Manuel Sanches, President, Founder and CTO

Mr. Manuel Sanches is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of California, San Diego, where he studied cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence and computer science, and received the Honor of Highest Distinction from the University. He is currently Founder, President and CTO of eknow inc. 

Mr. Sanches' career spans nearly 25 years in technical, management and executive roles based in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. But the common thread of Mr. Sanches' career has been applying software design and cognitive science to enterprise management challenges of increasing scope. Mr. Sanches founded eknow with Mr. Dell (in late 1998) and began operations in 1999. Mr. Sanches developed the company's then-radical "software-as-a-service" or "cloud-based" business model, and is responsible for the design, engineering, and management best practices behind eknow Integrator. 

To Mr. Sanches and eknow, restructuring and M&A – particularly complex post-merger integration – represent the greatest management challenges most organizations attempt, yet they are the most poorly served by technology. Existing software and methods are grossly inefficient, difficult to use, require inordinate IT and/or M&A consulting expense, are not tailored to critical elements of M&A and large-scale initiatives, fail to integrate every contributor into the process, and reflect false assumptions about users, processes, and value drivers in the real world. Mr. Sanches' vision has been to address these shortcomings in an easy to use, highly automated and flexible web-based tool. Mr. Sanches' vision is realized in eknow Integrator, the first and only such application a decade ago, and now the most mature and easy to use in 2010. 

At eknow, Mr. Sanches also personally supports many of the company's key clients, helping them leverage Integrator to better execute their mergers, acquisitions and other large-scale initiatives, sometimes over several years. This repeated long-term collaboration has given Mr. Sanches unique real-world insight and continues to drive the evolution of eknow Integrator.