Technology >> CEO Interviews >> October 22, 2002

Brent Frei – Onyx Software Corporation (onxs)

BRENT FREI is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and co-Founder of Onyx Software Corporation, a leading provider of customer-centric e-business software solutions. The company became publicly traded in February 1999. Prior to co-founding Onyx, Mr. Frei was a programmer analyst with Microsoft Corporation, where he was the primary architect of an integrated, international customer relationship management system used for sales, marketing, customer service and product support by Microsoft's international subsidiaries and still in use today. Before his tenure at Microsoft, Mr. Frei received patents for several of his cellular system designs as a Mechanical Engineer at Motorola. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and his AB in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of Onyx

Software and then give us a picture of things as they are now?

Mr. Frei: Onyx Software is nearly nine years old. We began as