Dave Lemont

Dave brings to the early stage company broad executive experience in software development, sales and operations management and a special hands-on expertise in building winning “Go-to-Market” strategies. Throughout his distinguished career, Dave has successfully launched, grown, and guided software companies from inception through initial public offering and successful exits to some of the largest system and software companies in the world.

Most recently Dave Lemont was the CEO of AppIQ, the leader in Storage Management Software. AppIQ was recently acquired by HP creating over a 6X returns for the investors. AppIQ developed a unique go to market strategy as Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Sun, SGI, Engenio, and Bull were all OEM’s of AppIQ’s StorageAuthority Suite helping AppIQ to become the defacto standard in the industry. The company in approximately two years of selling grew to an annualized run rate of over $30 million and had acquired over 300 enterprise customers.

Immediately prior to joining AppIQ, Dave was CEO of Revit Technology, where he led the company through its successful 2002 acquisition by Autodesk, the world’s leading design software and digital content company. At Revit, an innovative pay as you use subscription business model was invented and delivered to the marketplace through an aggressive one-to-one web based marketing and telesales organization.

Earlier Dave was Chief Operating Officer at Concentra Corporation, the leading provider of CRM solutions for product configuration, which he led to an IPO in 1996 and ultimately a sale of the company to Oracle Corporation, where Dave managed Oracle’s Product Configuration division.

Dave began his executive career successfully selling and deploying enterprise solutions in a number of executive sales management positions at the Unigraphics division of EDS Corporation, and at Computervision Corporation, where he was head of North American Operations. In each of these companies Dave became an expert in building direct sales and var channels using system integrators to support the implementation of his team’s solutions.

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Dave is a graduate of Bucknell University where he majored in Education and English.