Syndio Expands Executive Leadership Team to Accelerate Decision Intelligence for Pay

New enterprise leaders join to fuel Syndio's technology, product, and go-to-market expansion as demand for AI-guided pay decisions accelerates across global enterprises

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Syndio, the leader in Decision Intelligence for Pay, today announced seven executive leaders across product, revenue, marketing, engineering, and customer success. This investment in leadership comes as the company scales its platform, expands its global partner ecosystem, and meets accelerating enterprise demand for AI-guided pay decisions. The company welcomes Erik Darby as President, Devin Luquist as Senior Vice President of Product, Erin McClintock as Senior Vice President of Marketing, Elizabeth Temples as Senior Vice President of Revenue, Dr. Shonna Waters PhD, as Senior Vice President of Executive Engagement & Insights, Manuj Bahl as Vice President and Head of Architecture, and Meredith Conroy as Vice President of Account Management.

"This next phase of growth requires innovation and velocity,” said Maria Colacurcio, CEO of Syndio. “Global enterprises need to move beyond compliance reporting to pay governance built into every decision their organization makes, and Syndio is the platform delivering that. Syndio’s new leaders, each with proven track records of transforming innovative enterprise solutions into industry-defining brands, are here to ensure our customers stay ahead of that curve.”

For over a decade, Syndio has been trusted with the most sensitive compensation data inside the world's most complex organizations, building the pay equity category and becoming the analytical foundation boards and regulators rely on for defensible answers. That work revealed a deeper challenge: compensation is one of the largest and least governed cost centers in any enterprise. Every organization has a pay strategy, but that strategy passes through hundreds of managers making thousands of daily decisions without consistent guidance. That is where inequity and cost exposure take root. The Syndio platform governs those decisions at the moment they're made, ensuring every offer, promotion, and merit increase is compliant, optimized, and aligned with business strategy. Nearly 400 leading companies, including more than half the Fortune 100, partner with Syndio to govern compensation decisions for over 10 million employees across 100 countries.

“Pay decisions are among the most consequential decisions any organization makes, and Syndio has always built the team to match the magnitude of that challenge,” said Erik Darby, President of Syndio. “This leadership team brings the experience to scale the platform, accelerate our roadmap, and deepen the partnerships our customers count on to get pay right, at the speed they need to move right now.”

Syndio’s Expanded Executive Leadership Team

• Erik Darby joins Syndio as President, bringing 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 is joining as Senior Vice President of Product and applying his 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.

• Erin McClintock is Syndio’s new Senior Vice President of Marketing, 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.

• Elizabeth Temples joins Syndio as Senior Vice President of Revenue, bringing data-driven precision and operational discipline to one of the most consequential decisions companies make: how to pay their people. Previously, she led Clari’s Enterprise segment as Group Vice President of Revenue, overseeing more than $100 million in ARR and advancing the company’s leadership position in Revenue Orchestration.

• Dr. Shonna Waters, PhD, Syndio’s Senior Vice President of Executive Engagement & Insights, 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.

• Manuj Bahl, Vice President and Head of Architecture, joins Syndio with 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 of Account Management, brings over a decade of enterprise sales experience driving revenue growth and leading high-performance teams. Most recently, she helped scale Clari from an early stage startup to a category leader working with C-level executives across Fortune 1000 organizations.

The announcement of the expanded leadership team comes as Syndio's partner ecosystem continues to accelerate, validating the growing market demand for Decision Intelligence for Pay. Recent partnerships with Strada and Kognitiv combine Syndio's platform with global advisory and implementation expertise, giving enterprises the technology and guidance to navigate global regulations while building the infrastructure to govern pay decisions continuously and in real time.

About Syndio

Syndio is the leader in Decision Intelligence for Pay. Built on nearly a decade of proprietary compensation data, Syndio’s AI-powered platform helps global enterprises make every pay decision compliant, optimized, and aligned with business strategy, from the first pay equity audit through every offer, promotion, and merit cycle that follows. Nearly 400 global enterprises, including more than half the F100, trust Syndio to govern pay decisions for over 10 million employees across 100 countries. Global brands including Salesforce, American Airlines, Siemens, Ford, and Microsoft partner with Syndio to govern pay decisions at scale. Learn more at synd.io.