TEL AVIV, Israel, September 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
K2View Corporation, a provider of next generation data
management products, is delighted to announce that Andre M Boisvert
has been elected to the company's Board of Directors.
Mr. Boisvert has been in the technology field for over 35 years.
Boisvert started his career with IBM in 1976 where he spent 13
years. While at IBM, Boisvert held senior management positions in
sales, marketing and R&D. After leaving IBM, Boisvert held
executive positions in some of the best respected software
companies in the software industry, such as Cognos Corporation and
Oracle Corporation where he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide
Marketing and was a member of Oracle's Management committee.
In 2000, Boisvert was recruited as the President & COO of
SAS Institute Inc., the world's largest privately held software
company with revenues currently exceeding $3B annually, with the mission of bringing the
company public. When the plans of an IPO were abandoned in 2001,
Boisvert joined one of SAS Institute Inc.'s' investments as
Chairman & CEO of Sagent Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SGNT).
In April of 2004, Boisvert successfully completed the sale of
Sagent Technologies Inc. to Group 1 Software Inc.
(NASDAQ:GSOF).
In March 2002, Boisvert became a
director of VA Software (NASDAQ:LNUX), the creator and owner of
SourceForge, the world's largest repository of open source
projects. During his four year term at VA Software, Boisvert
developed a wealth of knowledge about open source projects and
their applicability to solving real world problems, which
previously had been exclusively addressed through expensive
proprietary software.
This experience led Boisvert to co-founding Pentaho Corporation
in October of 2004, the world's most popular commercial open source
business intelligence platform. Pentaho was subsequently acquired
by Hitachi Data Systems for +$500M in Feb, 2015. Boisvert also
serves/served as an advisor/director of several other leading
commercial open source companies, Revolution Analytics (acquired by
Microsoft in January 2015),
Zenoss Inc. (systems management), Infobright (data
warehousing) and Zend Technologies Inc. (the PHP company).
Boisvert is also Chairman of Palamida Corporation, a leader in
Software Composition Analysis for intellectual property &
security risk management, and Vice-Chairman of River Logic Inc., a
leader in prescriptive analytics. Additionally, Boisvert is a
Director of Clario Analytics Inc., a cloud based analytics solution
aimed at companies using multi-channels to market their products
& services and London based
SmartFocus Corporation, a leader in email & social
marketing.
In 2012 Boisvert became a Director of Issuer Direct, a leading
provider of regulatory compliance solutions & services for
publicly traded companies. In 2013 Boisvert was appointed Chairman
of Issuer Direct and in 2014 the company uplifted its public
listing to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ISDR).
"We are excited to have an industry luminary like Andre involved
with K2View", said Ayal Shiran,
Chairman of the board. "We look forward to benefiting from Andre's
unparalleled experience in the industry as we continue to build
upon the success K2View has enjoyed to date across multiple
industries and on a global basis."
K2View's patent-pending Logical Unit technology is a
revolutionary new approach to Big Data Management. K2View allows
organizations to manage and manipulate their data using their
business entity view - be it a customer, a product or any entity
that drives their business.
"I look forward to working closely with the team at K2View",
said Mr. Boisvert. "Having lived through several major technology
transformations over the last few decades, I have developed an
appreciation for truly transformative solutions. Given that
K2View's products definitely fall into this elite category, I
am excited about helping build another game changing , world class
software company."
About K2View
K2View is revolutionizing the data management industry with its
revolutionary new product called Fabric. Fabric "wraps around" an
enterprises existing data architecture and seamlessly transforms it
to a distributed, Big Data architecture. Fabric includes a
suite of Big Data solutions that offer unmatched processing
performance, seamless and easy integration, unparalleled processing
performance and breach-proof security. Learn more at
http://www.k2view.com.
For more information please contact
Osnat Segev-Harel
osnat@k2view.com
SOURCE K2View Corporation