Lectra appoints David Rode as President

03 May '06

3 min read

It has all the attributes of a great technology company. Lectra has developed the ?relational value player' strategy its customers require," said David Rode.

"Lectra is set to successfully execute a number of significant sales and marketing initiatives in North America over the next 12 to 18 months in order to fully exploit all potential opportunities and accelerate its growth.

My goal is to strengthen the management team and to recruit new people wherever necessary in order to put together a world-class sales and services force capable of achieving our objective of becoming the market leader in North America," he added.

Prior to joining Lectra, David Rode was President and CEO of Intentia International Americas Group, the US subsidiary of Sweden-based Intentia, a worldwide leader in ERP software for the apparel, food and beverage, general manufacturing and wholesale distribution industries. Intentia is a publicly-traded company with 2005 revenues of EUR 321 million.

From 2000 to 2004, he was Vice President of International Operations for Information Builders Inc (IBI) in New York City. With revenues of $300 million, IBI is a privately-held US software company specialized in business-intelligence enterprise software.

In 1999-2000 David Rode was a principal within the software acquisitions practice at Safeguard Scientifics Inc a publicly-traded holding company specialized in acquisitions in the information technology sector.

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