Jay Kalantar

Dr. Kalantar has over 19 years of professional experience in Operations Management, Application Development and Deployment, Business Development and Product Development with 10 years of the experience in the Building Service Management and Food Service Industries.

As the Vice President of Operations, Dr. Kalantar is responsible for all aspects of customer operations including pilots and deployment, support and training, system integrations and updates, invoicing, ASP and pay card operations. He also supports the product development department with documenting customer requirements and field testing.

Prior to joining American EPAY, Dr. Kalantar held leadership roles in business development and process engineering at JohnsonDiversey (previously Johnson Wax Professional), one of the largest global product suppliers to the Building Service, Food Service, and Hospitality industries. During his tenure at JohnsonDiversey, he designed and implemented multiple customer applications including labor management systems, QA and auditing, sales support, supply-chain and service management systems. In 2001, he filed and received a patent on Method and apparatus for work management in facility maintenance (2003 US patent 6,954,737 B2). He was a founding member of the Global Enterprise Development team which has established and implemented JohnsonDiversey’s “Service Solutions” offerings. In 1999, he received a Special Recognition Award for the development of the Johnson Wax’s customer Intranet.

Prior to JohnsonDiversey, Dr. Kalantar worked at the Pillsbury Company in Operations Management. He designed and implemented several supply-chain and capacity planning applications for Pillsbury’s Operations. In 1997, he was the recipient of the Pillsbury Operations Achievement Award.

Dr. Kalantar started his career by launching a startup business where he designed and marketed a novel product for infants (1991 U.S. patent 5,004,473).

Dr. Kalantar holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University and attended a two year Management of Technology program at the University of Minnesota.