Management Team

Oco’s management team has decades of experience leveraging Business Intelligence to deliver business value across a wide range of industries. The team’s deep experience and strong functional knowledge drive the pervasive focus on value creation for our customers through SaaS Business Analytics Solutions.

William Copacino, President & Chief Executive Officer

Bill works with our customers to align Oco’s Best Practice Supply Chain Analytics with their operational strategies. He has helped customers to reduce cost and improve efficiency and compliance for their transportation, inventory, and procurement operations, and to provide strategic metrics for supply chain management operations. He is an internationally recognized leader in the areas of business process management and supply chain management.

Bill’s leadership experience and vision drives Oco’s strong management team to deliver exceptional value to customers in all industries through the use of SaaS technology and BI.

Prior to joining Oco in 2007, Bill served as the Chief Administrative Officer of C&S Wholesale Grocers, a $20 billion food distributor and the eighth largest privately held company in the U.S. He was a senior executive with Accenture for 15 years, leading their global supply chain consulting practice and serving as Group Chief Executive for Global Business Consulting, responsible for practices including Financial Performance Management and Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Human Capital Development, Human Resources consulting, and Business Strategy. Bill was also a Vice President and Managing Director of Arthur D Little and held management positions at General Electric.

Bill received a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering and operations research from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School.

Mike Beckerle, Chief Technology Officer

Mike works with our customers’ technology teams to ensure that the value of leveraging SaaS BI with existing technology investments is fully realized. His experience in scalable computing and warehousing guides the development of Oco’s unique full stack SaaS BI Solutions.

Mike defines the strategic direction for and leads the development of Oco's world-class technologies. He brings 20 years of strong technical leadership in advanced technology with a focus on strategic large-scale information-system deployments and the design, implementation, and operation of scalable software and hardware systems.

Prior to joining Oco in early 2008, Mike was at IBM where he was architecting core scalable processing capabilities in the IBM Information Server (formerly Ascential DataStage). He came to IBM via the Ascential Software acquisition in 2005, and had come to Ascential in 2001 when it acquired his startup company, Torrent Systems. It was at Torrent Systems where he initially created the scalable computing technology that has delivered enduring value to customers from 1995 to today.

Mike’s been a SaaS advocate since 1999 when he co-founded, Fact City, which created an Internet-based information service to enhance the content of high-volume Internet search portals. Mike has served as co-chair for the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) standard workgroup, and on the ANSI X3J13 standard for the Common Lisp programming language.

Mike earned his Masters in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T, and his Bachelors' Degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. He is a named inventor on eight patents.

Alex Carleton, Chief Operating Officer

As a founding member of Oco, Alex has worked to cultivate Oco’s enterprise-class business intelligence solutions with a dedicated focus on delivering value to our customers. In her role of Chief Operating Officer, Alex oversees the day to day execution of all activities of the company.  She is responsible for building a world class organization that provides superior service to our customers, assures efficient and on time delivery of our solutions to our customers, and advances our products and technology to remain on the leading edge of our industry.

An early proponent of SaaS, Alex has over a decade of experience implementing SaaS based Business Analytics. Prior to being named COO, she held the position of Chief Administrative Officer at Oco, and since joining the company in early 2002, has directed a variety of functions including finance and administration, contracting, customer services, and human resources.

Before joining Oco, Alex held Senior and Management positions with Bose Corporation, Emerson & Cuming Composite Materials, Inc., and Slade Gorton & Co., Inc. She has broad industry experience including manufacturing, consumer products, distribution, and wholesale perishables and has held positions in finance, inventory management, purchasing, marketing, and sales.  Alex holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College.

Anil R. Chitkara, Senior Vice President, Market Development

Anil works with customers to provide analytics with new, actionable insight into their Customers and Sales Operations. These analytics include a unique 360° view of the customer and specific analytics to drive customer growth and profitability.

Anil has overall responsibility for the growth and revenue of Oco's business. His team defines product and market strategy, executes sales and marketing activities, develops and manages alliances and partners, and works closely with the rest of the organization to ensure high customer satisfaction.

For nearly twenty years, he has been working with customers to use technology to significantly improve their business. He has led growth initiatives at technology companies including Parametric Technology Corporation (PMTC) and various portfolio companies of Internet Capital Group (ICGE). At Accenture (ACN), he worked with a variety of product and services companies to use technology to drive growth in new markets, improve margins through revenue and cost initiatives, and increase operational performance.

Anil received a Bachelors of Science degree from Boston University and a Masters degree from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.