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Simon has over 25 years of leadership experience in technology, having both launched innovative start-ups and run large companies and divisions, in industries such as retail, financial services, and the public sector. Recently, Simon was CEO of Superion a software provider to the local government. Simon led a comprehensive transformation establishing product innovation, go-to-market execution, operational excellence, and a high performing organization, which led to a multi-company merger that created CentralSquare, with #1 market share in public safety software. Before Superion, Simon led global business units at Verint, an omni-channel customer engagement software provider, and was a serial entrepreneur starting companies in cloud computing, retail in-store video analytics, and workforce optimization.

Ryan serves as the Chief Financial Officer for Syndigo, responsible for all aspects of the company’s financial management and strategy. He leads Syndigo’s global finance and accounting teams focused on driving extraordinary financial performance and business insights across FP&A, accounting operations, treasury, tax, and business systems. Prior to Syndigo, Ryan served in Finance leadership roles including most recently at First Advantage, where he was instrumental in the company’s growth transformation, organic and M&A growth strategies, January 2020 sale to Silver Lake Partners and June 2021 IPO on NASDAQ. Ryan has worked in private equity as well as public company environments, garnering extensive knowledge of business strategy, highly leveraged businesses, international operations, and corporate development.”

Nikki leads Syndigo’s Operations and Human Resources teams across the organization, with responsibility for Customer Success, Implementation Services, Customer Support, Retail, and Data and Content Operations. Prior to joining Syndigo, Nikki was a senior executive at Cision where she led Client Experience, Customer Success, Support, Training and Enablement and Account Management, after holding several leadership roles at ADP including Leadership and Development, Implementation Operations and Services. Nikki believes strongly in developing people, fostering leadership opportunities, diversity, and taking risks as keys to successful innovation. She has served in numerous roles as executive sponsor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, being awarded Leadership Excellence in Technology by the National Diversity and Leadership Council in 2020 and recognized in 2019 by the Illinois Diversity Council with the Power50 award for inspiring and influencing others to help shape the future.

Dan Hess has worked throughout his career at the intersection of technology and data-enabled businesses. He has held executive roles including CEO, Chief Product Officer, and a leader of sales and marketing teams, from startups to $2B+ organizations. Dan was most recently Global Chief Product Officer for The NPD Group, where his team was responsible for creating the information, analytics, and software products that measure $3T+ of global commerce. Dan has also served as a consultant to many VC and private equity firms, as well as an investor/advisor to many startup and growth state companies in digital media and marketing, SaaS, and e-commerce.

Doug has extensive experience in developing and leading high-innovation, high-growth software businesses. He brings over 25 years of expertise, specializing in crafting customer-centric corporate strategies that drive organizational growth. Before he joined Syndigo, Doug served as the Executive Vice President of Sales at BLUE Software, a leading provider of label and artwork management solutions for the CPG, Retail, and Pharmaceutical industries, which Danaher acquired in 2018. He is based in our Chicago office and is supported at home by his wife and twin daughters.

Karim heads the International business for Syndigo with responsibility for go-to-market strategy, sales, finance, operations, product strategy and partnerships. Prior to Syndigo, Karim worked for JRNI, a customer engagement platform that drive shoppers to in-store experiences from digital channels; launching their business in both Europe and the USA. Karim thrives in hyper-growth environments starting his formative career at Forrester Research as it grew from $30M to $170M as part of its European launch team and ultimately help the position, UK General Manager. He has since held a variety of software, technology and research businesses both launch, scale and grow rapidly internationally.

Tarun is responsible for all functional and regional teams delivering PIM and MDM products and services, globally. Previously Tarun was Managing Direction for Enterprise PIM/MDM Operations, leading customer success, implementation consulting, project delivery, cloud operations, and technical support teams for Syndigo. Tarun has also served as SVP of Product and Engineering for Riversand. With a career spanning Product Strategy and Development, M&A strategy, Data Management Solution Consulting, Operations and Customer Success for cloud-native SaaS MDM solutions, Tarun has developed data management strategy and implemented data management solutions for large multinational corporations across multiple verticals in multiple regions of the world.

As CDO, Andrew leads data strategy at Syndigo, with responsibility for Data Management, Data Quality, and Analytics. In this role, Andrew drives innovation and continuous improvement in data processes, integrations, data solutions, and product capabilities. Prior to joining Syndigo, Andrew held leadership positions at CoreLogic, including Data Management and Data Solutions, aligning data standards and quality with technology driven data solutions.

Vishal leads the global engineering and information technology teams responsible for building, securing, and delivering portfolio products. In this role, Vishal is responsible for technology strategy, innovation and transformation while accelerating profitable growth. Prior to Syndigo, Vishal held senior leadership roles at Perforce and Entrust leading global engineering teams. Before that, he also led product management and development teams for PLM business at PTC. Vishal holds a Bachelors in Comp Science & Engineering from NIT Kurukshetra, India, and MBA from Carlson school of Management at University of Minnesota.

As General Counsel and SVP of Corporate Development, Michael leads Syndigo’s global legal function, including overseeing commercial negotiations, strategic transactions, compliance and corporate governance, as well as Syndigo’s corporate development function. Prior to joining Syndigo, Michael practiced law at the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, focusing primarily on M&A and corporate governance. Michael holds a B.A from Wesleyan University and a J.D., magna cum laude, from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.