Steve Lapekas

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Corporate Business Development

     Stephen J. “Steve” Lapekas CTO and senior vice president of corporate business development for Pegasus Solutions where he manages architecture, business analysis, application development and maintenance, quality assurance, among other areas. During Steve’s tenure, Pegasus has transformed the company’s application development methodology to one of “agile” development, and has introduced new cost-efficient technologies such as data center automation and multi-core processing.

     Prior to Pegasus, Steve served as the vice president of client services and practice director of Entessa’s Automation Integration practice. The practice consulted and integrated industry-best data center automation software throughout North America, Asia-Pacific and EMEA. Before joining Entessa, Steve served as the client executive and business administrator of the Loudcloud Managed Hosting Business acquisition ($63.5M) at EDS. His responsibilities included managing the transition of 45 clients including USAToday.com, News Corp, Nike, Blockbuster, Fandango, and Adidas.

     Lapekas has also served as a product manger for Global One Communications within the Internet Application Services organization, and with Perot Systems, where he held various positions working for accounts such as National Rental Car and PSINet. Lapekas spent five years of active military duty as an officer in the US Army, Field Artillery, where he attained the rank of Captain. He holds a B.S. in general engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, where he was also a three-year letter winner on the varsity baseball team.