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As Vice President of Engineering, Gary Zakon leads the product development efforts for the company's line of enterprise risk management solutions. Zakon joined OpenPages in December of 2001, and led the company's effort to develop and deliver OpenPages' ERM platform, upon which OpenPages solutions are built.
Zakon brings more than 20 years of software engineering experience to OpenPages. Prior to joining OpenPages, he was Vice President of the Advanced Products Group at Mercator Software where he spearheaded multiple initiatives to increase Mercator's market share in the B2B Integration market. This involved formulating the company's product strategy in the areas of XML support, B2B messaging, trading partner management and business process automation.
Prior to joining Mercator, Zakon was Vice President of Engineering and CTO at Novera Software. At Novera, he built a world-class engineering team that brought to market the first Java Application Server. Novera was acquired by Mercator in October, 1999. He also served as an Engineering Manager at Sybase and a Project Leader at BBN Communications. Gary received a Masters of Science in Information Systems from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from MIT. | 