Management Team

Joe Liemandt
Chief Executive Officer

Joe founded Trilogy in 1989, growing it within ten years to become one of the world's largest privately held software companies. Despite this success, Joe sought to transcend the performance of his competitors and deliver on a singular mission: to provide guaranteed business value to the world's leading companies.

To accomplish this mission, Joe reinvented Trilogy in 2000 around the simple but powerful notion of guaranteed business value. This guarantee is the foundation of a new and revolutionary business model - Trilogy only gets paid once the customer receives the promised business value.

Today, dozens of Global 1000 companies turn to Trilogy's portfolio of "Value Services" to drive guaranteed improvement in their top line and bottom line performance. Trilogy has literally changed the way companies think about business value and partner accountability.

Joe's success has been widely chronicled in some of the world's foremost publications, including Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, and Forbes. The Harvard Business Review has featured Joe's innovative business practices and he periodically instructs at the University's Graduate School of Business.

Prior to founding Trilogy, Joe attended Stanford University where he majored in Economics.
 

Scott Brighton
President

Scott Brighton is President of Trilogy, a position he assumed in August of 2008. As President, Brighton has global responsibility for operations, sales, marketing, and product development for Trilogy's portfolio of Internet and Mobile businesses. A recognized thought leader on driving measurable business value from new technology, Brighton brings over 20 years experience leading organizations and advising Global 2000 senior executives in the telecommunication, Internet, and software industries.

Prior to assuming his current role, Brighton held several senior executive positions within Trilogy. Most recently, he served as Vice President & General Manager of the firm's Global Telecommunications Unit. Prior to that, Brighton was Trilogy's Vice President of Marketing & Business Development.

Prior to joining Trilogy, Brighton served in senior leadership positions with the global management consultancies A.T. Kearney and Arthur D. Little where he advised Global 2000 senior executives on issues of strategy and new market development. Brighton holds an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and a B.S. Computer Engineering from Bucknell University.

Jim Abolt
Vice President, Human Resources

Jim Abolt is the Vice President of Human Resources for Trilogy, Inc. Since joining the company in September 2000, Jim has led Trilogy through a dramatic shift in organization strategy, creating four distinct Industry Business Units, each responsible for delivering 100% customer success and sustainable earnings growth.

Prior to joining Trilogy, Jim worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company where he served as corporate Vice President of Leadership and Organization Development. He also functioned as Senior Vice President of Human Resources for the company's Worldwide Medicines Group, a $17 billion, 35,000-employee division, including the Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Before working in the pharmaceuticals industry, Jim spent ten years with PepsiCo. Starting as a Plant HR Manager at Frito-Lay, Inc., he ultimately assumed the position of Vice President of Organization and Management Development for the corporation. In this role, he held overall responsibility for maintaining and enhancing PepsiCo's renowned executive development and succession planning capabilities.

Jim is widely regarded as an expert in leadership development, culture shaping and large-scale organization change. His work has been highlighted in various publications, including Bill Jensen's Work 2.0 and James Champy's Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership. Jim began his career in labor relations at Inland Steel Company and Nabisco Brands, Inc. He holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Dartmouth College, and earned graduate degrees in both Law and Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and serves on the board of directors for University of Illinois' Center for Human Resource Management.