It’s always nice to put a face to a name, right? And somehow it’s even nicer to know a little bit about the folks you’ll be working with. Beyond shaping the Clearion strategy, goals, and culture—and working to best serve our customers and transform their work environments—this team has a lot of diverse (and many common) interests from international travel to fine dining and outdoor adventure. Take a look and see what you may have in common!
Christopher Kelly
Co-founder and CEO
It sounds a little highbrow to say that we started Clearion to solve work environment challenges with technology—and that’s exactly right—but in its basest, initial form, it was to prevent me from going crazy doing manual data entry in an old-school environment. Necessity truly is the mother of invention.
Every Clearion customer and application is unique. This constantly drives me, and the rest of our team, to shape solutions that are flexible yet robust. We are passionate about solving challenges and transforming work environments to make your lives easier and more productive. And that’s the truth.
From a professional standpoint, I co-founded Clearion with Mano in 2007; however, I’ve been working in utility field operations, geospatial technology, and solutions development since 1995. (I’m sure there’s a lame joke here about working in GIS while still in diapers.) My roles have spanned from crew leader to business leader and include account management, sales, marketing, strategic partnerships, implementation, and product strategy. And, as a Georgia native who loves to travel, I have a BS and an MS in International Affairs from Georgia Institute of Technology. From a personal standpoint, I have a deep love for my wife and kids and a great fondness for the beaches (and golf courses and redfish) of coastal Georgia where my mother resides. And like a lot of the folks here at Clearion, I’m always in search of the next great meal!
Mano Sadeh
Co-founder and CEO
What I bring to Clearion: For Clearion, I work on the technical side of the house as the principal software architect and product leader. Knowing how dynamic the market is and how quickly the Clearion customers’ environments were changing, I realized early on that the Clearion platform needed to be flexible and configurable. That direction remains with Clearion today and is what plays into the tagline: Simply Transformational. Clearion makes it easy to tailor powerful software products to the unique needs of each customer. More about me: I grew up in Israel and came to the U.S. while my wife pursued her Ph.D. Prior to moving to the states, I served in the Israeli Army and extended my service in a leadership position for a couple of additional years. After college, I worked for Intel as a software developer. When I arrived in Atlanta, I began working with Chris and the rest is history! Today, I live in Haifa with my wife and three sons and am very much a family man. I love cooking, the outdoors, and going to professional football games. Or, as you would say, I’m a big “soccer fan.”
Rick Hamilton
Vice President Sales
I worked with Chris and Mano several years ago in previous work life and we kept in touch afterward. We had conversations over the years about working together again and it finally worked out after Clearion was formed. I have always worked with electric utilities either on the field inventory or GIS side. I had never given any thought to how the Rights of Way for the electrical facilities were maintained. When I began talking to the group again I realized what a huge undertaking it is to maintain these.
Yes. I had no idea what all had to be done in order to stand up a Vegetation Management software solution. When I started working with electric utilities performing field inventories, we collected the electrical facilities on paper maps and the office personnel traced our field maps onto linen using ink pens and Leroy Scales. When computers became a viable solution for electric utilities, we began digitizing the data collected in the field into GIS systems. The GIS systems we digitized into were straightforward. There are only one or two ways to drop a pole or consumer into a GIS system. There were no workflows, cycles, reporting or billing to figure out like there is with Vegetation Management. With vegetation management, there are a lot more moving parts. Having witnessed the conversion of many electric utilities from pen and paper to computers has given me a very good insight as to what the Vegetation groups are now going through. Almost every company I have worked with while at Clearion is migrating from pen and paper to computers. I do feel that my previous experience with this helps me to better understand what our clients are going through when making this move.
Chris Rodgers
Director Industry Solutions
Learn about Chris: Chris has 12+ years of professional experience utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and LiDAR technology to solve complex operational challenges for electric utilities. Prior to his role as Clearion’s Director of Project Delivery, Chris worked as a technical liaison between the field operations, engineering, and GIS teams for Utility Risk Management Corporation, a LiDAR services company. He received his undergraduate degree at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT where he also spent a year as a member of the Geography Department faculty as an assistant professor teaching GIS to undergraduate students.
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