Management

Miguel Valdés-Faura, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder. Miguel leads the charge in BonitaSoft’s mission: to democratize Business Process Management (BPM), bringing powerful and affordable BPM to organizations and projects of all sizes. Miguel founded the Bonita project in 2001, with the vision that BPM would become mainstream in every company's IT portfolio. Prior to BonitaSoft, Miguel led R&D, pre-sales and support for the BPM division of Bull Information Systems, a major European systems provider. Miguel is a recognized thought-leader in business process management and passionate about open source community building.

Miguel holds a degree in Computer Science from the URV and a Master's degree from Nancy and Metz Universities.

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Charles Souillard, VP of Engineering and CTO, Co-Founder. Charles leads the BonitaSoft product development organization, with primary offices in Grenoble and Beijing. Prior to BonitaSoft, he was head of the Bonita core development team within Bull Information Systems. Charles has significant experience developing mission critical applications with Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture technologies. Charles serves on a number of European Community projects, bringing the values of open source to important government initiatives.

Charles holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Polytech de Grenoble.

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Rodrigue Le Gall, Chief Services Officer and Co-Founder. Rodrigue is in charge of BonitaSoft Professional Services as well as the BonitaSoft Open Source Community. Prior to BonitaSoft Rodrigue was head of the Bonita Design and Web development group for Bull Information Systems. Rodrigue also held numerous senior consulting positions, most recently with HP.

Rodrigue holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble (ENSIMAG).

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Ruth Cernes Fagebaume, Sales Director EMEA, Asia & Latin America. Ruth is in charge of developing BonitaSoft direct business activities in those countries and through the extension of BonitaSoft partnership programs. Prior to BonitaSoft, Ruth served as Area Manager Southern Europe at RightNow Technologies. She previously worked in business development and alliance management at Genesys and Alcatel. 

Ruth holds two Master Degrees, in Artificial Intelligence from ENS Cachan and in Corporate Strategy and Alliances from Paris Dauphine University.

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Dave Cloyd, North American Business Manager
Dave is in charge of developing BonitaSoft direct business activities in Northern America and through the extension of BonitaSoft partnership programs. David Cloyd has over 20 years of deep experience in launching U.S. operations for European technology companies, including full P&L responsibility, strategic planning and developing revenue growth and partnerships. Most recently, he served as general manager of Nuxeo in the U.S., where he led the open source enterprise content management company's successful expansion into the North American market.

Additionally he has a deep background in the BPM space having held senior positions with market leaders such as TIBCO and Xerox.

Jeremy Lipp, Operational Marketing Director. Jeremy manages a wide range of core worldwide marketing responsibilities including demand generation, events, and the corporate website. Jeremy is responsible for the “lead-to-close funnel,” the key component to BonitaSoft’s successful business engine. Jeremy has more than 10 years of experience managing both online and offline marketing as well as communication programs for major corporations including GDF-Suez and Steria.

Jeremy graduated from Grenoble Ecole de Management.

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Andrew Lampitt, VP of Marketing. Andrew is responsible for worldwide product marketing, marketing communications, and ISV partner marketing. Prior to BonitaSoft, Andrew led strategic initiatives and software vendor alliances at Jaspersoft, the leader in commercial open source business intelligence. Andrew has more than fifteen years of experience in various sales, marketing, business development, and product management roles with enterprise software vendors including Sybase and Business Objects (both acquired by SAP), as well as Sunopsis (acquired by Oracle).

Andrew earned a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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