Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 2, 2004

FRED MEYER – CAST IRON SYSTEMS

FRED MEYER joined Cast Iron as CEO in February of 2003. Before coming to Cast Iron, Fred spent 7 years at TIBCO building it from an early concept to the leading Enterprise Application Integration most recent role was Chief Strategy Officer and prior to that, he served as TIBCO's Chief Marketing Officer for three years pioneering the concept of Service Oriented Architectures. Fred also managed the Advanced Technology team which prototyped market leading products including the TIBCO Message Broker and TIBCO's first Business Process Management (BPM) tool, TIB/IntegrationManager. Prior to joining TIBCO, Fred spent 10 years developing real time manufacturing management solutions for clients in the automotive, process and pharmaceutical industries. Fred has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Profile
TWST: May we begin with a brief summary of Cast Iron Systems and a

history of the company?

Mr. Meyer: Cast Iron was founded in the middle of 2001 by a couple of

guys from Visigenic. They were