Management
| Purna Mishra |  |
Purna brings a long and successful history of technological and entrepreneurial leadership to Logile. He is a visionary force in enterprise workforce management and optimization. In 2001, Purna authored "Enterprise Workforce Management Creates Proactive Environment to Optimize Labor Resources", which was published by Montgomery Research, Inc. Purna's advocacy of agile, real-time solutions revolutionized the way in which enterprise workforce applications are conceived and available in the market today. Purna began his career at Carnegie Group, affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University, which pioneered the concept that led to the development of supply chain management. He joined American Airlines, developing and implementing real-time aircraft maintenance planning and scheduling solutions. Eager to apply his logistics management ideas and solutions to workforce management, Purna founded SoftThought Systems, Inc. in 1994, where he led the design and introduction of FDS, a workforce labor scheduling solution that forged the use of optimized planning and scheduling algorithms to efficiently generate accurate business forecasts, labor demand and employee schedules. Leading retailers, including Price Chopper, H-E-B, SUPERVALU and Food Lion selected FDS. Its continued use by leaders in the retail industry is evidence of Purna's farsighted design philosophy. Purna's leadership in workforce management solutions continued after SoftThought was acquired in 2000 by Timera, a leading developer of crew management solutions in the rail industry that wished to expand its scope and technical excellence. As President of its Timera Texas subsidiary, Purna led the evolution of the next generation real-time enterprise workforce management solution, EWM, and positioned it as the industry leading workforce management solution for retailers. The EWM solution was selected by leading retailers, including H-E-B, Dollar Tree and, after acquisition by JDA Software in 2004, 7-Eleven and Belk department stores as well as other retailers. Timera Texas had over 50 employees and more than 25 customers at the time its workforce management suite was acquired by JDA Software in 2004. At JDA, Purna served as Vice President for Workforce Management Solutions. At Logile Purna continues his history of technological innovation in workforce and execution management solutions. Logile's solutions meld workforce and execution management tools to create sophisticated agile, real-time solutions that can be deployed with minimal end-user training. Utilizing agile SOA and EDA architecture and web 2.0 technology, Logile's solutions incorporate the latest techniques in planning, scheduling, artificial intelligence, operations research, distributed object, web service, software engineering and business process management (BPM). Purna holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, a leading engineering and technology institute in the Republic of India.
| Rick Schlenker | |
With more than 25 years of hands-on experience in information technology and store management, Rick is uniquely qualified to understand the challenges faced by retailers in evaluating, selecting and implementing complex enterprise solutions. He brings this understanding to Logile, where Rick is responsible for managing the complete Logile customer experience, from project planning through deployment, and continuing with on-going customer support. Rick served as the Director of IT Strategy for Store Operations at H-E-B, a Tier 1 multinational grocery retailer with annual revenues exceeding 15 billion dollars. Regarded as an articulate and innovative leader, Rick developed strong return on investment business cases that were used for capital planning, project selection, as well as budgeting realized project savings. Rick engaged leaders and managed cross-functional teams from all disciplines, including store operations, finance, human resources and information technology, and led the selection and successful implementation of numerous enterprise business systems, including workforce management, point of sale, back office accounting, loss prevention, mobile computing, and voice over internet protocol systems. Rick has extensive experience in store operations and enterprise level management that gives him exceptional insight into the complex challenges faced by retailers. Excited to bring real-time workforce and execution management solutions to the marketplace that are simple to use but have the sophistication to address the complex challenges faced by retailers, Rick co-founded Logile. Rick's leadership has been instrumental in establishing Logile's culture, which is based on meeting and exceeding customer expectations and attaining the customer's budgeted return on investment. Rick holds a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
| Ellen Curnes | |
Ellen, one of the co-founders of the Company, brings over 20 years of legal and administrative experience to her position as the Vice President - Administration and General Counsel. Ellen is responsible for directing Logile's administrative matters, including human resources, as well as legal affairs. Ellen is committed to implementing streamlined processes to effectively and efficiently support Logile's goal of delivering innovative technological solutions in a customer-focused culture. Prior to co-founding Logile, Ellen served as general counsel for an affiliated group of three technology companies, including Timera Texas. In that role, Ellen's experience was critical in guiding the organizational development of young companies in changing and competitive markets. She was a crucial team member in implementing and furthering customer relationships and industry partnerships, as well as formulating and implementing overall company policy. In addition to her legal responsibilities, Ellen directed human resources for the group. Ellen has also served as senior corporate counsel for Union Pacific Corporation. Prior to that she worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, and was an associate attorney at Hughes & Luce, LLP. Ellen holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kansas.
| Rob York | |
Rob brings over 15 years of experience managing large scale software implementations and workforce improvement projects to major retailers throughout the United States. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Rob is responsible for oversight of our Retail Consulting Team. The team, including senior level industrial engineers and business analysts, assist customers analyze and document key business processes, as well as oversees configuration and implementation, to assure that Logile's solutions provide maximum benefits. Prior to joining Logile, Rob worked for top-tier management consulting firms Booz Allen Hamilton and Accenture. At Booz Allen, Rob provided leadership and project management expertise to apply traditional industrial engineering principles within various U.S. federal agencies. His efforts led to increased workforce performance that improved customer service and achieved significant labor savings. At Accenture (formerly H.B. Maynard), Rob was part of their retail practice team where he spent eight years working with clients such as Wegmans Food Markets, Pilot Travel Centers, CVS Pharmacy, Giant Eagle, Delhaize America, Supervalu, Price Chopper, Big Y, and others. His workforce management expertise includes labor modeling (bottom up and top down), labor and sales forecasting, engineered labor standards, workforce productivity, and real-time plan optimization. He has led the implementation of Logile's software suite at very large and sophisticated retailers, exceeding their projects' targeted return on investment. Rob has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University.