Christopher Skinner

Chief Executive Officer

Christopher Skinner is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of TopBloc. Since the company’s founding in 2016, he has overseen TopBloc’s hyper-growth from an industry disruptor to its current leading position in the Workday Medium Enterprise space. Christopher’s relationship-first approach to employee and customer management has helped solidify the foundation TopBloc has used to embrace risk and expansion. Christopher has significant Workday experience, having led over 100 Workday project efforts as a sponsor, project manager, and global systems architect and integrations developer. Prior to founding TopBloc, he spearheaded Workday’s first efforts to standardize and streamline global third-party payroll integration deployments while working at Meteorix, a former Workday partner later acquired by IBM. At Meteorix, Christopher created and led Meteorix’s integration training program; he is proud that many of his former employees have continued their careers into leadership positions throughout the Workday ecosystem. Christopher holds a bachelor of liberal arts in finance and psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Kevin Elmore

Chairman & Chief Financial Officer

Kevin Elmore, TopBloc’s co-founder, CFO, and Executive Chairman, has over 30 years of experience managing and building consulting and software businesses. He has proven success in identifying business opportunities, developing strategic plans, raising capital, assembling effective teams, and executing to deliver bottom-line results. Kevin brings significant expertise to the TopBloc team, having participated in over 150 Workday deployments since 2008. For more than a decade, he has focused exclusively on Human Capital Management (HCM) and Financials business transformation efforts leveraging Workday’s software product suite. Kevin has led several of the largest and most successful Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) implementations, including Hewlett-Packard, Motorola Mobility, Medtronic, CareFusion, and Johnson Controls. He helped pioneer the Financials product line, leading implementations at CSAA and at TripAdvisor, one of Workday’s first publicly traded Financials customers. Additionally, he has worked collaboratively with the Workday leadership team to devise a pragmatic and effective methodology for delivering enterprise SaaS across multiple industries. Kevin started his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) serving clients in the Telecommunications sector. Prior to founding TopBloc, he founded two other companies: Cygent, a venture-backed developer of customer and order management software for the telecommunications industry, and Aggressor, a boutique consulting company that rapidly became Workday’s leading implementation partner and was acquired by Deloitte Consulting as the foundation of their Workday practice in 2012. Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing from Kansas State University.

Jonathon Marsico

Partner, Post-Production Practice Leader

Jonathon Marsico is one of TopBloc’s founding partners and the company’s post-production practice leader.

Jonathon has been involved in the Workday ecosystem for over eight years. As a dedicated and determined Workday practitioner, he has participated in Workday projects with over 40 customers through which he has developed deep expertise across both HCM and Financial software. He has lead project work-streams in both the net new deployment and post-production support space. Prior to overseeing TopBloc’s post-production support service functions, Jonathan served as TopBloc’s Senior Vice President of Sales where he focused on streamlining approaches to selling net new and post-production support services to Workday customers. Through his efforts, TopBloc grew to become one of the leading Workday services providers in the ecosystem. Jonathon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from the University of Iowa.

John Xue

Partner, Delivery Practice Leader

John Xue is a partner and one of the founding members of TopBloc. He is an active member of the management team responsible for running and scaling the organization to its current leading position in the Workday ecosystem. With over a decade of experience assisting and advising customers on their technology transformation journeys, John partners with customer executives to ensure their investments in technology meets their organization’s goals. John specializes in financial services and asset management, where he has implemented Workday across many industries and customer sizes.

Jeffrey Herman

Partner, Staffing Practice Leader

Jeffrey Herman is a one of TopBloc’s co-founders. He heads up the company’s recruiting and staffing and is heavily involved in sales directly with Workday.

Jeffrey has over 15 years of professional experience across multiple industries, including accounting, financial markets, and software consulting. He started his career as an accountant before transitioning into the financials markets as a bond trader before ultimately moving onto Workday consulting. He has worked within the Workday ecosystem for over eight years, where he has focused primarily on HCM. Prior to founding TopBloc, Jeffrey co-led the functional HCM team at Meteorix (now IBM), ensuring quality assurance and on-time deployments. In all, he has participated in over 100 Workday deployments as a consultant, delivery assurance lead, project manager, and executive sponsor. Jeffrey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from the University of Illinois.

Brett Pronin

Chief Revenue Officer

Brett Pronin has nearly two decades of sales experience across a variety of services and SaaS technology companies. Over the last six years, he has focused exclusively on Workday’s software product suite, helping to introduce new companies to the business efficiencies they can achieve through implementing their financial management and HCM systems with the leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. As TopBloc’s Chief Revenue Officer, Brett is responsible for overseeing the company’s business development, sales, partnerships, customer success, and marketing departments. Prior to joining TopBloc, Brett worked as an Enterprise Account Executive at Workday, where he was twice recognized as an Account Executive of the Year regionally, and once globally. As a veteran of the Workday ecosystem, Brett is passionate about working with clients to identify their organization’s unique challenges and introduce solutions that leverage Workday’s suite of offerings.

Ryan Anderson

Chief Information Officer

As TopBloc’s Chief Information Officer, Ryan Anderson oversees all aspects of the company’s IT Security and Risk, Technology and Support, and Application Development, including the oversight of TopBloc’s SmartLoader tool. Ryan is passionate about empowering people through effective technology implementation and introducing technology-based processes as a force multiplier that enable organizations to operate more effectively and efficiently. Prior to joining TopBloc, Ryan amassed over a decade of IT and Security experience consulting on technology initiatives at companies within the financial services, professional services, technology, and healthcare industries. During his tenure as Assistant Vice President of Security at Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, Ryan spearheaded an organization-wide technology overhaul of the company’s DevSecOps, including a ground-up implementation of a new Application Lifecycle Management suite in order to enhance their software development lifecycle and Agile practices to streamline prototyping, reduce time to market, increase product quality, and support modern containerization efforts. Ryan is driven by a keen sense of learning and continuous improvement – a quality he installs throughout TopBloc’s IT and Security teams with his unrelenting desire to propel the company to excel in technical and strategic initiatives and remain at the forefront of technological innovation within the Workday ecosystem.

Chelsea McCabe

Senior Vice President, Delivery

Chelsea McCabe is TopBloc’s Senior Vice President of Delivery. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the delivery experience, including providing executive and project management planning and oversight for implementations. Chelsea has nearly 15 years of experience within the Workday ecosystem. She is an accomplished professional with proven sales, client relationship, and project management skills. Her strong technical background enables her to quickly understand the key business issues in a project, identify critical dependencies between the functional and technical workstreams, and clearly communicate a recommended approach to prospects during sales cycles. She has led over 25 complex multinational projects and has a sterling record at delivering these projects on time, on budget, and with high customer satisfaction. As a leader in both her projects and her practices, she has prepared operational plans, built high-performing teams, and mentored staff.

Christopher Ford

Senior Vice President, Office of Customer Experience oCHRO

Christopher Ford is TopBloc’s Head of Customer Experience. He has over two decades of industry experience, having led People Operations teams at both medium and large enterprise global organizations across multiple industries.

Throughout his career, he has been active as an influential leader in the adoption of new technology for more efficient HCM. Christopher specializes in assessing current company-wide global technologies in the context of where the company is, where the company is headed, and what is required to get them there. He creates value through developing systems and process roadmaps to guide companies through the technology implementation process in order to enable them to achieve their goals. Christopher is passionate about Workday; as a People Operations leader, Christopher has led five global full lifecycle Workday implementations. Through his first-hand experience leading high-performance teams through digital employee experience transformation with Workday, Christopher is uniquely qualified to support and influence your company throughout the process of migrating to a Workday solution. At TopBloc, he provides advisory support throughout the implementation process to drive the attainment of customer outcomes and provide a positive customer experience. His experience lends him the unique ability to influence C-suite executives to support global technology initiatives that drive value for the company. As a thought leader, he contributes to many HR and technology forums and mentors several professionals in the industry, including providing valuable advisory services for several companies within the HR ecosystem.

Lynn Cohen

Vice President, Office of Customer Experience oCHRO

Lynn Cohen is TopBloc’s Vice President of Customer Experience, focused on the Office of the CHRO. Lynn has over 25 years of comprehensive HR leadership experience spanning HCM systems, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations, and Performance Management. She holds both SPHR and SHRM-SCP certifications.

With her deep functional knowledge of the Workday HCM suite, Lynn is well-versed in how to best leverage Workday’s functionality to build better business processes – especially for organizations with complex organizational structures. Beyond her HR qualifications, Lynn is also a Retail industry thought leader who is frequently called upon to share her expertise at industry events.

Ashley Bao

Senior Vice President, Workday Deployment Services

Ashley is TopBloc’s Senior Vice President of Workday Deployment Services. She has over a decade of Workday experience managing and leading full-lifecycle Workday implementations for clients across multiple industries. Ashley’s industry experience spans healthcare, financial services, IT/hardware, event management, database technologies, non-profit, and government, in the U.S. and abroad.

Ashley is Workday-certified in both Human Capital Management and Financials Management. Ashley is experienced in guiding clients throughout their Workday journeys, having led consultative discovery and design meetings, solution reviews, and knowledge transfer sessions for management teams and end users clients. She is passionate about providing customers with the consultative support they require to configure and enhance their Workday system to meet their unique needs. Prior to joining the Workday ecosystem, Ashley was a state and local tax consultant at a Big Four accounting firm.

Alex Cordell

Senior Vice President, Post Production Services

Alex is TopBloc’s Senior Vice President of Post Production Services. He oversees the company’s Phase X practice, Payroll Managed Services, and Help Desk application management services offering. Alex has been a part of the Workday ecosystem since 2015 and has spent his entire Workday career focusing on the post-production side of a client’s journey. He is passionate about helping customers make the most out of their investment in Workday. He encourages and empowers clients to realize the true value of Workday by partnering with them to discover how Workday can make their business processes more efficient and allow them to make better business decisions through a greater reliance on data-based information.