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Board of Directors
Sentrana's Advisory Board is comprised of leading academic and industry experts in retail operations, marketing, and strategy. The Advisory Board meets regularly with Sentrana's senior management to provide thought leadership, corporate vision, and guidance.
The Advisory Board is responsible for delivering a holistic perspective on market forces, and evolutionary changes facing the retail industry. The Advisory Board brings particular insight on the near-term and long-term ramifications of innovations occurring in enterprise IT, business strategy & operational effectiveness, and retail economics. The board provides guidance regarding Sentrana's product features and service strategies.
Board Members
SID MANSUR, PRESIDENT & CEO
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Sid Mansur is responsible for Sentrana's overall corporate strategy, services planning, and the evolution of Sentrana's revenue optimization solutions. Mr. Mansur is one of the primary architects of Sentrana's analytic kernel, and optimization strategy. Along with his executive team, Mr. Mansur oversees the firm's daily operations including solutions development, client services, research & development, and marketing. Mr. Mansur is also a member of Sentrana's Board of Directors.
Previously, Mr. Mansur was founder and Vice President of Solutions of Netutilize Corporation. In that role, Mr. Mansur led the development of advanced workflow optimization solutions to accelerate the execution of service-based business processes, and substantially improve the optimal allocation of resources to activities. Mr. Mansur led the architecture and design of Netutilize's flagship intelligent computing platform, and maintained alignment between the firm’s technology direction, business strategy, and prevailing market requirements.
Prior to Netutilize, Mr. Mansur was a lead engineer and business unit corporate strategist for Lockheed Martin Corporation. In that role, Mr. Mansur formulated advanced algorithms and architectures to address mission-critical optimization and quantitative analysis problems. Mr. Mansur played a key role in devising novel mathematical techniques to resolve performance-intensive information processing requirements. Mr. Mansur also spearheaded strategy formulation for business-unit reengineering initiatives, which directly contributed to reducing operational costs by more than 23%. Simultaneously, Mr. Mansur mobilized transition efforts for pursuing new market opportunities by leveraging latent technology innovations within the firm.
Mr. Mansur holds a B.S. degree in Engineering from Cornell University.
M. RASHED HASAN, CHIEF RETAIL SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT AND COO
As Chief Operating Officer, Rashed Hasan is overseeing Sentrana’s client services infrastructure and day to day operations, organizational development, financial and accounting due diligence, legal matters and corporate governance.
As Chief Retail Solutions Architect, Mr. Hasan is responsible for the strategic and technical alignment of Sentrana's optimization solutions and services with specific B2B and B2C clients’ needs. Mr. Hasan spearheads the deployment of Sentrana's solutions, and work with various teams – from Solutions Architecture to Engineering to Operations to ensure success of Sentrana's client engagements and application support. With a continual focus on client success, Mr. Hasan leverages his experience across the entire corporate business life cycle, from start-up to rapid growth companies to mature enterprises. In all cases, he and the Client delivery teams work to ensure clients achieve measurable and enduring improvements to their competitive and financial strength.
Mr. Hasan brings over 24 years of executive experience in engineering, manufacturing, inventory and supply chain management planning, implementation, and innovation. Prior to Sentrana, Mr. Hasan was instrumental in a number of startups and managed supply chain strategy consulting at Ernst & Young. In that role, he led global supply chain strategies and optimization, system architecture and implementation, and supplier/purchasing management initiatives. Previously, Mr. Hasan held senior positions within the operations management groups of Booz Allen & Hamilton, as well as technology development at Arthur .D. Little, Inc. Prior to consulting, Mr. Hasan had held various managerial positions in financial strategy, new product and market development, manufacturing and technology development at a number of Fortune 100 Global corporations.
Mr. Hasan earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering from MIT, and holds an MBA in Finance and Operations from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.
ALAN L. MONTGOMERY, PH.D.
Dr. Alan L. Montgomery received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Business from the University of Chicago in 1994. Since 1999 he has been an associate professor of marketing at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he is also a faculty member at the Machine Learning Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, he was an assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Montgomery’s fields of interest include electronic commerce, the analysis of clickstream data, micromarketing, pricing, and data mining. A main theme in his research has been the use of large-scale marketing transactions dataset to aid managers in making better pricing and promotional decisions. Some current research projects include the customization of pricing strategies for micro-marketing, automated approaches to the analysis of sales data, new methodologies for estimating consumer price sensitivity, the study of virtual marketplaces, the design of shopbots, user profiling, and the analysis of web paths for constructive adaptive web designs and marketing strategies.
SHAH YUNUS, PH.D.
Dr. Shah Yunus has been working on scientific computing and in commercial software industries over the last 30 years. He is an expert in discrete methods, adaptive algorithm, and high performance computing and software architecture. He has published many papers in the peer-reviewed journals and presented technical works at various engineering conferences.
He is a founding member of Sentrana, Inc. Before starting Sentrana, he had been with Swanson Analysis System and subsequently with ANSYS, Inc (ANSS at NASDAQ). Presently he is with ESI-Group (NYSE EURONEXT) as their CTO and VP of R&D.
Dr. Yunus holds Ph.D. from Rensselaer, and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
DENNIS ADAMS
Mr. Dennis Adams is a veteran in the Finance and Banking industry. He has deep expertise in Corporate Finance, Capitalization and Governance. He spent the early part of his career at Mellon Bank. Later, he was a senior level Principal at Delaware Investment Advisers for over twenty years. Dennis also holds board membership with the Horizon Corporation, Central Biomedia Corporation and FFV Corporation.
Mr. Adams is a graduate of Westminster College and the University of Southern California with degrees in Finance and Business Administration. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BEN MAGUIRE, VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES CANADA
Mr. Ben Maguire brings over 20 years of executive management experience in technology, business development and marketing. Mr. Maguire served as Head of Sales for Equant Canada (formerly Global One and Sprint International), where he successfully architected and developed Equant Canada's sales division into an $180M organization. To ensure Equant delivered maximum value to its clients, Mr. Maguire managed key channel partnerships that included Bell Canada, Sprint Canada and TELUS, as well as strategic alliances with Cisco and Nortel Corporation. He was also responsible for managing Equant's Global Large Account team.
Previous to Equant's acquisition of Global One and Sprint International, Mr. Maguire built a $200M carrier services client base from zero revenue within the first two years of operation. Mr. Maguire is also a past member of the Board of Directors for France Telecom North America, where he was directly responsible for substantially improving client growth and top-line financial performance. In addition to board experience with FTNA, Mr. Maguire is also a member of the Board of Directors for Globe-Link Sourcing Inc. which has long standing contracts with Wal-Mart International for Brand, Design, Development and Merchandising for Apparel brands such as BUM Equipment and 725 Originals.