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.

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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.

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Sean Fallon is Trilogy’s Vice President of Finance and acting Chief Financial Officer. Sean is responsible for the global financial operations of Trilogy and brings extensive experience in corporate finance, financial operations, planning, investing, M&A, and restructuring. Sean joined Trilogy in 1999 and has served in several financial leadership positions, including Treasurer and Vice President of Internal Finance. During his tenure, Sean's leadership has been critical in executing Trilogy’s commitment to profitable and sustained growth.

Prior to joining Trilogy, Sean served as Vice President of M&A for a NYSE financial services company. Previously, Sean was a manager with Price Waterhouse where he specialized in business turnarounds and crisis management.

Sean holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he also completed his undergraduate studies in Accounting and Honors Business. Sean remains involved with the University of Texas and serves as an advisor to its business school.

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As Vice President of Trilogy's Business Value Group, Scott Brighton is responsible for leading a team of seasoned business professionals who are tasked with creating and marketing new value propositions that drive value for Trilogy's customers. Under his stewardship, Trilogy has become a recognized industry leader in using technology to drive real, measurable and attributable business value for customers, an achievement that has garnered the company broad accolades from national publications like USA Today and Newsweek. Scott brings 15 years experience in marketing, business development, and management consulting working with and serving some of the world's most successful technology companies.

Prior to joining Trilogy, Scott served as Principal and Western Regional Head of the Telecommunications and High Technology industry practice at A.T. Kearney, the global management consulting affiliate of EDS. As part of a new leadership team brought in to help drive growth in an important new industry space, Scott helped grow the practice to a revenue run-rate in excess of $100M over a 3-year period. An advisor to Board Rooms and executive suites on issues of new market and corporate development, Scott helped leading technology companies such as Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Verizon, AT&T, and Qwest drive growth through innovation.

Prior to joining A.T. Kearney and EDS, Scott held senior consulting positions in the Telecommunications and Technology practices of both Arthur D. Little and American Management Systems. He also was a Member of Technical Staff in the Applied Research Division of Bellcore, the Bell Laboratories unit focused on the regional bell operating companies.

Scott earned his MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Bucknell University. He is a frequent industry speaker and the author of several published articles, including "Forecasting the Future" in the International Telecommunications Journal and "Reinvention of the Communications Provider" in Telephony Magazine.

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Tom Rowe is the General Manager of Trilogy’s Financial Services Business Unit. Responsible for delivering 100% customer success, he leads a team that enables the nation's top Insurance companies to gain unprecedented access to critical data underlying distribution/channel management and underwriting. These enabling technologies are viewed as the keys to superior growth and profitability initiatives.

Since joining the company in January 2002, Tom has led the development of Trilogy DMS, a state-of-the-art distribution and incentive management system, and launched Trilogy RDR, the next generation of underwriting technologies focused at accelerated detection of underlying trends, dynamic generation of optimum response scenarios, and linked execution. Tom brings 30 years of financial services experience to Trilogy, and has served as a member of the board of directors of several insurance organizations, such as the National Council of Compensation Insurance, American Insurance Association, Allianz Insurance Company, and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Companies.

Most recently as President of the Commercial Insurance Division at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, Tom was responsible for general management of all commercial operations, leading his division to account for two-thirds of the company’s premium revenue. Prior to this role, he held several executive positions in FFIC’s Specialty organization, where he redefined business strategy for the National Account Business Segment, and ultimately transformed the organization from a lagging performer to the company’s most profitable segment. Tom began his career with the Hartford Insurance Companies in the underwriting organization. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Towson State College in Maryland. His is a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter.

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