Founded and led by commercial-grade leaders

TechDiscovery is led by a seasoned management team with impressive backgrounds in creating and growing large – and very successful – technology and outsourced services businesses. We come with commercial-grade experience, background and mindset – and we instill it in everything we do from strategy to process to people development.

Management Team
Stan Anderson, Managing Partner
Craig Guarnieri, Chief Technology Officer
Paul Heerin, Chief Financial Officer
Dennis Crumpler, General Partner
Sean Carithers, Director of Business Development

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Stan Anderson, Managing Partner

Anderson brings more than 15 years of senior management experience to the TechDiscovery team. Previously, he served as President of Spherion Technology Group, a diversified IT services company, where he ran North American operations and managed 3,000 consultants in 32 cities. Anderson’s group serviced multiple Fortune 100 companies and had a revenue base of $500 million.

Prior to Spherion, Anderson was a Senior Vice President with Norrell Services, a provider of outsourcing and technology services to large corporations. During his tenure, Anderson managed large profit centers with responsibility for both franchised and company-owned divisions and was instrumental in the company’s growth from $50 million to $1.5 billion in revenues. His duties at Norrell involved the expansion of core staffing services including the establishment of a large outsourcing business. He also led the effort to build a profitable technology consulting practice that grew to $250 million in revenues through an aggressive acquisition strategy.

Anderson began his career at Dexter Corporation, a manufacturer of specialized industrial products, where he held a variety of positions in marketing, finance and operations. Anderson earned a B.S in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech.

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Craig Guarnieri, Chief Technology Officer

Craig Guarnieri brings to TechDiscovery more than 25 years of technical and senior management experience. Previously CIO of Warranty Corporation of America (WaCA), a diversified specialty risk management company, Craig integrated all IT operations for the company's various worldwide business units. Using Microsoft's .NET platform to build an enterprise framework, his initiatives ultimately unified the IT organization and resulted in a significant reduction in redundancy and cost across the company's business units. Prior to WaCA, Craig was Vice President and CTO of GMAC Insurance, a US provider of P&C insurance. At GMAC, Craig established and staffed a progressive technology team that created, developed and implemented a three-year technology and business plan resulting in a profitable on-line insurance business. His contribution earned him #1 contributor status for new business, as profiled in GMAC's Annual Report.

Craig was also an Executive Director of Customer Systems for Delta Airlines, where he managed all aspects of strategic planning, vendor management, and execution for Delta Airlines Customer systems, as well a Pricing and Revenue Management system, where his efforts culminated in the division's receipt of the 2000 Smithsonian Award for Technology Excellence. Craig began his career with HBO/McKesson in a diversified IT services team, where he was an architect and systems analyst. At McKesson, Craig advanced to the role of Director of the Technology Group, where he led and managed consultants throughout North America.

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Paul Heerin, Chief Financial Officer

Paul Heerin serves as TechDiscovery’s Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for all finance, administration and human resource functions. Paul works closely with the Delivery and Sales organizations, supporting day-to-day operational activity and coordinating all financial and contractual negotiations.

Paul has over 10 years of experience in financial management at technology service organizations. Prior to joining TechDiscovery, Paul was a founding member and Director of Finance at Enthusian Corporation - a joint venture between Spherion Corporation and Accenture Consulting. In this role, Paul was responsible for financial management of the company, overseeing the company’s budgeting, reporting and accounting functions, as well as corporate development and equity fundraising activities.

Before joining Enthusian, Paul spent five years at Spherion Corporation, where he held various roles in financial management, corporate development and systems integration. He spent a year leading the back-office systems integration effort for Spherion’s $500 million Technology division, managing a 15 person team responsible for implementing a national ERP solution. Prior to that, Paul was the Director of Finance for the Technology Consulting Division, responsible for financial management and strategic planning activities of the organization, and served as the financial representative of the Leadership Committee.

Paul began his career at Norrell Corporation in the Corporate Development group, where he completed 15 acquisitions valued at over $250 million.

Paul has a B.S in Finance from Lehigh University, and his MBA from Emory University, where he was elected to the National Business School Honor Society, and awarded the Outstanding Graduating Finance Student Award.

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Dennis Crumpler, General Partner

Dennis Crumpler has over 20 years of experience in building and managing successful technology companies. Along with Shereef Nawar, Crumpler founded XcelleNet which became the industry leader in systems management for large-scale remote and mobile systems. During his tenure, XcelleNet executed its initial public offering in 1994 and was later acquired by Sterling Commerce in 1998. Prior to XcelleNet, Crumpler co-founded Sales Technologies, a successful pioneer in field sales automation software that was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 1989. Subsequent to business school and four years of service as a U.S. Army Officer, Crumpler began his career as a Consultant with McKinsey & Company in 1982.

Since 1998, Crumpler has been General Partner of CIMCO, LLC, an investment management company and early stage venture fund. Crumpler has made investments in Green Mountain Energy where he served as Vice Chairman and board member for two years. Additionally, he led investments in Chatham Capital I and II (Atlanta) and Catalysta Ventures (Raleigh) and serves on each company's Advisory Board. Crumpler has also been active with Ranger Governance, LLC and its efforts to enhance public company accountability through direct shareholder action. In 1994, Crumpler was named Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, an award sponsored nationally by Ernst & Young, Inc. Magazine, and Merrill Lynch. In 1992, he was named High-Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by Atlanta Business & Technology Alliance.

Crumpler holds a BS from MIT, and MBA from Harvard Business School. Additionally, he has completed PhD coursework at the University of Edinburgh (UK) as a Rotary International Scholar. Crumpler's charitable interests include serving as a trustee of The Southern Environmental Law Center and World T.E.A.M. Sports.

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Sean Carithers, Director of Business Development

Sean Carithers brings 10 years of experience successfully growing and managing small technology product and services companies. Over the last two years Sean has helped to drive TechDiscovery's revenue growth by re-focusing the companies efforts on bringing consulting and professional services expertise to Fortune 500 companies. Prior to working with TechDiscovery, Sean served as Vice President of Sales for Xperts, Inc., a boutique professional services, software product and staffing firm. Sean managed the national sales efforts and the software product division growing annual revenue to $12 million. Sean began his IT career working for Trader Publishing Company, a $1 billion privately held company, where he helped grow AutoTrader.com and several of the company's other business divisions into multi-million dollar internet businesses.

Sean is a graduate of Davidson College. He also spent five years as a professional cyclist and has circumnavigated the world by bicycle.

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