CARY – The executive chairman of Cary-based Dude Solutions is taking over as its chief executive officer effective immediately after having served as interim CEO, the company’s owner Clearlake Capital Group announced Friday.

Previous CEO Ed Roshitsh now serves as CEO of Holidays for the Heroes, “a 501c3 that sends active duty service members home for the the holiday season through the contributions of patriotic donors, according to his LinkedIn site.”

Earlier this year as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the country Dude Solutions laid off 20% of its staff.

Kevin Kemmerer, Source: LinkedIn.

Kemmerer also is an executive council member at Clearlake.

“I couldn’t be more excited to serve the company as its CEO. Over the past year, I’ve grown to appreciate the massive opportunity to serve as a trusted partner to operations management leaders as we scale the Dude Solutions organization,” Kemmerer said in a statement. “I look forward to working with Clearlake and the existing executive team to drive accelerated growth and deliver greater value to our clients.”

Kemmerer was named executive chairman in February of this year.

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Founded in 1999, Dude Solutions provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of operations management solutions to education, government, healthcare, senior living, manufacturing and membership-based organization. In recent years, it’s reportedly grown at an astonishing clip – at around 25 percent per year.

In 2019, it was acquired by Clearlake for an undisclosed sum.

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“Kevin is a leading executive in the software industry with a demonstrated track record of driving strategic transformations, including buy-and-build technology platforms, and is the perfect fit to lead Dude Solutions day-to-day as CEO,” said Behdad Eghbali, cofounder and Managing Partner at Clearlake, in the announcement.

“We believe that with Kevin’s deep industry and operating expertise, combined with Clearlake’s operational improvement approach … the company is well positioned to extend its position as a market leading operations management platform. I am pleased to welcome him as our new CEO at Dude Solutions.”

Cary tech firm Dude Solutions names new executive chairman