Snetu Karania is in charge of Products at Locus Technologies, including out-of-the-box applications that work with Locus Platform. She has led the design and configuration of various web applications such as Task & Compliance Management, Greenhouse Gas Reporting, Audit/Inspection Management, Sustainability, and Air Emissions Reporting. She has also worked with clients from various industries such as utility companies, energy and natural gas infrastructure, waste management, food processing, and ports.
Prior to joining Locus, she worked for an environmental consulting firm, gaining a wide range of experience in environmental analyses and reporting. Snetu graduated from Stanford University with two Masters’ degrees: Environmental Engineering and Science and Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology.
Catherine holds an S.B. in Environmental Civil Engineering from MIT and an M.S. from UC Berkeley. She began her career as a project engineer, focusing on groundwater remediation and managing large sampling programs. After graduate school, Catherine worked on municipal water treatment system design and water resource management. Throughout her engineering career, she frequently tackled coding projects, which led her to Locus. The role at Locus perfectly combined her technical expertise in environmental engineering with her coding skills, allowing her to contribute to innovative solutions in environmental and water resource management.
Blaize Ison brings more than two decades of experience managing environmental data, client implementations, and technical support. She leads a geographically dispersed team that works tirelessly to deliver top-notch customer service, and their success has helped Locus achieve remarkable 98% renewal rates year after year. Prior to joining Locus in 2010, Blaize was the Environmental Safety and Regulatory Officer for several chemical manufacturing, water treatment servicing, and sales companies. She provided strategic leadership for the development, implementation, and administration of comprehensive risk-based EHS programs, policies, and initiatives in order to remain compliant with Federal, State and local laws. She was also the Quality Administrator for ISO 9000:2008 and 9001 programs.
Blaize received a master’s in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Denver, a bachelor’s in Environmental Science from the University of California, Riverside, and associates degrees in disaster management and emergency management from Coastline College. Blaize has been FEMA-certified in Hazard Mitigation and she is on her way to becoming a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Mark Harbin is the Senior Implementation Consultant at Locus Technologies and the company’s in-house expert on refrigerant management and compliance. Mark contributes to the development of Locus Refrigerant Management software and advises Locus clients on their implementation of environmental and sustainability software. He also leads the Certified Refrigerant Compliance Manager (CRCM) course in partnership with the National Registry of Environmental Professionals (NREP), and he is a frequent author and speaker on ozone depleting substances and high global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants.
Mark spent 14 years in the commercial/industrial HVAC industry, and he has contributed to numerous energy retrofit and refrigerant conversion projects across the US. He later pivoted to a career in refrigerant management product development, consulting, training, and certification for organizations in all sectors, and joined Locus Technologies in early 2024. Mark earned a business degree from Arizona State University, and he is a licensed HVAC contractor in Arizona, an EPA Certified Technician – Universal, a Certified Environmental Auditor (CEA), a Certified Environmental and Safety Compliance Officer (CESCO), and a CRCM through the NREP.
Bringing more than two decades of leadership in the water and environmental sectors to Locus Technologies, Laura Underwood leads market segmentation, product development, and revenue growth for the company’s water business unit. Prior to joining Locus, Underwood was the Senior Director of Strategy & Innovation at Veolia. She has also held key roles in water utility management, including serving as the Director of Water Quality & Environmental Compliance. Underwood’s career spans research and development, environmental services, policy, technology, and compliance management.
A long-time contributor to the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and a passionate advocate for digital transformation, Laura has built a national reputation for advancing smart, sustainable water practices. Underwood earned a doctoral and master’s degrees in environmental engineering from the University of Edinburgh and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the College of Wooster in Ohio, USA.
As Founder and CEO of Locus Technologies, Dr. Duplan spent his career combining his understanding of environmental science with a vision of how to gather, aggregate, organize, and analyze environmental data to help organizations better manage and report their environmental and sustainability footprints. During the 1980’s, while conducting research as a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Duplan developed the first prototype system for an environmental information management database. This discovery eventually lead to the formation of Locus Technologies in 1997.
As technology evolved and new guidelines for environmental stewardship expanded, so has the vision Dr. Duplan has held for Locus. With the company’s deployment of the world’s first commercial Software-as-Service (SaaS) product for environmental information management in 1999 to the Locus Mobile solution in 2014, today Dr. Duplan continues to lead and challenge his team to be the leading provider of cloud-based EH&S and sustainability software.
Dr. Duplan holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Split, Croatia. He also attended advanced Management Training at Stanford University.
Recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award from Carnegie Mellon.
Mr. Afzal oversees all of Locus Technologies financial operations as well as the department of human resources. From payroll to budget monitoring to external financial reporting, Mr. Afzal taps his years of financial experience to run the behind-the-scenes backbone of the company. In addition, he is responsible for managing ongoing SaaS subscriptions and agreements and renewals with customers. Prior to Locus, Mr. Afzal was the Director of Finance for Archer Pacific where he managed the finance and operations of the company. Mr. Afzal held the Director of Finance role at VentureOne, a preeminent venture capital database firm.
Mr. Afzal holds a B.S. and MBA degrees from Cornell University.
Sandeep Khabiya is the Chief Technology Officer at Locus. He oversees the R&D organization with responsibilities for product development and the strategic direction of company technology.
Sandeep joined Locus in 2014 as Director Software Engineering and oversaw the development of the Locus multi-tenant, SaaS platform for EHS applications. He also led the initiatives for public cloud deployments and internal deployments of Locus Platform. Prior to Locus, Sandeep spent 14 years in R&D organizations at Hewlett-Packard, Mercury Interactive and Kintana. At HP, he was involved in the development of Project and Portfolio Management suite and the Cloud Service Automation suite as engineering manager and as the functional architect.
Sandeep holds a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Mumbai University and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University.
Ms. Dorian Bailey leads all customer success and partnership endeavors for Locus Technologies, and she is the company’s in-house expert on embodied carbon, clean construction, and government procurement. Dorian is a frequent author and speaker, and she advises commercial and government entities on their use of software to manage environmental data, fulfill compliance requirements, and prepare regulatory disclosures. Dorian joined Locus Technologies in early 2024 after working as the Chief of Science and Sustainable Construction for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Leaning on her unique expertise in environmental chemistry and materials testing, and her 30 years in the Materials Engineering Unit of the Construction Management Division at the Port Authority, Dorian helped shape the Locus Sustainable Construction software application to effectively quantify and mitigate the environmental impacts of construction.
Dorian has a master’s degree in environmental science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), is accredited as a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), and she is a credentialed Envision Sustainability Professional.
Siena Duplan is Vice President, AI and Strategic Operations at Locus Technologies, where she advances the company’s AI capabilities for environmental data and operations. Her background spans machine learning, data science, and enterprise software with particular depth in compliance technology for organizations that must manage fragmented data while maintaining auditability.
Prior to joining Locus, Siena was co-founder and CEO of Sophare AI, an AI-native B2B SaaS platform that used machine learning to support pay transparency compliance reporting across 50 countries and jurisdictions. She led its multitenant SaaS architecture, analytics interfaces, and agentic data cleaning workflows, and built a team drawn from OpenAI, Databricks, Salesforce, and other leading technology companies. Before Sophare, she spent nearly a decade at Salesforce, most recently as Senior Member of Technical Staff, working on machine learning, natural language processing, and data visualization for enterprise applications used at global scale.
Siena holds a Master of Information Systems Management in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Science in Statistics, with a minor in Philosophy, from UCLA. She is a UK Global Talent Visa recipient and a Carnegie Mellon Women in Technology Fellow.
Larry Gant is Vice President of Sales at Locus Technologies, where he leads the company’s sales organization across its environmental data management and compliance software portfolio. He brings decades of experience building enterprise software sales teams, developing strategic customer relationships, and helping organizations understand and adopt sophisticated technologies.
Larry began his enterprise technology career at IBM, where he learned the software business from the ground up and advanced through progressively larger sales leadership roles. He later held sales leadership positions at Mainline Information Systems and, most recently, a leading enterprise software provider. Across these roles, he built and led sales organizations and developed enterprise practices around emerging technologies including AI, automation, and data management.
Throughout his career, Larry has worked with customers in industries as varied as transportation, healthcare, insurance, financial services, and state and local government. His approach to sales is grounded in understanding what customers are trying to accomplish and connecting those needs with technology that can deliver practical business value.
Larry holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Rockhurst University and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.
Brenda Mahedy leads brand development, digital marketing, and sales enablement programs for Locus Technologies. Her work at Locus draws upon previous leadership roles for B2B tech companies specializing in information management, data privacy, compliance, and emerging applications for machine learning, predictive coding, and artificial intelligence. In these previous roles, Brenda helped five disruptive tech companies achieve 2x-8x revenue growth, series funding, and exits by acquisitions valued as high as $375 million, and she was appointed to an advisory team entrusted with integrating a $70 million corporate acquisition into a $2.8 billion enterprise. Prior to joining Locus in 2024, Brenda was the principal consultant for a growth marketing agency, supporting a dozen tech companies as their fractional CMO.
Brenda holds degrees in International Business and Marketing from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Leeds School of Business. She is an award-winning content innovator and graduate of the Change Gear and Dale Carnegie leadership programs.
Dr. Todd Pierce has worked with geographical information systems (GIS) since 1993, bringing GIS innovations to both public and private businesses in the fields of environmental data management, natural resource management, climate resilience, and disaster recovery. Dr. Pierce earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Tulane University before obtaining a doctorate in geography at the University of Oxford, UK. His doctoral work examined the use of fuzzy logic and data algorithms in GIS to optimize boundary delineation problems such as political redistricting. Dr. Pierce has taught GIS and visualization classes at the college undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr. Pierce started working with Locus Technologies in 2003. Dr. Pierce oversees a Locus team focusing on Locus’s EIM and Water EIM applications, which manage environmental data in the cloud using software-as-a-service technology. Dr. Pierce is responsible for research and development of Locus’s GIS and visualization tools for mapping analytical and subsurface data. Dr. Pierce is proficient in GIS applications, services, and APIs from Esri and Google; the Microsoft SQL Server relational database; and programming technologies including Lucee, Java, and JavaScript.
