Team
The People Who Do the Work
A large consultancy will sell you a bench. We sell you the people who actually do the work. Every consultant is a US-based W-2 employee, and the people who scope your project deliver it.
Leadership
Leadership
Peter Bernardi
Co-Founder and CEO
Peter co-founded ElevateActual after four years as an early employee at FormAssembly, where he worked with Salesforce partners and higher education consultants. He leads discovery, demos, and solution architecture, and has worked on more than two dozen higher education Salesforce projects.
Kalman Sweetwine
Co-Founder and COO
Nine years as in-house Salesforce Solution Architect and Program Manager at CU Boulder OIT. Makes sure what gets designed actually gets adopted.
Certifications: Salesforce Education Cloud Consultant, Nonprofit Cloud Consultant, Sales Cloud Consultant, and Platform Administrator
Riley Schill
Partner and CTO
Builds the process automation that registrars run their calendars on. He started as an admissions student worker at a university and spent seven years there as its Salesforce administrator and developer before consulting.
Delivery
Project Managers and Consultants
Ashani Lemberg
Senior Project Manager
Ashani spent seven years in hospitality, using Salesforce daily as an end user, before joining ElevateActual in 2022. She manages scope, timelines, and client expectations, and turns each project into a delivery pattern the team can reuse.
Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), and Asana Workflow Specialist
Nolan Anderson
Project Manager
Nolan was a nonprofit's accidental Salesforce administrator, moving its donor records off paper and training every user himself. He keeps engagements on schedule and on budget, and is usually the first to try to break what the team builds.
Korbin Breeden
Technical and Functional Lead
Korbin spent close to a decade inside a private college, moving from admissions through Marketing Cloud, analytics, and IT. He designs recruitment and admissions processes and the integrations beneath them, including fifteen program applications delivered in eight months on standard Salesforce.
Certifications: Salesforce Data 360 Consultant, OmniStudio Consultant, and Marketing Cloud Email Specialist
Caroline Hoy
Functional Consultant
Ten years of explaining things to six-year-olds as a K-2 teacher, now applied to Salesforce training. She works across Flow, Apex, Lightning Web Components, and OmniStudio, and built the firm's first Agentforce agents.
Certifications: Salesforce OmniStudio Developer, OmniStudio Consultant, and Platform Administrator
Cason Johnson
Functional Consultant
Cason came to consulting from Bryan University, where he was the full-time Salesforce administrator supporting admissions and student services. He brings that in-house view to requirements workshops, turning how staff actually work into configuration they can sustain.
Certifications: Salesforce Experience Cloud Consultant and Platform Administrator
Sarah Goletz
Functional Consultant
Sarah has more than ten years of Salesforce administration in higher education, public health, and nonprofit settings. She builds flows, security models, and integrations, and favors standard functionality so institutions can maintain what she builds.
Certifications: Salesforce Platform Data Architect, User Experience Designer, Platform Administrator II, Platform Administrator, Platform App Builder, AI Associate, and Agentforce Specialist
Meet the People Who Would Run Your Project
Your first call is with the senior people who would scope and deliver the work.