Ardence Inc., the leader in developing software platforms for the on-demand world, today announced that Robert M. Lapides has been named Executive Vice President and General Manager and will head its Enterprise Division world-wide.
Mr. Lapides, who has more than two decades of executive-level experience and success in high technology sales and marketing, strategic alliances, business development, and mergers and acquisitions will lead global Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Customer Service, Product Management and Business/Channel Development initiatives for the Ardence Software-Streaming Platform. The platform delivers both operating systems and applications on-demand from networked storage and has widespread enterprise applicability in the data center and on the desktop.
Mr. Lapides has held leadership sales and management positions in a number of successful high technology companies during the last 26 years. Most recently he was senior vice president of world-wide sales and customer service at EnvoyWorldWide of Bedford, MA, a leading provider of enterprise notification services. At EnvoyWorldWide, Mr. Lapides led sales growth of nearly 300% in a three-year period. In late 2005, Seattle-based Par3 Communications acquired the company in a highly successful transaction that achieved EnvoyWorldWide’s strategic goal.
Prior to joining EnvoyWorldWide, Mr. Lapides was senior vice president of market development at Razorfish of Cambridge, MA and was a member of the company’s North American executive management team that increased revenue to more than $200 million annually at the publicly traded business and technology consulting services and solutions provider.
In announcing Mr. Lapides’ appointment, Richard J. Davis, Ardence Chairman, CEO and President, said “In order for us to take full advantage of the global potential our Software-Streaming Platform presents, we must execute with great precision even as we respond with agility and speed to the significant market opportunities that are coming our way. Bob knows the software business and he has both the sales experience and management expertise that will enable us to do this.”
Mr. Lapides said “It’s very clear that our Software-Streaming Platform delivers the IT value and the business value that corporations, government agencies and educational institutions are demanding – greater manageability, increased security, more flexibility, and responsiveness to changes in business needs. That’s a very good position to be in, but to succeed we have to execute skillfully across our internal organization and in concert with our channel partners globally. It’s an exciting challenge for all of us.”
Mr. Lapides had joined Razorfish from i-Cube of Cambridge, which Razorfish acquired in 1999. Mr. Lapides was vice president of global business development and a member of the executive management team that took i-Cube public in 1998 in one of Massachusetts’ most successful initial public offerings.
Mr. Lapides has also held sales and management positions at Liant Software of Framingham and NCR Corporation.
