Technology >> CEO Interviews >> December 19, 2003
STEVE COOPER, is Chairman, CEO/President, and Co-founder of One Stop
Systems. Mr. Cooper brings over 18 years of sales, marketing and general
management experience in the standard bus-board marketplace to One Stop
Systems. Mr. Cooper began his career with Intel, where he became a
technical spokesman for the concept of board-level open bus standards
and the Multibus and Multibus II architectures. Mr. Cooper then joined
RadiSys, a start-up company specializing in embedded PC-compatible
computers. Within RadiSys, he led the sales and marketing efforts for
the new company that grew rapidly and went public in 1994. Mr. Cooper
was recruited to I-Bus in San Diego as VP, Sales and Marketing, and
later became President and Chief Operating Officer. I-Bus produces
passive backplane based systems primarily used in computer telephony
applications. Mr. Cooper's most recent position was as President and
Chief Operating Officer for SBS Technologies. SBS is a $75M, 300
employee company that produces a wide variety of standard bus-based
products. While at SBS, Mr. Cooper transformed the sales and marketing
approach of the company, increasing sales and earnings approximately 50%
in one year. Mr. Cooper holds a BSEE degree from the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Profile
Mr. Cooper: Okay. The company was founded in the middle of 1998 by
myself and a gentleman named Mark Gunn who is our Vice President
