SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- JasperSoft Corporation, the
market leader in open source business intelligence, today announced the
appointment of Brian Gentile as president and chief executive officer.
Gentile brings 22 years of executive management, marketing, developer and
community programs leadership to JasperSoft. Most notably, he has held
senior executive positions at leading business intelligence companies and
successfully established and managed two of the world's largest developer
communities. Gentile will be responsible for guiding the company's
long-term business strategy and continued growth as a leader and innovator
in business intelligence software.
"JasperSoft has emerged as the clear market leader in open source
business intelligence," said Gentile. "With more than 60,000 registered
developers and more than 2.5 million core product downloads, the global
JasperSoft community is experiencing explosive growth. Organizations
understand that broadly-deployed business intelligence is required to
improve business agility in today's fast-paced environment, which provides
JasperSoft with an important opportunity to lead the business intelligence
market."
Gentile has continuously demonstrated success in helping companies
reach their financial and market leadership objectives. He has spent most
of his career with leading market- and technology-driven organizations and
has particular experience building world-class developer communities.
Among his accomplishments during eight years with Apple Computer,
Gentile grew the evangelism team from 30 to 100 employees, greatly
improving Apple's ability to support and partner with the 10,000
independent software companies in its developer community. At Sun
Microsystems, Gentile served as the company's first Vice President of
Developer Relations, where he helped create the Sun and Java Developer
Connection programs. Together, these became the fastest-growing and largest
developer communities in the industry with more than two million members
during his tenure. He also built Sun's first strategic evangelism team,
creating methods to directly engage thousands of developers with highly
influential technical guidance.
Gentile most recently comes from Informatica Corporation, where he
served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, and led all
aspects of the company's global marketing efforts. Previously, he also
served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Brio
Software, helping to profitably rebuild the company and then assist in its
acquisition by Hyperion Solutions.
Gentile will be replacing Paul Doscher as CEO, who helped recruit
Gentile first to the company's board of directors and now to a direct
operational role as President and CEO. Doscher will remain on JasperSoft's
board of directors to both help implement a smooth executive transition and
to provide operational advice and insight.
"Brian's deep experience building successful developer-centric
organizations is a perfect fit for JasperSoft," said Rory O'Driscoll,
managing director for Scale Venture Partners and a member of the JasperSoft
board of directors. "His experience building two of the world's largest and
most successful developer communities, knowledge of the business
intelligence market, and executive experience at two leading business
intelligence software companies make him the ideal person to drive the next
phase of JasperSoft's growth. The board is confident in Brian's ability to
meet corporate objectives and extend JasperSoft's leadership in the open
source and business intelligence markets."
About JasperSoft
JasperSoft is the market leader in open source business intelligence.
With more than 2.5 million downloads worldwide and more than 7,000
commercial customers in 91 countries, JasperSoft offers the most widely
used open source business intelligence software in the world. The
JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite is comprised of an interactive
reporting server, graphical and ad hoc report design interfaces, OLAP
analysis, an ETL tool for data integration, and a Java reporting library
for use with either stand-alone or embedded business intelligence
applications. JasperSoft is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading
venture capital firms Morgenthaler Ventures, DCM, Partech International,
Scale Venture Partners and SAP Ventures. More information is available at
http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://www.jasperforge.org.
Editorial Contact:
Nick Halsey
Jaspersoft
nhalsey@jaspersoft.com
415-348-2348
SOURCE JasperSoft Corporation
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Related links:
http://www.jaspersoft.com
http://www.jasperforge.org
CONTACT:
Nick Halsey of JasperSoft Corporation,
+1-415-348-2348, nhalsey@jaspersoft.com
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