What Happened?
Houston, TX-based FuelQuest has Appointed Dave Cooper as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Since its founding in 1999, FuelQuest has focused on reducing the cost of procuring and managing fuel for retail, fleet and transportation companies through innovative, technology-based solutions. Its Zytax solution suite reduces the cost and improves the accuracy of indirect tax determination and excise motor fuels compliance for the energy industry. More than 650 customers globally leverage one or more of FuelQuest's solutions to solve their fuel and tax related challenges and improve their operational efficiency. FuelQuest is committed to deliver measurable value to our customers and to continually expand that value through improvements to our solutions and processes. These improvements are enabled by our highly motivated team of industry and solution experts collaborating in an environment of teamwork, empowerment and accountability. Whether you are a small company, a large global supplier, or anywhere in-between, you can be certain FuelQuest has the people, process and technology necessary to address your most pressing fuel and tax related needs. FuelQuest is a private company headquartered in Houston, TX.
About the Person
Dave Cooper brings over 25 years of software leadership experience to this role. Most recently, he was Chief Technology Officer for Rockwell Software - the $300 million+ software division of Rockwell Automation. He came to Rockwell Software via acquisition of Pavilion Technologies where he was also the CTO. At Pavilion he transformed an existing disparate set of products and tools into a cohesive platform for high-value, enterprise- wide, model-based optimization solutions. Dave has lead research & development at multiple high growth software companies and assisted those companies through successful transformations. He served as the VP of Development at TenFold Corporation where he led the software development organization during an explosive 4 year growth phase from $3 million to $100+ million in revenue, as wells as through a highly successful IPO. He also served as the CTO for Echopass, a cloud-based solution for high-volume customer support contact centers. Dave has provided strategic technology consulting to dozens of venture and private equity-backed software companies helping them drive growth, differentiation, scalability, and robustness. Early in his career he held senior development leadership positions at software icons Novell, WordPerfect, and Corel. As an entrepreneur he has started multiple successful software companies. Dave got an early start to his career when, at age 14, he founded his first software company that he grew to over $10 million in revenue before being acquired a few years later.
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