Executives

Brian Pierce

Chief Executive Officer
Brian Pierce is Chief Executive Officer of Rogue Wave Software and brings with him more than 20 years of experience in the software and technology industry with a focus on maximizing customer value and total customer satisfaction. Most recently, Brian served as a Senior Vice President at Infor Global Solutions where he had responsibility for five independently operating business units including TriSyn Group, which merged with Infor in 2006. Prior to the merger, Brian served as President and Chief Operating Officer of TriSyn Group helping to increase total revenue by 40% over three years. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Customer Support and Satisfaction at TIBCO Software, Inc. and Vice President of Field Operations at InConcert (acquired by TIBCO). Brian started his career at Xerox where he spent 10 years in various field technical and sales positions.

Kevin P. Naughton

Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Kevin Naughton is responsible for directing the company's financial plans and programs; supporting the strategic and business planning processes; M & A related activities; and acting as a key liaison to current and future shareholders in the financial markets. Mr. Naughton was previously Senior Vice President and CFO of GTESS Corporation in Richardson, Texas, a privately held business process outsourcer for healthcare claims payers. Before that, he was CFO and Chief Operating Officer at Pavilion Technologies in Austin, Texas, a privately held enterprise optimization software company. Mr. Naughton was also CFO at S2 Systems in Dallas, Texas, a provider of software and services to the financial and healthcare markets and a subsidiary of Stratus Computer Corporation. Prior to S2 Systems, he held various financial and controller positions at Stratus Computer and Computervision Corporation. Mr. Naughton received a bachelor's degree in accounting and an MBA in finance and marketing from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Tom Gaunt

Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Tom Gaunt manages Rogue Wave Software's worldwide sales organization and is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with the company's strategic business partners. Tom joined Rogue Wave Software in 2001 with more than 20 years sales and business development experience. Previously, he was Vice President of Business Development for Netpliance and served in a sales director role at Borland Software Corporation. Mr. Gaunt also founded several high tech start-up companies. He graduated from the University of Kansas with a BS in Computer Science.

Mike Bundred

Vice President, Sales EMEA
Mike Bundred has been with Rogue Wave Software since February 1997 and served as Sales Director for the UK operation until September 2001 when he was promoted to Northern European Sales Director. In October 2002, Mike was appointed Vice President of Sales for EMEA and is responsible for managing the company's sales and business activities throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Mike has more than 20 years of sales and business development experience and has held senior sales and marketing positions with Tektronix, Lockheed Sanders and Metheus Corporation. He graduated from the University of Surrey with a First Class Honors degree in Engineering.

Scott Lasica

Vice President, Technical Sales Worldwide
Scott Lasica manages Rogue Wave Software's worldwide technical sales organization and is responsible for ensuring that the company's customers have successful technical understanding of its products. Scott joined Rogue Wave Software in 2001, bringing a broad range of experience in software technology and its use in vertical industries. Before joining Rogue Wave Software, Scott created conferencing applications and functionality as a technical lead at Raindance Communications. Prior to that, Scott worked on several NASA funded interplanetary spacecraft missions, developing software for trajectory calculation and data visualization of which many results were published. He graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

Patrick Leonard

Vice President, Product Development
Patrick Leonard is responsible for development of all Rogue Wave® products. To this role, Patrick brings a broad range of software and technology industry experience including software design and development, product management, international markets, public policy, professional services and product marketing. He also serves as a company representative to government organizations. Before joining Rogue Wave Software, Patrick created new e-business and distributed enterprise application products for J.D. Edwards (now part of Oracle). Prior to that, he designed and built custom enterprise systems for Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). Patrick received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and international business from the University of Colorado at Boulder.