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Gene is responsible for the internal business planning of the company as well as lending his years of operations expertise to key accounts by providing executive oversight to strategic programs. Prior to founding Knowledge Rules, Gene has been an independent executive consultant working with seed-stage companies including a year as interim CEO at QTL Biosystems in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From April 1996 to 1999, Gene was Vice President of the Market, Strategy, and Delivery Division at Pegasystems Inc. in Cambridge, MA. During his tenure, the company completed a successful IPO and grew from $22 million in 1995 to $76 million in 1999. In 1988, Gene was a founder of Object Design, Inc., (eXcelon Corporation, NASDAQ: EXLN) which was acquired by Progress Software. While at Object Design, he held a number of executive positions in marketing, product management and finance. In 1994, Inc. Magazine recognized the company as the fastest growing privately held company in the United States. The company raised over $36 million from venture and corporate partners. Gene earned a Bachelor of Science in Political Economics from Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. | 