Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, Chairman

Tal Ball , Chief Executive Officer

Jim Clayton, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development

Eric Symon, Senior Vice President of Sales

S.R. Subramanian, Vice President of Engineering

Greg Bohl , Vice President of Professional Services

Chip Goodman, Vice President of Analytic Modeling

Bob Merold, General Manager Pharmaceutical Division

Dr. Hilen Amin, Vice President European Operations

Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, Chairman
Dr. Romesh Wadhwani is the founder, Chairman & CEO of the Symphony Technology Group. He brings over 30 years of leadership experience to the group companies, as well as an impressive history of founding and growing successful technology companies. Founder and former CEO of Aspect Development Group, Inc., he spearheaded the emergence of Aspect as a leader in the B2B e-commerce arena. Aspect merged with i2 Technologies in 1999, one of the largest mergers in software history. After the merger and prior to founding Symphony Technology Group, Wadhwani served as vice chairman of i2 Technologies and on the i2 Technologies Board of Directors. Before founding Aspect, he was the CEO of Cimflex Teknowledge Corporation, which specializes in systems for computer-integrated manufacturing. Wadhwani received his BS from IIT Bombay and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Tal Ball, Chief Executive Officer
Tal Ball drives the strategy and operations of Symphony Metreo leveraging his operational experience from over 20 years in the technology field driving growth across entrepreneurial startups and larger organizations. Prior to joining Symphony Metreo, Tal served as senior vice president, products and technology at Agile Software, where he lead teams in product strategy and product management and helped to align the company’s PLM solutions with their customer's business objectives. Prior to joining Agile, he held leadership positions in engineering, products and operations at various internet and software companies, including Aspect Development (acquired by i2 in 2000) where he helped Dr. Wadhwani and the team grow the highly valued and successful Supplier Relationship Management company. Tal has also held technology and leadership roles at Cadence, Alcatel and GE. He attended North Carolina State University where he earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.

Jim Clayton, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development
Jim Clayton brings extensive experience in building new companies to the leadership team at Symphony Metreo where he is responsible for corporate development activities including mergers and acquisitions. As a principal with Symphony Technology Group, Jim has lent his expertise to numerous portfolio companies, including SymphonyRPM, Metreo, Qiva, Trigo Technologies, and ePIT Systems. Prior to that, he was an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company and a member of its Corporate Finance and Strategy Practice. At McKinsey, he worked with clients in a variety of industries, including transportation, energy, technology, and finance. Jim attended the University of Texas, where he earned a BA degree in business administration and a law degree.

Eric Symon, Senior Vice President of Sales
Eric Symon brings 20 years of sales and consulting leadership in supply chain management and enterprise software to the Symphony Metreo team, where his responsibilities include leading the international sales team and overseeing the development and expansion of the company's customer base, revenue and partnerships. Prior to Symphony Metreo, Eric was a Principal with MEB Consulting LLC, where he successfully developed, closed and delivered large software-related consulting engagements with defense contractors and consumer products companies. Prior to MEB, Eric spent 18 years at Manugistics, where he held a number of executive positions with responsibility for growing and delivering software license and services revenue, including running the Consumer Products, Global Accounts and Government, Aerospace and Defense business units. Earlier in his career there, he also held a variety of management positions in pre-sales, consulting services, strategic consulting and industry marketing. Eric attended the Pennsylvania State University, where he received a B.S. in Business Logistics with an emphasis in Economics.

S.R. Subramanian, Vice President of Engineering
Subramanian brings over 15 years in developing enterprise software products and building global development teams to Symphony-Metreo. Prior to Symphony-Metreo, Subramanian served as Director of Application Development for sister company SymphonyRPM. Prior to joining SymphonyRPM, he was Principal Engineer and Manager at Integral Development Corporation for their automated FX trading suite of software, managing a global development staff in the US and Bangalore, India. Prior to that Subramanian was manager of development at Aspect Development, responsible for development of its Component Supplier Management software suite. He has extensive experience in developing decision support applications including systems architecture, analytics, database, workflow and their infrastructures. Subramanian holds a Master of Technology in EE from IIT Kanpur, India, and Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from VRCE, Nagpur, India.

Greg Bohl, Vice President of Professional Services
Greg Bohl brings over 25 years of experience in commercial software technologies to the Symphony Metreo team where he leads the professional services organization. His responsibilities include leading the services team, maintenance and services revenue, as well as customer satisfaction. Prior to joining Symphony Metreo, Greg has held a wide range of technical, business development, and management roles including, sales, pre-sales, marketing, software development, and professional services. His past organizations have spanned from local services organizations to large multi-national development teams including India, Russia, and Ireland. Past companies include Agile Software, Centric Software/Framework Technologies, i2, Aspect Development, Sabre Technology Solutions, and Computervision. Greg earned his BS in Information Systems and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Chip Goodman, Vice President of Analytic Modeling
Chip Goodman brings over 25 years of business experience to his role at Symphony-Metreo. Goodman previously was founder of WhiteLight Systems, Inc., where he held every conceivable role over a 10-year period prior to its acquisition by Symphony. Prior to WhiteLight, Goodman was founder, CFO and vice president of consulting services for modernsoft, inc. Earlier in his career, he was a principal at R. Eliot King & Associates, a private investment firm, a senior consultant at Arthur D. Little and KPMG, and an independent consultant. He has focused his consulting and business startup activities on novel applications for the financial services and health care industries, as well as large-scale project and data management. He earned a BA from Beloit College and a MBA at Stanford University.

Bob Merold, General Manager Pharmaceutical Division
Bob Merold is General Manager of the Pharmaceutical Division, bringing almost two decades of experience in information management and technology serving the global pharmaceutical industry. As a senior executive at IMS Health in the 1990’s, Bob develop and led to market leadership the most widely used information service in the industry, the Xponent suite of products, in both America and Europe. Over the past decade he’s consulted for numerous data and technology companies and venture capital firms, in the process working with virtually every major multi-national pharmaceutical firm. Bob has served as an industry expert to The Symphony Technology Group for four years and believes Symphony-Metreo will create great value in solving numerous key business problems in pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Bob also has held management positions at Procter & Gamble and Bristol-Myers Squibb. His is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Hilen Amin, Vice President of European Operations
Hilen Amin has over 20 years of experience in data analysis and technology. Prior to joining Symphony Metreo, Hilen held positions in development, product management and consulting at Integral Development Corp., where he managed international teams implementing derivative and FX trading systems. Prior to that, Hilen worked for Ikos, a London-based hedge fund manager, where he developed and managed futures and equity trading systems. Hilen began his career in research working at Cambridge University and Berkeley on novel Superconducting tunneling structures. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Electrical and Information Sciences and Ph.D. in Superconductivity from St. Johns College, Cambridge.