Management Team

Mr. Tommy E. Knight, Chairman and Co-Founder of Veros Systems, Inc., has thirty-five years of design, management, marketing and strategic planning experience in the global engineering, construction and services industry. As President and CEO of Brown & Root, Inc. (a subsidiary of Halliburton Company) and member of the Halliburton Company Executive Committee (1992-1996), Mr. Knight provided leadership and direction to a professional team managing one of the world’s largest engineering, construction and services companies, globally diversified in onshore and offshore oil and gas, petrochemicals, manufacturing, forest products, industrial maintenance, civil, environmental and government services contracting markets. During Mr. Knight’s progression from design engineer to CEO (1964-1992), he participated in oil and gas and civil infrastructure development and government support services around the world. Projects included oil and gas production facilities and pipelines in deep water and hostile frontier environments, and resident assignments in Japan, Singapore and Australia.

Mr. Knight holds Bachelor and Master of Engineering degrees in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in The State of Texas. Mr. Knight has served as a director of Metals USA, Inc. (NYSE), Innovative Valve Technologies (NASDAQ), and several civic organizations. He currently serves on the College of Engineering Advisory and Development Council at Texas A&M University.

Mr. Allan L. Wilson, President and CEO, Director of Veros Systems, Inc., has over 25 years experience in the software industry.  Prior to joining Veros Systems Mr. Wilson spent 5 years with SAP, two of those years he spent at SAP HQ in Walldorf Germany where he reported to the Office of the COO for strategic programs associated with new product innovation.  Prior to that assignment he led SAP Lean Manufacturing and Lean Supply Chain business units.  Prior to SAP Mr. Wilson was CEO and Chairman of the board of Factory Logic an Austin Texas based software company specializing in products to enable deployment of  the Toyota Production System lean process model. He sold Factory Logic to SAP in 2006.  Mr. Wilson also spent many years leading two other software companies, Advisian Inc. and Western Data Systems providing ERP and MRO solutions for the Aerospace and Defense industry and also worked closely with the US DoD providing MRO Solutions for the repair and overhaul of in service military assets.  In 1986, Mr. Wilson testified to the US Senate Armed Services Committee as an expert witness for the use of ERP solutions in government contracting and his testimony is today part of the public record.

Dr. Alexander G. Parlos, Vice President & CTO, Director and Co-Founder of Veros Systems, Inc., is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at TAMU. Dr. Parlos has prior start-up experience in industrial markets and is the lead developer of the VEROS technology licensed from The TAMUS. Dr. Parlos also holds joint appointments with the Department of Nuclear Engineering, and, by courtesy, the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. At Texas A&M, he has established and is heading the Networked and Intelligent Machines Laboratory (NIML), where research on wireless sensor/actuator networks focuses on “smart product” applications and on enabling cost-efficient machine-to-machine communication over standard IP networks. Dr. Parlos holds numerous patents involving machine condition assessment technologies and other algorithms for neural networks learning for use in estimation and control applications. Since his arrival to Texas A&M University he has supervised the research of over 50 graduate students. The R&D program at the NIML has attracted over $4 million in research funding and it is sponsored by various federal agencies (NSF, US Department of Energy, US Department of Defense, NASA), State of Texas agencies, industry groups (EPRI, APPA), as well as private companies. During his career, he has served on dozens of government, industrial and academic review panels, program committees, and editorial boards. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, and Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering. He has published over 160 journal and conference papers.

Dr. Parlos holds a B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering (1983) from Texas A&M University. He subsequently attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned the M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering (1985), the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1985) and the Sc.D. degree in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (1986). Dr. Parlos is a Fellow of the ASME, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Registered Professional Engineering in The State of Texas.

Mr. Ray H. Tolson, Director of Veros Systems, Inc., retired as CEO of Pride International, in 1999.  Ray began his career in the oil service industry working as a drilling fluids sales and service engineer for Magcobar, a Dresser Industries company.  He was employed nine years by Magcobar working in the Texas Panhandle, Texas Gulf Coast, and South Texas.  In 1965 he purchased a half interest in a South Texas insurance agency and spent the next ten years building a very successful regional insurance business.  In 1975 he saw an opportunity to purchase one of his clients, Pride Well Services, returning to his roots in the oil service industry. Pride owned nine small well servicing rigs operating in South Texas.  Serving as president and CEO, Ray led Pride for 24 years and saw it grow from a small regional well servicing company to become a world-class, international deep water drilling company operating in 15 countries.  The company was renamed Pride Petroleum Services and later became Pride International (PDE) traded on the New Your Stock Exchange.