The Agitar Management Team

CEO and President - Jerry Rudisin
VP of Engineering - Ashish Kumar
VP of Product Management - Jeffrey Fredrick
VP of Sales & Service, Asia-Pacific - Jeff Pope
VP of Sales & Service, EMEA - Danny McLaughlin
VP of Sales & Service, Americas - Ted Lewis

Jerry Rudisin - CEO and President

Jerry Rudisin joined Agitar as CEO in July 2003 and has served on Agitar's board of directors since November 2002. Jerry joined Agitar from NightFire Software, a startup offering service-management software 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. Jerry led NightFire to profitability in spite of the telecom depression; the company was sold in August 2003 to NeuStar (NYSE: NSR). Prior to NightFire, Jerry 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 was vice president of marketing and customer support, product manager, development manager, and software architect at startups in Boston and Pittsburgh. Jerry 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.

Ashish Kumar - VP of Engineering

Ashish joined Agitar in August 2004. He has more than 15 years of engineering leadership experience at various systems software and tools companies. Before joining Agitar, Ashish was cofounder and VP of engineering at Cenergize, a startup focused on email-based process management. At Cenergize, Ashish was instrumental in assembling the executive team and acquiring initial customers. Prior to Cenergize, Ashish was director of software engineering at Sun Microsystems, managing the SunONE Application Server 7 engineering team. While at Sun, Ashish also created and managed an 80+ people team responsible for delivering the iPlanet Application Server 6 at their Bangalore, India facility. Before that, Ashish led the development of JavaLoad at SunTest, and implemented multiple projects for the SMCC/IR team. Prior to Sun, Ashish held several development and engineering leadership roles at other software companies including Netcom Online and Software Moguls (later acquired by Legato).

Jeffrey Fredrick - VP of Product Management

Jeffrey Fredrick joined Agitar in October 2003. He is a 15-year veteran of the software industry with a mission to change the way software is created. A founding member of the JBuilder development team, Jeffrey has been involved in Java tool development since before its 1.0 release, and is the top committer for the open-source project CruiseControl. Jeffrey is an experienced speaker and trainer on development techniques and process, having spoken at Gartner Application Development Summits, Javapolis, EclipseCon, Better Software, and the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference.

Jeff Pope - VP of Sales & Service, Asia-Pacific

Jeff joined Agitar in April 2004. He is a software industry veteran with more than 20 years of executive experience in Asia. He joined Agitar from IBM’s Rational Software where he served most recently as vice president of Asia-Pacific. Jeff started the Asia operations for Atria Software prior to its acquisition by Rational in 1998. Previously he held management roles with Legent Corporation in Asia. He started his career as a software developer, working for global firms such as Citicorp, Fujitsu and Toyota.

Danny McLaughlin - VP of Sales & Service, EMEA

Danny joined Agitar in January 2005 with more than 20 years experience in the European Software Industry. He has a track record of successfully establishing software start-ups in Europe including Cognos, SQA, Datalogix and Rational Software. Danny joined Agitar from IBM’s Rational Software where he was responsible for IBM’s Software Development Tools business in Northern Europe. Prior to IBM’s acquisition of Rational, he spent eight years as Rational’s VP of Northern Europe responsible for the UK, Scandinavia and Benelux. Danny is based out of the UK.

Ted Lewis - VP of Sales & Service, Americas

Ted joined Agitar in May 2005 with more than 17 years of experience in creating and managing business relationships in the technology industry. Prior to joining Agitar, Ted held senior Sales Director positions at Accenia, Esmertec, Talarian (now Tibco), Wind River Systems, Verilog (now Telelogic), and Ready Systems (now Mentor Graphics).