Technology >> CEO Interviews >> March 18, 2002
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