The past five years have been successful and exciting:
- I was fortunate to have the opportunity to lead Jaspersoft's technology / ISV alliances while also forging strategic initiatives and partnerships in Analytic Database, Predictive Analytics, Big Data, and Cloud. Big news for the company this past year included:
- Big revenue growth and size in 2010 leveraging the Open Core Licensing business model
- Great buzz and recognition for the Big Data and Cloud initiatives which I drove
- Debut on the Gartner Magic Quadrant
- Launched first and highly successful JasperWorld user conference
- During my tenure at Jaspersoft, I was allowed to go part-time for a couple years to co-found zAgile with visionary, software engineering expert, and semantic technologies pioneer Sanjiva Nath. The company provides a semantic content integration platform for software engineering and enterprise applications. It is off to a great start with major customers like Bechtel as well as customers in healthcare and technology segments.
Alas, I determined it was time for yet a new adventure, introduced below. It's bittersweet to move on, but I am grateful to continue as a happy Jaspersoft stockholder as well as keep a front row seat as an advisor at zAgile.
In May, I joined BonitaSoft, the leader in open source business process management (BPM), as VP of Marketing. I am even more excited today than when I first joined. We have all the key ingredients for success:
- Company's leading open source BPM products, recognized by Gartner as "Cool Vendor" in its 2010 report and this year “the only open-source product that meets Gartner's definition of a BPMS”
- Solid co-founding team with BPM thought-leading visionaries (Miguel Valdes, CEO; Charles Souillard, VP of Engineering and CTO; Rodrigue Le Gall, Chief Services Officer)
- Fantastic growth, not only in terms of employees but also highly successful first year of sales operations (150 customers already!)
- A ripe and growing BPM market and even more opportunities edging outside of BPM and into tangentially related categories.
I look forward to reporting our progress. Stay tuned...
