Tim Yeaton - President and Chief Executive Officer
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Tim joined Black Duck Software in February of 2009, and brings over 30 years of software and technology management experience to his role as President, CEO and Director. Since his arrival, Black Duck has experienced 40% annualized year-over-year growth, completed three major acquisitions, created a joint venture in greater China, has been cash flow positive since Q4 2009, and built a worldwide operation that includes more than 100 employees with presence in 22 countries. In 2010 Black Duck was ranked the 379th largest software company in the world by Software Magazine. Prior to joining Black Duck, Tim was Chief Marketing Officer at EqualLogic until its $1.4B acquisition by Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) in 2008, and as Dell’s Vice President of the Nashua (N.H.) Design Center, he led the integration of the two companies and managed Dell’s operations in the region. Prior to EqualLogic, Tim spent several years at Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the leading provider of open source software solutions, as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing & General Manager of Enterprise Solutions. At Red Hat, Tim was instrumental in expanding its business into the developer and middleware markets with acquisitions of JBoss and MetaMatrix, and built go-to-market partnerships with companies including IBM, HP, Dell, Sun and several others. Prior to Red Hat, Tim was CEO of Avaki, a venture-backed data management software company acquired by Sybase (NYSE: SAP). Before Avaki he was Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Server Products Division at Macromedia (Nasdaq: ADBE), via its acquisition of Allaire where he was previously Senior Vice President of Products. Tim spent the early part of his career at Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation (NYSE: HPQ), most recently as Vice President and General Manager of Compaq’s UNIX/Linux Software Division. In 2009 Tim was named one of the Most Influential People in the Open Source Software Industry, in a survey of executives conducted by Mindtouch. In September 2010, Tim was named a Finalist for CEO of the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, and in October 2010, he was named a COPU Think Tank Advisor, which recognizes the key global thought leaders in Open Source Software. In addition to Black Duck, Tim currently sits on the Board of Directors of Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq: BIRT), the N.H. High Technology Council, and on the Roger Williams University Board of Trustees. He is also co-owner of Stonebridge Country Club in Goffstown, N.H. Tim holds an M.B.A. from Babson College, and a B.S., summa cum laude, from Roger Williams University.
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