Russell "Rusty" Harris is currently the President and CEO of MontaVista Software, an Embedded Linux

Embedded Linux

Embedded Linux is the use of Linux in embedded computer systems such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants, media players, set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics devices, networking equipment, machine control, industrial automation, navigation equipment and medical instruments...

 vendor based in Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and was named after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the...

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Documentum (1999-2002)

On July 23, 1999, Documentum

Documentum

Documentum is an enterprise content management platform, now delivered by EMC Corporation, as well as the name of the software company that originally developed the technology. EMC acquired Documentum for $1.7 billion in December, 2003...

 named the then 44-year-old Harris VP of Worldwide Sales.

BlueStar Solutions (2002-2004)

Beginning in 2002, Harris was executive vice president of sales and marketing at BlueStar Solutions, based in Cupertino, CA. BlueStar was in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) market.

ACS (2004-2006)

When BlueStar was acquired by Texas-based Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) on August 27, 2004 Harris became the managing director for their new Application Managed Services division.

MontaVista (2006-Present)

Harris joined MontaVista Software in 2006 as executive vice president of worldwide field operations. He quickly became popular at MontaVista for bringing record-breaking sales in 2006 and 2007.

February 18, 2008 MontaVista announced Harris as the President and CEO of MontaVista Software when then-CEO Tom Kelly left MontaVista Software to be president and CEO of Epicor

Epicor

Epicor Software Corporation is a company selling business software to the manufacturing, distribution, retail and services industries. Epicor claims to have more than 33,000 customers in over 150 countries...

Software Corporation.