RapidMind Appoints Silicon Valley Entrepreneur to Senior Executive TeamRapidMind Appoints Silicon Valley Entrepreneur to Senior Executive Team
WATERLOO, ONTARIO — October 8, 2008 — RapidMind Inc., makers of the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform, today announced the appointment of industry veteran David Port to the senior management team as vice president of business development. The search was conducted by Taylor Winfield, Inc.
David Port has spent his 25-year career establishing a strong track record of monetizing strategic alliances and channel relationships with industry leaders such as SAP, Unisys, Cisco and IBM. As a founding executive member of several start-up technology companies, he has built a reputation for delivering year-over-year revenue growth and surpassing sales goals. In senior executives roles, Mr. Port has steered two start-ups through an IPO with Callidus Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD), and successful acquisition of Blaze Software by Fair Isaac.
Along with his experience guiding start-up technology companies, he has worked at Sun Microsystems, and is well versed in the telecommunications, financial services, and information technology industries.
From the RapidMind office in Palo Alto, California, David will be responsible for expanding existing strategic partnerships with AMD, HP and IBM, developing new channel relationships and building out OEM, SI and VAR relationships.
“With David Port at the helm, Callidus Software achieved a $350 million IPO is just six short years,” said Ray DePaul, president and CEO of RapidMind. “David’s extensive experience with several start-ups that achieved IPO and notable accomplishments building relationships with industry leaders makes him ideally suited to expanding RapidMind’s already well established industry partnerships with giants such as AMD, HP and IBM.”
About RapidMind
RapidMind has created the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform to simplify the development of parallel applications, minimizing the impact on traditional lifecycle costs and timelines. Developers of HPC and enterprise software are using RapidMind today to create manageable, single-threaded applications that leverage the full potential of multi-core processors from AMD and Intel® and to seamlessly take advantage of the application acceleration available from GPUs and the Cell Broadband Engine™. For more information on RapidMind, visit http://www.rapidmind.com or http://blogs.rapidmind.com.
About Taylor Winfield, Inc.
Established in 1987, Taylor Winfield has been instrumental in building billions $$ in market value within the high technology industry, via retained executive search and strategic business development. Through key relationships with premier private equity and venture capital firms, maturing client companies, and their executive network of visionary industry leaders, Taylor Winfield has conducted searches to create hundreds of high tech core management teams in Consumer Internet, Wireless, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Networking, Hardware, Services, and Semiconductors – and now Healthcare, Medical, Clean Tech, Renewable Energy and Retail.