Frank Rohde
President and Chief Executive Officer

As President and Chief Executive Officer, Frank leads the company's vision to materially improve the financial and operational performance of companies through the use of best-in-class pricing and profitability management. Frank joined Nomis Solutions in 2005 as VP of Sales and Marketing and was responsible for the market development and initial customer acquisition efforts of the company.

Frank brings 15 years of financial services domain expertise to the company. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Enterprise Decision Management at Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), where he was responsible for development and marketing of optimization solutions to the financial services industry. Prior to Fair Isaac, Frank was Vice President of Product Development for eCoverage, an online insurance company, as well as an Associate in the Financial Services practice at Mercer Management Consulting.

Over the past 10 years, he has worked with a range of financial services clients on product development, marketing, and pricing problems, including Allianz USA, Bank One, MBNA, Juniper Bank, Fleet Bank, GE Capital, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of America, and others. Frank is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter and has published on the topics of decision management and optimization in several trade publications including Credit Risk International and Harvard Business Review.

Frank graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in finance and management.

Dr. Robert L. Phillips
Founder, Chief Science Officer & Vice President, Research & Development

Dr. Phillips founded Nomis Solutions in 2002 to help financial services firms use pricing analytics, optimization and execution to improve profits and market share by better understanding of how customer preferences impact product and portfolio performance. Dr. Phillips is responsible for ensuring that Nomis Solutions' analytics continue to be best-in-class and generate the highest level of value to customers. He is also responsible for leading Nomis Solutions' cutting-edge research and development efforts.

Before founding Nomis, Dr. Phillips served as Chief Technology Officer of Manugistics where he was the key visionary for Manugistics' Pricing and Revenue Optimization and Enterprise Profit Optimization solutions. Prior to that, he was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Talus Solutions, at the time, the world's largest pricing and revenue optimization company. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Phillips has helped leading companies optimize price and revenue within a wide variety of industries including airlines, rental cars, hotels, automotive, electric power, freight transportation, and manufacturing.

Dr. Phillips is a lecturer at Stanford University Business School and served as a visiting professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is a frequent speaker at industry events such as the CBA Auto Finance Conference, the CBA Home Equity Conference, the Credit Scoring & Credit Control Conference and INFORMS. He is the author of the award-winning book Pricing and Revenue Optimization and has published widely in such journals as the Risk Management Association Journal, Management Science, and Mathematical Programming. He is a senior editor of the journal Production and Operations Management Systems and an associate editor of Operations Research.

He received his doctorate in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University and holds undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Washington State University.

Bharath Kumar
Vice President of Product Development

Bharath joined Nomis Solutions in 2003 to lead product development. In this role, Bharath is responsible for designing and bringing to market Nomis' award-wining Nomis Price Optimizer Suite of solutions.

He has an extensive background in software development and has held leadership positions at several Silicon Valley technology companies. His previous role was Vice President of Product Development of i2 Technologies' SRM Business Unit, where he managed the global engineering organization.

Prior to that, Bharath was the Vice President of Product Management at RightWorks and played a major role in defining product direction and strategy. In addition, he has held technical positions at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and LSI Logic.

Bharath has an MS in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Karen Beale
Vice President of Sales

Karen Beale joined Nomis Solutions in 2007 as Vice President of Sales. To this position, Karen brings over 15 years of global financial services experience. She will oversee the expansion of Nomis Solutions' global sales organization to meet the growing demand for Nomis Solutions' award-winning suite of solutions. She will also ensure the suite is evolving to meet the needs of new customers.

Prior to joining Nomis Solutions, Karen held various leadership roles within Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the most recent as Vice President, ICN Leader, Large North American Banks. In this role, Karen led the client teams responsible for customer satisfaction and new business development across 20 of the largest North American Financial Institutions and had responsibility for a large multi-million dollar P&L business unit. With almost a decade of experience at Fair Isaac, including running Global Analytic Sales, Karen is well positioned to guide Nomis Solutions into the expanding market for Profit-based Pricing solutions within the financial services industry. Previous to working with Fair Isaac, Karen led Strategic Accounts for Experian Business Information in the UK, part of Experian Group (LSE:EXPN).

Karen earned her B.A, with honors, in Business and French at Kingston University in London.