Most recently, Frank Artale was a founder and CEO of Consera Software in Redmond, WA. He was active in all aspects of company operations. His specific responsibilities include management of business operations, customers, partners, and investors. In February of 2004, Consera was acquired by HP.Before founding Consera, Frank was an executive at VERITAS Software. As vice president of the Windows Solutions Group for VERITAS availability products at VERITAS Software, he oversaw overall product strategy of the Windows targeted availability solutions.Prior to VERITAS, he was the general manager in the Windows 2000 group at Microsoft Corporation. Frank's nine-year career at Microsoft Corporation included responsibility in the areas of product development and sales. For his efforts on Windows NT adoption, Frank received the Microsoft Chairman's Award for Top U.S. Member of Technical Staff in 1993 and was also named the top Systems Engineer in the same year.Prior to joining Microsoft, Frank was a principal at FD Consulting, Inc., NY where he led the design and engineering efforts for trader workstation products He began his career as a programmer analyst, working on retail brokerage systems, at the Monchik-Weber Corporation, NY.Currently, Frank is active in the venture capital community and is Chairman of Realm Systems. He was recently Chairman of Rendition Networks (sold to Opsware in January 2005). He is an advisor to Centrify Software and Zenprise.Frank graduated from Monsignor Farrell High School in 1983 and attended the Polytechnic Institute of New York before joining Monchik-Weber Corporation in 1984. |