Wayferry team
Chris Doig - Founder, CEO and author
Chris graduated from the University of Cape Town, South Africa with a bachelor of electrical engineering degree. While at university, he founded Cirrus Technology to supply information technology products to the corporate market. The focus at Cirrus was helping companies buy the best IT products for their particular needs. Cirrus also developed custom software for the South African 7-Eleven franchise holder and other corporate clients.
In the mid-nineties, Chris immigrated to the United States and worked at several companies in technical and IT management roles: Seagate, Biogen, Netflix, Boeing, Bechtel SAIC, Discovery Communications and several startups. At all of these companies he repeatedly saw software being purchased with an immature selection process. Invariably this software would take longer to implement than planned and cost more than budgeted. To make matters worse, the software seldom met expectations.
Having struggled with software selection himself, Chris founded Wayferry to help organizations acquire enterprise software. He is also the author of Rethinking Enterprise Software Selection: Stop buying square pegs for round holes. For Chris, the ultimate satisfaction is when clients report the new software is enabling their business strategy execution, and is meeting or even exceeding their expectations.
Sean Nolan - Co-founder and head of Software Development
Sean is the architect and consummate software developer behind the proprietary Navigator application, an essential component of Wayferry's "secret sauce" that differentiates us from the competition. Sean and Chris worked together in South Africa, and then some years after they immigrated to the States, joined forces to create Wayferry.
Sean used his exceptional ability to translate business requirements into software, his in-depth knowledge of database architecture, and his skill at creating excellent user interfaces to create an application that reduces the time taken to evaluate and select enterprise software like ERP. The Navigator holds a library of thousands of business requirements and handles RFP responses from vendors. The Navigator also manages user acceptance testing at the end of the implementation, which helps minimize business disruption when a client goes live with their new software.
Graduating with distinction from the University of South Africa with a Bachelor of Computer Science, Sean is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
Tanzeel Rahman - Project Manager
Tanzeel is a dynamic project manager with a BA in Business from UC Irvine. He is currently working on obtaining his Project Management Institute certification.
As an analyst, he has proven to be tireless in taking care of all the details of projects. He has also demonstrated an ability to relate well to customers both on business trips and by keeping them current with communications like project status reports. He is very well aware that project management success demands constant communication. Tanzeel is one of those rare driven individuals who is constantly learning, growing, and improving his skills.
Tolu Peters - Consultant
Tolu is a problem solver focused on controlling cost and increasing profit margins. His experience includes a Director of Manufacturing at Bausch & Lomb, where he oversaw BaaN ERP implementation on the manufacturing floor. His initiatives reduced WIP by 50% and FGI by 58%. Later, he helped Tandem Medical manufacturing achieve GMP compliance. While working as VP of Operations at Baril Corp, a manufacturer of diagnostic products and consumables, he managed the integration of Salesforce into Epicor ERP. He trimmed production lead time by 16% and led a facility audit to receive ISO 9001:2008 certification.
More recently, Tolu has been consulting, focusing on manufacturing, supply chain, and inventory. He has a proven record of successfully managing projects and driving outcomes. He combines a high level of integrity with excellent technical, interpersonal, and business management skills.
Educated in California, Tolu earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from California State Polytechnic in Pomona. He received his MBA from the University of Redlands, where he contributes as a mentor and coach to MBA students. Tolu also has a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification from the University of California in San Diego.
Raymond Weale - Consultant
Raymond Weale is a senior executive whose career of over 25 years has been in technology. He has been responsible for implementing systems like SAP, Salesforce, and eCommerce. His experience included developing business solutions, cybersecurity, design of enterprise architecture, and digital transformation. This work involved leading international teams in multiple countries.
Before moving to California, Raymond worked in a CTO capacity for Etihad Airways in the United Arab Emirates. Here he drove digital innovation that transformed the customer experience for their 20 million frequent flyer members. Before that, Raymond spent 22 years at Nestle, the world's largest food and beverage company. While there, he served in technology leadership roles in the USA and at the corporate headquarters in Switzerland.
Patrick Shearon - Consultant
Patrick has over 15 years of leadership experience in supply chain operations and strategy. He held roles of increasing seniority in supply chain operations at a Fortune 500 company that included multi-unit leadership with P&L responsibility. Patrick led a corporate support team that served all aspects of distribution, transportation, and process improvement for forty facilities across North America. Patrick has also led projects requiring extensive cross-functional collaboration and integration with the company's key strategic initiatives.
In Patrick's leadership roles, he interacted with companies at all levels, from keeping the board and executive leadership appraised of project status and strategy to working with front line employees. Most recently, Patrick designed and implemented a Warehouse Management System and led a project to evaluate and improve inventory visibility for e-commerce operations in a mid-market public company.
Patrick is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He served in the US Marine Corps before starting his career in Supply Chain.
Warren Lieberman - Consultant
Warren’s early career included working at Arthur Andersen where he focused on bridging IT and Business/Accounting functions. After moving to New York, he developed business plans, evaluated software and administered a class-action claim system. Warren started the ERP phase of his career with Oracle Consulting where he implemented and upgraded Oracle Financials for local government, large national and international clients and several start-ups. Then he spent 17 years at Broadcom working on software selection, implementation, upgrade and process improvement projects.
As Broadcom grew from $1B to $15B in revenue and 25 countries they transitioned their ERP to PeopleSoft and briefly to SAP, before moving to Oracle EBS. Warren was the primary designer for financial and non-financial modules and architected a robust period end processing schedule that supported a 3-5 day close. As part of the IT Management team, Warren supported mission critical, packaged and custom business systems, led acquisition integrations for the IT/Finance team and was a key interface for Audit and SOX compliance. Before joining Wayferry, Warren spent an incredible year at SpaceX as a Finance Product Manager supporting their ERP system.
Warren graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Commerce Honors degree and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa.