We’re on a mission to help companies make smarter pay decisions they can trust.
Built on a decade of enterprise-grade experience
$1T+
governed pay decisions
50%
of Fortune 100
100+
countries
10M+
employee pay records
350+
enterprise customers
Who we are
Syndio built the pay equity category. Now, we’re pioneering Decision Intelligence for Pay.
For nearly a decade, we’ve earned the trust of the world's most scrutinized global organizations. We’ve learned what they need now: the platform that powers and governs every compensation decision at the moment it's made. Every level. Every geography. In real time. Every compensation decision: compliant, consistent and aligned to strategy. This is Decision Intelligence for Pay.
Backed by top investors
Our leadership
Decades of experience powering Decision Intelligence for Pay
Expert leadership with backgrounds at world-class companies, including Starbucks, BetterUp, Amazon, and more.
Maria Colacurcio
CEO
Maria Colacurcio
CEO
Maria Colacurcio is reshaping how enterprises govern their largest and most consequential investment: how they pay their people. As CEO of Syndio, she leads the company that defined the market for pay equity software and is now pioneering Decision Intelligence for Pay. Under her leadership, Syndio partners with global brands including Walmart, Microsoft, and Salesforce to make every pay decision compliant, optimized, and aligned with business strategy. Maria previously co-founded Smartsheet, which went public in 2018. She has built her career at the intersection of technology, policy, and purpose-driven leadership, earning recognition as one of the 100 most exceptional entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs Builders + Innovators Summit.
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Erik Darby
President
Erik Darby
President
Erik brings decades of experience building and scaling organizations at the intersection of technology and people. He previously co‑founded Motive Software, a machine learning and NLP company acquired by BetterUp. Before Syndio, Erik held senior leadership roles at UKG following its acquisition of Kanjoya, and started his career in finance.
Devin Luquist
SVP, Product
Devin Luquist
SVP, Product
Devin brings expertise building enterprise grade AI platforms to securely unlock Decision Intelligence for Pay so that companies can make intentional, data‑driven choices that align talent strategy with business outcomes. Previously, he led product at BetterUp, building advanced machine learning–powered trading systems and enterprise data management software.
Elizabeth Temples
SVP, Revenue
Elizabeth Temples
SVP, Revenue
Elizabeth is a revenue leader obsessed with reimagining outdated systems. She brings operational discipline and a data-driven approach to building high-performing GTM teams. Previously, she led Clari's Enterprise segment past $100 million in ARR, advancing the company's leadership in Revenue Orchestration. At Syndio, she's reimagining how companies govern pay decisions and eliminate pay drift. She started her career at GE, the proving ground for the operational discipline that still defines how she builds and leads.
Erin McClintock
SVP, Marketing
Erin McClintock
SVP, Marketing
Erin is a storytelling expert known for helping high‑growth tech companies define categories and bring complex platforms to market with clarity. A leader in the future-of-work and AI spaces, she has held key roles at Everfi, BetterUp, and Workhuman, where she built product marketing, communications, and thought leadership programs that drove purposeful growth.
Milan Parikh
CFO & COO
Milan Parikh
CFO & COO
As Syndio’s Chief Financial Officer, Milan Parikh brings decades of private and public company finance and operations experience and an expertise and passion for helping mission-driven, category-creating companies scale and grow. Prior to joining Syndio, Milan Parikh was Chief Financial Officer at MATRIXX, a global telecommunications software company. Over the course of his career, Milan has served as CFO at leading technology companies at various stages in the entertainment, wireless communications, digital media, and enterprise software industries, managing numerous public and private financings and M&A transactions.
Nimrod Vered
CTO
Nimrod Vered
CTO
Nimrod Vered is rewiring how enterprises apply AI to one of the most consequential decisions they make: how they pay their people. As CTO of Syndio, he leads engineering for the company that defined the pay equity market and is now pioneering Decision Intelligence for Pay. With over 30 years of engineering leadership, Nimrod served as Chief Engineering Officer at Zipwhip, where he scaled engineering through its $850M acquisition by Twilio. Earlier, he led the development of Workplace Analytics at Microsoft, building a career at the intersection of AI, people data, and modern engineering leadership.
Regan Zeebuyth
VP, Executive Engagement & Comms
Regan Zeebuyth
VP, Executive Engagement & Comms
Regan Zeebuyth has spent 25 years helping large, global companies like Amazon and Starbucks navigate organizational change. Today he's VP of Executive Engagements and Comms at Syndio, working directly with senior leaders at enterprise companies. He brings comms and change management experience to help them build alignment, minimize risk, and maximize value from their pay strategy. That work shows up in places like EU Pay Transparency Directive planning, helping leaders move from compliance obligation to strengthening employee trust.
Rob Porcarelli
CLO & CSO
Rob Porcarelli
CLO & CSO
Rob is the Chief Legal Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at Syndio, and a career-long advocate for workplace fairness. Prior to joining Syndio, Rob served as the VP Assistant General Counsel at Starbucks where he led teams responsible for all labor, employment, and EEO issues, as well as general litigation. Rob directed and oversaw Starbuck's equal pay efforts since 2005, and was frequently frustrated by the methods of obtaining and analyzing data around pay disparities. He came to Syndio to be a part of the solution. Prior to Starbucks, Rob was a partner with Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP. He also served in the U.S. Navy JAG Corps, and while on active duty served as a special assistant to the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland Law School. Rob knows Syndio's software is a better way to address pay equity, and wants you to know the same.
Charlie Higgins
Regional Vice President, Sales, EMEA
Charlie Higgins
Regional Vice President, Sales, EMEA
Charlie Higgins leads Syndio's EMEA business, helping multinationals advance pay equity and reshape how pay decisions get made under the EU Pay Transparency Directive. As Regional Vice President for EMEA, he partners with C-Suite and HR leaders at Europe’s largest and most well-known enterprises, bringing Syndio's pay equity analytics and Decision Intelligence for Pay to the moment every offer, raise, and promotion happens. Charlie writes The Pay Transparency Edge, a monthly newsletter for European HR leaders.
Christine Hendrickson
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
Christine Hendrickson
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
With almost two decades of experience in employment law, Christine works in the intersection of HR analytics and the law. She partners with employers to provide strategic, practical, and real-world best practice advice on pay equity and compliance. Before joining Syndio, Christine was a Partner and co-Chair of the Pay Equity Group at Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Christine has been recognized by Legal 500 for the past three years as a Next Generation Lawyer for Workplace and Employment Counseling.
Emma Duisberg
Regional Vice President, Sales
Emma Duisberg
Regional Vice President, Sales
Emma helps enterprise organizations operationalize technology to make trusted pay decisions at scale. With over a decade of experience in HR tech and strategic sales leadership, she partners with executives to unify compliance, fairness, and performance in compensation strategies. Emma is passionate about helping companies combine the right data to drive competitive, equitable, and financially sound pay outcomes — embedding equity into the core of their business and building lasting trust with employees, boards, and investors.
Manuj Bahl
Vice President and Head of Architecture
Manuj Bahl
Vice President and Head of Architecture
Manuj has over 25 years of engineering leadership experience, most recently serving as VP of Engineering at Talent.com. He has a proven track record of architecting scalable platforms at Microsoft Teams, OfferUp, and RealNetworks. Manuj will oversee engineering and product teams and lead the company’s technical architecture and agentic AI strategy.
Meredith Conroy
Vice President, Account Management
Meredith Conroy
Vice President, Account Management
Meredith is a seasoned enterprise sales leader with 15+ years of experience scaling high-performing revenue teams across North America. She has led teams spanning both new logo acquisition and customer retention, consistently driving growth through strategic expansion, executive alignment, and operational discipline. She spent the last seven years at Clari, joining when the company was approximately $14M in revenue and helping scale it over 10x through organic growth and multiple acquisitions. Along the way, she partnered with C-level leaders across Fortune 1000 organizations, built top-performing teams, and developed deep expertise in forecasting, complex deal strategy, and scaling go-to-market organizations through rapid transformation.
Shonna Waters, PhD
SVP, Executive Engagement & Insights
Shonna Waters, PhD
SVP, Executive Engagement & Insights
Shonna is an award-winning organizational psychologist with 25 years of experience helping organizations make smarter decisions about people. Her expertise spans human capital strategy, performance, decision science, AI transformation, and the future of work, informed by rigorous research and applied experience in mission-critical contexts. Most recently, she was CEO of Fractional Insight, and previously held executive roles at BetterUp, SHRM, and U.S. federal agencies
The Syndio Difference
Technology and expertise: Built together. Built for trust.
When you partner with Syndio, you don't just get a platform. You get the team behind it: Lawyers, economists, data scientists, former compensation leaders, and forward-deployed engineers who have spent decades inside the world's hardest compensation problems. The platform captures what they know. The people make sure it works for you.
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Nancy Romanyshyn
Total Rewards Strategy & Solutions
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Total Rewards
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Job Architecture
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Fair Pay
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Market Data
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Gianni Mui
Workplace Equity Consultant
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Workplace Equity
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Compensation
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Compliance
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Regulation
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Maya Wilson, PhD
Data Science & AI Innovation
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AI Innovation
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Responsible AI
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Data Science
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Data Strategy
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Rishabh Krishnan
Data Analytics
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Data Analytics
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Human Capital
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Pay Equity
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Compliance
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Stefan Gaertner, PhD
People Analytics & Statistical Modeling
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Data Analytics
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Human Capital
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Pay Equity
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Compliance
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Andrea Palmiter
Workforce Analytics
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Data Analytics
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Workplace Equity
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Performance
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Data Strategy
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Aaron Scales
AI Platforms & Product
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AI Innovation
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Platform Strategy
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Enterprise Scale
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Technical Architecture
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Mark Surber
Data Ethics & Responsible AI
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AI Governance
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Data Privacy
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Data & AI Ethics
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Evolving Regulation
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Shoshana Collins
Analytics & Data Products
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AI Innovation
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Product
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Data Analytics
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Data Science
Our Strategic Partners
Pioneering the future of pay
Leading global enterprises to what’s next for pay
2016
Syndio is Founded
Founded with the mission to eradicate unlawful pay disparities.
2017-2019
Pay Equity
Built the first technology platform for continuous, defensible pay equity analysis. Early enterprise customers.
Time of Hire
2020-2021
Fair Pay Decisions at the Time of Hire
Created the first SaaS tool designed to support fair pay decisions at the time of hire. Addressing one of the largest root causes of pay inequity.
Reports
2023
Global Pay Reports
Launched Global Pay Reports for automated pay gap reporting across jurisdictions.
Directive
2024
EU Pay Transparency Directive
Launched EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance solutions. Expanded global footprint to 100+ countries.
2025
Syndi™ AI
Delivered Syndi™, the first AI-native technology to govern pay decisions in real time, embedded in the tools teams already use.
Intelligence for Pay
2026
Decision Intelligence for Pay
Built on a decade of pay equity expertise, Syndio launches Decision Intelligence for Pay, the governance layer for every compensation decision across the enterprise.