Russell Rothstein

Russell Rothstein

Founder and CEO of IT Central Station, B2B Social Networking and Crowdsourced Reviews for Enterprise Tech Professionals

Location
Greater New York City Area
Industry
Computer Software

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Russell Rothstein's Overview

Current
Past
  • Vice President, Product Marketing at OpTier
  • AVP Product Marketing at OPNET Technologies
  • Co-Founder and CEO at Zettapoint, Inc.
  • VP Product Marketing at HarmonyCOM
  • Director of Marketing at Open Sesame
  • Consultant - Oracle Applications at Oracle

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Education
  • MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Harvard University
  • SAR
  • Ramaz

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Recommendations

15 people have recommended Russell

Connections

500+ connections

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Russell Rothstein's Summary

Twitter: @RussRothsteinIT

I am an entrepreneur and executive with 20+ years of experience in the enterprise technology market (with large companies such as Oracle as well as startups). I am passionate about the B2B technology space and believe it is about to undergo dramatic changes as a result of social, cloud and mobile.

► Currently Founder and CEO of IT Central Station (B2B social networking and enterprise technology review site)
► Strategy and marketing consulting for leading technology companies
► VP Product Marketing for OpTier (raised $100M+ in VC)
► AVP Product Marketing at OPNET Technologies (acquired by Riverbed for $1B)
► Co-founder and CEO for Zettapoint, acquired by EMC (NYSE:EMC): http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000687021&fid=1725
► Co-Founder of Web 1.0 startup Open Sesame, acquired by Bowne/RR Donnelley (Nasdaq:RRD) http://www.thedacs.com/techs/abstract/175175
► Worked at Oracle in NYC deploying Oracle Applications for Fortune 1000 companies
► Harvard BA in Computer Science
► MS in Technology and Policy from MIT
► MBA from MIT Sloan

I'm an intensive professional networker, so please connect with me on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Quora.

Specialties: enterprise software, Israeli high-tech, marketing, business development, product management, product manager, product marketing, software, venture capital, executive, vp, ceo, vc, israel

Russell Rothstein's Experience

Founder and CEO

IT Central Station

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

February 2012 – Present (1 year 4 months) New York and Israel

We're the "Yelp of Enterprise Technology". Disruptive model that is dramatically changing the way enterprises buy technology. Named by Forrester as one of the "Top 3 Highlights for B2B Tech Social Marketing." Named by MIT as one of the top 10 innovative IT startups in 2013.

Read about us in the Wall St Journal: http://bit.ly/U4oDYj

Watch the 2-minute video: http://youtu.be/QmYHdo1Mhs4

Then visit: www.itcentralstation.com

Principal

RR Marketing and Strategy

August 2011 – Present (1 year 10 months)

Vice President, Product Marketing

OpTier

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry

April 2009 – March 2012 (3 years) New York City, London, Tel Aviv

OpTier is an acknowledged leader in the $2B+ Application Performance Management (APM) market. OpTier's solutions provide visibility into business transactions and ensure optimal application performance. OpTier is backed by leading VC funds (Index, Lightspeed, Carmel, Gemini, Pitango) as well as Cisco and Morgan Stanley.

AVP Product Marketing

OPNET Technologies

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OPNT; Computer Software industry

September 2007 – April 2009 (1 year 8 months) Washington DC

Ran product marketing and product management for OPNET (acquired by Riverbed for $1 billion). OPNET's products are used by the world's leading enterprises and service providers. I helped lead OPNET's move into the fast-growing, billion-dollar APM market.

Co-Founder and CEO

Zettapoint, Inc.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry

June 2004 – December 2006 (2 years 7 months)

Zettapoint developed an innovative solution for information lifecycle management to optimize storage costs of large databases. Funded by VC fund JVP. Acquired by EMC in September 2011. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000687021&fid=1725

VP Product Marketing

HarmonyCOM

October 1998 – January 2002 (3 years 4 months)

Telecommunications start-up funded by Amdocs, Cisco, Comverse, Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet, Genesis Partners and others (raised $37 million in 3 rounds). Company sells software to service providers that automates the provisioning of broadband services such as DSL, ATM, IP over Optical, and IP VPNs.

Director of Marketing

Open Sesame

July 1996 – July 1998 (2 years 1 month) Greater Boston Area

Co-founded Web 1.0 personalization software startup during the first stages of e-commerce. In less than two years, sold company to Bowne (NYSE: BNE), a leader in the information management field with annual revenues in excess of $1 billion. (Bowne was acquired by RR Donnelley in 2010.)

Consultant - Oracle Applications

Oracle

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry

September 1990 – May 1993 (2 years 9 months) Greater New York City Area

Worked in Oracle Applications group that became the fastest growing segment of Oracle's business during my tenure. Deployed Oracle database and Oracle Applications for Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, media and health care industries.

Russell Rothstein's Courses

  • BA, Computer Science

    Harvard University

    • Computer Science

  • MBA, Marketing, Technology Strategy, Product Innovation

    MIT Sloan School of Management

    • Marketing

Russell Rothstein's Volunteer Experience & Causes

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Board Member

      Pelech High School for Girls, Kiryat Ekron
      • Education
      September 2009 – present (3 years 9 months)

      I am a board member of the Pelech School for Girls (middle school and high school). I also sit on the Audit Committee.

    • Co-Founder and President

      Churchill Society of Israel
      • Arts and Culture
      November 2011 – present (1 year 7 months)

      http://www.churchill.org.il

  • Volunteer Interests

    • Causes I care about:

      • Arts and Culture
      • Children
      • Civil Rights and Social Action
      • Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
      • Economic Empowerment
      • Education
      • Environment
      • Health
      • Human Rights
      • Politics
      • Poverty Alleviation
      • Science and Technology
      • Social Services

    • Organizations I support:

      • Tmura - The Israeli Public Service Venture Fund
      • WebYeshiva
      • SPNI
      • Israel Cancer Research Fund

Russell Rothstein's Education

MIT Sloan School of Management

MBA, Marketing, Technology Strategy, Product Innovation

1994 – 1996

MS in Management

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MS, Technology and Policy

1993 – 1996

Harvard University

BA, Computer Science

1986 – 1990

SAR

1979 – 1986

Ramaz

1982 – 1986

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