Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 5, 2001

Paul Sutton – Kabira Technologies Inc

PAUL SUTTON is President and Chief Executive Officer of Kabria. Paul Sutton has more than twenty years of experience in software and technology. Sutton has experience in executive management as well as sales, marketing and technical management. Before joining Kabira Technologies, Sutton was vice president of sales and marketing at Intellicorp, a business modeling software company. Previously, he held positions as vice president of sales at Softlab, a CASE software company, and as managing director of Boole & Babbage, a system management software company. Profile
GROVER RIGHTER has been active in networking projects and network standards for over 20 years. He has contributed to IEEE 802.x efforts, IEEE 1003 (POSIX) and X-Open XPG standards in addition to multiple ITU (CCITT) and OSI standards. He has a passion for practical, applied standards and software component reuse. He has been a Developer and Architect for network systems at levels 2,3,4 and 5 of the OSI stack (none of them, however, on OSI Protocols. In addition, Mr. Righter has contributed to multiple wireless projects for services over TDMA and CDMA 2.0 and 2.5 G networks. He is a frequent public speaker on topics related to next-generation optical, broadband and wireless (UMTS) services, especially value-added services created from high-level models and business rules on top of application service frameworks using object methodologies, UML and the action semantics language. He has held technical and executive management positions with several companies including AT&T, Novell, Geoworks, RMS Inc. and Univel. He has degrees in Mathematics, Classical Studies and EE/CS. Grover Righter is currently Vice President of Technical Strategy at Kabira Technologies, Inc., a provider of infrastructure software for next-generation network services. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with a brief historical sketch and an overview of

Kabira Technologies, Inc.?

Mr. Sutton: Kabira is a software company, based just North of San

Francisco, that is a little