Accelerating Business Application Development

About RapidApps

The Executive Team

President & CTO: Ian Brown

With 30 years in the software products and services business, Mr Brown brings a wealth of related experience to RapidApps. He started what would become Gallium Software, as a division in Prior Data Sciences, grew the combined product and services revenue and established “PRIOR/Gallium” as an international leader in real-time graphics tools. As VP Marketing, he had responsibility for product definition, development, sales and marketing and negotiated partnerships with Sun, Intergraph, Tektronix, IBM and others. He has also managed enterprise application development for Data General as Major Opportunities Manager and was Director of Applications R&D at Mitel. Mr. Brown founded CareerSeer.com a Lead to Win company.

Vice President, Customer Engagement: Pat Seemel

Pat Seemel has over 20 years experience in all aspects of the systems development life cycle while specializing in requirements analysis and process design. She has a broad education in Computer Science, Psychology, and Applied Social Science and has applied this background to develop and deploy group-based approaches to systems development with routine success. Grounded in advanced group facilitation, she has expanded Joint Application Design techniques to the full range of requirements gathering, analysis, and design. Ms. Seemel has held positions with many large consulting organizations for over thirty federal government projects. Ms. Seemel founded Groupology, a Lead to Win company. Ms. Seemel is responsible for engaging with customers to define their requirements at RapidApps.


General Manager: Robert Norris

Mr Norris has over twenty-five yeas of experience in consulting, product management and R&D management roles. He has a BSc in Computer Science and a Diploma in Electrical Engineering. He was a Director of Product Management in Alcatel’s largest software business unit where he had product line management responsibilities for a 25M line of business, including product P&L, partnering and support services. Previously, he held roles at Newbridge Networks, CrossKeys Systems, the PSC Group and Amdahl Communications. Mr Norris is the successful founder of Straterra, a Lead To Win company, providing geological software products.

Vice President Business Development: David Mains

David Mains, brings more than twenty years of business development experience in international and North American high-tech markets. His proven track record spans all aspects of sales and marketing from market research and value proposition, to demand generation, selling and nurturing repeat business. Mr Mains consistently exceeds revenue goals delivering double digit growth in the enterprise computing space, including disaster recovery services and enterprise applications (SAP). Mr. Mains is a co-founder of a Lead to Win company.

Contact

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