Trigence, the leader in virtualization at the application level, today announced the appointment of Donna Grare as the company's Vice President of Engineering. Grare, reporting to Donn Rochette, Trigence’s co-founder and CTO, will lead Trigence’s technology development efforts, supporting the company's goal of helping corporations improve application manageability.

“As our customers’ application management requirements become even more complex, they need sophisticated, reliable solutions that will help solve these and other business challenges,” said John Hamilton, Chief Operating Officer, Trigence. “Donna’s technical background, engineering management expertise and business acumen bring an enhanced level of professionalism to our engineering team. In addition, her broad business and technical consulting experience will greatly benefit Trigence as we continue to grow and build our leadership position in application virtualization.”

With her engineering and business management background, Grare will be responsible for fulfilling Trigence’s vision of developing software solutions for cross-platform application virtualization, enabling companies to meet their business objectives by better managing their applications and infrastructure.

Prior to joining Trigence, Grare was managing principal at Internosis, an information technology consulting firm which acquired Stratis Group ,a software development consulting firm that Grare co-founded and built into an award-winning technology company. At Stratis Group, she delivered custom software solutions for several leading Fortune 500 clients. Previously, Grare held senior management positions at PCSI (currently Ness International), TRECOM (currently Fujitsu/DMR), Dell-Plural (formerly Micro Modeling Associates), and AT&T.

During her career, Grare has received recognition for her software development projects including several awards from Microsoft and technical trade publications. Grare holds a B.S. in Mathematics.