Leadership

Our team includes former dispute operations leaders, and people who have taken banks, credit unions and payment processors from contract to go-live across North America, Europe and South America. These are the experts on your side.

Company

Before you sign

Your implementation

After go-live

The platform

Company

Sylvain Perrier, Interim President

Sylvain Perrier

Interim President

Sylvain leads Vertus Group, a Jonas Software company, and has led Lean Industries on an interim basis since July 2026. He has more than twenty years in global operations, software and acquisitions, and his focus at Lean is the product, engineering and client-delivery practice.

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Before you sign

James Le Huquet, Director of Sales

James Le Huquet

Director of Sales

James leads sales at Lean and is the first person most prospects meet. He works with banks, credit unions and payment processors from the first discovery workshop through the business case, RFP, negotiation and contract, and into implementation planning. He has fifteen years in software sales, more than twelve of them in sales and management roles at Firmex.

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Your implementation

Chris Mahy, Vice President, Project Management

Chris Mahy

Vice President, Project Management

Chris leads Lean's professional services team. He has twenty-eight years in financial services, eighteen of them on dispute management at Lean, and is a certified Project Management Professional. He oversees every client implementation from requirements through go-live.

Angie Noah, Director, Client Implementations

Angie Noah

Director, Client Implementations

Angie began in banking as a teller and went on to run a bank's dispute department before joining Lean. Her team of business analysts and visual developers carries decades of dispute resolution experience into client implementations: configuring complex requirements, adding automation, and advising on regulatory and network compliance.

Corina Pelaez, New Implementations Manager

Corina Pelaez

New Implementations Manager

Corina leads new client implementations at Lean, taking banks and payment processors from onboarding through go-live on its dispute management platform. She has fifteen years in software implementation and project delivery, nine of them at Lean, with projects across North America, Europe and South America. She is a certified Project Management Professional and works with clients in both English and Spanish.

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Seth Weeks, Manager, Large Implementations

Seth Weeks

Manager, Large Implementations

Seth has more than sixteen years across banking, IT, project management and dispute resolution, and has led AdjustmentHub rollouts at several clients, with a particular focus on chargebacks and compliance. His background in graphic design shows up in how he communicates with client teams.

After go-live

Chris Roberts, Vice President, Customer Success Management

Chris Roberts

Vice President, Customer Success Management

Chris leads customer success and account management at Lean and is the counterpart for every client in production. He has more than twenty years across technology operations and customer success, most recently leading operations and customer success for North America at Ariane Systems, where he ran enterprise implementations, professional services and support across the United States and Canada.

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Cláudio Lopes, Director

Cláudio Lopes

Director

Cláudio has more than ten years in dispute resolution and has led end-to-end implementations across Europe, the United States and South America. At Lean he led the design of the dispute workflow framework that supports issuer and acquirer processes on Mastercom and VROL, and he works with clients on translating dispute requirements into configured deployments.

Jashank Parekh, Senior Manager, Business Systems Analysis

Jashank Parekh

Senior Manager, Business Systems Analysis

Jashank leads the team that provides day-to-day production support to financial institutions across North America, Europe, South America and New Zealand. He has more than twelve years in systems analysis, more than seven of them in payment disputes, and is a Certified ScrumMaster.

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The platform

Riyadh Hossain, Senior Director, QA & Quality Engineering

Riyadh Hossain

Senior Director, QA & Quality Engineering

Riyadh leads quality engineering at Lean, overseeing quality strategy, testing, test automation and release readiness across the company's dispute management platform. He has more than fifteen years in software quality engineering, including leadership roles across SaaS, e-commerce, payments and financial technology. Before Lean he led global QA organizations supporting web and mobile platforms.

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Ravi Hariharan, Senior Manager, Core Development

Ravi Hariharan

Senior Manager, Core Development

Ravi manages core product development for AdjustmentHub and NetworkHub. He has more than eighteen years in software development in banking, payments and disputes, with prior experience in India, Denmark and Finland before settling in Canada.

Our role does not stop at implementation.

After go-live: production support from Jashank's team, Chris Roberts as your customer success manager, and the annual Lean User Group.