Technology >> CEO Interviews >> May 21, 2015

Interview with the President and CEO: Wave Systems Corp. (WAVX)

Mr. Bill Solms
Bill Solms is Wave Systems Corp.’s President and CEO. Mr. Solms assumed the role of CEO after serving as the company’s Vice President of North American Sales. Previously, he held executive positions at IT consulting firm IntelliDyne and at A-T Solutions, where he led a team engaged in a strategic program acquisition in anti-terrorist and counter-IED professional services within the U.S. DoD and European defense markets. From 2009 to 2010 he was Director of the U.S. Federal Sales team for Oracle on Demand. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Solms served as a Sales Executive at Microsoft. Prior to his work in the private sector, Mr. Solms enjoyed a distinguished 20-plus year military career, capped by service in the Pentagon as a member of the Joint Staff. There he authored a new six-phase version of U.S. military war plans as well as chaired the team revising Joint Publication 3.0 “Joint Operations,” both of which were subsequently approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the new standard across the U.S. Department of Defense. Profile
TWST: Please begin with a brief overview of Wave and tell us about your product suite, your key technologies.

Mr. Solms: Wave is a developer of cybersecurity software solutions. We have