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Autotask has hired a new CEO to succeed Bob Godgart, who is stepping down from that position to take the newly created position of Chief Visionary Officer, according to the company.
To succeed Godgart as CEO, the managed services platform vendor tapped Mark Cattini, a former Lotus executive who is also a former president and CEO of MapInfo and Awareness.
"I've known Mark for a while, known his reputation. He grew a very successful software company [MapInfo] in our section of the Northeast. He took the company from about the size of our company to about $200 million [in annual revenue]. He's a professional CEO," Godgart said.
The moves will allow Godgart to focus on Autotask’s strategic direction while Cattini runs the business, said Godgart. "You know me, I'm a creative entrepreneurial spirit. I figure out how to get things going. I was looking for more help on the board. Mark finished up his last gig [at Awareness]. I showed him what we were doing. He said 'Bob, this is a great company.' We started talking a little more. Managed services is new. It takes a creative and visionary person to figure out what that needs and I can't do both. Here I've got a guy, an A+ player in my mind."
Cattini most recently resigned from Awarness after nearly a year on the job because of the long weekly commute between the Albany, N.Y., area and New York City and had planned to take some time off for the first time in more than 25 years before Godgart changed his mind, he said. "We talked a lot about it and it came to a pretty quick decision," Cattini said.
Cattini ran MapInfo for seven years before eventually selling the company to Pitney Bowes in 2007 for $500 million. Following the acquisition, he served as president of Pitney Bowes Marketing Services, a division of Pitney Bowes Corporation, and was a member of Pitney Bowes’ leadership team. Prior to that, he helped Lotus build its business in far-flung geographies such as Eastern Europe and Africa.
