Technology >> CEO Interviews >> June 12, 2000
HOWARD A. PEARL is the President and Chief Executive Officer of
Microforum Inc. (www.microforum.com) a company listed on The Toronto
Stock Exchange (TSE: MCF). Mr. Pearl initially joined the Company's
management team on April 3, 1998 as the President of PPL Marketing
Services Inc., Marshall Fenn Communications and Poste Haste Systems
Inc., wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company, and assumed the
President and Chief Executive Officer positions in November 1998. Prior
to joining the company, Mr. Pearl established a number of growing
successful business ventures in the communications and marketing fields.
Mr. Pearl acquired a controlling interest in PPL in May 1993, Marshall
Fenn in December 1995, and Poste Haste in July 1997 and later sold each
of these entities to Microforum in April 1998. Mr. Pearl has been a
guest lecturer at the Institute of Dynamic Business Management in
Geneva, and is a graduate of Harvard Business School. Profile
TWST: Could you begin by giving us a brief overview of Microforum?Mr. Pearl: Let's take it back to the beginning of the evolution of the
digital economy. Microforum is the result of the