He replaces Paul Doscher, who will remain on JasperSoft’s board of directors.

Gentile recently served as chief marketing officer at data integration firm Informatica. He also held a similar role at Brio Software, a query and reporting tools vendor before it acquired by Hyperion Solutions in July 2003 and has has also worked for Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems during his 22-year career.

Gentile will pull up his CEO chair on December 10.