Management Team

Tim Miller - CEO

Tim Miller is the CEO of Rally Software, which helps organizations perfect the art of software development through Agile and Lean practices. Rally is four‐time winner of the highly coveted Jolt Award (the software industry's equivalent of the Oscar® award) and has been named one of the fastest growth companies and also one of the top companies to work for in Colorado for 3 years running. With more than 18 years of management experience, Tim has been honored as an Esprit Entrepreneur of the Year and a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. Prior to joining Rally, Tim was CEO of Avitek, which was sold to BEA Systems in 1999. Tim helped create BEA's highly successful Portal Development Group and then served as Vice President of BEA's Accelerated Development Centers.

Tim has been actively involved in his community with several groups including TechStars, Social Venture Partners, Young Presidents Organization and Young Entrepreneurs Organization. He holds a Masters in Information Systems and a BA in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition to his professional pursuits, Tim has sailed throughout the Mediterranean and Caribbean for a year with his wife and two daughters.

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Ryan Martens - Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Ryan Martens brings to Rally proven leadership in dynamic, high growth software companies and is an expert in assisting organizations transition from traditional development processes to more Agile techniques. Before founding Rally Software Development – his fourth software start-up – Ryan directed the corporate adoption of Internet technologies within Qwest Communications, and then moved on to co-found Avitek, a Boulder-based custom software development firm where he served as Vice President of Marketing & Business Development. Ryan's successful efforts at Avitek culminated in an acquisition by BEA Systems in 1999. At BEA, Ryan served as Director of Product Management for the eCommerce applications division and he was instrumental in growing that division to more than $50 million in revenue within its first twelve months.

Ryan is an alumnus of the Colorado Chapter of Young Entrepreneurs' Organization and is also involved in a variety of community organizations including Colorado Conservation Trust, the Knight Foundation and the Entrepreneur Foundation of Colorado. Most recently, Ryan was named as a semi-finalist for the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award. Ryan received his Masters in Business Administration and his Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Jim Lejeal - Chief Financial Officer

A successful entrepreneur, Jim Lejeal has founded and managed multiple companies, including several software and technology companies and a private equity firm. Most recently, Jim was co-founder, chairman and CEO of Oxlo, a company that operates the leading Automotive Retail Integration Network, which is based on a hosted SaaS solution. Prior to founding Oxlo, Jim ran Lejeal Investments, an angel investment entity in which he co-invested with local venture capital firms in 14 venture backed startups. Prior to that, Jim co-founded Raindance Communications, a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: RNDC) where he held the positions of COO and CFO. Jim led operations, customer support, sales, marketing and finance efforts and successfully led fundraising efforts to raise $170 million in capital culminating in Raindance’s IPO. At the time of Jim's departure, Raindance had over 400 employees and annualized revenues in excess of $40 million.

Prior to founding Raindance, Jim was co-owner of Link-VTC, a Boulder-based video conferencing company that was acquired by Global Crossing. Jim has an MBA from Loyola-Marymount University and is a Distinguished Graduate from the US Air Force Academy.

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Don Hazell - EVP Worldwide Sales & Field Operations

Don Hazell has over 25 years of experience taking technology companies into new markets and establishing leadership positions. During his six years at Weblogic and BEA Systems, Don held several vice president positions where he was responsible for strategic planning, new business penetration and major account management. Don helped build BEA’s WebXpress Division, ISV Channels, and Central Region Field Organizations, where each of his teams grew revenue to over $75M while securing many of the largest sales contracts in BEA’s history.

Don’s experience includes 12 years at Unisys Corporation and four years in the relational database and tools marketplace as a sales manager with Sybase and Ingres. Don received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Masters in Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach.

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Richard Leavitt - EVP Worldwide Marketing

Richard is a seasoned software executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience launching successful application development tools and enterprise applications. Richard was co-founder of Software Edge, the 1993 Jolt award-winning creator of Defect Control System purchased by Serena/Merant and now called PVCS Tracker©. He went on to help start Requisite, Inc. and the RequisitePro© product line before Rational Software acquired it in 1997. Most recently Richard was Vice President of Product Management for Insightful Corp. (NASDAQ:IFUL) where he directed overall product, marketing and sales support strategies for this vendor of statistical programming tools and custom business intelligence applications. Prior to this, Richard ran sales, marketing and business development organizations for enterprise application vendor Mobilize, Inc.

Richard began his career with Hewlett Packard’s test and measurement group and has operated his consulting business, MarketWin, LLC., since 1994. Richard received his BSEE from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has been a board member and advisor to numerous technology start-up companies.

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Zach Nies - Vice President, Products

Zach Nies brings close to 20 years of engineering and product development experience to Rally’s innovative products. Prior to joining Rally, Zach served as Principal Architect and Director of Systems Architecture for Level 3 Communications and founded a small start up which was quickly acquired by the publicly traded Creo, Inc, now a division of Kodak. He also served as Chief Software Architect at Quark, where he provided the overarching technological vision for the company. Zach’s product vision has won numerous industry awards, including Jolt Product Excellence awards, Seybold HotPicks and the prized MacWorld Best of Show. Zach has served on standards bodies such as the W3C's HTML working group and currently serves on the board of directors for Agile Denver.

At the age of 13, Zach began commercially publishing software and, at age 16, started a successful consulting business. A Boettcher Scholar, Zach received his BS with distinction in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He spends his spare time tuning his golf swing and spending time with his family.