Ed founded Meta in 2000 after he recognized a need in the marketplace for a new kind of consulting firm focused on client success through combined leadership, foundational governance, unparalleled knowledge of industry best practices, and innovation. He has led the evolution of the company to today, building a hybrid management consulting and cloud delivery solutions company focused on helping organizations to achieve their intended ROI. The Meta team, under Ed’s leadership, views technology as a strategic transformation and modernization enabler, though it is the client’s people and their ability to gain tangible long-term results that is the primary ROI driver. Ed works with client executives to help build and drive a vision that delivers sustainable positive change within their organization.

Prior to Meta, Ed has led implementations and architected financials products serving the federal government. He holds a BS degree in Accounting from the Pennsylvania State University and is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Government Financial Manager.

Sheryl brings more than 20 years of business management, global client relations, and implementation experience to Meta. Sheryl has over 16 years of PeopleSoft implementation experience, including her time as Director of Services at PeopleSoft. During her time at PeopleSoft she built a highly skilled team that provided consultancy services supporting clients’ business objectives and strategic planning goals. She developed and fostered client relationships within government, higher education, commercial, and utility sectors around the world.

Prior to Meta, Sheryl held senior level management positions with CIBER, Unisys, Exodus and Global Technologies. In each of these positions, Sheryl developed consultancies based on PeopleSoft strategic planning and implementation services, covering a range of PeopleSoft applications including HCM, Financials, CRM, and Campus Solutions. Sheryl holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from DePaul University.

Paul has more than 25 years experience as an enterprise system architect, assisting clients with software application strategy and the implementation of ERP solutions. Paul’s market focus is primarily on public sector, including federal, state, and local government, as well as K-12 and higher education clients. His experience includes IT strategy, application architecture, and large program management; design, development, and implementation of custom ERP solutions; the integration and implementation of COTS ERP solutions, post-production maintenance and support of ERP systems, and business process reengineering. As a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Government Financial Manager, Paul possesses a detailed understanding of government financial and business management and has actively developed and or implemented software to meet the needs of various government entities including financial, payroll, customer resource planning, and supply chain solutions.

Some of his areas of expertise include: Budget Formulation, Budget Execution and Funds Control, Payment Management, Receipts Management, Cost Accrual, Cost Allocation, Full Costing, Cash Management, Time and Expense Capture, Labor Distribution, Travel Management, Procurement and Contracting, Grants Management, Asset Management, Supply Chain Management, Customer Resource Planning, Executive Information Systems, Financial Reporting and Activity Based Costing. Prior to joining Meta, Paul was a Managing Director/Partner with BearingPoint/KPMG, where he spent 20 years developing BearingPoint/KPMG’s public services ERP practice, supporting custom Oracle and SAP solutions. Paul holds an MBA from the University of Texas.

Andrew is our leader for Operations, which includes: Product Development, Sales and Marketing and IT Strategy for the organization.   As an accomplished leader with over 27 years of Global ERP and management consulting experience, Andrew continues to serve clients in strategic advisory roles. He is considered a knowledgeable leader with PeopleSoft HCM, Financials and ESA suites for public sector and global organizations, and works directly with clients to provide strategic guidance, organizational change management solutions, and alignment to deliver best practices.  He has a track record of right-tracking failing projects and enterprise solution investments for clients that are not optimizing their return on investment.

In his spare time Andrew serves on the board and as an advisor of two nonprofits in his hometown of Lexington, KY, and is the proud adoptive parent of four rescue dogs.

Steven is a passionate creator of things. Since 2004, he has been developing software and leading teams at companies of every size, including at Hewlett-Packard, Lexmark and numerous startups. Steven joined the Meta team in 2012 to create software that solves problems.

Steven acquired his Bachelors of Science at the University of Kentucky in both Computer Science and Mathematics. He believes in test-driven, agile software development that facilitates quick turnaround while being adaptable, robust and secure.

Steven has been on numerous boards of directors, and led fundraising teams such as Lexington Games for Good, which raised over $35k for Kentucky Children’s Hospital over the 10 years he was involved. He is always making something in his spare time.