Bill Weathersby, President
Bill Weathersby has more than 20 years of comprehensive
strategic and operational IT-focused experience as an enterprise
executive and advisor. Before launching EquaSiis, he was
EquaTerra's COO for Europe and Asia, and a member of the Mergers
& Acquisitions team.
Prior to EquaTerra, Bill was Executive Vice President (EVP),
Global Markets for SunGard, where he was responsible for global
sales, marketing and operations for the company's energy logistics
and trading products. He also served as EVP at Spherion, a Fortune
500 recruiting and staffing firm, where he ran the solutions
division of the technology business unit, a global consulting group
focused on application development and maintenance. In addition, he
was senior manager at Experio and responsible for the IT practice
in the Gulf Coast region. He also worked as a manager for
Accenture's manufacturing practice, where he led systems
engagements with clients such as Boeing and Lloyds of London.
Mike Beals, Vice-President, EquaSiis Software
Mike Beals brings more than 20 years of HR, IT, and outsourcing
governance experience to EquaSiis. Throughout his career he has
assisted clients in all four stages of the outsourcing lifecycle,
with primary emphases on the Source and Manage stages. He is
responsible for the overall direction for EquaSiis Enterprise. While at
EquaTerra his team built and deployed preceding versions of
EquaSiis Enterprise, formerly known as Governance WorkPlace®
Prior to joining EquaTerra, Mike was President and Founder of
Relationship Management Solutions (RMS), which was acquired by
EquaTerra in 2003. Before founding RMS, Mike was the Vice President
and Practice Leader for META Group Consulting's Sourcing Practice
and he previously served as the senior HR Director for a Dun &
Bradstreet subsidiary, Sales Technologies. He received a B.S. from
the United States Military Academy, and subsequently served in
various capacities as an Infantry officer. Mike is a well
recognized thought leader and has contributed to industry events
and publications such as Sourcing Interest Group, Global Services
and HRO Today magazines.
Ron Walker, Vice President and Managing Director, EquaTerra
Service Provider Services
Ron leads the global service provider services practice for
EquaTerra, formerly known as EquaSiis Insights. He has over 20
years of experience with roles on all three sides of the
outsourcing relationship: as a customer, as a provider and as a
consultant. As one of the original executives of EquaTerra, Ron was
responsible for creating the outsourcing industry's Market
Intelligence network between EquaTerra and the Service Provider
community.
Prior to joining EquaTerra, Ron was SVP at Creditek (now part of
Genpact), VP at LeapSource and BPO Practice Director at Arthur
Andersen. He has been involved in over 50 outsourcing relationships
ranging from $1M to $1B with clients such as 3M, 20th Century Fox,
Safeway and Sempra. Ron has an Economics degree from San Diego
State University, a MBA from Loyola Marymount University (with
honors) and is a frequent speaker/contributor to industry events
such as Sourcing Interest Group, Outsourcing World Summit,
Outsourcing Law Seminars and FAO magazine.
Stan Lepeak, Managing Director Global Research
Stan Lepeak leads all business and IT services
and outsourcing market research efforts for EquaSiis. As Managing
Director of Global Research at EquaTerra and
EquaSiis, Stan leads research efforts focused on business process
and IT services and outsourcing market trends, best practices and
futures. Other key research themes and focus areas include
globalization and global sourcing, outsourcing and shared services
management and governance, enterprise IT systems and outsourcing,
and vertical industry sourcing trends.
Prior to EquaTerra, Stan spent eight years at the META Group, a
market research and advisory services firm, as Vice President and
Research Lead for the business and IT services marketplaces, as
well as covering regulatory compliance, e-business, enterprise
software, and business and IT alignment. Stan was also an executive
at Elance, an enterprise software firm developing enterprise
applications for sourcing and managing business and IT services,
and Ajunto, an IT software, services and research firm. He is a
noted commentator and frequent speaker on business and IT services
market trends, globalization and global sourcing, and the role of
IT in enabling business change and innovation. Stan has a
degree in international relations from the University of
Michigan.
Andy Hepburn, Associate General Counsel
Andy Hepburn manages EquaSiis' partnerships and alliances
program, as well as its legal affairs. As a business executive, he
has founded and grown start-up companies that continue to thrive.
As a consultant, he specialized in helping small companies to
devise effective business development strategies, and large
companies to acquire and manage IT products and services - and
their suppliers - more effectively. As a lawyer, he has worked for
a Fortune 100 company, as well as for companies with less than 50
employees. His legal experience includes corporate governance and
compliance, technology procurement and licensing, technology
distribution and supply arrangements, acquisitions and
divestitures, antitrust, employment, and diverse corporate
transactions.
Greg Scherrer, Director, Product Management
Greg Scherrer brings more than 12 years of experience managing
deployment of enterprise and Web applications to EquaSiis. He has
led software and services focused organizations with an emphasis on
developing and integrating mission-critical software. Mr. Scherrer
has a strong background in IT strategy and architecture,
application development, service-oriented architectures and
services, EAI and enterprise service bus technologies, Web
application technologies, information standards, business
intelligence, and master data management.
Prior to EquaSiis, Greg served as the global director of
professional services for Liaison Technologies. Before Liaison, he
was a technology consulting manager with META Group (now Gartner),
where he provided strategic consulting services and co-authored one
of the company's top-selling studies on E-Business. He holds a
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Georgia Institute of
Technology.