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Larry Alston
Vice President & General Manager Open Source
Mr. Alston was appointed Vice President and General Manager Open Source in 2007 and was responsible for the integration of LogicBlaze, a leading provider of open source solutions for service-oriented architecture (SOA), acquired by IONA in April 2007. Under Mr. Alston's leadership, IONA successfully built on the LogicBlaze brand and technology to establish the FUSE™ family of open source products. Mr. Alston is responsible for leading the strategic direction and operations of IONA's open source business.
Prior to his appointment as Vice President and General Manager Open Source, Mr. Alston held a number of senior level roles at IONA including Vice President Corporate Strategy and Product Management and Worldwide Marketing. He brings twenty-plus years of product marketing, product management, marketing, and engineering experience to IONA having held leadership positions with companies including Bachman Information Systems, C-bridge Internet Solutions, eXcelon Corporation (acquired by Progress Software) and most recently Pantero Corporation.
As Pantero's Vice President of Products, Mr. Alston was responsible for defining the company's product and marketing strategy. In his role as a corporate officer and Executive Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at eXcelon Corporation, Mr. Alston helped take the company public, and was instrumental in developing the strategy and vision to bring the technology to new markets.
In his role as a corporate officer and Executive Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at eXcelon Corporation, Mr. Alston helped take the company public, and was instrumental in developing the strategy and vision to bring the technology to new markets. His strategy and execution was directly responsible for growing the company's XML product division from $2 million to $20 million in just 18 months.
Mr. Alston holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, and an MBA from Northeastern University.
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