Robert L. “Bob” Doretti is an experienced manager in the IT industry in the IT space. Mr Doretti is serving on various Board of Directors / advisory boards, he is an operating partner and advisor to the Comvest Investment Group and a member of the Executive Committee of Longworth Venture.
Mr. Doretti spent over 19 years at Wang Laboratories, Inc., including the last 7 years as senior vice president of US operations, where he was instrumental in growing that business to $1.8 billion in revenue. In addition to running field operations, Mr. Doretti was one of the key spokespeople to the investment community.
From 1995 through its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 1999 Mr. Doretti was president and chief executive officer of Thinking Machines Corporation, a professional services and software provider of data mining and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. Mr. Doretti was recruited into TMC to lead the company out of bankruptcy and restructure the company into a major technology company in the software industry. Mr. Doretti served as the chairperson, chief executive officer and president of ON Technology Corporation, a provider of software infrastructure solutions to Fortune 500 enterprises, from 2000 through its acquisition by Symantec Corporation in February 2004.
During that period, Mr. Doretti realized record revenue in 2003 and taking the company from losses to profits. The company was acquired by the Symantec Corporation in 2004. Doretti was nominated for the New England Entrepreneur of the Year for his work at ON Technology.