Appfluent Executive Bios

Frank Gelbart, President & CEO

Frank Gelbart has over 20 years experience in enterprise software sales and marketing. Prior to becoming CEO of Appfluent in 2002, Frank held executive sales and marketing positions with both venture backed and publicly-traded software companies. As VP of Worldwide Sales at Entevo Corporation he spearheaded the company’s aggressive global sales growth which culminated in a $125 million acquisition by Bindview Development in February of 2000. As VP Marketing for CyberGuard Corporation, a publicly-traded Internet security company he oversaw product management, corporate marketing and business development. Prior to Cheyenne’s acquisition by Computer Associates for $1.2 billion, Frank was responsible for Cheyenne’s sales operations in Asia, Canada and Latin America.

Matthew Doering, Chief Technology Officer

As CTO, Matt Doering, a leading business intelligence industry expert, is responsible for the strategic direction of Appfluent's products and technology. He joined Appfluent Technology from Sand Technology Inc., where he was responsible for delivering significant advances in the development of key products. He was formerly CTO for QueryObject Systems Inc. where he piloted the company's transformation from a solutions provider into a leading independent software vendor. Prior to QueryObjects, Matt held senior technology development roles at Metaphor Inc.

Allen Skees , Vice President, Engineering

As VP, Engineering, Allen brings significant experience to the Company's product development efforts. Allen has five years experience leading teams in designing and building database auditing and caching products. He also has five years experience in the fields of artificial intelligence, distributed computing, and computer graphics. He worked for three years on a sophisticated air-to-air combat simulation for the United States Air Force. Allen holds multiple degrees including an MS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Physics and a BA in Mathematics.

Robert Tavares, Vice President, Sales
rtavares@appfluent.com

Robert brings more than 25 years of experience in driving growth for enterprise software companies in both sales and sales management roles. Prior to Appfluent , Robert was most recently VP of Sales for Opalis, a data center automation software company. Robert was instrumental in triple digit growth in revenue as well as increasing the average selling price of the solution. Robert also spent two years as Vice President of Sales Eastern Canada for SAP Software and prior to that he was VP of Sales at The Kernel Group where he assisted in repositioning the company to dramatically increase revenue, which was instrumental in its acquisition by Veritas Software in 2001. Robert has also served as Vice President, Sales Americas for IXOS Software Inc, Managing Director Canada for Legent Software and Managing Director Canada for Applied Data Research. Robert has a bachelors of Business Administration degree from Concordia University in Montreal.

Santosh Chitakki, Vice President, Marketing

As VP, Marketing, Santosh brings over 15 years of sales, marketing and business development experience to Appfluent Technology. Previously Santosh served as Vice President of Marketing for BioNetrix, an enterprise security software company and directed the worldwide channel sales and marketing at Entevo, a systems software company. Santosh has also held senior product marketing, product management, and business development positions at leading software companies such as IBM, Lotus and Intergraph. Santosh holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, India and an MBA from University of Maryland.