Mendix CEO Derek Roos Named Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year

App platform for the enterprise company founder honored at awards gala

BOSTON – October 9, 2012 – Mendix, the app platform company for the enterprise, is honored to announce that the company’s CEO and founder Derek Roos, has been named Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year. Awarded at the honorees gala in Amsterdam on October 6, Roos was recognized for his entrepreneurial vision, his willingness to take on risk, change the marketplace and use technology successfully in new and innovative ways.

Roos has led the vision for Mendix along with corporate strategy and rapid global expansion from the company’s Boston headquarters. The company’s app platform which enables businesses to develop web and mobile apps quicker and more flexibly, integrate into existing corporate systems seamlessly and deploy in the cloud instantly, has led the business to an unprecedented seven straight years of triple-digit growth.

This company news comes on the heels of last week’s Mendix 5 announcement at Mendix World 2012. The release is designed to make it easier and faster for business-side developers and power users to build and deploy multiple web and mobile apps while providing enterprise security and control for IT in one centralized place.

    About Mendix

    Mendix, a Siemens business, is the only low-code platform designed to address the full complexity of enterprise software development challenges. Deploying point solutions to departmental problems solves things at a micro level—but if you want to make a significant impact on your business, you need to go bigger and build powerful portfolios that move the needle sustainably and strategically.

    With Mendix, enterprises can take on more complex, transformational initiatives by engaging everyone in capturing requirements, forming ideas, and embedding value assessment throughout the lifecycle of the software portfolio.

    Focus on the right problems while relying on governance and control to avoid unnecessary risk. Mobilize your organization. Build the change readiness muscle. And when the next big idea drops, turn it into an outcome quicker.

    More than 4,000 organizations in 46 countries use the Mendix low-code platform. An active community of over 300,000 developers has created over 950,000 applications – and counting.