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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 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 (CFO) 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 and financial reporting, accounting operations, treasury, revenue operations, 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 highly leveraged businesses, international operations, corporate development and business strategy.

Nikki leads Syndigo’s Operations teams, with responsibility for Customer Success, Implementation Services, Customer Support, Content and Data 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 & 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.

Justin has a career spanning 15 years in global pre-sales and 10 years in global product management, product marketing, and partners and alliances, and is a seasoned professional in the digital marketing and commerce industry. Justin’s expertise has helped grow Optimizely (fka EPiServer) more than 400%, with more than half coming from global organic growth, retaining and upselling customers, and adding new customer logos. In addition to helping drive organic growth, Justin has also been involved in 18 acquisitions and 3 exits.

Derek has built a reputation as a skilled executive with P&L responsibility and board-level accountability following 25+ years of driving revenue growth, strategy, and culture for software and tech-enabled service businesses like Evercommerce, RELX, and ConstructConnect. He most recently served as SVP of Sales and Customer Success at Evercommerce, a service commerce platform, where he consolidated go-to-market operations for nine acquired businesses and grew revenue 60% over two years.

Derek is based in Atlanta and is a devoted family man with four children. Outside of his commercial successes, he understands the importance of nurturing relationships across diverse business units and creating a culture that enhances engagement and fosters growth.

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 drove 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 held the position, UK General Manager. He has since helped 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 Director 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, Michael leads Syndigo’s global legal function, including overseeing commercial negotiations, strategic transactions, compliance and corporate governance. 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.