Technology >> CEO Interviews >> October 25, 2000

Eric Jensen – Scoreboard Inc

ERIC JENSEN, CEO, ScoreBoard, Inc., co-founded the company in October 1993. Prior to founding ScoreBoard, Inc., Mr. Jensen served as an original executive at PSINet, the world's first Internet Service Provider. While at PSINet, Mr. Jensen created the first Internet access service for beginning Internet users named PSILink. This first-of-its- kind product included Internet mail, news and file transfer services, and also supported wireless Internet access over a national wireless data network deployed by RAM Mobile Data. Additional efforts managed by Mr. Jensen included the first complete service management tool focused on supporting the Internet Protocol (IP) over a frame-relay-based network. Prior to joining PSINet, Mr. Jensen was a project leader at Sun Microsystems. While at Sun, Mr. Jensen developed and received a patent for the super computing architecture design, which became a key contribution to the development of Sun's SPARC multiprocessor memory model. Prior to joining Sun, Mr. Jensen served as a Project Leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. While there, Mr. Jensen lead the development of super computing capabilities based on multi-processor based architectures. Mr. Jensen holds 10 US patents. Mr. Jensen earned a Bachelor's of Engineering and a Master's of Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Profile
TWST: Could we start out with a background and a quick overview of

ScoreBoard, Inc.?

Mr. Jensen: ScoreBoard was first incorporated in October 1993 by John

Arpee and myself. John had been