JasperSoft Names Brian C. Gentile to Board of Directors

JasperSoft Corporation, the leader in open source business intelligence reporting, today announced that Brian C. Gentile has joined the company's board of directors. Gentile brings more than 21 years of leadership and marketing experience to JasperSoft, with a track record of success in executive assignments at Aspect Communications, Brio Software, Ariba, Sun Microsystems and Apple Computer. He is currently Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Informatica, a leading provider of enterprise data integration solutions.

"We're very excited to have Brian join JasperSoft as a board member," said Paul Doscher, CEO of JasperSoft. "He is a tremendous strategist with deep experience in building developer communities, global marketing programs and customer and partner initiatives. His business intelligence expertise will be invaluable for us as we strengthen our leadership in the open source reporting and BI market."

"JasperSoft is a fast-growing company delivering the world's most popular open source BI technology: JasperReports," said Gentile. "I'm glad to be a part of the next big transformation in enterprise open source software, and I look forward to collaborating with the experienced JasperSoft executive team to meet the growing demand for open source BI solutions."

Prior to joining Informatica, Gentile was senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Aspect Communications, a leading contact center systems company. He oversaw all of Aspect's global marketing functions, indirect sales channels and technical alliances.

Before his work with Aspect, Gentile served as executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Brio Software, Inc., a BI vendor, where he rebuilt the company's global marketing efforts from the ground up. He also previously worked at Sun Microsystems, where he helped build the Sun Developer Connection Program into the industry's largest developer community.

Gentile served for seven years as a Public Governor on the board of the Pacific Stock & Options Exchange in San Francisco. He is currently a supervisory board member for WCC, a Netherlands-based searching and matching technology company, and advises several Silicon Valley-based technology companies as a board member.

He has earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Arizona.

About JasperSoft

Based in San Francisco, JasperSoft is the leading provider of commercial open source BI reporting solutions. Anchored by the world's most popular open source reporting engine, JasperSoft brings customers the best of the open source and commercial software worlds via its open source project, JasperReports, and its commercial reporting solution, JasperDecisions. More than 10,000 companies in at least 50 countries currently use JasperReports in their enterprise operations. Delivering broad deployment and lower cost of ownership to customers worldwide, JasperSoft customers have the benefits of solutions that are backed by a community and supported by a company. For more information, please visit http://www.jaspersoft.com.

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