Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 1, 2002

John Ryan – Zixit Corporation (zixi)

JOHN A. RYAN joined ZixIt Corporation as President and Chief Executive Officer and was elected Director and Chairman of our Board in November 2001. From January 1997 through January 2001, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Entrust, Inc., a company for which he led the private placement in 1996 and took public in August 1998. Prior to that, Mr. Ryan held a number of senior management positions in general management, marketing and sales, and finance with Nortel Networks, with his most recent position being Vice President and General Manager of Nortel's global multimedia and Internet projects unit. Before joining Nortel, Mr. Ryan worked for Deloitte Touche LLP and was awarded his Canadian Chartered Accountant designation in 1981. He has also served as an Advisory Board member to Scopus Technologies. Prior to joining ZixIt, Mr. Ryan formed ARM Technologies, a privately held Internet consulting and services company that he founded in February 2001. He also currently serves as a director of Tilion Inc., a privately held Massachusetts-based company that focuses on 'in- the-Net' analytics services based on XML for supply chain transactions, and RIPTECH Inc., a privately held, managed security services company based in Washington, DC. He is an advisory board member to Mobelium, a privately held Internet wireless services company based in California, and is on the Board of Trustees for the Hart eCenter at Southern Methodist University Profile
TWST: Could we start out with a history and overview of ZixIt

Corporation?

Mr. Ryan: ZixIt is a services company that specializes in what we

call secure e-messaging, which basically provides