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Our Company Story
Founded in April 2008 by Jonathan Carender and Dylan Imre, CrowdClarity was created in order to address the growing need for a proper sales forecasting solution.
Carender, a University of Michigan engineer, found that many companies of all sizes did not have effective formal sales-forecasting tools.
Many companies' managers set sales goals and incentives with their limited market knowledge only to find themselves scrambling part way through the month or quarter to make up for a sales deficit.
Carender believed that these companies could achieve greater forecasting success if they harnessed the combined knowledge of their employees to set and fine tune sales goals and incentives early and often during the sales period.
Harnessing the power of the wisdom of the crowds, CrowdClarity implements prediction markets and other information aggregation tools to deliver quick and accurate information to decision makers.
Now, more than ever, in today’s tightened economy, companies need to take proactive steps to properly forecast the ever-changing demand of their customers. Let us help you get ahead of the game.
Our Corporate Team
Dylan A. Barrell, CEO Mr. Barrell is the Chief Executive Officer of CrowdClarity. Prior to CrowdClarity, as Director of Digital Business, Dylan was responsible for the highly acclaimed digital center retail concept that was the major innovation unveiled as part of the Borders Concept Stores in February 2008.
With 20 years of software experience, Mr. Barrell was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Kubi Software where he successfully repositioned the company from horizontal collaboration to focus on sales effectiveness solutions. This repositioning led to Kubi's acquisition by the leading sales effectiveness vendor.
Mr. Barrell co-founded Intunix AG as the Technical Director in charge of product development and product management, which was acquired by Open Text in 1995. At Open Text, Mr. Barrell held management positions in Technical Sales, Product Management, Marketing and most recently Vice President of Corporate Development where he oversaw the acquisition of Optura.
Mr. Barrell has a BS in Computer Science from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Jonathan E. Carender, Founder and VP of Marketing and Business Development Mr. Carender leads CrowdClarity’s Marketing and Business Development departments. Under his leadership, CrowdClarity has developed relationships with key contacts in several industries.
Concurrently, he also is a third-year student at the University of Michigan. Mr. Carender is majoring in Materials Science Engineering, minoring in Physics, and pursuing an Entrepreneurship Certificate. He is also proud to be a 1931E Scholarship Recipient.
Prior to founding CrowdClarity, Mr. Carender ran his own painting business through National Services Group. Hiring both painters and marketers, his team painted over 30 houses in less than 4 months. By instituting high quality standards, he was able to decrease production time, and increase profitability. Even in their first year of painting, Mr. Carender’s crew exceeded the industry standards for profit margin and customer service.
Mr. Carender is an active member of MPowered, the University of Michigan Entrepreneurship Student Organization, and is also an avid ice hockey player. He is originally from Dexter, MI, where his family currently resides.
Dylan M. Imre, Founder and VP of Product Development Mr. Imre spearheads the design of CrowdClarity's website and custom development of Graphical User Interfaces. He also actively works on CrowdClarity's software. His experience is in design, and he maintains many local and out of state business sites.
He is currently a third year student at the University of Michigan, School of LSA. He plans on graduating with an Honors Degree in Anthropology, while also minoring in economics and earth science. He has taken engineering courses at the University of Michigan Engineering School, and anthropology studies through the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
Prior to his work with CrowdClarity, Dylan worked with numerous photography studios, designing systems for use in their offices, configuring custom systems and networks, and heading up their web design projects.
Dylan enjoys participating in study abroad programs, working on field archaeology overseas, as well as lab work at the Museum of Anthropology in Ann Arbor. He has lived in Michigan for most of his life, and grew up in Haslett, MI.
Anik Ganguly, Executive Chairman of the Board Mr. Ganguly is the Principal at GAIN Group, LLC, a firm which invests in and advises early-stage, technology-based ventures with high growth potential.
With two decades of executive management experience within high-growth Enterprise Software companies, Mr. Ganguly brings great depth to the Board of CrowdClarity, particularly in the areas of sales, organizational development and strategy.
He formerly served as Executive Vice President of Operations for Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) which is a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management software solutions. Mr. Ganguly was responsible for all aspects of product strategy, product development and product management. He spearheaded Open Text’s growth from $22 million to over $400 million in sales.
Mr. Ganguly received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Calcutta University with High Honors, and his M.B.A. from University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he was on the Dean’s List. He continued his education in the areas of Strategy Formulation and Product Development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan Business School) and Harvard Business School.