About Us
Intermezzo is a modern, AI native payroll API platform. Simplify your global payroll by integrating your products and processes to a simple, easy to use API and let our AI platform make your operations faster, more accurate and cost-efficient.
Our platform transforms your global payroll operations by putting compliance to rapidly changing regulatory and compliance requirements across all jurisdictions on auto pilot, allowing you to do what you do best: growing your business by focusing on serving your customers.
Build your business on an innovative technology platform powered by gross-to-net and tax filing engines running on ground breaking computational graphs technology and AI agents monitoring and adjusting for changes in tax laws and regulations globally, in real time.
Founded by payroll and fintech veterans, we're helping fast-growing companies scale across borders without scaling their payroll headaches or operational costs.
Founders
Siddharth Ram
Siddharth is the cofounder and CEO of Intermezzo. He previously worked at Intuit as the Chief Architect for Small Business/QuickBooks, where he led multiple initiatives, including QuickBooks Capital and QuickBooks Live. As CTO of Inflection/GoodHire, Siddharth helped lead the company to a successful exit (acquired by Checkr in 2022). As the CTO of Velocity Global, he modernized the company's technology stack, quadrupling the team in 18 months. Siddharth is an active advisor to multiple startups.
Kumar Ramanathan
Kumar is the cofounder and CTO of Intermezzo. He held multiple roles across different business lines for over two decades at Intuit. He led QuickBooks Platform Engineering during its global expansion, was the Chief Architect and Engineering leader of Intuit Developer Platform, Intuit's data platform and was instrumental in integrating TurboTax with Credit Karma, post acquisition. Kumar also served as Chief Architect and CTO of Velocity Global before starting Intermezzo.
Advisors
Massimo Mascaro
Distinguished Technical Director, Applied AI at Google
Massimo is part of the Office of the CTO for Google Cloud and, in this role, he helps Google Cloud customers reimagine their businesses by leveraging the power of AI and the products from Google that enable it. Prior to Google he worked at Intuit where he led the data science group as chief data scientist and director of data engineering. Massimo also worked as lead of R&D at Intellisis, a San Diego startup that builds advanced speech processing software for various US government and defense entities. Before that he was at Microsoft, both in the Core Ranking team for Bing and in the Technical Computing Team. Massimo started in theoretical physics and has a PhD in Computational Neuroscience.
Liz Li
Liz is an advisor & Consultant to Intermezzo. She worked with Siddharth and Kumar as the Chief Product Officer at Velocity Global. She previously spent over a decade at LinkedIn, across monetization, growth, and consumer. She launched LinkedIn's first Sales Solutions product, led acquisition and retention for Premium subscriptions, and led the redesign of the consumer onboarding flows and success metrics to focus on long term engagement, shifting the company from purely focusing on top of the funnel growth.
Sachin Rekhi
Sachin Rekhi is the cofounder & CEO of Notejoy, a collaborative notes app for individuals and teams. Prior to Notejoy, Sachin incubated and was Head of Product for LinkedIn Sales Navigator, a fast-growing LinkedIn premium subscription targeted at sales professionals which he grew to over $200M in revenue and now doing over $1B in annual sales. Before LinkedIn, Sachin founded ConnectedHQ, an effortless contact management tool, which was ultimately acquired by LinkedIn.
Mike Grossman
Mike Grossman has more than 30 years experience as an executive and entrepreneur. He has been CEO of a diverse set of innovative, VC-funded software companies (Inflection, LiveCapital, Tempo, Attributor, SugarSync, and Zetta) all of which were ultimately acquired. His experience also includes leadership positions at Intuit and Johnson & Johnson, and board roles at a variety of companies including Quicken, Smile Identity, and Parallel Domain.
