(ISDR) Leading Software Industry Veteran, Andre M Boisvert, Joins K2View Board

TEL AVIV, Israel, September 3, 2015  —

K2View Corporation, a provider of next generation data management products, is delighted to announce that Andre M Boisvert has been elected to the company’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Boisvert has been in the technology field for over 35 years. Boisvert started his career with IBM in 1976 where he spent 13 years. While at IBM, Boisvert held senior management positions in sales, marketing and R&D. After leaving IBM, Boisvert held executive positions in some of the best respected software companies in the software industry, such as Cognos Corporation and Oracle Corporation where he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and was a member of Oracle’s Management committee.

In 2000, Boisvert was recruited as the President & COO of SAS Institute Inc., the world’s largest privately held software company with revenues currently exceeding $3B annually, with the mission of bringing the company public. When the plans of an IPO were abandoned in 2001, Boisvert joined one of SAS Institute Inc.’s’ investments as Chairman & CEO of Sagent Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SGNT).  In April of 2004, Boisvert successfully completed the sale of Sagent Technologies Inc. to Group 1 Software Inc. (NASDAQ:GSOF).

In March 2002, Boisvert became a director of VA Software (NASDAQ:LNUX), the creator and owner of SourceForge, the world’s largest repository of open source projects.  During his four year term at VA Software, Boisvert developed a wealth of knowledge about open source projects and their applicability to solving real world problems, which previously had been exclusively addressed through expensive proprietary software.

This experience led Boisvert to co-founding Pentaho Corporation in October of 2004, the world’s most popular commercial open source business intelligence platform. Pentaho was subsequently acquired by Hitachi Data Systems for +$500M in Feb, 2015. Boisvert also serves/served as an advisor/director of several other leading commercial open source companies, Revolution Analytics (acquired by Microsoft in January 2015),  Zenoss Inc. (systems management), Infobright (data warehousing) and Zend Technologies Inc. (the PHP company).

Boisvert is also Chairman of Palamida Corporation, a leader in Software Composition Analysis for intellectual property & security risk management, and Vice-Chairman of River Logic Inc., a leader in prescriptive analytics. Additionally, Boisvert is a Director of Clario Analytics Inc., a cloud based analytics solution aimed at companies using multi-channels to market their products & services and London based SmartFocus Corporation, a leader in email & social marketing.

In 2012 Boisvert became a Director of Issuer Direct, a leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions & services for publicly traded companies. In 2013 Boisvert was appointed Chairman of Issuer Direct and in 2014 the company uplifted its public listing to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ISDR).

“We are excited to have an industry luminary like Andre involved with K2View”, said Ayal Shiran, Chairman of the board. “We look forward to benefiting from Andre’s unparalleled experience in the industry as we continue to build upon the success K2View has enjoyed to date across multiple industries and on a global basis.”

K2View’s patent-pending Logical Unit technology is a revolutionary new approach to Big Data Management. K2View allows organizations to manage and manipulate their data using their business entity view – be it a customer, a product or any entity that drives their business.

“I look forward to working closely with the team at K2View”, said Mr. Boisvert. “Having lived through several major technology transformations over the last few decades, I have developed an appreciation for truly transformative solutions. Given that K2View’s products definitely fall into this elite category, I am excited about helping build another game changing , world class software company.”

About K2View

K2View is revolutionizing the data management industry with its revolutionary new product called Fabric. Fabric “wraps around” an enterprises existing data architecture and seamlessly transforms it to a distributed, Big Data architecture.  Fabric includes a suite of Big Data solutions that offer unmatched processing performance, seamless and easy integration, unparalleled processing performance and breach-proof security. Learn more at http://www.k2view.com.

For more information please contact
Osnat Segev-Harel
osnat@k2view.com