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Jaspersoft Hires New Senior Director of Community Development

By Deepika Mala
TMCnet Contributor

Matthew Geise has joined Jaspersoft, maker of the world's most widely used business intelligence software, as Senior Director of Community Development.

In his new role, Geise will be responsible for driving the expansion and value of the Jaspersoft open source community by advocating for the community within Jaspersoft and evangelizing the capabilities of Jaspersoft's open source projects.

He will also drive the proliferation of knowledge within the community, streamline and expand on community contributions and involvement.

To assure the continued adoption of Jaspersoft's technology, Geise will also advocate for community priorities within Jaspersoft's product and services roadmap process.

Geise, in his prior roles within Jaspersoft, managed the Global Customer Support Organization as well as an on-demand implementation of Jaspersoft's technology, focused on delivering BI capabilities to Salesforce.com (News - Alert) customers.

While at Jaspersoft, Geise ran a highly-scalable Jaspersoft-based service with a greater than 99.9 percent service availability and managed the delivery of Jaspersoft's highly-regarded customer support services during a time of exceptional customer growth.

“Matt's proven track record within the organization as well as his existing ties and understanding of customer needs make him ideally suited for the position,” said Brian Gentile, CEO at Jaspersoft, in a press release.

“We are committed to working closely with our thriving community and this community development role is only the first in a series of strategic moves intended to accelerate this important aspect of our business.”

Prior to joining Jaspersoft, Geise worked at Andersen Consulting, in the government industry developing mission critical systems and advising on RFPs resulting in the acquisition of services contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

He has also worked as Director of Technology Solutions (News - Alert) for Charles Schwab's Corporate Services Technology group in San Francisco where he managed technology projects, which helped to grow client assets by over $8 Billion in a single year.

In related news, Jaspersoft has received USD$11m of new capital financing.

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