Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 24, 2003

NANCY GILBY – POCKETTHIS INC

NANCY BENOVICH GILBY, CEO and President of PocketThis, Inc., has been building successful startups for the last 18 years. She has helped raise eight rounds of funding and has developed a unique, integrated approach to company and market development, an approach that has generated three case studies at the Harvard Business School. Most recently She co- founded and served as VP of engineering and product development at MarketSoft. Her leadership in product strategy and development contributed to another four successful companies, including Firefly, purchased by Microsoft; Wildfire, purchased by Orange; Component Software, co-founder, folded into Sun to become what is Java today; and On Technology, a successful public company. She holds an MSE and a BSE from the University of Michigan. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief summary of PocketThis?

Ms. Gilby: We have a particular focus, which is making information

mobile, actionable and, most important, profitable for both