Life sciences software company d-Wise has bumped its top business development executive up to the CEO role.
Bud Whitmeyer joined Raleigh, North Carolina-based d-Wise last summer as vice president of strategy and corporate development. Whitmeyer has more than 30 years experience in the technology field, including 12 years working in R&D at Cary, North Carolina software company SAS Institute. Whitmeyer was most recently CEO of Charlotte-based analytics software firm NuTech Solutions, which was sold in 2008 to Netezza, now a part of IBM (NYSE:IBM). D-Wise said that as the company’s new CEO, Whitmeyer will continue his business development efforts as he positions the company for growth.
D-Wise also shifted other members of its management team. Co-founder and President Chris Olinger becomes chief technology officer; John Leveille, co-founder and VP of operations, becomes chief operating officer. Whitmeyer joins Olinger and Leveille on the d-Wise board of directors. The company said that the changes will help the company develop new products and expand its market reach.
Olinger and Leveille, who are both also SAS veterans, founded d-Wise in 2003. The company’s software helps businesses manage and analyze their data with software geared in particular toward companies working with research or healthcare data.
D-Wise maintains a life science practice that works with pharmaceutical companies that need a software solution for managing clinical data. D-Wise’s health insurance practice offers data analytics capabilities to health insurance companies. SAS remains a software partner to d-Wise.
