Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 7, 2003

John Lochow – Syndesis Limited

JOHN LOCHOW is President and Chief Executive Officer of Syndesis Limited. Prior to joining Syndesis, he served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Systems and Logistics at Tech Data. Mr. Lochow brings more than 25 years of experience in the communications industry to Syndesis. He is also a member of the Board of Directors. During his tenure at Tech Data, he led the development and deployment of their e- commerce capability, making Tech Data one of the top 10 business-to- business Internet commerce companies in the United States. Mr. Lochow joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1976, after seven years of service with the U.S. Air Force, where he flew combat missions into North Vietnam and Cambodia. At AT&T, he worked in computer operations and later did planning and design for the company's various PBX and networking products. He holds a BA in Mathematics from Thomas Edison University and has completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Systems Management program, as well as the AT&T Executive Education Program offered by MIT. He was recently recognized by Information Week as one of the Top 100 IT executives in the United States and one of the Top 100 Leaders for the Next Millennium by CIO magazine. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief history of Syndesis and an overview of

the company today?

Mr. Lochow: Syndesis has been in business for 16 years. It began life as

a consulting company