Randall Eckel is currently CEO & Co-Founder at Marker Advisors. A career entrepreneur with experience spanning more than 25 years in the enterprise software sector, Mr. Eckel has founded, grown and managed a variety of software and IT professional service organizations, and has spent many years as an advisor to small and medium-sized software and services businesses.

 

• 25+ years as CEO of several IT Professional Service / VAR companies representing:

  • Novell

  • Lotus

  • IBM

  • Microsoft (Infrastructure Servers)

  • Microsoft (Application Development)

  • Microsoft Dynamics

  • Netscape

  • Oracle

  • Citrix

  • Cisco

• 5 years as a sell-side enterprise software analyst and research director

• Multi-year experience in managing Data Centers

• Co-holder of two patents in Portal Design: Federated Portals and Pivot Portals

• Advised on dozens of company acquisition transactions, with an aggregate transaction value exceeding    $5 billion

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Achievements:

• E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year

• CRN Magazine’s Partner of the Year

• CRN Magazine Reseller All-Star

• Lotus Development - Partner of the Year, North America

• Lotus Development - Beacon Award (4)

• Lotus Development - Education Company of the Year (6)

• Lotus Executive Partner Council (4)

• Microsoft Global Alliance Partner (3)

• Microsoft Executive Partner Council (3)