Technology >> CEO Interviews >> October 25, 2000
GERARD J. RUDISIN joined NightFire Software, Inc. in April 1999 as
President and CEO from Rational Software, the e-development company. Mr.
Rudisin led marketing for nearly eight years at Rational (based in
Cupertino, CA) as it grew from a small private company to a highly
successful public company. with $412 million in revenue for the year
ended March 1999 and a $3 billion market capitalization. In multiple
marketing roles at Rational he was responsible for product marketing,
corporate marketing, branding, customer support, and sales support, as
well as the marketing aspects of three acquisitions of public companies
and two stock offerings that raised a total of $217 million. From 1986
to 1991 he was Vice President of Marketing and Customer Support at
Alsys, a software tools supplier in the Boston area. From 1981 to 1986
he was a software developer, software architect, and software
development manager at several start-up companies. Mr. Rudisin earned
his Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of
California at Los Angeles in 1980 and his Bachelors degree in
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 1975. Profile
Mr. Rudisin: NightFire was founded in October 1997 with the idea of
using the Internet and new Internet technologies '
