Technology >> CEO Interviews >> April 12, 2004
JERRY RUDISIN, CEO and President of Agitar Software, Inc., joined the
company as CEO in July 2003 and has served on Agitar's Board of
Directors since November 2002. He joined Agitar from NightFire Software,
a startup offering enterprise-class service management solutions to
telecom carriers, where he was CEO from April 1999 to July 2003.
NightFire, founded in October 1997, was funded by Sequoia Capital, New
Enterprise Associates, US Venture Partners, Technology Partners and The
Roda Group. Mr. Rudisin led NightFire to profitability in spite of the
depression in telecom software; the company was sold in August 2003.
Prior to Nightfire, he led marketing for almost eight years at Rational
Software Corporation (now IBM Rational), joining when it was a private
company with $28 million in revenue and leaving when it was a public
company with $412 million in revenue and a $3 billion market
capitalization. He was responsible for product and corporate marketing,
sales support and the marketing aspects of three public company
acquisitions and two stock offerings, which raised a total of $217
million. Previously he spent five years as vice president of marketing
and customer support at a software startup near Boston after several
years as software developer, development manager and product manager at
a startup in Pittsburgh. Mr. Rudisin earned a Master's degree in
Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and a
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Profile
Mr. Rudisin: Agitar is a software product company focused on the big
universe of software developers. It's a fact that the world
