise software startups bring innovative new solutions to market. In addition to building and leading multi-disciplinary product and services teams, he has established international technology, system integrator and platform partnerships, including with Salesforce. For ten years, Ivan has focused on creating products that are built on or integrated with, Salesforce and has launched five Salesforce AppExchange apps, including his own, plus two AI platforms. Before joining Provar Testing, Ivan was a Program Architect for Salesforce in Australia, working with some of their largest and most complex multi-cloud customers on enterprise transformation projects to help accelerate their time to value. In his spare time, He is also the author of the book, "Beginning Salesforce DX", published by Apress in 2022.

As Provar’s Chief People Officer, Lisa brings her extensive experience from a career spanning 30 years in HR to building the people journey here at Provar. A big believer in creating great places to work, Lisa thrives on the family-vibe of the start up and the challenge of maintaining that as a company grows. Her goal is for Provar to be recognized as one of the best places to work in tech, and that means listening to and learning from our people – you know how HR people love to chat!

A team oriented leader with international experience, Lisa specializes in building people teams that share her passion for delivering exceptional employee experiences and aims to create an inclusive culture with a sense of belonging. She firmly believes that to be our best selves, we should continue to learn and develop, a philosophy that we share at Provar. Lisa lives with her partner on the south coast of the UK, along with the love of her life – a classic car! She is a self-confessed “fixer of broken things,” baker, reader, friend, classic car enthusiast, and foodie.

Michael brings nearly 20 years of sales and leadership experience helping enterprise organizations modernize their software quality and delivery practices. At Provar, he partners with customers to align test automation strategies with business goals—accelerating releases, reducing risk, and improving long-term scalability.

With over a decade of experience working with Salesforce programs, Michael understands the unique testing challenges that come with complex, highly customized environments. He has helped global teams optimize QA processes, implement scalable automation solutions, and maximize the return on their Salesforce investments. Michael takes a consultative, outcome-driven approach—building strong partnerships and ensuring customers see measurable results from their investments. He lives in Golden, Colorado with his family and enjoys traveling, live music, and cheering on his kids from the sidelines.

Samantha Spector brings nearly 20 years of progressive marketing and executive leadership experience to Provar, spanning industries such as technology, nonprofit, and entertainment. She takes a progressive, data-driven approach to brand building, which has proven successful for both startup and global companies.

She excels at blending both the strategic and tactical to lead fully fledged marketing campaigns that target every vertical. She specializes in identifying gaps in a company’s marketing strategy, building full-stack teams comprised of industry experts to meet those needs, and guiding them in creating campaigns that resonate. Her clear, research-backed vision aims to elevate brands and connect them with those seeking their solutions. She is DiSC-certified and has led trainings for both her team at Provar and other large business corporations She lives in Nashville, TN with her husband and daughter.