Jerry Rudisin - CEO and President - joined Agitar as CEO in July
2003 and has served on Agitar's board of directors since November 2002. Jerry Rudisin joined Agitar in July 2003 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 Partne...
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Jerry Rudisin - CEO and President - joined Agitar as CEO in July
2003 and has served on Agitar's board of directors since November 2002.
Jerry Rudisin joined Agitar in July 2003 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.
