Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> September 15, 2003

Bruce Armstrong – Kanisa

BRUCE W. ARMSTRONG is President and Chief Executive Officer of Kanisa. In this role, Mr. Armstrong is able to leverage over 20 years' experience developing, marketing, selling, and investing in technology. Prior to joining Kanisa, Mr. Armstrong was Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Broadbase Software (now KANA), where he helped create the analytic application category for CRM; and Vice President and General Manager of the Server Products Group at Sybase, where he ran the company's $700 million enterprise database management business. Mr. Armstrong started his career at Teradata Corporation, where, after seeing the company through a successful IPO and acquisition by AT&T/NCR, he was named Vice President and General Manager of the $500 million Enterprise Solutions Division, President of Teradata and a company officer of AT&T. Mr. Armstrong has served on the Boards of Accrue, Agribuys, BuyMedia, Citadon, Collabrys, Delphion, Freeborders, FuelSpot, ICG Asia, ICG Japan, Kanisa, NetVendor, Proveer, TeamOn, Verus, and Vivant. Mr. Armstrong has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief overview of Kanisa?

Mr. Armstrong: Kanisa is a privately held, venture-backed company funded

by the top investors in Silicon Valley. We are in the customer