Ideate

Recognizing a widening gap between currently available research management solutions and the state-of-the-art in commercial and open source software, Dave founded Consilience on the premise that there had to be a better way to manage research in the 21st Century. Dave previously served as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for another software company in the arena at which he grew the sales five-fold during his tenure. Dave also personally developed all of the website, brochure and exhibit copy and designs, leaving the company with a strong brand and a unified message. Prior to that post, Dave served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at CommerceHub, which developed an online business-to-business exchange for retailers and wholesalers where he also led the sales and branding efforts. Before that Dave was Chief Operating Officer of a large service business based in New York City, where he was principally responsible for doubling the Company’s sales from USD 11 million to USD 22 million. Dave has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dave lives in upstate New York with his wife Jennifer and their two children.

Bill is principally responsible for the development of the Ideate Framework. Bill is a PhD candidate in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo where his research is focused on generative programming, dynamic workflow and health informatics. He has published several papers on the subject of dynamic workflow and is the coauthor of a chapter in the 2008 BPM & Workflow Handbook. During his time at the University Bill has built several functional workflow models, including a dynamic workflow engine for the Web Informatics Development Environment (WIDE) Toolkit, a workflow framework for the Computer Systems Group (CSG) that is in use in a production environment. He has also acted as part-time faculty teaching Computer Science. Bill has a Masters of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo (2006) and a Bachelor degree in Computing from Wilfird Laurier University (2003). Bill lives in Guelph, Ontario with his wife Elisha and their two dogs Zeus and Zoodle.

Archita leads all implementation projects for Consilience. In addition, Archita leads an initiative to build tools and wizards that streamline the deployments for customers – accelerating the time to productive value, minimizing project risk, and reducing the need for intensive consulting services. Archita is an accomplished Project Manager and Software Engineer with over ten years experience working in the research management arena for a diverse range of organizations around the globe. Archita started her career at a research university as a technical lead performing data conversions and system integrations. Her last position was with research systems vendor InfoEd, where she swiftly climbed the ranks from Senior Programmer to Director of Implementations. While Archita ascended to increasing levels of responsibility, she remained close to the code and was effective as both a project manager and a technical lead. As a result, Archita’s involvement was required and/or requested for virtually all large-scale implementations, particularly those involving complex post award integrations. Archita lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband and her baby boy.