Technology >> CEO Interviews >> June 28, 2004

STEVE KING – ZANTAZ INC

STEVE KING President and Chief Executive Officer, Director Steve brings over 20 years of experience in information technology and financial services industries to ZANTAZ. With strong leadership roles in sales, marketing, and executive management, Steve's cross-functional business approach is key to successfully driving the strategic direction of ZANTAZ and building a customer-driven company. Under Steve's executive leadership, ZANTAZ has quickly become the industry leader in compliance technology and electronic discovery solutions. Steve's focus on assembling a world-class team, delivering customer-driven technology solutions and ensuring operational excellence has proven to be instrumental in ZANTAZ achieving market leadership. Since Steve joined the company, ZANTAZ has grown sales on average 250 percent year over year. Prior to joining ZANTAZ, Steve held several key management roles at E*TRADE and E*OFFERING, the online investment bank of E*TRADE. At E*OFFERING, Steve served as President and CEO. Steve also served as General Manager of E*TRADE's Business Solutions Group. In this role, Steve built the division through a series of acquisitions as a part of E*TRADE's strategy to aggressively diversify into new markets. During his tenure at E*TRADE, Steve became a registered securities principal and became intimately familiar with the compliance issues facing the financial services industry. Previously, Steve held senior management positions at leading online technology companies, including the Thomson Corporation and Ziff-Davis. Profile
TWST: Steve, would you give us a quick overview of ZANTAZ if you don't

mind, a picture of things as they are now?

Mr. King: Sure, ZANTAZ was founded in Pleasanton, California in 1996, as

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