About CopperLeaf
CopperLeaf Technologies Executive Team
Lynn Casey | President and CEO
Lynn founded CopperLeaf in 2000 to help organizations build world-class asset investment planning processes. Under her leadership, CopperLeaf released its landmark Asset Investment Planning (AIP) product, ESP. Before launching CopperLeaf, Lynn formed a consulting practice in 1993 to help firms achieve financial, commercial, and operational benefits through effective planning. She has also worked with a number of leading utility firms and research organizations worldwide. Trained and qualified as a Certified Management Accountant, Lynn began her career in the corporate finance group of a multi-national corporation where she led a finance team, ultimately transitioning into the mergers and acquisitions group. She has become a highly-regarded speaker in the area of AIP and continues to develop CopperLeaf’s thought-leadership by providing clients with specialty consulting services.
Ken Ludwig | Vice President, Sales
As Vice President of Sales, Ken is responsible the successful execution of the company's business development strategy. Ken brings over 23 years of strategic asset management and enterprise solutions experience holding key positions in leading high growth companies. Prior to joining CopperLeaf in 2007, Ken spent eight years within MRO Software's sales organization before its acquisition by IBM. Responsibility areas included participation in establishing an emerging vertical, along with business development activities within strategic national and international organizations. Ken successfully adopted a solution selling methodology to consistently deliver over-target revenues to high growth companies such as MRO Software. With a career and educational focus on managing critical assets, Ken brings to CopperLeaf extensive knowledge of asset-intensive organizations within numerous verticals including utilities, oil and gas, transportation, public sector, education and health care, in regional and international capacities.
Daren Sanders | Vice President, Solutions
Daren is responsible for the delivery of CopperLeaf’s consulting and ESP implementation engagements, as well as all customer support. He draws on more than 15 years of engineering, management, and consulting experience, focusing primarily on asset management and business planning activities in capital-intensive industries. Daren’s experience includes more than nine years with a vertically-integrated electric utility, holding positions in areas such as maintenance engineering, facility management, financial evaluation, business planning, and rate/regulatory affairs. While employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM Business Consulting Services, he provided strategy, process improvement, and IT system implementation expertise to clients worldwide, in sectors such as electricity, oil & gas, petrochemicals, marine transportation, forestry, and defense.
Daryl Spencer | Chief Operating Officer
Daryl is responsible for managing internal operations, including product development, product management, information technology, and building the CopperLeaf team as the company grows. His dozen years working with graphic arts giant Creo Inc. as it expanded from 300 to 4000 employees worldwide laid the foundation for an understanding of the drivers of positive corporate culture and effective change management. Daryl’s experience includes product development, product management, design engineering, and operations in roles such as Corporate Vice President and Corporate Director of Customer Service. His most recent experience prior to joining CopperLeaf involved uniting five disparate companies into a single integrated operation, rolling out Lean and Six Sigma principles, implementing business decision infrastructure for major projects, and developing common project management standards.
Felix (Ing Hoo) Wong | Vice President, Product Development
Felix is responsible for the technical vision and strategic development of CopperLeaf's products. With over 23 years in the technology industry, his experience includes managing engineering teams and application specialists for market leaders such as Creo Products and MDA Inc. in addition to international teams in the United States and Malaysia. As a Co-Founder and Vice President of Product Development at Cambian Services, Felix was an architectural pioneer for an internet-based multi-channel order management system, defining the system architecture and managing the development of the integration with distributed catalogs and back-office systems.