Gordon O. Rapkin currently serves as president and CEO of Protegrity Corporation Inc. an international data security software company where he has been responsible for the establishing a comprehensive sales and marketing strategy to address large enterprise customers. From 2001 to 2004 Mr. Rapkin served as executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Trancentive Inc. a global provider of technology and services for administering stock options and stock purchase plans where he was responsible for international operations global marketing and sales and third party relationships. From 2000 to 2001 he served as executive vice president of business-to-business markets for Kana Software Inc. where he was responsible for spearheading the company's strategic entry into the business-to-business markets by overseeing product direction and strategic partnerships. From 1996 to 1999 Gordon was president and CEO of Decision-ism where he redirected the company into the business intelligence market by expanding the executive management team overseeing the launch of new products and building the national sales force. He has also spent more than eight years at Hyperion Systems (now Hyperion Solutions Inc.) the global leader in business performance management software where he was instrumental in guiding Hyperion through successive years of extraordinary growth including a highly successful initial public offering. He holds a degree in biochemistry from Syracuse University as well as an MBA and a law degree from Emory University. |