Technology >> CEO Interviews >> March 24, 2003
MIKE SEASHOLS, Chief Executive Officer of GoldenGate, Inc., has
been instrumental in the success of numerous technology
companies. Drawing on his strong mathematics, engineering, and
marketing background, he has worked in Silicon Valley for large
public organizations, emerging high growth businesses, and a
number of startup companies. Mr. Seashols spent the first 11
years of his business career with IBM. He is well known as
Oracle's first Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He was
instrumental in establishing Oracle as the leader in the emerging
relational database market and drove the company's aggressive
sales growth through Oracle's 1986 IPO. Mr. Seashols then led the
sales and marketing efforts at Ingres prior to assuming his first
CEO role when he co-founded Versant, which marketed the first
commercial Object Oriented Database software and successfully
completed their IPO in 1994. He was the CEO at the start of
Documentum, where he recruited the initial management team that
led to their IPO in 1996. He also served as President of USoft, a
subsidiary of Unisys; Chairman and CEO of Evolve, which launched
their IPO in 2001; and most recently, CEO of PostX, the leader in
secure e-mail technology. Mr. Seashols grew up in Indiana where
he graduated from Manchester College, majoring in Mathematics. Profile
and a picture of the things you're doing now?
Mr. Seashols: GoldenGate was formed in 1995 by two programmer,
system architects
