Meet the Synapsum Team
Experienced at the forefront of supply chain, analytics, and technology.
Vision-driven.
Women-led.
STEPHANIE BIXLER, FOUNDER & CEO
Rooted by her hands-on experience working across supply chain and sales, Stephanie has a clear vision to deploy operational data across the front office to grow profits and customer value.
Prior to founding Synapsum, Stephanie served as the Senior Vice President at Scholastic in the COO/CTO office. In this role, Stephanie led applied data and technology-teams that delivered improvements to business segment profit and working capital. Stephanie spent the first stretch of her career with Deloitte Consulting working with Fortune 500 customers on digital and sales transformation, restructuring, costing analytics, and process redesign.
Stephanie holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis.
mICHAEL JANIAK, HEAD OF DATA
Michael brings deep experience applying technical data capabilities to transform enterprise businesses with a practical approach.
Michael previously served as SVP of Scholastic’s Data & Analytics group responsible for data science/machine learning, BI, data engineering, digital analytics, and marketing automation. In this role, he supported decision-making, automation, and process redesign in warehouse and inventory, sales and marketing, and finance. Prior to that, Michael led data-based consulting and M&A work for Private Equity and multinational businesses.
Michael started his career as a Mechanical Design Engineer for an Australian medical device maker. Michael holds a Master of BioMedical Engineering and Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
MATT ESTERLY, HEAD OF ENGINEERING
Matt brings engineering magic to Synapsum with an impressive track record building and scaling SaaS applications since dotcom days.
Matt spent the last few decades developing the largest behavioral model for marketing email engagement analytics SaaS and product lifecycle management software for Foxconn, Celestica and the Microsoft XBox team. More recently, Matt grew a payment processor team that contributed to 4x business growth. Prior to joining Synapsum, Matt led engineering at Anedot with his achievements featured in Atlantis engineering.
Outside of Synapsum-life, Matt enjoys time with his wife and boys, mountain biking, and skiing the the pacific northwest.
Synapsum is a proud member of the Pledge 1% Movement
wE REIMAGINED HOW BUSINESSES COULD UNLEASH OPERATIONAL DATA FROM SUPPLY CHAIN TO SALES TO BENEFIT BOTH PROFIT AND CUSTOMERS.
– Stephanie Bixler, Founder & CEO, Synapsum™
PRINCIPLES UNDERPINNING OUR DESIGN
Reverse the pipeline of ERP data that is sparsely used today in the front-office
Answer what order requirements drive costs with turnkey solutions in minutes, not months
Make insights actionable for supply chain, finance, and customer-facing teams
Embed intelligence into existing interfaces, systems, and individuals
Costs must be significantly lower than alternative solutions with payback in under 2 quarters
Synapsum was born in 2020, yet components of the solution were developed and matured over the last decade, now unified under Synapsum’s purpose-built SaaS and data solution.
We are inspired by your opportunity to bring cost intelligence to drive front-office response to improve profitability.
A Letter From Our Founder
It has been a wild stretch. Whether your business thrived, faced unprecedented challenges or a combination of the two, you kept your business moving.
Positioning your business to be responsive and resilient to change takes more than digital twin models, S&OP software, and supply chain risk management.
Consider the next sales conversation with a new customer, a contract being renewed, a promotion about to run, SKUs being merchandised, or a quote being generated. Is price well aligned to factors driving costs? Or are costs ‘peanut-butter spread’ in price risking business and margin? Are you incentivizing customers to order in ways that are most cost and price efficient? How quickly are you adjusting in the front-ofice when there are changes to supply chain and logistics conditions? What is the lag costing you? Can you measure it?
Synapsum was founded to address all of the above. If there is an opportunity to reduce or recoup costs dependent on changes in sales and marketing, Synapsum™ gives you the tools to act. Rather than wait months on a heavy-weight planning solution, you can get up and running with Synapsum in weeks using our purpose-built data models and software connectors.
Rest well knowing your finance and supply chain teams have a spotlight on the largest areas of opportunity and can align with the front-office when and where it matters most. Reduce organizational friction that yields suboptimal results.
We don’t overpromise or under deliver. Hear it directly from our customers.
Stephanie Bixler
Founder and CEO, Synapsum™