{"id":26071,"date":"2025-01-08T14:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/?p=26071"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:04:41","slug":"avolution-appoints-david-vander-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/avolution-appoints-david-vander-as-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Avolution Appoints David Vander as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"feat_text\"><em>Avolution are excited to announce the appointment of David Vander as its new Chief Executive Officer<\/em><em>.\u202f\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>David Vander, who joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avolution<\/a> as Chief Executive Officer on 6<sup>th<\/sup> January 2025, has more than 25 years of experience within the Technology sector, specializing in driving long-term transformation, innovation and growth within similar SaaS organizations. \u00a0David was most recently CEO at the leading employee experience software company, LiveTiles, and has previously also been Vice President at Salesforce and Worldwide Financial Services Lead at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>David brings a wealth of experience to Avolution, having also served as a board member and treasurer for the Banking Industry Architecture Network (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/abacus\/enterprise-architecture-frameworks\/bian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BIAN<\/a>), helping to provide strategic direction and management for over 16 years. David has six degrees including a PhD in Business Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Tim O\u2019Neill, Founder of Avolution said: \u201cWe are delighted to welcome David to the Avolution team. Securing someone of his caliber is a testament to the leading position Avolution holds in the Enterprise Architecture market. I am very much looking forward to working with David to continue to fulfil the vision we started on 25 years ago with Avolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Vander said: \u201cI am super excited to be part of the Avolution growth story. Tim and the team at Avolution have developed an amazing company, a market-leading product and massive global reach. The recent strategic investment reinforces that. There is no business strategy transformation without technology and Avolution provides the platform for organizations to move faster and with care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David\u2019s new position reflects the significant growth planned within Avolution, which includes a recent investment from private equity firm, Whiteoak. This new appointment will assist Avolution\u2019s vision to further solidify the company\u2019s leading position in the Enterprise Architecture (EA) market, accelerate innovation and deliver even more advanced transformation solutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About ABACUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Avolution\u2019s ABACUS is used by organizations worldwide to deliver quick, powerful enterprise architecture and digital business strategy. Supporting both modern and traditional enterprise architecture standards, ABACUS provides strong capability and process modeling, cloud architecture models and diagrams, as well as cybersecurity and artificial intelligence management frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>ABACUS users can integrate and collaborate on data using editable cloud-based lists, build models and roadmaps, run analytics and reports with rich visuals and dashboards. 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