Last Updated: October 7, 2025
Analyzing Management
Leadership at public companies serves as a crucial variable for hedge funds and asset managers during both initial due diligence and continuous risk assessment. ManagementTrack offers a consistent methodology that filters out distractions—highlighting distinct strengths and weaknesses, identifying warning signs and positive indicators, and drawing a clear connection between CEO actions and investment performance.
CEO Clark’s execution gaps and personnel issues risk RPO and product rollouts
Analysis of Manhattan Associates CEO Eric Clark
While Eric Clark’s client focus and strategic cost management are assets, his history of execution gaps and personnel issues creates risk for converting the RPO backlog and ensuring stable product rollouts.
ManagementTrack’s analysis focuses on Eric Clark’s track record and skillset against the following key factors for MANH:
- Sustaining elevated new logo acquisition rates.
- Generating ROI from the aggressive go-to-market investment.
- Navigating cautious spending to protect services revenue.
- Executing cloud migration to convert the $2.01B RPO backlog.
Report Available: Proprietary Interviews & Analysis on Eric Clark Answers Key Questions
ManagementTrack reports provide track record analysis, career playbooks, strengths, and weaknesses for every CEO. They allow investors to dig deeper to uncover hard-to-find data to answer the most pressing questions.
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Question Answered #1
How will Clark reconcile his strength in building a collaborative culture with his documented failure to fire underperformers?
Question Answered #2
How does Clark’s history of prioritizing growth over stability risk creating the execution gaps that threaten the company’s critical cloud migration?
Question Answered #3
How will Clark structure his leadership team to compensate for his documented weakness in managing the “nitty gritty” of execution and technology implementation?
Why Do Investors Use ManagementTrack?
Q: How does ManagementTrack evaluate Eric Clark at MANH?
A: Through its proprietary career analysis and interviews with former colleagues, ManagementTrack establishes Eric Clark’s track record and identifies his key strengths and weaknesses. This profile is then measured against MANH’s most critical challenges: sustaining new customer acquisition, generating a return on its go-to-market investment, protecting services revenue amidst cautious spending, and executing the cloud migration to convert its RPO backlog.
Q: What other tools does ManagementTrack offer for assessing executive impact on company performance?
A: ManagementTrack utilizes proprietary models designed to detect and quantify executive evasion during earnings call Q&A, flagging any communication that deviates from the norm. Furthermore, its system scrutinizes all insider transactions to identify outlier trades that can predict future stock performance. These inputs, combined with the predictive ManagementTrack Rating—a 1-10 score assigned to every executive—give investors a distinct, data-driven view on how management will likely impact company results.
Q: Which companies does ManagementTrack cover?
A: ManagementTrack provides real-time analysis on the c-suite executives of all publicly traded companies.
How to Learn More
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Author
Colby Howard is the co-founder and President of Paragon Intel. Paragon Intel’s ManagementTrack is the premier executive analysis platform for hedge funds, asset managers, corporations, boards, and recruiters. Our proprietary data, built over a decade of analysis, allows us to analyze each public company executive to understand their fit and ability to execute at their company. We leverage our proprietary data – key quantitative research on an executive’s career plus interviews with their former colleagues – with public documents, including SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q), investor presentations, press releases, and earnings call transcripts. to build a holistic, evidence-based view of an executive’s capabilities and playbook.
Sources
Verified Career History by ManagementTrack for Eric Clark
Analysis of Capital Allocation, Performance, and Fundamentals across career by ManagementTrack
Manhattan Associates, Inc. 10Q
Manhattan Associates, Inc. 10K
Manhattan Associates, Inc. Earnings Calls
Manhattan Associates, Inc. Press Releases
Relevant Links
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Data visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-data/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview & Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-reports/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview library visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-report-library/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Evasion Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/earnings-call-evasion/
- For more information on how ManagementTrack helps hedge funds and asset managers visit: https://paragonintel.com/
