Phil Calandra
Project Executive

Mr. Calandra is a 25-year veteran of the technology industry's ERP and workforce management software and service sectors. Mr. Calandra has extensive senior level experience with strategic alliance marketing, business and corporate development, product marketing, channel management, strategic selling and software license negotiations.

In the past, Mr. Calandra was recruited by Internet Capital Group (ICG) to accelerate revenue growth for EmployeeLife.com. ICG subsequently sold this benefits administration application service provider to UnumProvident Corporation, and it was renamed BenefitAmerica. Mr. Calandra continued to serve the corporation in an expanded senior vice president role, overseeing direct sales as well as traditional indirect channels and alliances.
Previously, Mr. Calandra held the vice president of business development and alliances position for The Americas unit of The Baan Company, a global ERP provider. He managed a large-scale business development effort related to Baan's many alliance partners and also developed new alliance opportunities.

Prior to his engagement at Baan, Mr. Calandra was vice president of corporate development for Ceridian Employer Services. He provided the vision and impetus for Ceridian's entry into both Internet payroll and benefits administration. He also served as a senior sales executive for both Ceridian's Human Resource Group and its TesserAct Technology HRMS subsidiary. Immediately preceding his tenure with Ceridian, Mr. Calandra launched West Coast operations for SQL Financials, a financial applications software vendor now know as Clarus Corporation.

Mr. Calandra learned many facets of the workforce management industry during a long and highly successful sales management and product marketing career with the Employer Services Division of Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

Mr. Calandra graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BBA in Finance and from Arizona State University with an MBA.