Fran Gale

Fran Gale joined Gale Force Software Corporation as a co-founder with more than 25 years of experience working for companies and/or clients doing business in regulated industries.  She brings to the group her strong capabilities in business development, relationship management, and program/project management.

Prior to co-founding Gale Force Software, Fran served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the RND Group, Inc., and was a member of the company's management team.  While with RND, she had responsibility for developing professional business relationships with clients in the medical device, consumer electronics, and secure facility access industries, among others.  She served as the project manager on some of the engagements.  Fran also held the position of Vice-President of Business Development for Indesign, LLC, an engineering services company focused on the telecommunications, consumer electronics, and medical device industries.  She was responsible for helping the company realize significant growth and diversification in its client base.

Fran's past experience in providing engineering services to product development companies includes time spent in business development and in leading a team of project managers for Diversified Systems, Inc., and as a division manager and senior program manager for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).  She spent 10 years with Eli Lilly and Company in a series of assignments with increasing responsibility.  Beginning as a writer for the company's employee publications, she advanced to the media relations group where she served as an official company spokesman, becoming an expert communicator on issues related to environmental controls and regulations, product liability, and other legal matters.  She was selected to participate in the company's skills enhancement/career development program, completing rigorous training in pharmaceutical sales and being deployed on a field assignment in the Pacific Northwest.

Fran has a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Journalism from Indiana University.  She has had continued training in fixed-price project management from SAIC and in executive management from the University of Notre Dame.