Leadership Team

Meet our leadership team

Theo Smith

Co-CEO - Founder

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Farhan Khan

co-CeO

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Shawn Richmor

CFO

Aman Bassi

EVP OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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Patricia Wallenius

VP, Finance & Operations

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Joe Green

VP OF SALES

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Kathy James

Senior Director, Professional Services

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Niels van Amerom

Director, Professional Services

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Rick Harnsberger

Director, Professional Services

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Diana Walker

DIRECTOR, pmo

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Evan Jasiura

DIRECTOR, Finance & Operations

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Cedar Elder

Director, People and Culture

Theo Smith

Co-CEO - Founder

Theo brings an entrepreneurial spirit to every interaction, whether partner or customer. His wealth of business experience ensures our clients and partners receive the full value from both their software solutions, as well as from their system integrator. As a specialist in the business of HR, he helps companies realize the highest ROI from their solution. He does this by matching the right talent with the right job and by encouraging an environment of innovation and problem-solving to enable growth and stability for our partners.

Farhan Khan

Co-CEO

Farhan Khan is a true Solutions Architect at heart. With 30 years of HCM Solutions experience spanning dozens of HR, Time and Payroll Implementations, he brings a unique perspective and innovative best practices in Workforce Management, enabling organizations to obtain the highest degree of adoption and real value from their solutions. Farhan plays a strategic partnership role with clients ensuring success and a faster time to value.

Shawn Richmor

CFO

Shawn applies his 25 years of finance, operations and accounting experience to focus on the overall financial growth and wellbeing of the company. Prior to joining GroupeX, he was COO at an alternative investment finance firm where he led the transaction processing and financial reporting functions, overseeing an operations team that supported the needs of one of North America’s largest purchasers of secondary market annuities.

Shawn graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a BComm degree and obtained an Honours in Accounting Science degree from the University of South Africa. He qualified as a chartered accountant and articled at EY. He is married with two children.

Aman Bassi

VP of Professional Services

Aman has oversight on all projects and works at building our internal capabilities to align with our engagement pipeline and initiatives to bring new, innovative technologies to our customers. Aman’s 20 years in the Human Capital Management space has been spent in delivering, managing and architecting solutions for customers across North America in various industries with different business drivers. Aman works with our clients to understand their ecosystem and what opportunities exist for their business to achieve efficiencies in HCM to better serve their employees or improve their position in the marketplace.

Patricia Wallenius

VP of Finance & Operations

Patricia is a multi-faceted senior finance professional with extensive experience in the professional services industry. She focuses on financial planning, forecasting, to help identify KPIs to maintain the growth and financial stability of the company.

Joe Green

VP of Sales
Over the past 25 years Joe has focused on helping customers solve their critical business issues by leveraging strategic technologies and world-class services. Joe is a customer advocate and truly believes success is only achieved when the customer is successful. In addition to spending 15 years in the HCM and WFM space, Joe has led sales for various startups and large software companies.

Kathy James

Sr. Director, Professional Services

Kathy James, Senior Director of Professional Services, brings more than 25 years of technical consulting and experience to our clients. Kathy uses her extensive expertise to help clients make tough strategic decisions and maximize the value of their Workforce investments. Kathy’s passion is problem solving, simplifying, and designing unique solutions to meet her client’s complex needs.

Niels van Amerom

Director, Professional Services
Niels van Amerom, Director of Professional Services, has been involved in the technical side of the Workforce application for over 11 years. With such a depth of experience, Niels is excellent at helping his clients evolve WorkForce systems to maximize the potential of their implementations through advanced applications, particularly in the Job Scheduler. Certified in multiple modules and interfaces, Niels brings novel problem solving to all his clients.

Rick Harnsberger

Director, Professional Services

Rick Harnsberger, Director of Professional Services, is a UKG Workforce Management architect with 30 years of leading and managing software implementations while helping clients maximize the value of their UKG solutions. Rick has global experience across multiple industries and covers all facets of workforce management.  This allows him to understand the full architectural design that are simplified and sustainable, while meeting complex requirements.  Rick’s knowledge and foresight reduces project risk and a client’s time to value. 

Diana Walker

Director, PMO

Diana leads the Project Management Office (PMO) strong team of project managers. With over 25 years of experience implementing a variety of HR/Payroll software products in a spectrum of roles across North America, Diana’s focus is equally on the rigour and project controls that are required for successful implementations and setting up all stakeholders for success. The power of the software is as great as the power of the people implementing it – consultant/customer team alike – and the PMO objective is to enable project success.

Evan Jasiura

Director, Finance
Evan Jasiura is a CPA with over 10 years of experience in the IT and professional services sectors.  A graduate from Dalhousie University’s B.Comm program, he brings an analytic approach to managing Groupex’ finances and resources.

Cedar Elder

Director, People and Culture

As the Director of People and Culture, Cedar actively leads the recruitment process, ensuring the acquisition of diverse and top-tier talent. With 17+ years of experience in recruiting, employee engagement, and workplace health, she stands as a dedicated leader passionate about shaping a vibrant organizational culture.