Leary Gates

Current

CEO at Vocabra, Inc.
Principal at Lumina Consulting Group, Inc.

Past

CEO and Publisher at SoftwareMinds, LLC
Director at Cray Research, Inc.
Research Assistant at Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

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Education

University of Colorado

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Leary Gates’s Summary

Senior marketing executive with extensive experience in business development, business & market strategy and new venture launch in the information technology industry.

Currently, CEO of Vocabra, Inc, developer of voice-enabled workforce portals and Founder & Principal of Lumina Consulting Group. Past CEO and co-founder of SoftwareMinds & the CraySoft business unit of Cray Research.

Author of "Effective Software Marketing: Best Practices and Budgets" (three editions).

Leary Gates’s Specialties:

Executive leadership, business strategy, market strategy, venture start-up, business development, partner development

Leary Gates’s Experience

CEO

Vocabra, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

Vocabra designs and delivers customer care solutions for the mobility minded - companies needing to reach an increasingly mobile customer audience and workforce. Our innovative solutions drive down the cost of customer care by combining the best practices in speech, web, email and text communications technologies.
Principal

Lumina Consulting Group, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

August 1995 — Present (14 years)

Lumina Consulting Group creates customer acquisition strategies for IT companies with complex solutions aimed at senior level buyers.
CEO and Publisher

SoftwareMinds, LLC

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 4 months)

SoftwareMinds, LLC is a research organization and publisher of hard-to-find business operational data for the software and software services industry. The company develops comprehensive information products, ranging from best-practice studies, benchmark reports, business metrics, white papers and other tools of interest to IT company executives who seek to improve business operations and increase their firm's valuation.
Director

Cray Research, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; cray; Computer Hardware industry)

1982 — 1995 (13 years)

Director of CraySoft business unit w/i Cray Research, responsible for commercialization of Cray software on other platforms, notably Sun, SGI, HP and IBM workstations.
Research Assistant

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

September 1979 — August 1982 (3 years)

Conducted research and programmed satellite telemetry systems.

Leary Gates’s Education

University of Colorado

BA , Physics , September 1977 — May 1980

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Leary Gates’s Interests:

Venture start-up, market strategy, public speaking, writing, cycling, golf

Leary Gates’s Groups:

Executive Board Member - National Coalition of Men's Ministries (www.ncmm.org)
Co-Founder, past Board Chair - Amnion Crisis Pregnancy Center (www.amnioncpc.org)
Co-Founder, Teacher - IronWorks Ministry (www.ironworksmen.com)
Founder, Teacher - BoldPath Life Strategies (www.boldpath.org)