James Hargis joined Clear Technologies full-time in 1999, however had acted as an advisor since the company’s inception in 1993. Clear’s potential is what coaxed him from his private consulting practice managing real estate investments.

As a Certified Public Accountant, Hargis had spent most of his business career tax consulting, auditing and structuring banking, financial and property deals for companies such as Arthur Young & Company, InteCom and his own firm — National Debt Recovery Investments (NDRI). Today, he oversees every operational aspect of Clear except software development. While technology business was a new frontier for him nearly a decade ago, he focuses on leadership as his mission.

Hargis earned a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. He spends much of his personal time coaching youth sports and serving as a leader in the Boy Scouts of America.


Van Symons Joined IBM in 1977 as a systems engineer and during his 25 year career at IBM held various sales, technical and management positions. Van is best known for his marketing leadership on iSeries in Client/Server and Database server markets as well as overall eServer strategies. His last assignment in IBM was to develop the automatic serving strategy for IBM's entire server and storage family. The hallmarks of his career at IBM were customer service and support.

He recieved numerous awards during his tenure with IBM, including the President's Award. Clear Technologies recruited Symons in late 2002 based on his outstanding leadership qualities.

Phil Godwin joined Clear Technologies, Inc. after holding various sales positions within other Dallas-based solutions providers. Phil was responsible for growing Clear Technologies Unix-based business over 300%. He developed Clear's server business strategy and has executed this strategy and it has resulted in significant business growth. Phil has demonstrated leadership in all of his sales roles and this resulted in his promotion to VP of Sales in October of 2005.

Jim Ballard joined Clear Technologies in 2000 after a 15-year career at IBM, during which time he held various positions including Application Designer, Systems Engineer, Senior Sales Specialist and Solutions Manager. Jim's experience with deploying Unix and Storage based solutions at IBM's largest customers has helped Clear Technologies to significantly-expand its portfolio of technology infrastructure solutions. He oversees the execution of Clear's strategy to continually-develop new offerings which add business value to Clear Technologies' customers.

Greg Colley founded Clear Technologies in 1993 after a successful executive career at enterprise software giant J.D. Edwards. Building a networking and systems integrator business from the ground up, he suffered the dilemma of mid-market companies firsthand. Few software companies target the middle market, leaving a gulf in the enterprise technology solutions available to them. His strategy to fill that void was C2CRM, a modular software package designed with 10 years of direct feedback from the mid-size businesses Clear serves.

In 2002, he negotiated an alliance agreement with strategic business partner IBM to make C2CRM one of the cornerstones of Big Blue’s strategy to capture greater market share in the small to mid-size business (SMB) CRM segment. A featured speaker in IBM’s monthly CRM Webinar series, Colley urges mid-market firms and the vendors who sell them technology to remember “Customer Relationship Management isn’t software — it’s a business philosophy.”