WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world’s largest companies, today announced that Bruce Bowden will serve as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Bowden will take on this role as Rocket Software maintains a laser focus on continuous innovation to solve customers’ complex – and ever-evolving – IT challenges.
As CFO, Bowden will oversee Rocket Software’s finance, legal and corporate development teams with a focus on business transformation, growth and profitability. Bowden is an experienced CFO, most recently in a role at Bottomline Technologies and Interactions LLC, where he was brought in to help take the company to the next level of growth and scale. Previously, Bowden led transformation, corporate strategy and development at Nuance Communications, where he instilled a vision for organic growth and successfully increased shareholder value.
“Rocket Software has a long track record of innovation that has solidified the company’s position as a technology leader in solving some of the software and infrastructure challenges of the world’s largest companies,” said Bowden. “Rocket’s success is rooted in that commitment to its customers – an incredibly strong foundation for continued growth that I will be focused on as I join the team.”
“Bruce’s history of driving growth above the market will strengthen our leadership team as we strive to disrupt the market by solving our clients’ most complex IT challenges through innovation and making the difficult simple,” said Milan Shetti, president and CEO of Rocket Software.
For more information on Rocket Software’s executive management team, visit the leadership page.
About Rocket Software
Rocket Software partners with the largest Fortune 1000 organizations to solve their most complex IT challenges across applications, data and infrastructure. Rocket Software takes clients from where they are on their modernization journey to where they want to be by architecting innovative solutions that deliver next-generation experiences. Over 10 million global IT and business professionals trust Rocket Software to deliver solutions that improve responsiveness to change and optimize workloads. Rocket Software enables organizations to modernize with a hybrid cloud strategy to protect investments, reduce risk and reduce time to value. Rocket Software is a privately held American corporation headquartered in the Boston area with centers of excellence strategically located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Rocket Software is a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity. Follow Rocket Software on LinkedIn and Twitter.
