Technology >> CEO Interviews >> March 18, 2002

Charles Pecchio Jr. – Return On Investment Corporation (roie)

CHARLES PECCHIO, JR., is Return On Investment Corporation's Chief Executive Officer and a Director. From August 2000 until January 2002, he also served as ROI's President. Previously, he served as President and a Director of Results Oriented Integration Corporation from 1996 until its reverse merger in August 2000 into Return On Investment Corporation. Since 1993, he has provided consulting services related to mergers and acquisitions to Atlanta area companies and has served as a Director of Hoffman & Co, Inc., an engineering firm. From 1988 to 1992, he served as a Director of Spiro International SA, a Swiss public company, and as an Officer and Director of several affiliated companies in the US, the UK, Germany, France, and Switzerland. Mr. Pecchio was a co-Founder, and served as President and CEO of International Management Group, Ltd., a venture management company, from 1985 until its sale to Spiro in 1988. He negotiated the acquisition by IMG of Honest Face Systems, Inc., a check guaranty and financial transaction processing company, from Telecredit (now Equifax). He served as President and CEO of Honest Face from 1986 to 1988 and negotiated its sale to Comdata Holdings Corporation (now a subsidiary of Ceridian Corporation). Mr. Pecchio's previous experience includes financial, sales, and management positions with IBM Corporation, General Computer Corp., TeleVideo Systems, and NEC Information Systems. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a history and overview of the company?

Mr. Pecchio: ROI got started in the bar code data collection

equipment business. Then we got into software because we saw