Technology >> CEO Interviews >> May 1, 1998
C. TYCHO HOWLE is Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
Officer of Harbinger Corporation. Mr. Howle founded Harbinger in March
1983 and has led the Company to become a world-class E-Commerce firm
with more than 1,000 employees, 40,000 active customers and record
revenues of $135.2 million in 1998. Tycho reassumed the role of Chief
Executive Officer in October 1998, a position he has held previously for
most of Harbinger's history. As a leader in E-Commerce, he has received
numerous awards including being named one of the '25 Unsung Heroes on
the Internet' by Inter@active Week. He was also selected as the '1997
Entrepreneur of the Year' in the Emerging Technologies Category for the
Southeastern U.S., an annual event sponsored by Nasdaq and Ernst & Young
LLP. Before founding Harbinger, Mr. Howle was a consultant with McKinsey
Company, Inc., specializing in marketing and strategy studies. His
experience includes studies in the telecommunications, apparel, banking
and textile industries. Prior to McKinsey, Tycho was a product line
manager for personal computers at Hewlett-Packard. From 1973 to 1977,
Tycho was a project engineer with Booz, Allen Hamilton's Applied
Research Unit. Mr. Howle holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School,
and an M.S. in Systems Engineering and a B.S. with Honors in Physics
from Clemson University. In addition, Mr. Howle has been a member of
several corporate boards and professional associations ranging from the
boards of directors of other publicly traded companies to non-profit
organizations such as the Harvard Business School Association and
SciTrek, the Atlanta science museum. He was appointed by the Speaker of
the Georgia House of Representatives to serve on the Electronic Commerce
Study Committee of the Georgia State Assembly, and served in that
capacity for two years. He also has served as a Member of the Technology
Advisory Committee for the Westminister Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. He
has been a guest lecturer at several universities including the Emory
Business School and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Profile
Mr. Howle: Harbinger is in the business of helping companies trade
electronically. We got involved in the electronic commerce industry
