COUNCIL TRUSTEES
Mr. Richard Rabins
Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Alpha Software, Inc.
Richard Rabins co-founded Alpha Software in 1982 with his brother, Selwyn, and now serves as co-chairman. He manages the company’s sales, marketing, and daily business operations. During the late 1990s, while Alpha was owned by SoftQuad International Inc., Richard served as SoftQuad’s CEO. Previously, he was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), creator of the Express OLAP database software program now owned by Oracle.
Richard was also a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc., a healthcare management consultancy. Richard is a co-founder, past president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council, the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts, representing more than 500 software companies. Richard holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and a Masters degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a Masters degree in management science from the Sloan School at MIT.
