Robert E. Gelinas Appointed New Vice President of Sales for SoftServe, Inc.
Fort Myers, Florida / December 14, 2008
SoftServe Inc. announced the assignment of Robert E. Gelinas, a professional with over 20 years of high tech, sales and executive managerial experience, as Vice President of Sales.
Robert E. Gelinas has been appointed Vice President of Sales for SoftServe, Inc., a leading global software development and consulting company. SoftServe's newly appointed executive is coming on board with over 20 years of executive managerial experience of successful sales, business development and consulting in advanced IT, information security and networking technologies.
Previously, Mr. Gelinas held the positions of President & CEO of iCrypt, Inc., an Incubator Funded Start-Up; Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Operations of CyberGuard Corporation; Director of Strategic Accounts for WholeSecurity, a VC Funded Start-Up; Business Development Manager in SAIC/Global Integrity, Southeast Regional Sales Manager in AXENT Technologies. Among his most significant achievements has been the development of successful sales teams which produced over $100 million in revenue within 8 years, all of which were in early‐stage, start‐up, or new regions/divisions, plus executed a successful turnaround of a failing public company.
"Robert Gelinas is a welcome addition to our senior management team. He brings a wealth of business experience, industry knowledge and relationships to SoftServe," said Taras Vervega, SoftServe's EVP, Business Development, "With his extensive know-how and drive, Robert is the right person to help us continue with our mission to help achieve a quantifiable contribution to the client's success helping them to enhance their competitive capabilities."
Robert E. Gelinas holds a degree in Electronic Systems Technology from the CCAF, University of Texas at San Antonio, and University of Maryland (Heidelberg, GE), and received training in numerous formal technical courses, corporate sponsored business management courses, sales and negotiation trainings.
At SoftServe Robert will be responsible for driving the company's global sales activities while implementing new strategic initiatives and driving customer growth.
About SoftServe, Inc.
SoftServe is a leading global provider of proven high quality software development, testing and consulting services. At SoftServe, we are passionate and committed to bringing the best commercial software to market for new and established independent software vendors and software-enabled businesses. To accomplish this, we created AbilitonTM, an approach that develops an assessment and certification framework making it simple to create the right standards, certifications, tools and team structure to repeatedly deliver development success for our clients. Through the years, SoftServe has partnered with hundreds of companies globally on a wide range of products and technologies, successfully completing over 2000 projects. Founded in 1993, SoftServe is headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, with an award-winning development organization based in Ukraine and the Philippines. For more information, please visit www.softserveinc.com.