Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 9, 2005

Jonathan Kall – Avanton Inc

JONATHAN KALL, newly appointed Chief Executive Officer at Avanton, Inc., has more than 20 years' experience in management, engineering and marketing at information technology companies. Mr. Kall is an entrepreneur with a focus on early-stage technology firms. He was President of Interwave Technology, Inc., a manufacturing information systems company, which he founded and built into a nationwide, multi- million dollar organization before selling it to a Fortune 500 company two years ago. A graduate of General Electric's prestigious Technical Marketing Program, Mr. Kall consistently ranked as the top sales performer for GE's manufacturing automation sales division and several integration firms prior to founding Interwave Technology in 1995. Mr. Kall has been widely published in leading manufacturing and information technology publications, and has served as the Vice Chair for the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association. Profile
TWST: Could you explain exactly what your product does in layman's

terms?

Mr. Kall: ReadyARM helps monitor a company's network against

unauthorized access, or from people who are trying to