Technology >> CEO Interviews >> August 4, 1999
YORGEN H. EDHOLM, Chairman, President and CEO, founded Brio Technology
in 1984 and is responsible for the philosophy, strategic vision and
underlying design of the company's products. Prior to founding Brio
Technology, Mr. Edholm was a manager with the Management Consulting
Division of Arthur Young & Company in New York (now Ernst & Young),
where he created the microcomputer-based Decision Support Systems Group.
He also managed a group of consultant programmers, supervised consulting
and development projects for Fortune 500 customers and developed
expertise on all microcomputer platforms of the early 80's. Before
that, Mr. Edholm was a product manager with Industri Mathematic AB in
Stockholm, Sweden. From 1979 to 1980, he was a technical product
manager of Factmatcher, the minicomputer version of the prize-winning
Documaster mainframe text-retrieval system used by both The New York
Times and the White House. Mr. Edholm holds an M.S. degree in Computer
Science and Applied Mathematics from the School of Physical Engineering
at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden; and an M.B.A.
degree in Organizational Behavior and International Economics from the
Stockholm School of Economics in Stockholm, Sweden. Profile
Technology, Inc. the company's history, products, services, customers,
those kinds of things, please.
Mr. Edholm: Brio's purpose
