Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 2, 2000

Gregory M. Priest – Smartforce (smtf)

Gregory M. Priest is President and Chief Executive Officer, and a Member of the Board of Directors at SmartForce, formerly CBT Group PLC. He was named SmartForce's President and CEO in December 1998. From January 1998 to December 1998, Mr. Priest was President and CEO of Knowledge Well, which has since been acquired by SmartForce. Prior to joining Knowledge Well, He was SmartForce's Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance. Prior to joining CBT Group in 1995, Mr. Priest was an Attorney with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, a Silicon Valley-based law firm focused on business and transactional representation of emerging growth technology companies. Mr. Priest was elected to partnership at Wilson, Sonsini in 1995. Prior to Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Mr. Priest served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. Priest graduated first in his class from the Stanford Law School. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Profile
TWST: Give us a brief overview of SmartForce.

Mr. Priest: SmartForce started out by using technology to train

professionals in particular, information technology professionals. We

took a