Tony La Rosa

Tony La Rosa is Managing Director, Technology and O.P.S.M. Attended at San Jose State University. responsible for the global HEAT Software IT, facilities and real estate management, and brings over 25 years of management experience in technology-driven companies. Prior to joining Heat Software, Tony held a dual CTO/CIO role at Purple Communications where he introduced a variety of new products and services and was instrumental in launching a secondary line of business, ClearCaptions. Tony has also served as CIO at Celerity, a $350 million engineering and precision instruments manufacturing firm specializing in the semiconductor capital equipment market. Among his duties at Celerity, Tony led complex technology and product integration activities in connection with a series of mergers and acquisitions. Prior to Celerity, Tony also served as CIO for Kinetics Group, Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley company with global operations exceeding $1 billion. Tony earned a bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University.