Management
Emcien, Inc. is a privately held company founded in January 2002 by Dr. Roy Marsten.
Radhika Subramanian, CEO
Ms. Subramanian has nearly 20 years of experience helping large, sophisticated organizations optimize their business processes and achieve greater success. She is a leading expert regarding the impact of product complexity on the supply chain and has consulted with numerous Fortune 500 companies to reduce complexity in their organizations. In 1998, she co-founded Idmon Corporation, which specialized in analytical applications for the transportation industry. Idmon was funded by Cordova Ventures and Imlay investments, and its launch customers were Delta Air Lines, Continental Airlines and South African Airways. The company was sold to Swissair Group in 2001.
Dr. Roy Marsten, Chief Scientist
Dr. Marsten is a specialist in combinatorial optimization. He founded XMP Software in 1987, which was acquired by ILOG/CPLEX (ILOG was later acquired by IBM). The optimization libraries in ILOG/CPLEX, the most widely used optimization engines, drive applications inside SAP, I2 and others. Dr. Marsten was awarded the prestigious Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematics in 1991 and the ORSA/CSTS Prize for research excellence in the interface between operations research and computer science in 1992. In 1993, he was a finalist, along with Ms. Subramanian, for the Franz Edelman Prize for Excellence in Management Science. Dr. Marsten co-founded Idmon Corporation with Ms. Subramanian.
Russ Caldwell, CTO
Mr. Caldwell has over two decades of software design and development experience and has held key engineering positions with Microsoft, Harris Corporation, Elixir Development and Dun & Bradstreet Software. He was co-founder and CTO of Novient, Inc., an innovative software company that pioneered professional services automation (PSA). As a member of the management team, he helped expand Novient to 230 employees, raise $54 million in venture financing and grow revenue to $20 million. Mr. Caldwell led Novient's product launch with successful deployments at SAP, Accenture and Ernst & Young. Novient was sold to Solution 6, an Australia-based technology company, in 2003.
Advisory board
Emcien regularly leverages the expertise of key advisors to address emerging challenges and opportunities in our target markets.
Sigmund Mosley, Jr.
Mr. Mosley is president of Imlay Investments, Inc., which makes direct equity investments primarily in new technology companies. As president, Mr. Mosley selects companies for investment, structures deals and oversees the investment portfolio. Previously, he was a vice president for Management Science America, Inc. (now Dun & Bradstreet Software Services, Inc.), where he directed the company's finance and accounting functions.
Mr. Mosley serves on the board of directors of Ardext Technologies, Inc., Bank Intelligence, Contract Packaging, Inc., eQuorum Corporation, EzGov, Inc., Fountainhead Water Company, Inc., Kelly Registration, Inc., MCF Systems, Inc., Photobooks, Inc. and USBA Holdings, Inc. He is a director of The Imlay Foundation, Inc. and a venture partner with Armada Venture Group.
Donald R. Millard
Mr. Millard was executive vice president and chief operating officer of AGCO Corporation, a NYSE listed company, from 2000 until his retirement in February 2004. AGCO Corporation is a Fortune 500 company and the third-largest manufacturer and distributor of farm equipment in the world, with sales over $5 billion in over 140 countries. He was responsible for all product development, engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing activities.
Mr. Millard was president and chief executive officer of Matria Healthcare, Inc., a NASDAQ listed company, from 1997 to 2000. Under his leadership, the company was ranked number five on the 1999 listing of Georgia's 100 Best Performing Companies. He was associated with Matria and its predecessor, Healthdyne, Inc., from 1987 until 1997 as senior vice president of finance, chief financial officer and treasurer.
Robert W. Springfield
Mr. Springfield retired in 2006 as a senior faculty member and manufacturing specialist with Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute. Mr. Springfield assists manufacturing companies with enterprise strategy, financial analysis and planning, competitiveness tactics, lean manufacturing, constraint management and business software applications. Previously, he worked with a manufacturing consulting firm implementing cost reduction projects, management information systems and facility plans. Mr. Springfield also has worked for a regional retail chain in the area of logistics.
Mr. Springfield served as treasurer on the board of directors for RCW Industries and on U.S. Department of Commerce steering committees concerning lean manufacturing, constraint management, information technology and trade policy. He regularly advises new technology companies that sell into the manufacturing market. He is a certified economic development finance professional and a professional business advisor (U.S. Department of Commerce).