Rogue Wave Software CEO and leadership

Brian Pierce is a software technology industry veteran who has led and repeatedly built rapidly scaling businesses through dynamic, hands-on management through both organic and inorganic growth. An experienced software executive with more than 30 years of technical, sales and operational experience across all aspects of company operations in the business, including CEO, COO and President positions, in both software infrastructure and enterprise applications. I currently sit on the boards of Jitterbit Software and Wolfepak Software and am a Sr. Advisor at Sixth Street Partners.

Brian has served as CEO of Rogue Wave Software from 2008 - 2019. Brian lead Rogue Wave through two Private equity holds and exits with Rogue Wave. Under Battery Ventures ownership 2008 - 2012, Rogue Wave grew revenue almost 65% while more than doubling EBITDA through four acquisitions. Under Audax ownership, 2012 - 2019, Rogue Wave grew revenue by almost 300% and EBITDA grew 250% through six acquisitions. Both exits achieved higher than industry average returns for our owners.

Prior to Rogue Wave, Brian served as a Senior Vice President at Infor Global Solutions where he had responsibility for five independently operating business units with over $90M in revenue generating $65M in EBITDA. He also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of TriSyn Group, 2003 - 2008, an enterprise-class applications software company focused on the top 100 banks in the U.S. TriSyn became part of Infor in 2007. At TIBCO, 1999 - 2003, Brian carried many different operational executive roles and ended his tenure as Senior Vice President of Customer Satisfaction and Support, where he implemented a world-class global professional service and 24x7 support organization for a rapidly growing business. Brian also built a world class professional services organization globally at TIBCO. He was Vice President of Field Operations at InConcert, Inc., a Xerox Technology Venture company acquired by TIBCO in 1999. Brian started his career at Xerox where he spent 13 years in various technical, sales and management positions.

Brian's passion is working with high performance teams to deliver maximum value for customers, employees and stakeholders.

Christine Bottagaro is a Chief Marketing Officer at Rogue Wave Software and is based in United States.

Rod founded EJB Solutions in 1998, later renamed to OpenLogic, to provide enterprise grade tools and solutions that remove barriers to effective software development and deployment. His extensive knowledge and experience with open source has culminated in a suite of products that enable enterprise control and reduce programmer pain when using and deploying dozens of popular open source technologies. With 20 years of experience developing enterprise software solutions, Rod has provided technical leadership on significant projects for companies such as IBM, Anthem, Ericsson, Ford, Goodyear, Integral, CourseNet, and Digital Thoughts. Rod is a Sun Certified Java Architect and routinely speaks at technical conferences such as Java Symposia and the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Rod was selected as one of the Top 10 presenters at JavaOne 2005. He holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Software Engineering from the University of Louisville. A lifelong entrepreneur, Rod's first business success was at the age of 13 when he taught himself to program and started selling his own software. His varied achievements include a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, Kentucky state chess champion and successful open source implementations at over 17 enterprises worldwide.